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I have been playing banjo since my wife got me one for Christmas, I have been playing country blues. I think this is very cool 8) 8) 8) click on hear a tune up sesion for " Nobodys Fault But Mine" , its very cool--the dog
Cool!
"Everybody got to elevate from the norm."
Cool!
I would love to develop a style like that 8) I have always loved the delta style slide guitar, but i could really get with the banjo blues. No one else is playing it and its really cool. --the dog
Cool!
I would love to develop a style like that 8) I have always loved the delta style slide guitar, but i could really get with the banjo blues. No one else is playing it and its really cool. --the dog
I call it "the lonesome plunk"....., once you get away from the traditional bluegrass flurry of notes, the banjo has such a melancholy quality to it, and I'm a natural born melanchoholic. I've been wanting to buy a 6-string banjo for a long time now...
Steinar
The 5 string banjo is not hard to do something with since it is tuned the same as open G , Its very cool for playing country blues :D --the dog
Have you heard the version of "Nobody's Fault" on the Page & Plant Unledded album? I believe there's a plunky banjo in there! 8)
And a hurdy gurdy, too. :shock:
:wink:
"Everybody got to elevate from the norm."
Yeah, that sounds good!
Banjo was apparently used a lot in the earliest blues and predecessors of blues. Fiddle, too.
For those less familiar, the usual G-tuning of the 5-string banjo is like a guitar in Open G with the low D-string missing, and what would be the low G on the guitar is a high G instead.
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
Hey Ricochet, can you send me that link you posted a few months ago of the guy from the blues forum who was playing the banjo with country blues, I lost the link :oops: ( It was on soundclick)--thanks the dog
I don't think I've got the link, and Big Road Blues' forum is down the last few days.
Soundclick ought to have a search function on it.
Come to think of it, I think I might've put a link on here, but it'd take a bit of hunting...
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
you can hear and see her perform at
http://woodsongs.com/wotrh.html
click on archive
you'll see her listed there - you can download mp3 to hear or the wmv - to see her perform
you can hear and see her perform at
http://woodsongs.com/wotrh.html
click on archive
you'll see her listed there - you can download mp3 to hear or the wmv - to see her perform
Thanks itziks, that's an awesome web site :D They have a nice video of the Acoustic Strawbs also, good stuff--the dog
Glad you like it
checkout show # 350
