Cedric Watson on gourd banjo "Darlin Cori"

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  • @Drangorooq27
    @Drangorooq27 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    ORIGINS OF COUNTRY MUSIC RIGHT THERE. RURAL BLACK FOLK MUSIC.

    • @YourLocalR3NecK
      @YourLocalR3NecK 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Thats true, it did come from black folk your right! But nowadays its sang and played for folks of all races to enjoy, but overall it has a very Southern History and origin.

    • @Drangorooq27
      @Drangorooq27 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@YourLocalR3NecK@YourLocalR3NecK I agree.

    • @Toya972
      @Toya972 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      That’s right. Banjo West African origin

    • @gtgargon
      @gtgargon 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      goes further back and to his original continent.

    • @Banana_Pony
      @Banana_Pony 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      And Blues, and rocn and roll,...

  • @NathanBonsal
    @NathanBonsal 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1046

    To those people calling this man an Uncle Tom, I would say that singing, resurrecting the instruments of the slaves, and demonstrating that all of those people who suffered under slavery were people, with art and culture and songs, is NOT a disservice to them. It makes them real, so mankind can realize the evils of the past and never repeat them. To see a man with different skin from your own allows you to believe he does not suffer as you would. But when you hear his words, listen to what his instrument sounded like and how he used it to sing about his life, you can no longer persist in that safe delusion of difference. We are the same, and that realization helps people to understand the evils of the things men do to one another.

    • @nerdsta23
      @nerdsta23 10 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      That was beautiful dude.

    • @undisclosedcode
      @undisclosedcode 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      nerdsta23
      I agree.

    • @Shayshaleen
      @Shayshaleen 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Bravo

    • @spacehopper7
      @spacehopper7 10 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I hate to say it, but since we signed over so much control to the banking sector we're all slaves now ...

    • @NathanBonsal
      @NathanBonsal 10 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      Not even remotely the same thing. You see, when you have a child, nobody makes your child work the field at the age of 3. Nobody will sell your child to the farm next door. Nobody will sell your wife to a stranger at auction. Nobody can beat you for leaving your home and going somewhere else. Nobody rapes your wife because she's their property.
      So, it's KIND OF different.

  • @tim3tRav3l3RR60
    @tim3tRav3l3RR60 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    Appreciate this brother. This is our roots and we cannot forget it. It is what made us! Culture!

  • @loilt5091
    @loilt5091 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Beautiful👍🏻
    The banjo came from Africa 🌍
    🇨🇦

    • @AnnointedGamer
      @AnnointedGamer 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Are you kidding me lmao!!!!

    • @loilt5091
      @loilt5091 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AnnointedGamer
      Homework time…that’s right, it came from Music City, Appalachia or the Ozarks 🤠
      🇨🇦

    • @AnnointedGamer
      @AnnointedGamer 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@loilt5091 nope. The only reason its attributed to African heritage was because they had an instrument that used animal skin. I love how all of a sudden africans were the real Egyptians, Moors, and True Israelites, invented everything but didn’t even know what a wheel was before being brought to the new world. Lmao.

    • @AnnointedGamer
      @AnnointedGamer 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@loilt5091 what part of Africa is Ozark in btw?????

    • @AnnointedGamer
      @AnnointedGamer 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@loilt5091 banjos were inspired by the mandolin and other chinese and japanese cultures prior to what you see on todays blackwashed internet.

  • @Kasino80
    @Kasino80 8 ปีที่แล้ว +221

    I fucking love old timey mountain style music. So raw. It's like listening to the earth itself.

    • @sethwilson970
      @sethwilson970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      This is actually plantation (slave) style

    • @Africa1000
      @Africa1000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I didn't realise that the Deep South was particularly mountainous. I must have missed them all!

    • @uncommonsensewithpastormar2913
      @uncommonsensewithpastormar2913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      To be fair, mountain music and plantation music are often hard to distinguish.

