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In the 1940s, entertainer and clown Benny Dougal used a crude "stump fiddle" (a single string stretched on a stick) with a footpedal-operated pair of cymbals. Guitarist Jim Garner played guitar with his hands and triangle with his feet, and Will Blankenship of the Blankenship family of North Carolina played harmonica, autoharp and triangle in shows during the 1930s. Henry Mayhew's history of London street life in the 1840s and 1850s described a blind street performer who played bells, the violin and accordions. An 1820s watercolour painting shows a one-man band with a rhythm-making stick, panpipes around his neck and a bass drum and tambourine beside him. An Elizabethan-era woodcut shows a clown playing the pipe and tabor. This type of playing can still be heard in parts of rural France, in England and Spain. The pipe was a simple three-holed flute that could be played with one hand the tabor is more commonly known today as a snare drum. The earliest known records of multiple musical instruments being played at the same time date from the 13th century, and were the pipe and tabor. Pipe and taborers, from the 13th-century illuminated manuscript, Cantigas de Santa Maria In the 2000s and 2010s, the availability of affordable digital looping pedals has enabled singer-musicians to record a riff or chord progression and then solo or sing over it. Since the development of Musical Instrument Digital Interface ( MIDI) in the 1980s, musicians have also incorporated chest-mounted MIDI drum pads, foot-mounted electronic drum triggers, and electronic pedal keyboards into their set-ups. More complicated setups may include wind instruments strapped around the neck, a large bass drum mounted on the musician's back with a beater which is connected to a foot pedal, cymbals strapped between the knees or triggered by a pedal mechanism, tambourines and maracas tied to the limbs, and a stringed instrument strapped over the shoulders (e.g., a banjo, ukulele or guitar). This approach is often taken by buskers and folk music singer-guitarists. The simplest type of "one-man band" is a singer accompanying themselves on acoustic guitar and playing a harmonica mounted in a metal "harp rack" below the mouth. One-man bands also often sing while they perform. You never know when inspiration is going to hit.Jeff Masin, a one-man band in New York CityĪ one-man band is a musician who plays a number of instruments simultaneously using their hands, feet, limbs, and various mechanical or electronic contraptions. Then we came back to it later-I think probably a couple of weeks later-out on the road in a dressing room and we finished that song up.

we were supposed to be walking out onstage, but instead we were sitting there next to this big speaker singing.

“The intro music was playing-we had had the idea but it just kinda struck in that moment. “We actually started writing ‘One Man Band’ immediately before we were supposed to be onstage one night,” says Matthew. Penned by Josh Osborne with Old Dominion’s Matthew, Trevor and Brad, “One Man Band” fits the OD playbook with its clever spin on the idea of committing to a relationship instead of the solitary life: “I don’t wanna be a one man band, I don’t wanna be a rolling stone alone / Putting miles on a rundown van, baby, we can take our own show on the road / I’ll lay down the beat, you carry the tune, we’ll get tattoos and we’ll trash hotel rooms / Baby, take my hand, ’cause I don’t wanna be a one man band.” 1 single, “Make It Sweet,” by shipping “One Man Band” to country radio on June 17. The guys from Old Dominion-Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen, Geoff Sprung, Brad Tursi and Whit Sellers-will follow up their recent No.