Video Title: (Ernie Hawkins • Whinin Boy • Erniehawkins) Video Duration: 4:55 From: bluesadvice Category: Music erniehawkins a jelly roll morton song arranged by ernie hawkins for acoustic fingerpicked guitar in the piedmont style with joe dallas on trombone and george heid on washboard. whinin boy is featured on the new ernie hawkins cd, whinin' boy is available at erniehawkins biography for many years ernie hawkins has been playing concerts, clubs, blues and folk festivals, workshops, colleges, museums, parties, fist fights and millennium celebrations in the united states, canada, japan and europe and at every stop in the road from a prairie home companion to antone's to the madrid jazz festival. he has played with blues greats such as son house, mance lipscomb, fred mcdowell, jim brewer, rev. gary davis and many others. ernest leroy hawkins was born in pittsburgh pa in 1947. in the '50's he had a paper route, a beagle and a roy rodgers harmonica which he still has somewhere. he first learned country guitar, mandolin, banjo and bones from a guy named pete who worked on his uncle's farm. pete had come up playing with the lilly brothers and had rambled around the country - taking a 30-year detour down whisky lane that landed him in a cabin on the farm as property caretaker...and becoming a primary musical mentor to ernie. ernie was already playing blues as a teenager when he heard a fellow ping through town play gary davis' "let us get together". he was hooked then and forever on country blues and ragtime guitar...and players like davis, blind willie mctell ltbgt...lt bgt Tags: "Most Discussed", Ernie "ernie ball", "ernie", "ernie els", "ernie sims", "ernie haase and signature sound", "ernie banks", "ernie dingo", "ernie johnson", "ernie hudson", "", Ernie Hawkins Music Acoustic Blues Acoustic Jazz Traditional Jazz Jazz Standards Louis Armstrong Bix Beiderbecke Ragtime Guitar New Orleans Jazz Jelly Roll Morton Rev Gary Davis Blind Blake Little Brother Montgomery Ukulele Fingerpicked Guitar Gospel Music Erniehawkins Blues Lessons Guitar Lessons Blues Music Guitar For Beginners Guitar Workshop Mississippi John Hurt