    • @Axecapoeiracomoxvalley
      @Axecapoeiracomoxvalley 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@sethwilson970 to be fair, many a southern slave escaped to freedom in the mountains 😉

    • @RPM1776
      @RPM1776 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Africa1000 he's talking about the Appalachian mountains

  • @StudebakerHawk57
    @StudebakerHawk57 9 ปีที่แล้ว +232

    I've been playing 3-finger (Bluegrass) and old-time clawhammer banjo for over 40 years now but I never had the guts to strike out on a fretless gourd banjo. You have to be a VERY competent musician to make one of those sound good and Cedric truly excels in that department. Thanks for posting that gem, Cedric!

    • @richardphilpott1225
      @richardphilpott1225 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      he treats his flies alright....that's why they never bite!

  • @KerringtonF
    @KerringtonF 10 ปีที่แล้ว +326

    Glad to see someone who looks like me also play the banjo. Thank you for such a beautiful piece, instrumentally and vocally.

    • @MrDeaconEarl
      @MrDeaconEarl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      There are a lot of us. More than you would think.

    • @siggesaltens2663
      @siggesaltens2663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      do not discriminate. Be nice.

    • @MrDeaconEarl
      @MrDeaconEarl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@siggesaltens2663 Who is discriminating?

    • @randalclarke5487
      @randalclarke5487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@MrDeaconEarl I know right??? Wtf???

    • @randalclarke5487
      @randalclarke5487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@MrDeaconEarl right on... it's the media that wants to put everyone in boxes and "ethnic groups" leave us alone, we all get along and take care of one another. Peace to y'all

  • @shryve
    @shryve 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    This what the Blues, jazz, R & B and Rack Music is built apon...

  • @Guywithcrazyideas
    @Guywithcrazyideas 10 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    I love the sounds of that banjo.

    • @Skatelifefool
      @Skatelifefool 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That's not such a crazy idea.

    • @RedPrince56
      @RedPrince56 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Wait a Normal comment from you WTF!

    • @Guywithcrazyideas
      @Guywithcrazyideas 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Sonnie Presley
      - I was sober for a couple hours

    • @mightymall88
      @mightymall88 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Akonting is the instruments actual name

  • @FREEDMEN
    @FREEDMEN 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is great! This is that Freedmen sound that undergirds many music genre's today! FIRE!

  • @curtislong6806
    @curtislong6806 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Man this is some of the greatest music I've ever heard. It sounds pure and authentic

  • @heathersmith951
    @heathersmith951 8 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Wow ! I didn't know musicians this good still existed. What a pure talent. This Cedric fellow is so wonderful to share his gifts with us.

    • @beastotheeast
      @beastotheeast 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check out George Gibson, Clifton Hicks, Matt Kinman and John Haywood. Incredible musicians...

  • @jedgarren2901
    @jedgarren2901 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This is AMAZING
    This man is SO talented, as a musician, I am blown away

  • @freyjastear244
    @freyjastear244 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I'm learning the banjo because of you!! Inspiration. I'm 44 and excited about it!!! Keep on pickin, man.

  • @Chantmagick
    @Chantmagick 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Just love it, Cedric. The 19th century was a very difficult time for black folks so it makes sense that the string instruments and stringed instrument music from this era have largely been shunned by black folks in the second half of the 20th century up til now.
    I think it takes a lot of courage to explore the works from this era. You, The Carolina Chocolate Drops and Rhiannon Giddens are trailblazers. Not an easy place to be. Thank you for learning and sharing your rendition of this tune. Deeply appreciated.

    • @keeganbluegrass
      @keeganbluegrass 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      love the CCD too, great way to explore roots of music like blues and jazz

  • @pelumaad331
    @pelumaad331 9 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Nicely done, brother.......the ancestral spirits must be pleased.

  • @flyhayst
    @flyhayst 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just stumbled on this video, recommended to me by TH-cam. Wish this fella was still making music videos.

    • @zackkurowski4724
      @zackkurowski4724 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He still plays regularly in Lafayette Louisiana

  • @starshepherd5719
    @starshepherd5719 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    CEDRIC MY MAN, SIMPLE...PURE AND RIGHTEOUS AS THE EARTH.
    B
    banjo bob.

  • @ftk_ocean_behelit3947
    @ftk_ocean_behelit3947 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I listen to this everyday since I found it. Thanks for sharing.

