query: who is the kid playing the banjo in deliverance

pos: Billy Redden Billy Redden Billy Redden (born 1956) is an American actor, best known for his role as a backwoods, mountain boy in the 1972 film "Deliverance". He played Lonnie, a banjo-playing teenager in north Georgia, who played the noted "Dueling Banjos" with Drew Ballinger (Ronny Cox). The film was critically acclaimed and received nominations for awards in several categories. Redden was born in Rabun County, Georgia. At the age of sixteen, he was selected for "Deliverance" from his school in Georgia by director John Boorman. He portrayed a banjo-playing "local" during the film's famous "dueling banjos" scene. Boorman felt that Redden's

pos: Dueling Banjos both the Cashbox and Record World pop charts. The song also reached No. 5 on the Hot Country Singles chart at the same time it was on the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary Singles charts. It was also nominated for the 30th Golden Globe Awards in the Best Original Song category. In "Deliverance," a scene depicts Billy Redden playing it opposite Ronny Cox, who joins him on guitar. Redden plays "Lonnie," a mentally challenged and inbred, but extremely gifted, banjo player. Redden could not actually play the banjo and the director thought his hand movements looked unconvincing. A local musician,

pos: Big Fish it was weird being a pregnant witch," the actress reflected. "I had morning sickness, so all those fumes and the make-up and the rubber ... it was hideous." Burton personalized the film with several cameos. While filming in Alabama, the crew tracked down Billy Redden, one of the original banjo players from "Deliverance" (1972). Redden was working as a part-owner of a restaurant in Clayton, Georgia, and he agreed to reprise his role in the Spectre vignette. As Edward Bloom first enters the town, Redden can be seen on a porch plucking a few notes from "Dueling Banjos". Burton was

neg: Cris Kirkwood following artists for Slope Records - The Exterminators, the Linecutters, and Sad Kid. Kirkwood is a grandson of Carl W. Renstrom, who was owner of Tip-Top Products and a multi-millionaire from Omaha, Nebraska. Cris Kirkwood Christopher "Cris" Kirkwood (born October 22, 1960) is an American musician who is the bassist and a founding member of the Meat Puppets, an alternative punk rock band. Raised in Paradise Valley, Arizona, Cris took up the banjo after seeing "Deliverance", moved on to guitar, and ultimately picked up the bass when he started playing together in bands with his older brother Curt. In 1980

neg: Colonel Homer and a film called "Ernest vs. The Pope" which stars the fictional character Ernest P. Worrell. During his long drive to the Beer 'N' Brawl, Homer passes a boy playing a banjo on a porch, a reference to the "Dueling Banjos" sequence in the film "Deliverance". The same boy appears later at the recording studio waiting in line with his banjo to record a CD. William Irwin writes in his book "Philosophy and the Interpretation of Pop Culture" that this "burst of banjo" must convey a message even if the viewers do not "get" the reference to "Deliverance": "Thanks to

neg: Eric Weissberg Valli, Bob Dylan, Loudon Wainwright III, Talking Heads, Tom Paxton, Jim Croce, Art Garfunkel, John Denver, Ronnie Gilbert and others. He is well known for playing the banjo solo in "Dueling Banjos", used as the theme in the film "Deliverance" (1972), produced by Joe Boyd and directed by John Boorman. It was released later as a single and became a hit; playing on Top 40, AOR, and country stations alike. It reached the Top Ten and hit #1 in the US and Canada. Weissberg released a related album, called "Dueling Banjos: From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 'Deliverance' " (1973),

neg: Cris Kirkwood Cris Kirkwood Christopher "Cris" Kirkwood (born October 22, 1960) is an American musician who is the bassist and a founding member of the Meat Puppets, an alternative punk rock band. Raised in Paradise Valley, Arizona, Cris took up the banjo after seeing "Deliverance", moved on to guitar, and ultimately picked up the bass when he started playing together in bands with his older brother Curt. In 1980 the brothers and their friend Derrick Bostrom, a drummer, decided to form a band, which they eventually named the Meat Puppets. Besides playing bass Kirkwood's role in the band grew over the years

neg: Billy Redden "Deliverance" and "First Blood". Redden next appeared in Tim Burton's 2003 film "Big Fish". Burton was intent on getting Redden, as he wanted him to play the role of a banjo-playing "welcomer" in the utopian town of Spectre. Burton located Redden in Clayton, Georgia, where he was part-owner of the Cookie Jar Café, and also worked as a cook and dishwasher. In 2004, Redden made a guest appearance on "Blue Collar TV," playing a car repairman named Ray in a "Redneck Dictionary" skit. He represented the word "raisin bread" (as in "Ray's inbred"). He played a banjo in the skit.

neg: Deliverance (novel) north Georgia wilderness. The river valley will soon be flooded by a dam to create a reservoir. Besides Ed, the protagonists are insurance salesman Bobby Trippe, soft drink executive Drew Ballinger, and landlord Lewis Medlock, a physically fit outdoorsman who is the driving force behind the canoe trip. The men drive into the mountains with two canoes. At a gas station in a mountain hamlet, Drew gets out his guitar and plays a duet with Lonnie, a banjo-playing, intellectually disabled, inbred albino boy who is apparently a musical savant. After arranging with some local mechanics, the dirty and intimidating Griner

neg: Deliverance near the beginning, with one of the city men playing "Dueling Banjos" on guitar with a banjo-strumming country boy, and for its visceral and notorious male rape scene. In 2008, "Deliverance" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Four Atlanta men—Lewis Medlock, Ed Gentry, Bobby Trippe, and Drew Ballinger—decide to canoe down a river in the remote northern Georgia wilderness, expecting to have fun and witness the area's unspoiled nature before the fictional Cahulawassee River valley is flooded by construction of a dam. Lewis

neg: Colonel Homer prevailing connotations of banjo music, viewers who do not recognize the banjo tune as the theme from "Deliverance" will not laugh, but the mere "sound" of banjo tells the audience that Homer has entered a backward, redneck area." The Beer 'N' Brawl redneck bar is based on the bar in the film "Urban Cowboy". The Beer 'N' Brawl sells Laramie High Tar cigarettes, a reference to the American cigarette brand Laramie. After arriving home from the Beer 'N' Brawl, Lurleen's song is stuck in Homer's head, and he even sings it to his bowling ball for good luck. Homer's co-worker

neg: Jamal Millner Jamal Millner Jamal Millner (born February 26, 1971) is a guitarist from West Virginia who was a member of the band 5x5 led by Corey Harris. Millner was given his first "kid guitar" at the age of three. His parents went to "lots of shows". When he was four they took him to a Taj Mahal show and he got up on stage and played his plastic guitar. This was his very first "gig". As a five-year-old he appeared playing banjo in a Yale University documentary entitled "Banjo Man" with musicians Taj Mahal and Afro-Appalachian banjoist Uncle John Homer. Jamal

