Various Artists / Classic Banjo From Smithsonian Folkways
Album: Classic Banjo From Smithsonian Folkways   Collection:Review Shelf
Artist:Various Artists   Added:Jan 2014
Label:Smithsonian/Folkways  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2014-03-07 Pull Date: 2014-05-09 Charts: Country/Bluegrass
Week Ending: May 4 Apr 27 Apr 20 Apr 13 Apr 6 Mar 30 Mar 23 Mar 16
Airplays: 2 2 3 2 1 2 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. May 03, 2014: BravoMarco Variety Show
Coo Coo
4. Apr 21, 2014: Box of Chocolates
Bright Sunny South
2. Apr 29, 2014: That's Not Bluegrass
I Wish To The Lord I'd Never Been Born
5. Apr 19, 2014: BravoMarco Variety Show
Skylark
3. Apr 22, 2014: That's Not Bluegrass
Bright Sunny South
6. Apr 17, 2014: Aporeia: Didgeridoo edition
Banging Breakdown

Album Review
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2014-03-06
1: 2:39 fast banjo Pete Seeger vocal
****2: 1:22 fast banjo, faster foot stomping percussion
3: 1:45 mid to faster, male vocal
4: 1:28 fast INSTRUMENTAL
5: 2:15 more like banjo noodling, male vocal/wail
6: 2:41 mid to faster banjo, male vocal
7: 0:56 fast INSTRUMENTAL
***8: 3:41 mid Tempo, male vocal, simple, great banjo picking
***9: 1:56 fast, spoken word intro then great banjo picking
***10: 3:41 mid T, male Blues vocal, nice Blues picking & strumming
***11: 1:32 mid to faster, INSTRUMENTAL, 7 sec fade at end
**12: 1:04 fast, short spoken word intro then fast picking & vocal
**13: 4:19 mid T, low banjo with piano, clarinet, trumpet, New Orleans sound
****14: 3:28 fast, banjo, fiddle, guitar & pipes, nice foot stomper
****15: 2:52 mid T, clawhammer technique, crystal clear complex playing
16: 2:24 fast banjo, bass, mandolin, guitar & drums
17: 2:29 mid T, pre folk/banjo revival of the 1960's, a polka
18: 3:03 slow, a percussive style of playing
19: 1:13 fast, the person who influenced Earl Scruggs and his style of playing
20: 1:15 fast, by the "first lady of banjo"
***21: 1:00 very fast, "Fox Chase"
22: 1:13 fast, a square dance, fine picking & strumming, some talk at end
23: 1:27 mid to faster, banjo with vocal
***24: 2:32 mid T, female vocal
25: 1:40 fast, first banjo tune Doc Watson learned in 1934
****26: 2:50 fast, vocal & banjo, WOW!
27: 1:46 fast, Elizabeth Cotten banjo & vocal
***28: 3:11 mid to faster, banjo, vocal with fiddle sounding like a locomotive
***29: 1:29 very, very fast, banjo & vocal
****30: 3:09 very fast, banjo & vocal from the founder of Bluegrass music Bill Monroe (mandolin), banjo, fiddle & bass

Track Listing
 ArtistTrack Name
1. Pete Seeger Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Girl/Cripple Creek/Ida Red/Old Joe Clark
2. Hobart Smith Banging Breakdown
3. Frank Proffitt Johnson Boys
4. Wade Ward Peachbottom Creek
5. Dink Roberts Coo Coo
6. Mike Seeger Josh Thomas's Roustabout
7. Willie Chapman Jaw Bone
8. Dock Boggs Bright Sunny South
9. Pete Steele Coal Creek March
10. Josh Thomas Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
11. Rufus Crisp Walk Light Ladies
12. Bill Cornett Buck Creek Girls
13. Don Vappie Gut Bucket Blues
14. Mick Moloney Skylark
15. Ken Perlman St. Anne's Reel/La Renfleuse Gorbeil
16. Roger Sprung Smokey Mokes
17. A.L. Camp Golden Bell Polka
18. Tony Trischka Banjoland
19. Snuffy Jenkins Sally Ann
20. Roni Stoneman Lonesome Road Blues
21. Lee Sexton Fox Chase
22. John Tyree Hop Along Lou
23. "Big Sweet" Lewis Hairston Cotton Eyed Joe
24. Ola Belle Reed Foggy Mountain Top
25. Doc Watson Rambling Hobo
26. John Snipes Old Rattler
27. Elizabeth Cotten Georgia Buck
28. Irvin Cook I Wish To The Lord I'd Never Been Born
29. Roscoe Holcomb Black Eye Susie
30. Bill Keith With Bill Monroe And The Bluegrass Boys Bluegrass Breakdown