Fiddle Mugs
Description: Earful Artful Heart-full logo, which is a heart-shaped linocut print depicting two musicians looking out over farm fields. They are facing away from the viewer. One has long hair and is playing the fiddle, and the other has short hair, a hat, and is playing the banjo. Print by Gray Reynolds.
Description: Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong (March 4, 1909 – July 30, 2003) was an American string band and country blues musician, who played fiddle, mandolin, and guitar and sang. He was also a notable visual artist and raconteur, but one of his claims to fame was being able to play any stringed instrument his picked up. Armstrong was born in Dayton, Tennessee, and was the middle son from a family of nine kids. As a teen, he taught himself to play the fiddle and joined a band led by Blind Roland Martin and his brother Carl. They toured performing a wide range of music, from work songs and spirituals through popular Tin Pan Alley tunes and foreign-language songs. Armstrong, his brother Roland, and Carl Martin, billed as the Tennessee Chocolate Drops.