neg: Kid Ory Kid Ory Edward "Kid" Ory (December 25, 1886 – January 23, 1973) was a Louisiana French-speaking jazz trombonist and bandleader. He was born in Woodland Plantation, near LaPlace, Louisiana. Ory started playing music with homemade instruments in his childhood, and by his teens was leading a well-regarded band in southeast Louisiana. He kept LaPlace, Louisiana, as his base of operations because of family obligations until his twenty-first birthday, when he moved his band to New Orleans. He was one of the most influential trombonists of early jazz. Ory was a banjo player during his youth, and it is said that

neg: Clint Baker the Stanford University Music Library. Clint Baker Clint Baker (born January 27, 1971, in Mountain View, California) is an American traditional jazz musician performing on cornet, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, tuba, string bass, and drums. Baker started playing clarinet in 1980. His first school band director needed trombonists and quickly switched Clint to trombone. Baker is an autodidact and in the years that followed he would learn additional instruments including tuba, tenor banjo, and drums. In 1984 he organized and led his first traditional jazz band: “Greasy Kid Stuff” (1984–1989). In 1988 this band appeared at the Sacramento

neg: Eric Weissberg Eric Weissberg Eric Weissberg (born August 16, 1939) is an American singer, banjo player and multi-instrumentalist, best known for playing solo in "Dueling Banjos," featured as the theme of the film "Deliverance" (1972) and released as a single that reached number 2 in the United States and Canada in 1973. A member of the folk group, the Tarriers, for years, Weissberg later developed a career as a session musician. He has played and recorded with leading rock and popular musicians and groups of the late 20th century. Weissberg continues to play at folk festivals. Weissberg attended The Little Red Schoolhouse

neg: Clint Baker Clint Baker Clint Baker (born January 27, 1971, in Mountain View, California) is an American traditional jazz musician performing on cornet, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, tuba, string bass, and drums. Baker started playing clarinet in 1980. His first school band director needed trombonists and quickly switched Clint to trombone. Baker is an autodidact and in the years that followed he would learn additional instruments including tuba, tenor banjo, and drums. In 1984 he organized and led his first traditional jazz band: “Greasy Kid Stuff” (1984–1989). In 1988 this band appeared at the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Jubilee with Baker

neg: Kid Ory his ability to play the banjo helped him develop "tailgate", a particular style of playing the trombone with a rhythmic line underneath the trumpets and cornets. When Ory was living on Jackson Avenue, he was discovered by Buddy Bolden, playing his first new trombone, instead of an old Civil War trombone. Ory's sister said he was too young to play with Bolden. Ory had one of the best-known bands in New Orleans in the 1910s, hiring many of the great jazz musicians of the city, including the cornetists Joe "King" Oliver, Mutt Carey, and Louis Armstrong, who joined the band

neg: Billy Redden In 2009, Redden played again his usual role (The banjo man) in 's film "Outrage: Born in Terror". In 2012, 40 years after the release of "Deliverance", Redden was interviewed in association with a documentary, "The Deliverance of Rabun County" (2012). It explored the feelings of people in Rabun County four decades later about the 1972 film. Redden said that though "Deliverance" was the best thing that happened to him, he never saw much money from the movie: Noting some locals objected to the stereotypes in the movie, Redden said that the people in Rabun County were good people: Billy

neg: Roy Clark go in and just steal them blind. I stole all their licks. It wasn't until years later that I found out that a lot of them used to cringe when I'd come in and say, 'Oh, no! Here comes that kid again.'" As for his banjo style, Clark said in 1985, "When I started playing, you didn't have many choices to follow, and Earl Scruggs was both of them." Clark won the National Banjo Championship in 1947 and 1948, and briefly toured with a band when he was 15. Clark was very shy, and turned to humor as a way

neg: Drive-By Truckers banjo instead of guitar, and Howell playing double bass, the band's original sound had a strong alternative country aspect, albeit with some rock mixed in, as well. After recording their first album, the band added a third guitarist/vocalist, Rob Malone. By the second album, "Pizza Deliverance", released in 1999, Howell had left, Malone switched to bass, and Sell had left the band, resulting in a somewhat more rock-oriented sound. Neff was also listed as a guest rather than a member, although he plays on much of the album. Hood dominated the songwriting and lead vocals in these early records, but

neg: The Happy Pals The Happy Pals The Happy Pals New Orleans Party Orchestra are a New Orleans traditional dance hall jazz band which was formed in 1968 by Clifford “Kid” Bastien, originally named Kid Bastien’s Camellia Jazz band. The Happy Pals are a classic New Orleans style ensemble which includes trumpet, trombone, clarinet, banjo, piano, double bass and drums. They are inspired by the early jazz and blues music of the 1920s and 1930s. The Happy Pals have been playing New Orleans dance hall jazz in Toronto for over four decades. They have also played throughout the United States and tour Europe annually.

neg: Banjo Newsletter Banjo Newsletter Banjo Newsletter (BNL) is a monthly magazine devoted to the 5-string banjo. Founded in 1973 by Hubbard "Hub" Nitchie and his wife Nancy, the magazine covers a range of banjo topics, including features on banjo players, banjo techniques (predominantly the three-finger or Scruggs style and the clawhammer playing style), beginning banjo, music theory, banjo set-up and accessories, product and record reviews. Banjo tablature is featured in each issue. Since 1993, BNL has been published by its founder's sons Donald and Spencer, who serve as editor and business manager, respectively. As of 2011 the magazine had a circulation of

neg: Johari Window (Fringe) get out of the car to enter a supermarket, he mentions he is "learning to appreciate cowardice" and that "the lion had a point", a reference, he explains to Peter, about the cowardly lion from "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). Walter also mentions flying monkeys and talking lions later in the episode, both also homages to the movie. Later, Walter excitedly says he remembers someone who played the banjo and looked like the kidnapped, deformed boy, and starts humming a tune. Peter completes the tune and explains it is from the movie "Deliverance" (1972), which depicts murderous, inbred, and deformed

neg: Billy Redden skinny frame, large head, and almond-shaped eyes made him the natural choice to play the part of an "inbred from the back woods." Because Redden could not play a banjo, he wore a special shirt which allowed a real banjo player to hide behind him for the scene, which was shot with carefully chosen camera angles that would conceal the player, whose arms were slipped around Redden's waist to play the tune. After "Deliverance", Redden was cast in Lamberto Bava's 1984 film "Blastfighter". The film was recorded in and around Clayton and many people recall it as a mixture of

neg: Spring Break (Modern Family) the banjo and how good he is at trampolining, Phil's feelings get hurt. Later on, Phil finds a bra under Luke's pillow and berates him as he is still "a kid who lives under his Dad's roof, and should follow his rules". While Phil is yelling at Luke, an accident with the banjo injures Luke in the eye, and Phil has to escort him to the hospital. Phil apologizes for his behavior, which Luke accepts and reveals that the bra actually belongs to him because he has trouble un-doing it on girls and he wants to practice. Jay (Ed O'Neill)

