Monday morning, some fancy banjo picking by Eliza Mary Doyle on the folk classic Railroad Bill.
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Breakneck Breakdown
Monday morning, hang on for dear life as 15 year old Jacob Johnson blazes through Foggy Mountain Breakdown.
Thanks to YouTuber Kasey Lawson
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Darling Cora
Joan Baez and Earl Scruggs At Home
Monday morning, banjo legend Earl Scruggs pays a visit to Joan Baez’s house in the California hills. It’s 1972, and the courageous Earl Scruggs was the first (and one of the very few) major country western star to have come out against the Vietnam war.
Earl decided he wanted to expand his musical horizons, so he paid a visit to a slew of young singers, including Dylan and Baez. Documentarian David Hoffman got it all on film and turned the footage into an award winning documentary.
Here’s a scene at Baez’s home with Baez singing “Love is Just A Four-Letter Word” and Scruggs playing backup. Baez’s singing voice here is incredible, unearthly almost, just sitting there in her living room with no equipment. Earl’s talented 16 year old son Randy is on the other side of Joan, playing guitar.
More at David Hoffman
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Gentle On My Mind
Yet another version of a country favorite by John Hartford. Elle Cordova and Toni Lindgren are the lyrical lasses here.
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Happy Yodeling
Monday morning, as our thoughts turn to a Texas trip, Pete yodels T for Texas and that gal named Thelma for a Czech crowd.
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Thanks to YouTuber Kálmán Tóth
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Pete and Ramblin’ Jack: Mule Skinner Blues
Brooklyn’s own cowboy, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and Pete Seeger make some music.
Thanks to YouTuber fuzzyallan
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Earl Scruggs and Company
Friend Of The Devil
Carson and Josh having fun finger-picking this Grateful Dead classic
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Men With Banjos (Who Know How To Use Them)
Monday morning, “Foggy Mountain Breakdown,” played by fast company banjo hotshots including Earl Scruggs and Steve Martin.
Thanks to YouTuber Nekrophyliac
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Boulderdash!
If this doesn’t get you out of bed Monday morning, have someone check your pulse. Unbelievable banjo and guitar picking by Béla Fleck and Billy Strings.
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Nora Brown, Old-time Banjo: “You Need To Connect”
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Two summers ago at the Ashokan Summer Hoot in upstate New York, a young woman named Nora Brown just knocked the crowd out with her amazing virtuoso banjo playing and evocation of traditional Appalachian music. I was very happy to interview her for the Arts Express radio program.
Click on the triangle or the mp3 link above to hear the interview with Nora Brown and some of her music as broadcast today on Arts Express on WBAI NYC and Pacifica affiliates across the country.
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Heart Of The Country
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Josh Turner and friends cover the Paul McCartney ditty from the Ram album. I really enjoyed the extended banjo, fiddle, bass, and drum chorus at the end. And how the heck does Josh do that video editing, keeping all the audio in synch?
More Josh Turner at Josh Turner Guitar
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Dooley!
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Monday morning, moon and monkeyshines as the family that stills together, trills together.
Josh Turner, Carson McKee, Reina del Cid, and Toni Lindgren with some pretty great banjo, guitar, and mandolin plucking.
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“I’ve Endured”
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The remarkable Nora Brown, channeling the ghosts of the Appalachian mountains with this Ola Belle Reed song.
More Nora at Little Nora
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Ashokan Farewell
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At the close of each Summer Hoot Music Festival at Ashokan, Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, Mike Meranda, and Ruthy Ungar play Jay’s heartbreakingly beautiful ballad, Ashokan Farewell.
Jay and Ruthy on fiddle, Molly on guitar, Mike on Banjo.
The end of summer. We’ll miss you, Ashokan.
Thanks to YouTuber FolkAlleydotCom
