Classic Banjo From Smithsonian Folkways

Various Artists
Country | Jan 2014

Reviews

Don Farrell
Reviewed 2014-03-06
1: 2:39 fast banjo Pete Seeger vocal
****2: 1:22 fast banjo, faster foot stomping percussion
3: 1:45 mid to faster, male vocal
4: 1:28 fast INSTRUMENTAL
5: 2:15 more like banjo noodling, male vocal/wail
6: 2:41 mid to faster banjo, male vocal
7: 0:56 fast INSTRUMENTAL
***8: 3:41 mid Tempo, male vocal, simple, great banjo picking
***9: 1:56 fast, spoken word intro then great banjo picking
***10: 3:41 mid T, male Blues vocal, nice Blues picking & strumming
***11: 1:32 mid to faster, INSTRUMENTAL, 7 sec fade at end
**12: 1:04 fast, short spoken word intro then fast picking & vocal
**13: 4:19 mid T, low banjo with piano, clarinet, trumpet, New Orleans sound
****14: 3:28 fast, banjo, fiddle, guitar & pipes, nice foot stomper
****15: 2:52 mid T, clawhammer technique, crystal clear complex playing
16: 2:24 fast banjo, bass, mandolin, guitar & drums
17: 2:29 mid T, pre folk/banjo revival of the 1960's, a polka
18: 3:03 slow, a percussive style of playing
19: 1:13 fast, the person who influenced Earl Scruggs and his style of playing
20: 1:15 fast, by the "first lady of banjo"
***21: 1:00 very fast, "Fox Chase"
22: 1:13 fast, a square dance, fine picking & strumming, some talk at end
23: 1:27 mid to faster, banjo with vocal
***24: 2:32 mid T, female vocal
25: 1:40 fast, first banjo tune Doc Watson learned in 1934
****26: 2:50 fast, vocal & banjo, WOW!
27: 1:46 fast, Elizabeth Cotten banjo & vocal
***28: 3:11 mid to faster, banjo, vocal with fiddle sounding like a locomotive
***29: 1:29 very, very fast, banjo & vocal
****30: 3:09 very fast, banjo & vocal from the founder of Bluegrass music Bill Monroe (mandolin), banjo, fiddle & bass

Recent airplay

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Bluegrass Breakdown, Black Eye Susie, I Wish To The Lord I'd Never Been Born, Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Girl/Cripple Creek/Ida Red/Old Joe Clark, Georgia Buck, Coal Creek March, Bright Sunny South, Peachbottom Creek, Johnson Boys, Banging Breakdown
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Charting

2014-03-07 — 2014-05-09 Country/Bluegrass
Week EndingAirplays
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Apr 20 3
Apr 13 2
Apr 6 1
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Mar 23 1
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Track listing

1. Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Girl/Cripple Creek/Ida Red/Old Joe Clark
2. Banging Breakdown
3. Johnson Boys
4. Peachbottom Creek
5. Coo Coo
6. Josh Thomas's Roustabout
7. Jaw Bone
8. Bright Sunny South
9. Coal Creek March
10. Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
11. Walk Light Ladies
12. Buck Creek Girls
13. Gut Bucket Blues
14. Skylark
15. St. Anne's Reel/La Renfleuse Gorbeil
16. Smokey Mokes
17. Golden Bell Polka
18. Banjoland
19. Sally Ann
20. Lonesome Road Blues
21. Fox Chase
22. Hop Along Lou
23. Cotton Eyed Joe
24. Foggy Mountain Top
25. Rambling Hobo
26. Old Rattler
27. Georgia Buck
28. I Wish To The Lord I'd Never Been Born
29. Black Eye Susie
30. Bluegrass Breakdown