this sunday I’ll be DJing near Dublin, with Mouse on Mars, Neill Landstrumm, and others, at the Sliabh An Iarainn (SAI ) festival.
Kaboogiewoogie explains: “its situated in a beautiful part of the country on an obliging mentaloid farmers’s land. His name is Pious and is a bit of a legend in the area.” Bog alchemists welcome. DJ Q-Bert & a bunch of cool electronica acts saturday nite.
ok.
old. time. music. now!
While i listen to a some old old time music, i hadn’t paid much attention to new (or at least contemporary) old time music, and so when i heard the opening track of the Old Time Banjo Festival CD i thought, ungenerously, this is gonna be one of those comps with the best tune first. But then i listened to rest and its all as good, or better. ((if you like banjos))
I will give my Moroccan banjoist friends a copy of this. Who doesn’t like banjos? Even Clayton Bigsby likes banjos.
Out of all these players, Chris Coole lept out. witness his clawhammer style!!
clawhammer/frailing is the picking style which came, along with the banjo itself, from Africa. a bit more on that .
[Image: Black Banjo Songsters album art]
two short jams from the above album, Black Banjo Songsters .
that’s all the Appalachia for now – off to Ireland.
Nothing to do with banjo:
Just heard the Shadetek remix of the Sizzla track from your radio show last week. Hypnotizing.
Where oh where can I find it?
Hey now,
You are spreading the good word of the Banjo…
Theres a lot more out there – thicker, fatter & funky-er
But, the Afro/Appalachian “Black Banjo Songsters is the place to start…
I’d be glad to spread the Clawhammer grooves your way – cause your doing some fine work…
peace, Eph
I just read elsewhere about the Carolina Chocolate Drops -a young African-American old-timey string band but I have not heard them yet (or seen them, they’re doing some US East Coast shows this month)
ah the appalachian connection.. nice..
Chris Coole’s pretty good. He’s a friend of mine. Here’s a live set from last year:
http://scruss.com/music/chris_coole-the_local-20081207/