Word: banjo
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...will I do?" speak not so much to an omnipotent deity, but simply confirm everyman's need for a resting place, a safe haven and a friend. Rural life has always been hard and mountain people have never felt the need to suffer it entirely alone. The 5-string banjo, fiddle and dulcimer occupied places of honor in countless cabins, and the Saturday night square dance was a regular occurrence on practically every creek. Any people accustomed to long, hard hours spent just in the business of existing learn quickly to catch any available moment for sociability. The excitement...
...music which the New Lost City Ramblers play is based almost entirely on field recordings made by commercial record companies and the Library of Congress during the period between 1925 and 1935. The Ramblers play almost the entire range of American folk instruments (mouth bow, harmonica, autoharp, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar), in the styles used by such groups as Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, Byrd Moore and his Hot Shots, and Dr. Humphrey Bate and the Possum Hunters, to name but a few of the groups from which the Ramblers derive their repertoire. They play old breakdowns, sing ballads...
...group to devote his time to mathematics. His place was taken by Tracy Schwartz, the junior member of the band who had grown up listening to country music in New York in the 1940's. Tracy was playing guitar by the age of 10 and later learned fiddle and banjo. His membership in the group added a decade on either side of its repertoire by playing both unaccompanied ballads and early bluegrass...
Mike Seeger was virtually raised on Library of Congress recordings since his parents were helping to compile the archives. By his late teens, Mike had become engrossed in the playing techniques of rural artists and he soon was playing guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo and autoharp. He has since recorded solo albums for Vanguard and Folkways and most recently for Arhoolie...
...group went through the drug involvement, which has now become a rather trite metaphor for Middle American adolescence. Led by Jerry Garcia, an itinerant Berkeley banjo player, they began expanding on the poems of Robert Hunter, weaving exotic musical tapestries of unprecedented grace. Garcia soared in front of the band with melodic inventions of overpowering purity and beauty. The subtlety of jazz extempore had been wedded to the sexual electricity of rock and roll...