Bob Casey

Born Robert Hanley Casey, this musician was adept at bass and guitar, performing and recording on both and perhaps owing a technical debt of gratitude to his early training on the tenor banjo, an instrument which is played with a technique similar to the guitar, but like the standard bass, has only two pairs of strings. Bob Casey taught himself this type of banjo at the age of 14 and several years later was working professionally with the Egyptian Transportation System Orchestra, based out of Illinois rather than the shadow of the pyramids. At the end of 1927, he moved to St. ...