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	Joe Maphis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Equally at home on guitar, banjo, fiddle, and mandolin, Joe Maphis is best remembered for his outrageous electric picking on a custom-made Mosrite Doubleneck.
		Often credited with being the first country guitarist to flatpick fiddle tunes, Joe Maphis was an influence on Merle Travis, Jimmy Bryant, Chet Atkins, and all the hotshot country players that followed.
		Joe Maphis IS a Guitar God, and don't you ever forget it.
	www.geocities.com /bighollowtwang/JoeMaphis.html (179 words)

	Rose Lee & Joe Maphis - Joe Sixpack's Guide To Hick Music
		Maphis stayed in the head of the pack, recording with dozens of country and pop artists, including Wanda Jackson, Ricky Nelson and --of course-- the Collins Kids.
		Maphis' solo work has been out of print for decades, but now thanks to our friends overseas, three excellent new discs showcase him at the height of his career.
		In my book, this is most exciting of these Maphis re-releases, a modest CD with a wicked wallop, featuring Maphis the hardcore honky-tonker, along with his wife, Rose Lee, an underrated and largely forgotten female vocalist from the mid-'50s country scene.
	www.slipcue.com /music/country/countryartists/maphis.html (747 words)

	A History of Mosrite Guitars - page 1
		Joe Maphis models are further developed and start showing up in advertising.
		The Combo, The Joe Maphis model, and the Serenade and balladeer acoustic are introduced to increase the range.
		The Combo and Maphis had the angled non symmetrical headstock with the truss rod adjustment at the headstock end.
	www.tymguitars.com.au /mosriteinfo_history_ID.htm (1969 words)

	Hallmark Guitars
		Joe watched Semie make a deal with Bob Crooks to make guitars for Standel, a deal that folded after ten units made for the NAMM show (these are the early, primitive models with a single cutaway and a vaguely Telecaster shape).
		Joe continued to make custom order guitars during this time, some under the name Sterling, but he was already envisioning the Hallmark brand name, and was looking for new and different ideas to launch his Hallmark guitar company.
		Joe Hall denies having anything to do with these guitars, and theorizes that his ex-employee that stole these prototypes from him may have done the work and finished these guitars with the Hallmark name on the headstock, although they began life as a Standel prototype.
	www.hallmarkguitars.com /about/history/default.htm (2298 words)

	Joe Maphis: Fire on the Strings - PopMatters Music Review
		Joe's followers have since credited him with many things: he invented flat-picking, he was the first to transpose fiddle breakdowns to the guitar, and he was country music's first flash guitarist.
		Here on the sweet swinging "Lorrie Ann", Joe jumps to the other neck on the Mos-Rite to throw in some pedal steel effects before a flawless transition back to a muted soft-picked run up and down the other neck, similar in that riff to a style Chet Atkins made famous.
		As I doubt you'll hear Joe Maphis played on any of those new country stations, that's why this record might be so important to everyone who enjoys real country music.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/m/maphisjoe-fire.shtml (1756 words)

	Joe Maphis : Fire on the Strings - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Among guitar heroes of the era, none loomed larger than Joe Maphis with his trademark double-neck guitar, complete with his name inscribed on the fret board.
		Unlike the fingerpicking method favored by Merle Travis and Chet Atkins, Maphis preferred to string notes together in such rapid-fire succession that the title Fire on the Strings is more than just hyperbole.
		The title cut is a variation on the fiddle tune "Fire on the Mountain," and transforming fiddle tunes into guitar tunes surely formed part of Maphis inspiration.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,126104,00.html (340 words)