neg: Wormwood (TV series) Wormwood (TV series) Wormwood is a Canadian and Australian children's television program that premiered on Channel Ten on 4 October 2007. It also screened in 2008 on the ABC1, as part of the Rollercoaster show. It also premiered on Foxtel's Disney channel on August the 2nd 6pm, Saturday 2008. There are 13 episodes based on the stories by Paul Jennings. The town of Wormwood is a weird place. The town's main economy is worm farming and selling 'worm poo' but things start to get really weird when the kids meet the Nose of Wormwood, a kid playing banjo, and a

neg: Terry Waldo Howard. In 1963, Waldo began playing with Gene Mayl's Dixieland Rhythm Kings from Dayton, Ohio. Mayl's band was one of a few select hold-outs dotting the country from the traditional jazz revival of the 1940s. The twenty-year-old Waldo then appeared in New Orleans in 1964, playing with such notables as Kid Valentine and Johnny Wiggs. The Red Garter, home to various banjo bands, was one of his venues. In 1965 and 1966 he played in San Francisco at another Red Garter and at Earthquake Mcgoon's with West Coast jazz revival musicians. Waldo played with Turk Murphy's Jazz Band and studied

neg: Terry Baucom Terry Baucom Terry Baucom is an American bluegrass singer, banjo player, and band leader. He is nicknamed "The Duke of Drive" for his propelling banjo style. He leads his band, The Dukes of Drive, and was a founding member of Boone Creek, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, and IIIrd Tyme Out. Baucom began playing banjo at age 10, drawn to banjo because of the Beverly Hillbillies television show. He started playing fiddle at age 14. His father played guitar, his grandfather played clawhammer banjo, and his great-grandfather played fiddle. Baucom played banjo in his father Lloyd Baucom's group The Rocky River

neg: Deliverance Steve Mandel were originally credited for the piece. The songwriter and producer Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, who had written the original piece, "Feudin' Banjos" (1955), and recorded it with five-string banjo player Don Reno, filed a lawsuit for songwriting credit and a percentage of royalties. He was awarded both in a landmark copyright infringement case. Smith asked Warner Bros. to include his name on the official soundtrack listing, but reportedly asked to be omitted from the film credits because he found the film offensive. No credit was given for the film score. The film has a number of sparse, brooding

neg: Banjo (2016 film) Banjo (2016 film) Banjo is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language musical film, directed by Ravi Jadhav and produced by Krishika Lulla under the banner of Eros International. Principal photography began at the end of January 2016 and the film released on 23 September 2016. Riteish Deshmukh and Nargis Fakhri star in the film. The film received mixed reviews upon its release and was declared a flop at the box office. Mickey (Luke Kenny) is an American, temporarily based in Mumbai, who is in search of an instrumentalist capable of playing the banjo. While trying to contact his music festival aspirant friend

neg: The Impostor (Banjo Concerto) The Impostor (Banjo Concerto) The Impostor is a concerto for Banjo and Orchestra written by Béla Fleck. Fleck premiered the concerto on September 22, 2011 with the Nashville Symphony (Giancarlo Guerrero conducting) in the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville. It was recorded over the course of three live performances and released on the eponymous album The Impostor. The concerto is dedicated to Earl Scruggs, who Fleck lists as his primary inspiration for playing the banjo. The concerto is scored for 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones,

neg: Rayne (BloodRayne) her video game counterpart, she has an American accent. In the film she takes on Billy the Kid in 19th century USA and is helped by Pat Garrett in the town of Deliverance. She also meets Muller who is one of the current members of the Brimstone Society in the 19th century. In 2005, Rayne appeared in Majesco Entertainment's "Infected" as an unlockable character. When asked if she had a storyline of her own for the title, Majesco producer Dean Martinetti stated no, adding that the game's protagonist "just happens" to resemble the character. Rayne is the first video game

neg: Peninsula Banjo Band at least three years. Both playing and auxiliary members have voting rights as long as they meet certain annual criteria laid out in the Standing Rules of the Bylaws. Former (playing) members are those who have not practiced or performed with the band for at least three years. An honorary member is any person who has made significant contribution to the objectives of the Peninsula Banjo Band and are elected after nomination by the Board of Directors. Honorary members may not vote nor serve on the Board of Directors. In the summer of 2009 the band was faced with a

neg: The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo is a 2009 album by Steve Martin, featuring Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Earl Scruggs, Tim O'Brien, Tony Trischka and Mary Black. It contains 15 songs and is the first album focusing on Martin as a musician. Martin's 1977 comedy recording "Let's Get Small", however, did feature him briefly playing the banjo during some of the comedy bits, and "The Steve Martin Brothers" devotes one side to banjo playing, including earlier renditions of some of the music presented here. It was first released on January

neg: Memphis Minnie name Lizzie. When she first began performing, she played under the name Kid Douglas. When she was 7, she and her family moved to Walls, Mississippi, south of Memphis. The following year she received her first guitar, as a Christmas present. She learned to play the banjo by the age of 10 and the guitar by the age of 11, when she started playing at parties. The family later moved to Brunswick, Tennessee. After Minnie's mother died, in 1922, Abe Douglas moved back to Walls, where he died in 1935. In 1910, at the age of 13, she ran away

neg: Snuffy Jenkins Snuffy Jenkins DeWitt "Snuffy" Jenkins (October 27, 1908 – April 29, 1990) was an American old time banjo player and an early proponent of the three-finger banjo style. Jenkins was born in Harris, North Carolina, as the last of ten children. He began playing the fiddle as a plucked instrument, switched to guitar and later to a home-made banjo he and his brother Verl had built. He bought his first real banjo in 1927, and soon fell under the influence of Smith Hammett and Rex Brooks, two early banjo players who did much for the development of Jenkins' style. In

neg: Charlie Tagawa band's most involved effort thus far. The CD includes fifteen tracks by the band and features Tagawa with a small combo that includes his sons Nori and Leon along with Bill Lowrey. In 1967, he was elected Best Banjo Player of the Yearby the New Orleans Jazz Club of Northern California. George Barnes, writing in England's "BMG" magazine, said that Tagawa is one of that rare breed who is dedicated to play and teach the banjo as it should be played. Tagawa said, "Playing the banjo is my life—I love it." In 1978, Tagawa's reputation earned him an invitation to

neg: Jad Paul Jad Paul Jad Paul (June 16, 1916 – December 29, 2008) was an American musician, most noted for being one of the original members of Spike Jones' band "The City Slickers". He was also noted for his banjo playing. Paul began playing the banjo at an early age. He used this skill of playing the banjo came in handy when he began playing for Spike Jones' band "The City Slickers" beginning in 1954. In the early 1950s, he performed with Freddy Morgan on recordings credited to The Banjo Maniacs, The Happy Harts and The Sunnysiders (including the popular "Hey, Mr.