  • @SONOFZIONSOUTH
    @SONOFZIONSOUTH 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is pure history, thanks for showing the truth of where the music comes from!!

  • @geoffstockton
    @geoffstockton 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This gives me chills. Absolutely beautiful work, man.

  • @SoldierNoses
    @SoldierNoses 8 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    DUDE. This is dope. That gourd sounds amazing.

  • @JustinRothberg
    @JustinRothberg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Wonderful! It's nice to see someone playing a gourd banjo clawhamner style. The original way it was created! In Africa. It's a Shane people don't know the history of the instrument but yes people.... The banjo is from Africa.

    • @robertlussier2944
      @robertlussier2944 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I know it's been a while, but this news story from Jamaica just came out today, about Jeff Menzies, traditional banjo maker and historian in Jamaica.
      th-cam.com/video/FWBB4UUULhM/w-d-xo.html

    • @The_13th_Hussar
      @The_13th_Hussar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      The predecessor instruments to Banjos can be traced to Africa however many key elements that seperate say a Kora from a Banjo such as tuning pegs or the fingerboard style came from European instruments, the earliest origins of what we could call Banjos are from slaves in the Caribbean.

    • @kalwallingford7039
      @kalwallingford7039 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@The_13th_Hussar this ole Kang ain't gonna listen to you, silly. Better put him in his place

    • @Babasunship
      @Babasunship ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@The_13th_Hussar I agree in part, but the early Banjo called the Banjar derived from the African instrument called the Akonting. The Akonting is the folk lute of the Jola people, found in Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau in West Africa.
      The akonting is made with a long bamboo neck called a bangoe. The material for the neck, called ban julo in the Mandinka language, again gives Banjul. In this interpretation, Banjul became a sort of eponym for the Akonting as it crossed the Atlantic.

  • @indianmilks773
    @indianmilks773 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    brings back old music 👩🏿‍🌾

  • @ShantyTones
    @ShantyTones 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Dear GOD That Was GREAT!!!!!!......The Best...Most Raw...Most Soulful Version Of Darlin Cory I Have Ever Heard Man.....Just Fuckin GREAT Man.............

  • @about2mount
    @about2mount 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There is a place a musicians goes within and plays that reaches deep inside. Bringing out a natural heart felt side to highs and lows in life. Music is just that,, The Expression Of Self. It's not taught or learned it just comes out. You pass your feelings on to others and this is what truly makes a musician stand out above others. You standing out there.

  • @jayoda2005
    @jayoda2005 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This makes me wanna get a gourd banjo.

  • @AugustusLook-l2s
    @AugustusLook-l2s หลายเดือนก่อน

    Downeast, Maine.
    Thank you for sharing.
    It's so cold here.
    Thank you for warmth, cuz.🙏✌️♥️👊

  • @kitsiewr
    @kitsiewr 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Or we can all just appreciate a wonderful and authentic rendition of a great old-time song by a great musician who nails it !

  • @harpcomm
    @harpcomm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Fantastic rendition. I'd only heard Pete Seeger's but how superb to watch Cedric's playing and singing. More verses too. Just great!

  • @MrSteveo0088
    @MrSteveo0088 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I love this bluegrass music. Real music.... I can't stand most music today... This is great. Thank you for sharing.

    • @keeganbluegrass
      @keeganbluegrass 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      not bluegrass music, this would be old time folk. bluegrass is always preformed with a band and almost exclusivly with 3 finger style banjo on a resenator banjo

    • @YourLocalR3NecK
      @YourLocalR3NecK 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hell I know this is half a decade late, but man I could not agree more! As many would have thought, modern music is even worse nowadays. Nothing but autotune and a bunch of entitled rich fucks singing about immoral shit. The good music (like bluegrass and real country and folk) is timeless. Us folks who enjoy real music will never stop listening to it nor stop playing, and then we pass it down through the generations so it will be enjoyed for all time.

  • @Paxseko
    @Paxseko 10 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    I LOVE the mellow sound of a gourd banjo. So much nicer than the twanginess of the modern banjo. No wonder country and bluegrass went that way stylistically with voices, too.