	JOE MAPHIS - FIRE ON THE STRINGS
		Joe and Rose Lee were moved to the parent company - Columbia - and cut more fine sides until Joe came up with 'Fire On The Strings', which became his signature tune.
		In 1957, Joe's first LP was released ; aptly titled 'Fire On The Strings', it contained such monsters as 'Guitar Rock And Roll', 'Bully Of The Town', 'Flying Fingers' and the hauntingly beautiful, 'Lorrie Ann'.
		Joe then appeared on the Chart imprint (his single, 'Guitar Happy', is tremendous : wonder who plays that dazzling steel on it!) before moving on to CMH in the late seventies, where he cut another nice series of albums (sometimes with Merle Travis, Grandpa Jones ond others).
	perso.orange.fr /rockin.paul/fire_on_the_strings.htm (1891 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Rhythm & Views (April 19 - April 25, 2001)
		During the golden age of honky-tonk weepers, Maphis brought a new level of musical and visual sparkle to country guitar playing.
		Maphis' fingers fly by at warp speed firing off spectacular, surging solos that confirm his sophisticated, string-bending greatness.
		Maphis, who was once dubbed the "King of the Strings," substantiates that dubious honor with the dazzling musicianship offered on the amazing Fire on the Strings.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2001-04-19/qscans.html (259 words)

	MAPHIS, Joe and Rose Lee : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		(Otis Wilson Maphis, b 12 May '21, Suffolk VA, d 27 June '86; and Rose Lee Schetrompf, b 29 Dec. '22, Baltimore MD) Husband and wife team called Mr and Mrs Country Music, his guitar style one of the most innovative in '50s and still echoing in contemporary styles.
		She began on radio '37 as singer/guitarist Rose of the Mountains; they married, moved to LA '51, appearing on Cliffie Stone's Hometown Jamboree, then Town Hall Party for ten years.
		Flying Fingers on Bear Family compiles 24 of Joe's instrumentals.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/m/M120.HTM (219 words)

	The Blackboard
		Joe Maphis wrote his 1952 hit “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music)” while driving to his home in the San Fernando Valley following his first performance on the Blackboard stage, alongside Owens and Woods.
		He wasn’t accustomed, either, to the low, hazy fog of cigarette smoke or the near-darkness, but Maphis (who eventually moved to Bakersfield with his singing wife, Rose Lee) came to understand why things were like that.
		Joe Limi, 38, was a short, stocky Italian who had come to the United States as a 9-year-old.
	www.bakersfield.com /static/FP/baksound/black.htm (2240 words)

	Jody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jody Maphis shines when he gets to show off his talents on the electric guitar.
		Chief in the underappreciated category would be Joe Maphis, who fairly reinvented country guitar playing in the 1950s by flatpicking demonically fast runs on his double-necked instrument.
		Joe’s 1957 Fire On The Strings album found him transforming traditional banjo and fiddle songs into jaw-dropping guitar showcases.
	members.aol.com /Jakellyfn1/Jody.html (112 words)

	Vintage Guitar® magazine : Artist Pages
		Joe and Rose Lee recorded for a number of labels (including Lariat, Okeh, Columbia, Starday and CMH) and perform in one fashion or another nearly nonstop for many years.
		Joe and I had decided to be a duet, professionally as well as personally.
		Joe was friends with Merle, they had worked together at WLW in Cincinnati and also at WLS in Chicago prior to 1948.
	www.vguitar.com /artists/details.asp?ID=38 (2424 words)

	The Collins Kids - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their hits, such as "Hop, Skip and Jump", "Beetle Bug Bop" and "Hoy Hoy", were geared towards kids, but their infectious singing and playing crossed over generations.
		Larry, a lightning-fingered guitar whiz at the age of 10, was known for playing a double-neck Mosrite guitar like his mentor Joe Maphis.
		They were regular performers on Tex Ritter's Town Hall Party television show.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Collins_Kids (303 words)

	BIM-BAM RECORDS - TOWNHALL-DVD
		Amazing rockabilly guitarists Joe Maphis and Roy Lanham (both of whom have their own solo Bear Family CDs) contribute some amazingly hot rockabilly guitar solos to these recordings.
		Maphis favorites Fire On the Strings, Katy Warren Breakdown and live versions of his Columbia recordings of Moonshot and Short Recess.
		Joe Maphis-Merle Travis performances of Wildwood Flower, Under the Double Eagle and Chet Atkins's Main Street Breakdown and a three way jam between Maphis, Travis and Larry Collins Joe and Rose Lee Maphis vocal duets on Billy Grammer's hit Gotta Travel On and Bill Monroe's Molly And Tenbrooks.
	www.rhis.co.uk /cgi-bin/cart.pl?db=master.dat&category=TOWNHALL-DVD&merchant=bimbam (4947 words)