neg: Wade Ward in Independence, Virginia, and is buried in the Saddle Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery a few miles west of town. Wade Ward Wade Ward (1892–1971) was an American old-time music banjo player and fiddler from Independence, Virginia. He was especially renowned for his clawhammer banjo playing. He was a frequent winner at the Galax, Virginia Old Time Fiddler's Convention. His instrument, a Gibson RB-11 5-string banjo, is now housed in the Smithsonian Institution. Along with Kyle Creed, Wade Ward is thought by many to embody the 'Galax' style of clawhammer banjo playing. Ward began performing in public in 1919, at

neg: Kingdom Come: Deliverance Henry, the son of a blacksmith. Destitute and vengeful, Henry joins the service of Lord Radzig Kobyla, who leads a resistance movement against Sigismund's invasion. As Henry pursues justice for his murdered family, he becomes involved in an effort to restore Bohemia's rightful king and Sigismund's half-brother, Wenceslaus IV, to the throne. The game features branching quest lines and an open world environment which encourages immersive gameplay, and includes early 15th century period-accurate weapons, clothing, combat techniques, and architecture recreated with the assistance of architects and historians. "Kingdom Come: Deliverance" is an action role-playing game set in an open world

neg: Robert P. George who has "played [intellectual] godfather to right-leaning students on [the Princeton] campus." George's critics, including many Catholic scholars, have argued that he has neglected critical aspects of the Christian message, including "the corruption of human reason through original sin, the need for forgiveness and charity and the chance for redemption," focusing instead on "mechanics" of morality, and – through his political associations and activism – turned the church "into a tool of Republican Party." George is a finger style guitarist and bluegrass banjo player. His guitar playing is in the style of Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed. His banjo playing

neg: Judgment Day (Awesome Comics) King proposes that a mythical book, which Riptide possessed months before her death, was responsible for the events, piecing together many statements about the lengthy history of the book, which was created by Hermes, the god associated with language, who gave it to Glory's mother, who subsequently buried it in Earth during its creation. The book alters reality when somebody writes upon it, and it has been acquired by many powerful figures over centuries, including the creature who would become Youngblood's Troll and puritan immortal serial killer Deliverance Drue. Drue was defeated when Wild West-era superhero Kid Thunder literally crossed

neg: Kingdom Come: Deliverance Kingdom Come: Deliverance Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an action role-playing video game developed by Warhorse Studios and published by Deep Silver for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It is set in the medieval Kingdom of Bohemia, an Imperial State of the Holy Roman Empire, with a focus on historically accurate content. It was released worldwide on 13 February 2018. The story takes place during a war in Bohemia in 1403. On the orders of Hungarian king Sigismund, Cuman mercenaries raid the mining village of Skalitz, a major source of silver. One of the survivors of that massacre is

neg: The Carson City Kid The Carson City Kid The Carson City Kid is a 1940 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane starring Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, and Bob Steele. Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers, and not playing "himself" but playing a character named Roy Rogers), posing as The Carson City Kid, is seeking vengeance on Morgan Reynolds, the man who killed his brother. To find Reynolds in the gold towns, he systematically stops stagecoaches and goes through the mail, hoping to find letters addressed to Reynolds and thus learn his whereabouts. Thus "The Kid" earns the reputation of a stagecoach robber, although he

neg: Wade Ward Wade Ward Wade Ward (1892–1971) was an American old-time music banjo player and fiddler from Independence, Virginia. He was especially renowned for his clawhammer banjo playing. He was a frequent winner at the Galax, Virginia Old Time Fiddler's Convention. His instrument, a Gibson RB-11 5-string banjo, is now housed in the Smithsonian Institution. Along with Kyle Creed, Wade Ward is thought by many to embody the 'Galax' style of clawhammer banjo playing. Ward began performing in public in 1919, at age 26. His first group, the Buck Mountain Band, included Van Edwards on fiddle and Van's son Earl on guitar.

neg: Deliverance (You Am I song) snippet of which can be heard on the album. Deliverance (You Am I song) "Deliverance" is the second single from the album Deliverance by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 2003. "Ribbons and Bows", "You Got Lucky" and "Deliverance (To Evil)" are all You Am I originals. "Ribbons and Bows" is also from Deliverance (the radio edit removes the crossfade from the previous album track during the intro), while "You Got Lucky" was released in an unmastered form on the Who Put the Devil in You single. "Deliverance (To Evil)" is the full version of the

neg: Deliverance (You Am I song) Deliverance (You Am I song) "Deliverance" is the second single from the album Deliverance by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 2003. "Ribbons and Bows", "You Got Lucky" and "Deliverance (To Evil)" are all You Am I originals. "Ribbons and Bows" is also from Deliverance (the radio edit removes the crossfade from the previous album track during the intro), while "You Got Lucky" was released in an unmastered form on the Who Put the Devil in You single. "Deliverance (To Evil)" is the full version of the rambunctious acoustic demo version of the title track, a

neg: Art Ryerson Art Ryerson Arthur Ryerson (May 22, 1913 – October 27, 2004) was a jazz guitarist who emerged in the 1930s, playing acoustic and electric guitar, as well as the banjo. He played with jazz orchestras and bands in the 1930s and the 1940s. In the early 1950s, he played on the early rock and roll recordings of Bill Haley. His daughter is flautist Ali Ryerson. Art Ryerson began playing the banjo in Columbus, Ohio before switching to guitar. In the early 1930s he joined the Rhythm Jesters at radio station WLW in Cincinnati. He moved to New York City and

neg: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2017 Game Critics Awards and Gamescom events for "Best RPG", winning the award for "Best PC Game" at the latter. In 2018, the game was also nominated for "PC Game of the Year" at the 2018 Golden Joystick Awards. The authors of the soundtrack received "Special Achievement in Multimedia Award" at the 2nd International Festival of Film Music and Multimedia Soundtrack Poděbrady. The game was nominated at the 1st Central & Eastern European Game Awards for "Best Game" and "Technology", winning the award for "Narrative". Kingdom Come: Deliverance Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an action role-playing video game developed by Warhorse

neg: Ben Eldridge Ben Eldridge Ben Eldridge, (born August 15, 1938) is a five-string banjo player and a founding member of the seminal bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. He also works as a mathematician. Ben Eldridge was born in Richmond, Virginia. He began playing the guitar at age ten and later in 1954 the banjo. In 1957, he began his studies at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. Four years later he moved to Adelphi, Maryland. Eldridge became acquainted with Bill Keith and Bill Emerson who were to become two major banjo picking influences in his life. In June 1970, Eldridge joined "Cliff

