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Location: Omaha, NE | This is my kind of banjo player, particularly since she seems to like hanging out with old guys playing guitars. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | She carries those old guys. The song would have sounded empty without the banjo. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | there wouldn't be a song without that banjer. Tone was a little nasty though. And two Yamaha guitars as well, maybe three I never could see the third one on the left. |
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Location: SoCal | She's mastered the bored look of bluegrass players.
Geez, when the camera panned to the left, I thought I was in the video...... |
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Location: Orange County, California | Hopefully she'll outgrow it :p :D :p :D |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
She's mastered the bored look of bluegrass players.
Yes,what is that about? Irish Trad players often have the same (non)expression, as if they're not having much fun. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by mtnbikerfred:
Hopefully she'll outgrow it :p :D :p :D Fred's back... :D |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...another one:
Haley Stiltner & Lou Reid |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | So lost, so young. It just breaks your heart. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I can explain the "look". Banjo is so much harder to play that there isn't time to smile. As a matter of fact, I did a gig last week with a friend on guitar and another on fiddle. He (the guitarist) did most of the singing, and he asked why banjo players and fiddle players don't sing. Same response: Banjo and fiddle are so much harder to play, there isn't time to sing. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | 
Ok you knew someone had to say it. Here's one that's better off not smiling. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | 
What he\'s doing now. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Check these guys out:
Hayseed Dixie
for a twist on Blugrass.
(If you don't figure it out after watching the vids... their name is a play on AC/DC) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | The "Bio" video at the link above is pretty amusing... |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I've noticed a trend, up here in the Albany area ... a lot of women are playing the fiddle and banjo, and the guys are playing mando and guitar. I don't know why it's so, but there it is. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | ALBANY?!?!
STOP THAT! YOU STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!!!
(Ok, truth be known, my first guitar was my Uncle Jackie's banjo only I didn't know it was a banjo at the time. Hell, if it makes music, go 'head & play it.) |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Hayseed Dixie - my newest favourite band.
highway to hell
hell\'s bells
and my favourite... you shook me all night long! |
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Location: south east Michigan | Seems like every time I see a banjo guy (or now, girl) playing Foggy Mountain Breakdown they always are just standing there. Still as a fence post. Eight fingers and two thumbs going 100 mph but just a blank, vacant look on their face.
If I had that song down good enough to play out in public, I don't think I could keep myself standing still. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I'm serious. The blank look comes from banjo being so hard to play. You know how if you think about a song while you're playing, you lose it? Same thing here. You can't let your brain interfere with the muscle memory or you won't be able to play the song. So, you see, if you want to play banjo, it is better not to have a brain. But, who needs a brain anyway? Having a banjo is MUCH better. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
I'm serious. The blank look comes from banjo being so hard to play. You won't get an argumemt from me.
Makes alot of sense.
I think there is a lesson somewhere in there for us 6 stringers as well. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Debanjo was telling us about this deliverence guy this weekend. He's still alive and well, somewhere. |
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Location: Tennessee | I saw a show this weekend at The Fillmore - Old Crow Medicine Show. Great time. Edgy Bluegrass done by a bunch of young guys. Opening act was a lady fiddle player by the name of Sara Watkins ... she was with a band called Nickel Creek that has some success in the country music world. She was joined on stage by her brother who played a very decent guitar and harmonized really well with her. She also had this old dude playing keyboards for her by the name of Benmont Tench.
And yeah, OCMS did a couple of songs where there was not one, not two, but THREE banjos playing at the same time. I lived to tell about it. |
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Location: Indiana | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
Debanjo was telling us about this deliverence guy this weekend. He's still alive and well, somewhere. Billy Redden
"Redden also appeared in Tim Burton's 2003 film Big Fish. Burton was intent on getting Redden, who hadn't appeared in a film since Deliverance, to play the role of a banjo-playing welcomer in the utopian town of Spectre. Burton eventually found him in Clayton, Georgia, where Redden works as a cook, dishwasher and part-owner of the Cookie Jar Café."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Redden |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
Debanjo was telling us about this deliverence guy this weekend. He's still alive and well, somewhere. He appeared in the movie "Big Fish" as, I kid you not, "The Banjo Man" . . .
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Banjos are ok after all