	Joe Maphis MP3 Downloads - Joe Maphis Music Downloads - Joe Maphis Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Along with Chet Atkins and Merle Travis, Joe Maphis was one of the most widely heard session guitarists from the 1940s until the 1980s, but his solo recordings weren't nearly as popular -- which doesn't mean they weren't good.
		In addition to guitar, Maphis himself plays banjo and autoharp on various tracks.
		The best showcase to date of Maphis' work, the music features what seem like superhuman feats of dexterity, reminiscent of Jascha Heifetz's 1930s recordings on the violin, only better -- every note is hit spot-on, but the playing never loses its warmth or seems mechanical.
	www.mp3.com /albums/208549/summary.html (317 words)

	Joe Walker, Guitarist, Jazz,Protege of Joe Maphis, Guitar Artistry of Joe Walker, Old Dominion Barn Dance, Played with ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Joe Walker, Guitarist, Jazz,Protege of Joe Maphis, Guitar Artistry of Joe Walker, Old Dominion Barn Dance, Played with the Carter Family,Patsy Cline,Roy Clark, George Jones, Bill Anderson, Little Jimmy Dickens, Bobby Bare Band, and Many others, Joe B Walker.
		Joe B. Walker was born at Hopewell, VA., Started playing Mandolin on his own radio show at age 10.
		I have heard Joe play in concert before and now being able to hear him play all the parts together is really a treat.
	www.dochemp.com /joewalker.html (237 words)

	Country - Leroy Mack -> Ronnie McCoury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		For the first time, Joe's brilliant 1955-1960 Columbia instrumentals, the ones that influenced so many rockabillies and surf guitarists are available in their entirety, excluding (thank God), the far less interesting vocals he recorded with wife Rose Lee Maphis.
		But Country Routes was wrong to plug this as a Joe Maphis set when in fact he's featured on only 13 performances, otherwise heard as leader of the band.
		The Maphis vocals aren't very good, though he's hot enough on the guitar, and the instrumental Short Recess is a live version of a song he recorded for Columbia.
	www.rootsandrhythm.com /roots/COUNTRY/country_m1.htm (4049 words)

	PBS - Austin City Limits
		Joe Maphis broke into the country music field in the late '50s.
		He has released an album with his wife, Joe and Rose Lee, and his solo LPs include King of the Strings as well as an album with the late Merle Travis.
		Maphis is accompanied by his wife Rose Lee when he sings “Uncle Joe’s Boogie” and “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Loud Music.”
	www.pbs.org /klru/austin/artists/program210.html (402 words)

	Country Standard Time: CD Review:Joe Maphis
		This superior 19-song compilation encompasses all of Maphis' 1956 "Fire On The Strings" LP and is fattened up with 7 bonus tracks culled from other late '50's albums.
		Best remembered for his hot-pickin' on his trademark doublenecked Mosrite electric guitar, the Virginia-born Maphis was equally adept on banjo, mandolin, and the fiddle.
		Far better are Maphis' late '50's recordings with Collins and pal Johnny Bond wherein he proves there was nothing either Duane Eddy ("Early American," "Short Recess") or Dick Dale could accomplish ("The Rockin' Gypsy") that he could not best.
	www.countrystandardtime.com /CDjoemaphis.html (250 words)

	Joe Maphis "King Of The Strings" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		One of the unsung heroes of country music, Otis Wilson "Joe" Maphis (1921-1986) mastered all things with strings attached, but it was as a lightning-fingered demon of the double-necked guitar that he made an everlasting mark.
		Although he was also, beginning in 1952, part of a successful Southern California-based duo with his wife, singer-guitarist Rose Lee Maphis (heard backing her husband herein), these 19 instrumentals, recorded between 1955 and 1959, form the backbone of Joe Maphis' legacy.
		Forty-plus years after these tracks were cut, Maphis' sturm and twang still leaves fellow pickers in the dust.
	www.sonynashville.com /AmericanMilestones/series/docs/maphis/joe_maphis.htm (138 words)

