Not guitar this week. Paul turned me onto this Josh Turner dude. I posted some of his music last week. Here is on banjo.
I loves me some bluegrass music. Back when my mom was still alive, I used to drive up to St. Louis from Atlanta twice a year: on Thanksgiving and in the Spring. Driving through Kentucky I would pick up the public radio station from Murray State College and listen to a program called From the Back Porch where they would play blue grass and early country music. Made the miles go by faster.
Here’s Richard Thompson, singing his composition. Howza ’bout that? A Brit writing a song that sounds great on guitar and banjo.
First vid wouldn’t start, so I left it to load and went to fix me some lunch after rasslin with this section of fence I gotta fix today before the rains come.
Heard the banjo and came back to look . . . and thought it was Sweets and Zach from Bones playin a string duet in the park.
Those boys sound pretty good on that tune. Check out Del McCoury’s version … that IS the benchmark for that tune.
Thanks for posting Denny.
Not bad, but I like the two young dudes’ version better because of the vocal harmony. I also think the banjo playing was a lot better. On the upside, McCoury’s had mandolin and fiddle. Josh could overdub a mandolin part in. He’s got a lot of overdub stuff on YouTube. I’d learn this song except it requires drop key tuning and I hate to detune a guitar for just one song.
Very enjoyable.