neg: Keith style The latter has interviews with many prominent Keith style banjoists, including Bill Keith and Bobby Thompson. Ken Perlman has helped to popularize the style in clawhammer banjo playing. Keith style The Keith style of playing the 5-string banjo emphasizes the melody of the song. Also known as the "Melodic" or "Chromatic style", it was first developed and popularized independently by Bobby Thompson and Bill Keith in the early 1960s. It is used primarily by bluegrass banjoists, though it can be applied to virtually any genre. Most banjoists who play Keith style do not use it exclusively, but integrate it as

neg: Scott Vestal Scott Vestal Scott Vestal is an American banjoist, songwriter and luthier, known for his innovative approach to playing and designing the banjo. The older of two chiildren, Scott Vestal was raised in Duncan, Oklahoma in a musical family. His Grandfather Famon Self was a country fiddler who taught Vestal his first guitar chords. Scott and his brother Curtis played and sang with their grandfather at bluegrass festivals and other events. Vestal acquired a 5-string banjo at age 13 and by age 15 was playing with T. J. Rogers’ family band. At age 18, Vestal performed and recorded with Larry Sparks

neg: Banjo came in banks of three, so if five-stringed had a redundant tuner. The banjos could also be somewhat easily converted over to a six-string banjo. British opera diva Adelina Patti advised Cammeyer that the zither banjo might be popular with English audiences (it was invented there), and Cammeyer went to London in 1888. With his virtuoso playing, he helped show that banjos could make more sophisticated music than normally played by blackface minstrels. He was soon performing for London society, where he met Sir Arthur Sullivan, who recommended that Cammeyer progress from arranging the music of others for banjo to

neg: Banjo roll The roll patterns can also be used to embellish the vamping style of back-up, especially when the chords are played high... These roll patterns can be used as back-up for any song played at any tempo." The banjo is commonly played in open tunings, such as open G (as are all of the examples): G'DGBD', allowing rolls to be practiced on all open strings (without fretting). Rolls are a distinguishing characteristic of Scruggs style banjo playing, with older styles being more melodic. The older style of banjo playing has been described as "in 'phrases,'" and with, "really no connective tissue

neg: David "Stringbean" Akeman became the predominant style copied by country and bluegrass banjo players. However, Akeman remained a celebrated performer of the old-fashioned banjo playing, "clawhammer" or "frailing." In addition to his skill as a clawhammer player, Akeman would also frequently play two finger banjo, using thumb and forefinger. Akeman is listed with Uncle Dave Macon, Grandpa Jones, and Ralph Stanley as the greatest old-time style banjo pickers. Akeman kept his audience with his traditional playing and his mixture of comedy and song. He scored country-chart hits with "Chewing Gum" and "I Wonder Where Wanda Went". Between 1962 and 1971, he recorded seven

neg: Neil Levang Neil Levang Neil Levang (January 3, 1932 – January 26, 2015) was an American musician who was best known from television's "The Lawrence Welk Show", playing guitar, violin and banjo. The younger of two boys, Levang was born in Adams, North Dakota, a farmer's son of Swedish and Norwegian descent. He got his start playing the banjo and soon added guitar and violin. As a young boy, Levang moved with his family between Adams, North Dakota and Bemidji, Minnesota before migrating west. They settled in Riverside, California when Levang was thirteen. At the age of fifteen, he was playing with

neg: Peninsula Banjo Band produced by a hundred or more banjos is unique and unlike anything else in the world of acoustic performances. In a change made to the bylaws in 2000, categories of membership were formally established. Playing members originally made up the band and were the only people who qualified to be Board members. Auxiliary members do not perform, but contribute to the band with their time and services. These services range from assisting with promotional mailings to staffing the Banjo Jubilee. A former member is someone who resigns from the band or who has not attended a practice or performance for

neg: The Carson City Kid heroine for being where she was doing what she did as a saloon entertainer. The Carson City Kid The Carson City Kid is a 1940 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane starring Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, and Bob Steele. Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers, and not playing "himself" but playing a character named Roy Rogers), posing as The Carson City Kid, is seeking vengeance on Morgan Reynolds, the man who killed his brother. To find Reynolds in the gold towns, he systematically stops stagecoaches and goes through the mail, hoping to find letters addressed to Reynolds and thus learn

neg: Boys' Ranch delivery driver, and US Marshal. His horse's name is Ghost. "Dandy" is a 'well-liked kid with a ready smile and a confident air' who served in the American Civil War. Usually depicted wearing a Union Army uniform, he left his adoptive parents from a small Ohio farm to explore the west. He has a noticeably greater active interest in the opposite sex, as exemplified in "I'll fight you for Lucy". "Wabash" is an easy-going lad who "springs from the hill-folk" His dubious banjo-accompanied singing skills are a source of comedy relief. His family history is explicated in the Johnny Appleseed

neg: Banjo uke Banjo uke The banjolele (brand name; sometimes banjo ukulele or banjo uke) is a four-stringed musical instrument with a small banjo-type body and a fretted ukulele neck. "Banjolele", sometimes also spelled "banjelele" or "banjulele", is a generic nickname given to the instrument. The earliest known banjoleles were built by John A. Bolander and by Alvin D. Keech, both in 1917. The instrument achieved its greatest popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, and combines the small scale, tuning, and playing style of a ukulele with the construction and distinctive tone of a banjo, hence the name. Its development was pushed by

neg: Cody Kilby Cody Kilby Cody Kilby is an American bluegrass musician who plays guitar. He is best known for his work with the Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder and the Travelin' McCourys. Cody Kilby was born in Tennessee. He is a musical prodigy who has mastered a wide range of instruments. He picked up his Dad’s banjo at age 8 and by the time he was 11, he had a Gibson banjo endorsement. He began playing his mom’s guitar at 10, at 17, in 1998, he was named the National Flatpicking Champion. He also learned to play Dobro and Mandolin at 13.