	Bear Family Records • JOE MAPHIS: At 'Town Hall Party'
		Joe and Rose Lee Maphis vocal duets on Billy Grammer's hit Gotta Travel On and Bill Monroe's Molly And Tenbrooks.
		Joe Maphis's presence on 'Town Hall Party' made him a guitar legend.
		Watching 'Town Hall,' Ozzie Nelson decided to recruit Joe to back his son Ricky on his first, pre-James Burton Imperial sessions.
	www.bear-family.de /tabel1/product/bvd20011_e.htm (462 words)

	Artists Covered by the Byrds M - P
		Joe Maphis and his wife Rose Lee were performers, songwriters, and country music entrepeneurs.
		They played on many of the barn dance programs heard on radio in the 1950s, and came west to California from their Virginia home during that time.
		Maphis was an early mentor of Clarence White and booster of the Country Boys.
	ebni.com /byrds/relcovers5.html (1289 words)

	KISSTORYSOURCE interview with Country Joe McDonald
		My first introduction to Country Joe and The Fish was the Woodstock movie, when I was a kid.
		From Kai Winding and J J Johnson and Dave Brubeck to King Joe Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton to Joe Maphis and Rose Maddox to Fats Domino and Johnny Otis.
		Today I play with Chicken Hirsh, Bruce Barthol and David Cohen of the former Country Joe and The Fish band we are called COUNTRY JOE BAND.
	www.kisstorysource.com /countryjoe.html (1171 words)

	Maphis
		Joe was born in Suffolk, Virginia in 1921, died in Nashville, Tennessee in 1986; Rose
		Joe Maphis was known and had the reputation as one of the "fastest guitar players alive."
		Joe and Rose also did much studio work backing other musicians.
	www.kickingupdust.com /Maphis.htm (296 words)

	DVDs
		As the show's bandleader, his dazzling, flamboyant work was prominent behind other acts and in his frequent solo spots.
		Joe Maphis, Fiddlin’ Kate, Merle Travis: Turkey In The Straw
		Joe Maphis and the entire cast: Rainin' On The Mountain
	www.cdwolf.com /Products/DVDs/dvds.html (3703 words)

	1966 Mosrite Joe Maphis Doubleneck 6/12 Electric Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This is the ultimate surf or 1960s electric guitar: a ONE OWNER Joe Maphis Doubleneck Mosrite guitar, which comes with documentation, including a band photo from the 1960s, showing the guitar.
		The photo and an accompanying letter are signed by the original owner.
		This one is a very definite exception--it stays in tune on the 6 or the 12 neck, the string action is incredible, the tremolo bar works great, and the pickups sound fat and clear.
	www.hendrixguitars.com /Va876.htm (108 words)

	Low priced Country Guitar Thunder (1977-1981) and More
		Alabama Jubilee - Merle Travis And Joe Maphis
		Li'l Liza Jane - Merle Travis And Joe Maphis
		I don't think there is any one that can pick a guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandelon or bass better than joe maphis.
	www.i-frugal.com /Shop/Operation_ItemLookup/ItemId_B0000010QK.aspx (276 words)

	Joe Maphis Was Born On This Date In 1921
		Joe Maphis Was Born On This Date In 1921
		Joe Maphis was born on May 12, 1921 in Suffolk, Virginia.
		He developed a unique guitar playing style, somewhat comparable to Merle Travis.
	www.tcmradio.com /news/May/May12b.htm (162 words)

	Details for 50 Years Of Bluegrass Hits 1/Various/50 Years Of Bluegrass Hits 1 / Various at CDconnection.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		There's nothing here that bluegrass aficionados haven't heard before or have elsewhere, but with over an hour's worth of music and solid musicianship all the way through, 50 Years of Bluegrass Hits isn't a bad place for a newcomer or casual fan to start.
		Memories of Maybelle - Maphis, Joe - 3:07
		Maple on the Hill - Maphis, Joe & Rose Lee - 2:57
	cdconnection.com /staticpages/38801.html (446 words)

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