Stringbean - Hillbilly Fever

Yes, the audio quality is a bit poor but this is a good one. If you don't know of the terrible tale of Stringbean, click here. For an update, read the comments on the video I just posted.

Seattle Folklore Society's video tapes from the 1960s

"In the late 1960's, the Seattle Folklore Society and KCTS public television video taped various acts that came through town."

Check out Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Jesse Fuller, Bukka White, Big Joe Williams, Doc Watson, Elizabeth Cotton, Fred McDowell, Fred McFalls and Bren Byson, Furry Lewis, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, Mike Russo, Mike Seeger, Roscoe Holcomb, Roy Caudill, Son House and embedded here Rev. Gary Davis and Buell Casey.



Part 2 of the Rev. Gary Davis video can be found here.



Part 2 of the Buell Casey video can be found here.

If you enjoy watching footage of legends of blues and folk blues as much as I do you should head on over to FolkSeattle's Channel immediately.

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Everyone line up for the conga, Edmundo Ros has taken his bongos South with his version of (clap clap clap clap) "Deep in the Heart of Texas". Coming in second for sheer stupidity is the bongos + banjo cha cha version of "My Old Kentucky Home". I can see Percy Trout tearing up already.

(clap clap clap clap) Deep in the Heart of Texas:



Bongos From the South

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

boomp3.com

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."