The Glory Beaming Banjo!
“When you want genuine music — music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth’s pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, — when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!”
-Mark Twain, 1865
Playlist
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Polk Miller, “The Bonnie Blue Flag”
from Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette
Tompkins Square - 2008
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Gaither Carlton, “Charming Betsy”
from Banjo Classics from the Vaults of County Records & Old Blue Records
2012
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Fleming Brown, “Shady Grove”
2012
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Frank Proffitt, “Got No Sugar Baby Now”
from Frank Proffitt Memorial Album
Folk-Legacy Records - 1968
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Virgil Anderson, “Bed Bug Blues”
from Legends of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years of County Records
County Records - 2004
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Jimmie Strothers & Joe Lee, “I Used to Work On the Tractor”
from Field Recordings Vol. 1: Virginia (1936-1941)
2005
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Uncle Dave Macon, “Tennessee Tornado”
from People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938
Dust To Digital - 2007
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Cannon's Jug Stompers, “Bring It With You When You Come”
from The Best of Cannon's Jug Stompers
Yazoo Records - 1995
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Dock Walsh, “Educated Man (Recorded 1925)”
from Early Country Songs, Vol. 7 (Legendary Country Artists) [Recorded 1925-1928]
2015
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John Hammond, Sr., “My Mama Always Talked To Me”
from American Primitive, Vol. II: Pre-War Revenants
Revenant - 2005
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Charlie Poole, “Shuffle Feet, Shuffle (with Fisher Hendley, Marshall Small & Henry Whitter)”
from You Ain't Talkin' To Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music
2005
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Wade Ward, “Hollyding”
from Legends of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years of County Records
County Records - 2004
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Red Headed Fiddlers, “Far In the Mountain”
from Old-Time Texas String Bands, Vol. 1 - Texas Farewell
Rebel Records - 2005
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Fisher Hendley & His Aristocratic Pigs, “Hop Along Peter”
from The Story That the Crow Told Me: Early American Rural Children's Songs, Vol. 1
2006
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Emry Arthur & Della Hatfield, “Short Life of Trouble”
from Old-Time Music from South-West Virginia
2006
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Hayes Shepherd, “Peddler and His Wife”
from People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938
Dust To Digital - 2007
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Kyle Creed & Fred Cockerham, “Stillhouse”
from Legends of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years of County Records
County Records - 2004