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...cattleman, but they also include the mine worker, the land developer, the labor leader and the successful young mod designer. Actually, the average Australian is not now-and never was-the remote man of the outback, "the son of field and flock ...from bold and roving stock," as Poet "Banjo" Patterson described the pioneer. He is a suburbanite, and his country is one of the most urbanized nations on earth. Australians like to tell a newcomer that if he will go first to the top of Sydney's tallest building and then to the top of Melbourne...
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah. Someone's in the kitchen I know-o-oh, oh. Someone's in the kitchen with Di-nahhhh. Strummin' on the old banjo...
Scene 1: A Southern plantation in the 1840s. A group of black slaves (then known as darkies) sits around a ramshackle log cabin. One strums a banjo-a cigar box and a stick strung with horsehair-as they sing...
Blue Grass music features high and unusual vocal harmonies. Breaks between verses and strictly instrumental numbers show off the extreme virtuosity employed on fiddle, mandolin, and banjo: the playing incorporates, like jazz, a great deal of improvisation within set patterns. Lead work is supported by the rhythmic foundation of guitar and string bass. Musicians in the field are known for the astounding sophistication of their techniques; most do not read music and have received no formal instruction on their instruments...
...native of Kentucky and a former coal miner, whose musical soul is so in harmony with that of Monroe that the two maintain an almost unbearable spiritual communication on stage. Also featured with the group are Bill's son, James, on guitar, and Rual Yarbrough from Alabama, on banjo. One can listen hard and still hear only a fraction of the genius in Bill Monroe's music. "You don't know what it is, though, until you play it," as one ex-Blue Grass Boy put it-"it is natural music...