neg: Alison Brown Alison Brown Alison Brown (born August 7, 1962) is an American banjo player, guitarist, composer, and producer. She has won and has been nominated for several Grammy awards and is often compared to another banjo prodigy, Béla Fleck, for her unique style of playing. In her music, she blends jazz, bluegrass, rock, blues as well as other styles of music. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Brown learned to play guitar at eight and banjo at ten. When she was twelve, she met fiddler Stuart Duncan. In the summer of 1978, Brown traveled across the country with Duncan and his father, playing

neg: Banjo downward rather than upward stroke when striking the strings with a fingernail. Frailing techniques use the thumb to catch the fifth string for a drone after most strums or after each stroke ("double thumbing"), or to pick out additional melody notes in what is known as drop-thumb. Pete Seeger popularized a folk style by combining clawhammer with up picking, usually without the use of fingerpicks. Another common style of old-time banjo playing is fingerpicking banjo or classic banjo. This style is based upon parlor-style guitar. Bluegrass music, which uses the five-string resonator banjo almost exclusively, is played in several common

neg: Banjo D4 E4) – commonly reached by tuning up from double C – is often played to accompany fiddle tunes in the key of D and Open-A (A4 E3 A3 C#4 E4) is usually used for playing tunes in the key of A. Dozens of other banjo tunings are used, mostly in old-time music. These tunings are used to make playing specific tunes easier, usually fiddle tunes or groups of fiddle tunes. The size of the five-string banjo is largely standardized, but smaller and larger sizes exist, including the long-neck or "Seeger neck" variation designed by Pete Seeger. Petite variations on

neg: Banjo and five-string versions. A six-string version, tuned and played similarly to a guitar, has gained popularity. In almost all of its forms, banjo playing is characterized by a fast arpeggiated plucking, though many different playing styles exist. The body, or "pot", of a modern banjo typically consists of a circular rim (generally made of wood, though metal was also common on older banjos) and a tensioned head, similar to a drum head. Traditionally, the head was made from animal skin, but today is often made of various synthetic materials. Most modern banjos also have a metal "tone ring" assembly that

neg: Dan Levenson Dan Levenson Dan Levenson (born c. 1955) is an American old-time musician and storyteller. He sings and plays the five-string banjo, fiddle, and guitar, specializing in the music of Appalachia. A long-time member of the Boiled Buzzards string band, he has released several recordings and an instructional video for the clawhammer banjo. He has also written two instructional books on clawhammer banjo, and writes for "Banjo Newsletter". Levenson was voted one of the United States's top ten clawhammer banjo players by "Banjo Newsletter" readers. Levenson has won several competitions and travels the United States performing and leading workshops in playing

neg: The Happy Pals root in, of all places, Toronto, Canada. The setting is live, the music is all New Orleans jazz swing, and the band seems to be having a heck of a party. Bourbon Street beckons for this kind of sound. The Happy Pals The Happy Pals New Orleans Party Orchestra are a New Orleans traditional dance hall jazz band which was formed in 1968 by Clifford “Kid” Bastien, originally named Kid Bastien’s Camellia Jazz band. The Happy Pals are a classic New Orleans style ensemble which includes trumpet, trombone, clarinet, banjo, piano, double bass and drums. They are inspired by the

neg: Lee Sexton seen playing banjo and discussing his coal-mining days in the BBC documentary "Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus". Lee Sexton Lee Sexton (born 1928, in Letcher County, Kentucky) is an American banjo player from Letcher County, Kentucky. He began playing the banjo at the age of eight and is proficient in the two-finger picking and "drop-thumb" (clawhammer) traditional styles of east Kentucky. He also sings. His "Whoa Mule" album includes recordings from a 1952 home recording with fiddler Fernando Lusk to recordings made in 2001. Four solo songs also appear on Smithsonian Folkways album "Mountain Music of Kentucky." In 1999 Kentucky

neg: Two (1964 film) kid returns to his hut and rich kid also goes back to play with his toys. While playing, rich kid notices a kite flying in the sky, through the window. Curious to know who is flying the kite, rich kid readily runs to the window to see slum kid holding kite string, Manja. Furious to see street kid happily flying the kite higher, rich kid gets his slingshot to attack the kite. Unable to do so, he then gets his toy-rifle and successfully shoots down the kite. Street kid then returns to his hut with a torn kite and gives

neg: Bill Keith (musician) playing, and his style became an important part of the playing styles of many banjoists. After leaving the Bluegrass Boys, he joined "Jim Kweskin Jug Band" playing plectrum banjo. He began playing the steel guitar and soon after 1968, found himself working together with Ian and Sylvia and Jonathan Edwards. In the 1970s Keith recorded for Rounder Records. Over the years he performed with several other musicians, such as Clarence White and David Grisman in Muleskinner, Tony Trischka, Jim Rooney and Jim Collier. Today, Keith style is still regarded as modern or progressive in the context of bluegrass banjo playing.

neg: Courtney Johnson (musician) playing more progressive styles. He was very fond of improvisation, which fit very well when he played in the New Grass Revival. He was described as a melodic banjo player, experimenting with merging styles like blues, rock and bluegrass. Courtney Johnson (musician) Courtney Johnson (December 20, 1939 – June 6, 1996) was an American banjo player, best known for his work as an original member of the band New Grass Revival. Influenced by Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys, Johnson is often considered to be an inventor of the newgrass style of banjo playing, polished and improved later on

neg: Ex Mach Tina some fun by wreaking havoc at their school. They also fool the school's nighttime security guard into thinking that the robot is his supervisor when he catches them. Meanwhile, Bob buys a banjo at a thrift store. He tries playing it but he is met with derision. So he waits for a "banjo moment," a situation which calls for banjo playing. Jimmy Jr. invites robot-Tina to the beach bonfire. Gene and Louise get the school security guard to help the robot leave the school. On the beach Jimmy Jr. kisses the camera of the Tina robot and reads his poems

neg: Lena Hughes Lena Hughes Lena Hughes (1904–1998) was a guitar, fiddle, and banjo player known as an exemplar of the "parlor music" genre. Hughes was born in Missouri in 1904 and lived in the town of Ludlow nearly all of her life. She started playing banjo around the age of nine and by the 1920s was playing at square dances. She performed at folk festivals and other events, often accompanied by her husband, Jake, who played guitar. Their repertoire was the popular music of the 19th century, now often referred to as parlor music. Hughes won first place in some fiddling competitions

neg: Bashful Brother Oswald W. Kirby, was an Appalachian folk musician who played fiddle and banjo. As a child, Kirby learned to play guitar and banjo and sang gospel music. By his teens, he was playing for square dances. In the late 1920s, Kirby followed the path of many people from the Appalachian region and moved to the northern United States to find work. He went to Flint, Michigan and worked on the Buick assembly line. He lost his job, though, in the economic downturn of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Kirby then returned to music, playing at informal square dance parties held

neg: Earl Scruggs Records. This made an impression on Scruggs, who said, "He'd sit in the rocking chair, and he'd pick some and it was just amazing. I couldn't imagine — he was the first, what I call a good banjo player." Scruggs then took up the instrument — he was too small to hold it at first and improvised by setting his brother Junie's banjo beside him on the floor. He moved it around depending on what part of the neck he was playing. After his father's death, Scruggs seemed to take solace in playing music, and when not in school or

neg: Neil Levang Hollywood motion pictures. His film credits include: Neil Levang Neil Levang (January 3, 1932 – January 26, 2015) was an American musician who was best known from television's "The Lawrence Welk Show", playing guitar, violin and banjo. The younger of two boys, Levang was born in Adams, North Dakota, a farmer's son of Swedish and Norwegian descent. He got his start playing the banjo and soon added guitar and violin. As a young boy, Levang moved with his family between Adams, North Dakota and Bemidji, Minnesota before migrating west. They settled in Riverside, California when Levang was thirteen. At the

