| Various Artists / Classic Banjo From Smithsonian Folkways |
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| Album: | Classic Banjo From Smithsonian Folkways | Collection: | Review Shelf | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Jan 2014 | |
| Label: | Smithsonian/Folkways | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2014-03-07 | Pull Date: | 2014-05-09 | Charts: | Country/Bluegrass |
| Week Ending: | May 4 | Apr 27 | Apr 20 | Apr 13 | Apr 6 | Mar 30 | Mar 23 | Mar 16 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 21, 2023: | The Iron Skillet Bluegrass Breakdown | 4. | Jun 01, 2018: | Traditions Johnson Boys, Banging Breakdown | |
| 2. | Nov 19, 2021: | Traditions 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 | 5. | May 03, 2014: | BravoMarco Variety Show Coo Coo | |
| 3. | Aug 08, 2021: | That's Not Bluegrass (rebroadcast from Mar 16, 2014) St. Anne's Reel/La Renfleuse Gorbeil | 6. | Apr 29, 2014: | That's Not Bluegrass I Wish To The Lord I'd Never Been Born |
| Album Review |
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| Don Farrell Reviewed 2014-03-06 | ||
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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 | ||
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