I loves me some bluegrass music. Back when my mom was still alive, I used to drive up to St. Louis twice a year on Thanksgiving and on her birthday which was around Mother’s Day. While driving through Kentucky, I would pick up the Murray State University public radio station and they had a program on called From the Back Porch which featured classic bluegrass music. Got to listen to about two hours of it until I got out of range.
Anyhoo, my friend Pres sent me a clip of The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys playing on David Letterman’s show. The banjo player in this band is ten freakin’ years old! I went out and found a video of them playing three tunes. Here it is. I really should get new strings for my banjo and start playing it again. I was nowhere as good as this kid.
Look at the shit eating grin on the fiddle player after he does his solo on the first song. He nailed it and he knew it!
Bravo!
W0w. Just wow.
They are very, very good.
Nice find.
If I had a son he’d look and ACT just like anyone of them young, talented, clean-cut lads!
They’ll be even better when they get past the idea that the faster it goes, the better it sounds. But 3 cheers to them. They are great.
Bluegrass is meant to be played fast. Since I’m a bluegrass loving folk guitarist, I have to constantly force myself to slow down on some of the nonbluegrass songs that I play.
I know a little about Bluegrass myself. Faster is not always better. At some point, you’re just showing off and the music loses its musicality.