neg: Andy Boarman as of 2013. In 1974, Boarman closed his barbershop and began playing music full-time. He recorded "Somewhere in West Virginia" for a television segment with former reporter Carl Fleischhauer on Mountain Scene Tonight which aired on September 29 and October 3, 1975. Boarman recorded his first album, Mountain State Music (1978), which featured traditional banjo playing on one side and autoharp on the other. Dick Kimmel and a Bluegrass band provided backup music on several tracks. It was favorably reviewed by a critic for "Bluegrass Unlimited" who found the banjo portion "particularly satisfying" but was less enthusiastic about the autoharp

neg: The Banjo (Gottschalk) banjo imitations in the piece makes it a unique record of the sound of pre-Civil War African-American banjo playing, and it contains evidence of techniques not found in other sources, including combinations of "downstroking" and "up-picking" found in West African plucked lute performance. This unusual accuracy has enabled at least one modern banjo player to recreate the banjo music that Gottschalk transcribed, which invited speculation that Gottschalk may have taken his banjo imitations from actual transcription of an unnamed African-American banjo player. Unlike most banjo music in the popular minstrel shows of the time that more closely followed the melody

neg: Doug Dillard his death, but still participated in occasional recording sessions and a few concert performances. Doug Dillard Douglas Flint Dillard (March 6, 1937 – May 16, 2012) was an American musician noted for his banjo proficiency and his pioneering participation in late-60s country rock. Dillard, who grew up on a farm near Salem, Missouri, began learning guitar and fiddle at age five, and banjo at age 15. He began playing in the family band, with his father Homer Sr. on fiddle, his mother Lorene on guitar, and his older brother Earl on keyboards. His banjo heroes were Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley,

neg: Steve Martin to 16 rpm and tune his banjo down, so the notes would sound the same. Martin was able to pick out each note and perfect his playing. Martin learned how to play the banjo with help from John McEuen, who later joined the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. McEuen's brother later managed Martin as well as the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Martin did his stand-up routine opening for the band in the early 1970s. He had the band play on his hit song "King Tut", being credited as "The Toot Uncommons" (as in Tutankhamun). The banjo was a staple of Martin's

neg: Doug Dillard Doug Dillard Douglas Flint Dillard (March 6, 1937 – May 16, 2012) was an American musician noted for his banjo proficiency and his pioneering participation in late-60s country rock. Dillard, who grew up on a farm near Salem, Missouri, began learning guitar and fiddle at age five, and banjo at age 15. He began playing in the family band, with his father Homer Sr. on fiddle, his mother Lorene on guitar, and his older brother Earl on keyboards. His banjo heroes were Earl Scruggs, Ralph Stanley, and Don Reno. After corresponding with Scruggs, Dillard persuaded his parents to drive him

neg: Kyle Creed Kyle Creed Kyle Creed (1912–1982) was an influential musician and banjo luthier of 20th century Appalachia. Along with Tommy Jarrell, and Fred Cockerham, he was a central figure of the Roundpeak-style old-time music that began to find an outside audience in the 1960s, and his clawhammer banjo playing came to shape banjo practices in the Old-time music tradition. He was born in the Round Peak area of Surry County, North Carolina on September 20, 1912, becoming immersed in the traditional music of the region from an early age. Creed was a multi-instrumentalist but concentrated on clawhammer banjo, playing in various

neg: Uncle Homer Walker Uncle Homer Walker John "Uncle" Homer Walker (born February 15, 1898 or c. 1904 - January 4, 1980) was an American Appalachian banjo player who was popular during the folk revival of the 1960s and 1970s. Prior to his death, he was one of the last musicians to practice the old-time Appalachian style. Walker was born in Mercer County, Virginia into a musical family: his father, a sharecropper, was a banjo player, two sisters learned the mandolin and guitar, and Walker's two brothers played guitar. His grandfather, himself a former slave, taught Walker the clawhammer banjo playing style, once a

neg: Peninsula Banjo Band and soon after he was discovered by numerous restaurant patrons as well as other banjo players in the area. Tagawa played regularly at Sakura Gardens and its successor restaurant, Imperial Gardens, for fifteen years. On many evenings, one or another of Tagawa's banjo or gutbucket-playing friends would drop in to listen or to jam with him. As word traveled of Tagawa's playing skill, he was asked to join the Cupertino Banjo Band. He did so and became their leader in 1966. He has remained so for all but two of the subsequent forty-six years. After taking up residence in Cupertino,

neg: Tim Weed Tim Weed Tim Weed (born April 11, 1959) is a multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter known for virtuosity on the banjo. Raised a Southern California surfer, Weed learned the banjo at age 17 and played professionally at 18. He was in various bands and he worked as a studio musician singing and playing electric guitar in the Greater Los Angeles Area. He lived in Japan for a time producing records for Sony-Epic, and he lived on the island of Maui where he rediscovered the banjo. Weed settled in Tucson, Arizona, for eight years, playing in local bands. Working with luthier Dennis Coon he

neg: Frank Lawes Frank Lawes Frank Lawes (1894–1970) was an English banjo composer and performer from Acton, London. He composed a large number of well known banjo pieces which are still part of the standard repertoire and much recorded. He was unusual in playing a plectrum banjo finger style. His second wife Alice played the accordion. He died in Ifold, West Sussex, and was buried with his favourite banjo. His son Jim is an amateur harmonia player and his granddaughter Alison Hustwitt is a singer songwriter although her instrument is the guitar. He is the great grandfather of motoring author Jon Lawes. The

neg: Banjo has a banjo in his opera" The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny". Viktor Ullmann included a tenor banjo part in his "Piano Concerto" (op. 25). Four-string banjos, both plectrum and tenor, can be used for chordal accompaniment (as in early jazz), for single-string melody playing (as in Irish traditional music), in "chord melody" style (a succession of chords in which the highest notes carry the melody), in tremolo style (both on chords and single strings), and a mixed technique called duo style that combines single-string tremolo and rhythm chords. The plectrum banjo is a standard banjo without

neg: Clarence White States. Between bookings with the Colonels, White also made a guest appearance on Eric Weissberg and Marshall Brickman's "New Dimensions in Banjo & Bluegrass" album, which would be re-released in 1973 as the soundtrack album to the film "Deliverance" (with Weissberg and Steve Mandell's version of "Dueling Banjos" added to the album's track listing). Throughout 1964, the Colonels continued to make live appearances at various clubs, concert halls and festivals, as well as recruiting fiddle player Bobby Sloan into their ranks. The Colonels' second album, "Appalachian Swing!", was a commercial success and saw White's flatpicking permanently expand the language of

