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My favorite CDs to date are: Cathy Fink -
Banjo Haiku,
Keith Arneson -
Another Time, Another Place and the cd that came with Art
Rosenbaum's instructional book "Art
of the Mountain Banjo." These three are the CDs I play over
and over and over...... |
Here's a few of the CDs that I like -- some are pure banjo, others are mixed
. . .
Dancing Home -- Stephen Wade,
Chairs
-- Dave Landreth,
The Fun of Open Discussion -- Bob Carlin and John Hartford,
Banging and Sawing -- Bob Carlin,
Livin' Reeltime/Thinking Old-Time -- Reeltime Travelers, A
Spring in the Burton Cove -- Sheila Kay Adams,
Flatpick and Clawhammer
-- Joel Mabus,
Tony Furtado and Dirk Powell -- Tony Furtado and Dirk Powell (my
favorite) and absolutely anything you can find with Dirk Powell playing
banjo, but he's a great fiddle player, too. Speaking of fiddle
-- I have another CD playing right now, one I've nearly worn out --
The Lonesome
Touch by Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill. |
I LOVE Brooke's CDs- especially
Jigsaw. In fact I
am working on that particular tune; I had her tab it out for me. My
early love of banjo really started with the
Kingston
Trio [MANY years ago!]. |
I recommend
Reed
Martin’s fine CD
Old Time Banjo, which is a banjo education in itself, Cathy Fink’s
stupendous
Banjo
Haiku, Dan Levenson’s
Barenaked
Banjos, and Stephen Wade’s
Dancing in the Parlor and
Dancing Home. |
 Favorite
artists/influences:
Fleming Brown,
Don Buedel,
Mark Dvorak,
Volo Bogtrotters,
Alan Street String Band,
Alan
Jabbour,
Hollow
Rock String Band, and
Si Kahn. |
 It's
hard to pick favorites and my list is constantly expanding as I learn more.
Some of the ones that stick with me; end up on the player again and again
are: Diane Jones & Hubie King's
There
Are No Rules, a compilation of Virginian and North Carolinian tunes
called
High Atmosphere,
Hollow Rock Legacy and
A Henry
Reed Reunion both with Alan Jabbour,
Dancing in the Parlor by Stephen Wade and Cathy Fink's
Banjo Haiku.
Lately I've been listening to
Walkin' That
Banjo Home by Mary Cox and Dwight Diller's
Just Banjo.
Oh yes -- I have a new one by Dan Gellert that I like very much, too --
Waitin' On The
Break of Day. And heck, I also love
John Cohen's Stories the Crow Told Me, and if you're talking
string bands --
the Reed Island Rounder's Goin' Home,
Critton
Hollow Stringband's Cowboys & Indians, -- and anything by the
New Lost City Ramblers and .... I told you I can't pick. |
 CDs
I like: Finger Lakes Ramble
Walt Koken;
Just Tunes
Walt Koken
and Clare Millner; Hei-wa Hoedown
Walt Koken;
5 Strings Attached with No Backing
Arnie Naiman and Chris Coole; 5 Strings Attached Volume 2
Arnie Naiman and Chris Coole; Banjo Haiku
Cathy Fink;
Where'd You Come From, Where'd You Go?
Freight Hoppers;
Old Time Music - It's All Around Bruce Hutton |
 Dwight
Diller is one of my favorites. Start with Just Banjo 99, or try
Harvest for a career overview. Ron Mullennex's
Sugar in My Coffee includes some
Hammons family roots. If you like Reed Martin &
Cathy Fink, listen
to the talented
David
O'Dell's Banjo for a Rainy Day. Both
Dirk Powell
(anything) and Adam Hurt
(Intrigue) can work magic with old standards. Ex-child fiddle
prodigy Jake Krack's
cds are good tune sources and feature banjo players like Diller, O'Dell, Tim
Bing and John Blisard. You can also find them and five other WV native
sons on
Banjo Legacy-Traditional Music of West Virginia from Augusta Heritage.
Fiddlers I enjoy include
Dave Bing, Alan
Jabbour and the wonderful
Rayna Gellert
(Ways of the World or Uncle Earl). The older generation of masters has
largely passed away, but their music lives on in the
Field Recorders'
Collective series of privately made recordings from the 60s, 70s & 80s.
Hear why Wade Ward, Fred Cockerham, Kyle Creed and others inspired the old
time music revival. Banjo mentors
Paul
Brown and
John Herrmann have little available on their own but their involvement
in a recording project is a guarantee of old time excellence. |
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