#banjo — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #banjo, aggregated by home.social.
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May This Balloon Banjo Resonate With You
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/08/17/may-this-balloon-banjo-resonate-with-you/
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https://recordsalbums.com/250-flatt-scruggs-vinyl-records-albums-lps Flatt & Scruggs were a hugely influential bluegrass duo formed in the 1940s by guitarist Lester Flatt and banjo player Earl Scruggs... #Flatt #Scruggs #FlattScruggs #FlattandScruggs #Banjo #BluegrassRecords #BluegrassAlbums #BluegrassVinyl #BluegrassLPs #Vinyl #VinylRecords #Records #RecordAlbums #LPs #Albums #VinylRecord #Record #RecordAlbum #LP #Album
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And for more, visit the website of Ozark Banjo (Lukas and Eden Pool)
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If you want to get to know him a bit better, here's an interview with Lukas Pool from the #Banjo Newsletter.
https://banjonews.com/2019-04/builder_player_teacher_lukas_pool_shapes_a_hard-to-find_balance.html
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The solid music theory foundation also shows in Lukas Pool's teaching videos, like the one below, where he explains chords in an easy to follow way (if you've got some basic #banjo knowledge, that is).
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'One day, I burst out crying. My mom asked, “Why?” I said, “I want to play #banjo." I was crying because I didn’t want others to make fun of me!"'
I don't think anyone makes fun of Lukas Pool today, who is one of the most elegant banjo players around. And a #banjo builder and teacher, too.
He honed his playing craft at the Berklee College of Music, and his mellow and "jazzy" style might originate there. Or not.
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@vinomadic
Oh nice!Dueling 🪗 and 🪕 like that makes me think of this duo on top of a New York sky-scraper in 1929
That was Cornell Smelser who met Gershwin in an elevator and was one of only two others given rights to play “Rhapsody in Blue”
https://youtu.be/Y_CCjkBd798
#accordion #Banjo #Jazz -
The #Xenon2 theme. On fucking #banjo. You're welcome.
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Don’t kill me there I am unprepared to die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT9nmSEkIpMhttps://word.undead-network.de/2026/08/08/dont-kill-me-there-i-am-unprepared-to-die/
#banjo #knoxville #knoxvillegirl #music #reverend #reverendelvis -
And ahead of her new album in September, Rhiannon GIddens with Justin Robinson for fresh new old-timey music
https://rhiannongiddens.bandcamp.com/album/what-did-the-blackbird-say-to-the-crow
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Btw.: It's #bandcampFriday today. There has been a lot of #Bandcamp #banjo music in the #Banjofriday hashtag, if you're into this kind of kink.
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Lets get #BanjoFriday on the road real fast with a classic #banjo rocker by Gillian Welch: "My First Lover" from her 2001 album "Time (The Revelator)".
One chord, three note interlude riff, nothing else is necessary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5T2e4OCyvk
All of the album is gorgeous: https://gillianwelch.bandcamp.com/album/time-the-revelator
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If you're a #banjo player, or even just a fan, you'll enjoy this excellent article on the instrument's history - and its return to its roots in North African #music.
https://www.aramcoworld.com/articles/2026/ja26/banjo-on-the-atlas
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Here's the late Reed Martin's recording of "The Sylvester Poole March", a thumb-lead banjo piece he learned from Homer Spriggs. It's one of the prettiest tunes I know.
There's been some folk process worked on this one. Originally written for guitar in 1855 by Henry Worrall, it was titled "Sebastopol". Over the years it became "Sylvester Poole" and also "Vestapol", the blues guitar standard.
(recording from "Old Time Banjo", Reed Martin, 1996)
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Lotus Wight's "Cluck Old Hen" features:
a) exquisite examples of the "cluck", a much sought-after harmonic technique in clawhammer (that for every other stringed instrument would be a "hell naw");
b) bass harmonica so grotty it should be illegal.
https://soundcloud.com/lotuswight/cluck-old-hen-banjo-and-contra
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I hadn't heard of the banjo player Lou Calabrese, but a friend brought his playing to my attention. I think this fellow must have extra fingers, or maybe a robotic arm....
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One or maybe even THE oldest recording of "Single Girl" also is sung by a male: Kelly Harrell (1889–1942) recorded it in 1927. His version is much slower than those of Cousin Emmy or Roscoe.
Warning: No #banjo here!
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"Single Girl" is one of these gender-bending folk songs that is often sung by male singers, too. Sometimes the title is changed to "I Wish I Was Single Again" but quite often the titular "girl" remains. For example when Roscoe Holcomb sings it.
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Recently I became fascinated with Sarah Kate Morgan's version of "Single Girl". But as Sarah plays the dulcimer her performance would not be appropriate for a #Banjofriday.
But alas, there are many other versions of the old traditional. One that fits perfectly here was sung and played by Cousin Emmy aka Cynthia May Carver (1903-1980), a fascinating performer and one of the biggest female stars of her time. Damn, she plays a hardhitting #banjo!
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Lyrics -- Standing on the left hand side of god.
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though the space be long and wide,
I´ll be satisfied standing on the left hand side of god
I´ll be happy as can be through eternity
standing on the left hand side of godthey say they´ll be among the cue that´s standing on his right
the biggest crowd of sin I ever saw
I´d been so poor behind the saints,
I couldn´t see the light and I couldn´t hear him layin down the law,So: though the space be long and wide,
I´ll be satisfied standing on the left hand side of god
I´ll be happy as can be and I bet y´all have company
standing on the left hand side of godI know I´ve been too bad to stand among the chosen few
so when they open up the book and state the facts
I won´t be disappointed when the keeper lets me through
If he points me out a spot across the tracks`though the space be long and wide, I´ll be satisfied
standing on the left hand side of god
I´ll be happy as can be through eternity
standing on the left hand side of god
#music #god #lefthand #banjo #gospel #country #hillbilly -
Wayfaring Stranger
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I made a #Capo for the fifth string of a #Banjo.
This toothpick has some grooves that help holding the capo in place.
#BanjoFriday on a saturday.
