Throw Down Your Heart

Banjo and the pursuit of its origin in Africa with an ALL STAR cast of African Musicians. ALL TRACKS ARE FANTASTIC. Documentary film about the trip is playing now.
1: 2:51 female call & response with fem. chorus, fast, locked hand clapping
WOW! percussion, minimal banjo noodling at intro then more cool banjo picking
2: 4:16 male vocal/wail, fast banjo, fiddle & guitar (D'Gary from Madagascar)
3: 3:50 Fem vocal ( Oumou Sangare from Mali) with chorus, great banjo
4: 2:30 fast scat vocal intro , thumb piano & banjo
5: 2:51 fast M&F call & response vocals, cool fast song, goes lower towards end
6: 6:16 very cool jam with a large group of fantastic African All Stars, kind of
a wall of sound with vocals & instruments
7: 5:08 slower banjo with percussion, beautiful sound, The title comes from
the name of a town in Mali when the slaves saw the ocean and knew they were
never going home again.
8: 4:00 slower beautiful picking and scat style male vocal, applause
9: 2:55 HUGE list of musicians, fast 15 foot marimba with a huge pit under it
played by 8 people with lots of percussion
10: 4:33 fast male vocal/wail with intense banjo (traditional & 2 string) picking
****11: 3:20 very cool unusual vocal harmonizing, with minimal banjo
12: 4:31 cool cool picking with beautiful vocal chanting
****13: 2:58 African Blues, banjo, bowed lyre & toe percussion, fast
14: 3:25 thumb piano band, great banjo picking, beautiful vocals
15: 4:19 Instrumental, marimba with percussion & banjo
16: 3:51 mellow string picking, banjo & guitar
17: 5:05 soft & low fem vocal, Oumou Sangare, sparse banjo noodling
18: 7:14 thumb piano & banjo, @2:13 male vocal/chant. D  Farrell   04/2009