Big Ben Banjo Band - The Beatles Tribute

The Beatles tribute LP by the Big Ben Banjo Band is a real barn burner. Featuring such hits as Paperback Writer, Eight Days A Week and All My Loving (all condensed for your listening pleasure in one track!) it screams cheese and crass commercialism. Enjoy!




Via Never Get Out of The Boat

(Do Something to) That Tiger

I rely on the kindness of strangers, or at least internet buddies to cheer me when I am down. And you are all coming through! With such joys as this video from my last.fm pal mcyeager.

When I'm Cleaning Windows.

Wu Wei






Better than Dylan

Sonny Osborne, banjo player

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Sonny Osborne – His Early recordings 1952-1953 Vol.3 made available thanks to Uncle Gil's Rockin' Archive.

Catching the Music

Catching the Music - a film by Jackson Frost and Stephen Wade (1987, 54 minutes, Color). "...Written in 1987 by Stephen Wade, creator of the long-running stage show Banjo Dancing, and produced by WETA’s Jackson Frost, Catching the Music explores a family of musicians tied together not by lines of kinship but by a continuing engagement with the music of the Southern five-string banjo. It begins with Wade who, early on, was drawn to its myriad sounds and its traditional repertory. He learned first from Fleming Brown, a teacher at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music. From the start, Brown advised Wade to concentrate on great performances, advising him, above all, to 'find the people who know how to play the music.' This led Wade to Brown’s teacher, Doc Hopkins, an old-time WLS radio singer from Eastern Kentucky. In tracing Hopkins’ and Brown’s influences and inspirations, the film comes to explore other forebears, other practitioners who also share in the music. Their lessons, set in historical and cultural contexts, lie at the heart of this film."