neg: The Impostor (Banjo Concerto) truth, I’m certain that I’d be ejected, immediately. So maybe the banjo player snuck into the orchestra with a disguise on (Infiltration), was pretty convincing that he belonged there (Integration), but at some point he let the cat out of the bag (Truth Revealed): He/I am a low-class banjo playing scuffler and should be tossed out forthwith! But that’s just one interpretation.” The Impostor (Banjo Concerto) The Impostor is a concerto for Banjo and Orchestra written by Béla Fleck. Fleck premiered the concerto on September 22, 2011 with the Nashville Symphony (Giancarlo Guerrero conducting) in the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in

neg: Earl Scruggs take care of the farm and five children, of which Earl was the youngest. The family members all played music. Mr. Scruggs had played an open back banjo using the frailing technique, though as an adult Earl had no recollection of his father's playing. Mrs. Scruggs played the pump organ. Earl's siblings, older brothers Junie and Horace, and older sisters Eula Mae and Ruby, all played banjo and guitar. Scruggs recalled a visit to his uncle's home at age six to hear a blind banjo player named Mack Woolbright, who played a finger picking style and had recorded for Columbia

neg: Rob McCoury Rob McCoury Rob McCoury is an American bluegrass musician who plays banjo. He is the son of bluegrass musician Del McCoury, and is best known for his work with the Del McCoury Band and the Travelin' McCourys. Rob McCoury was born in York County, Pennsylvania on April 30, 1971. He was exposed to bluegrass from a young age, through his father's band, Del McCoury & The Dixie Pals. At the age of 8 he started playing the banjo after seeing The Osborne Brothers play at Sunest Park in West Grove, PA. In 1986 at the age of 15 he played

neg: Guitar Gabriel His family, who grew up sharecropping, shared a talent for music. His great-grandmother, an ex-slave, called set dances and played the banjo; his grandfather played banjo and his grandmother the pump organ; his father and uncle were blues guitarists and singers and his sisters sang blues and gospel. In 1935, Gabriel's family moved to Durham, North Carolina, where he began playing guitar on the streets. Between the ages of 15 and 25, Gabriel traveled the country playing the guitar in medicine shows. During his travels, he performed with artists such as Bo Diddley, Lightnin' Hopkins, Louis Jordan, Chuck Berry, Muddy

neg: Earl Scruggs Flatt, auditioned several banjo players who had the same traditional playing style as Akeman. When Scruggs auditioned for them at the Tulane Hotel in Nashville, Flatt said," I was thrilled. It was so different! I had never heard that kind of banjo picking". Scruggs joined Monroe in late 1945, earning $50 a week. After they accepted Scruggs as one of the Blue Grass Boys, the roster consisted of Bill Monroe (vocals/mandolin), Lester Flatt (guitar/vocals), Earl Scruggs (banjo), Chubby Wise (fiddle), and Howard Watts (stage name Cedric Rainwater) on bass. This group of men became the prototype of what a bluegrass

neg: Joel Sweeney Joel Sweeney Joel Walker Sweeney (1810 – October 29, 1860), also known as Joe Sweeney, was a musician and early blackface minstrel performer. He is known for popularizing the playing of the banjo. Born to a farming family in the county of Appomattox, Virginia he claimed to have learned to play the banjo from local African-Americans. He is the earliest known person to have played the banjo on stage. Aside from his important role in popularizing the instrument, he has often been credited with advancing the physical development of the modern five-string banjo. Whereas the instrument's resonating chamber had formerly

neg: We Banjo 3 We Banjo 3 We Banjo 3 is a band from Galway, Ireland that plays a blend of traditional Irish, old time, and bluegrass music they call Celtgrass. The band is composed of two sets of brothers, Enda and Fergal Scahill and Martin and David Howley. Earle Hitchner, music writer for "The Wall Street Journal", described their playing as a "freshness and finesse bordering on the magical," and LiveIreland proclaiming them "the hottest group in Irish music..." Their debut album "Roots of the Banjo Tree" was released in 2012 and was named "Traditional Music Album of the Year" by "The Irish

neg: Leroy Troy 1988 and was the National Old-Time Banjo Champion in 1996. Troy is known as "the Tennessee Slicker" and "The Sultan of Goodlettsville" and plays with the Tennessee Mafia Jugband and Marty Stuart, appeared weekly on The Marty Stuart show on RFD-TV. Leroy Troy Troy Boswell (born May 23, 1966), known professionally as Leroy Troy, is an old-time banjo player from Goodlettsville, Tennessee. His banjo style is the clawhammer or frailing style, distinct from more commonly found Scruggs style banjo playing in modern bluegrass. He often performs humorous or comedy songs from the old-time music genre. Troy often uses a washboard

neg: Troy Westwood saying he did not think anyone in Saskatchewan was actually capable of playing a banjo. These quotes inspired the Banjo Bowl. Westwood, who was exposed to First Nations culture growing up in Dauphin, has also recorded several albums inspired by First Nations music, both in the band Eagle & Hawk and later as a solo artist named Little Hawk. After retiring from football, Westwood was an on-air host for CFQX-FM in Winnipeg from March 2009 to March 2011. He is currently a morning host on CFRW, Winnipeg's TSN Radio station. Troy Westwood Troy Westwood (born March 21, 1967) is a

neg: Annie Warbucks kid. If no one else in the cast of "Annie Warbucks" lifted a finger, Miss Zaremba would still carry the show over the finish line on her tiny shoulders of steel...Happily, the evidence of busy fingers is everywhere. Charles Strouse's score—full of peppy melodies and bright banjo rhythms—is one of the composer's best...There are plenty of laughs in the book by Thomas Meehan and the lyrics by Martin Charnin, who also functions as the remarkably clear-eyed director... Bravely blinking back tears, Ms. (Donna) McKechnie explains that life deals you a lousy hand, "But You Go On," and proceeds to build

neg: Ron Tutt Ron Tutt Ron Tutt (born March 12, 1938) is a drummer who played concerts and recording sessions for a variety of rock artists from Elvis Presley to the Carpenters to Roy Orbison to Jerry Garcia. Born in Dallas, Texas, Tutt is a native Texan and was involved with music and performing arts for most of his childhood. As a child, he played the violin, trumpet, drums, ukulele, and banjo. Tutt spent his early days playing the banjo in Rusty Brown's Cell Block 7 Dixieland Jazz band (based out of Dallas). Tutt auditioned for the TCB Band ("Taking Care of Business"),

neg: Music of North Carolina 2012, is from the Cedar Grove community in North Carolina. The banjo was another popular instrument for African Americans to play in a string band. The banjo is an instrument adapted from its African relative the akonting, and younger black musicians often learned to play from older community members. One black musician, Joe Fulp, from the Walnut Cove community used the banjo to help pass the time while waiting for tobacco to cure. String Bands of the North Carolina Piedmont region had their own sound consisting of long bow fiddle playing, flowing banjo lines, and a prominent bass line provided