    • @craniifer
      @craniifer 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I love both. The banjo is awesome regardless.

  • @williamlane6124
    @williamlane6124 10 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    7 people have no FUCKING CLUE what real music is. Unbelievable.
    Mr Watson, you are the next national treasure.

  • @Sparklfoot
    @Sparklfoot 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    What a great song and the gourd banjo is very nicely made, really happy to see and hear you! People have been making musical instruments out of gourds since shortly after time began. Appreciating your channel.

  • @catography4164
    @catography4164 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As few may know, rhe banjo originated in west africa. So hear a black voice behind the banjo is the best thing running right now. I love it.

  • @RavenRaven-se6lr
    @RavenRaven-se6lr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That’s folk music. Most decent music tells a story. Thanks for letting me in on your journey 👍.

  • @ladyleesutter
    @ladyleesutter 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Absolutely terrific. Gorgeous voice, smooth playing. Gives this wonderful old-timey song the justice it deserves, and what a nifty banjo. I believe that earliest banjos made from gourds.

  • @JacobvsRex
    @JacobvsRex 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is probably my favorite version of this song that I know of...I keep coming back to it.

  • @UncommonEyes
    @UncommonEyes ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ❤gourd banjo and player

  • @gxtmfa
    @gxtmfa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That’s one of the sweetest sounds I’ve heard

  • @sylviathompson5311
    @sylviathompson5311 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wonderful voice! Incredible playing!

  • @jamho6653
    @jamho6653 10 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Dark and beautiful. The sound of your gourd banjo creates a better picture than any movie director could hope to do. Thank you for sharing your music with us, sir.

  • @thomashumphries3519
    @thomashumphries3519 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Everytime Iisten...its like I have just discovered the song..been going on numerous years and numerous listens

  • @paulbienek601
    @paulbienek601 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ay up Mr. Watson that's about as good as it gets! first time I heard this was by the late great Derrol Addams...all hail I could listen to you all day to, love to pick a few tunes with you but tis a mighty 6000 mile swim across the pond...keep picking dude!

  • @bobconnor1210
    @bobconnor1210 ปีที่แล้ว

    Outstanding. Keep Old Time Country Music alive and well. The genre knows no color and it shines in the music of Leadbelly and others whose recordings we are very fortunate to have and enjoy.

  • @antiquelucasgonze
    @antiquelucasgonze 10 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Some things I loved about this -
    The relaxed swing of your banjo playing.
    The environmental sound. Crickets?
    Nice filming. Good angle and light.

  • @hauberin1
    @hauberin1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Beautifully played, and a wonderful sounding instrument. Cool song, also, and I could have left it at that, were it not for folks referring to it as a "slave" song. This is a song (though collected in North Carolina, originally) of the south, via the Appalachians all day long. In that way, it so transcends color. The fact that it has been recorded by Bill Monroe and Harry Belafonte alike testifies to this. The banjo truly carries with it a tradition that spans continents. From Ireland/Scotland, to the Appalachians, down through the deep south, to the Caribbean, it is an instrument that brings folks together.

    • @TheTimeMachine67
      @TheTimeMachine67 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Many cultures including some in Asia and Native American cultures have banjo-like instruments as well. It seems to be a pretty universal concept for a string instrument

    • @Chris_the_Dingo
      @Chris_the_Dingo 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, a very ancient instrument with middle-eastern origins

  • @yahboialan
    @yahboialan 10 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Thats beautiful

  • @jerrygarcia9244
    @jerrygarcia9244 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is just amazing. Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia led me here. I am now a fan. Merry Christmas.

  • @dinnerwithfranklin2451
    @dinnerwithfranklin2451 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant!!!!!

  • @bramskilove
    @bramskilove 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you sir, beautiful! Just a strange coincidence I guess that bluegrass player Doc WATSON also does a rendition of this song on one of his records (The Doc Watson Family 1994).

  • @franksabatino7576
    @franksabatino7576 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks Cedric. The heart of the blues is in your music.

  • @allenbinion1575
    @allenbinion1575 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    F*** the haters. I LOVE your music, I love your passion, and from one musician to another, keep going brother. Please post more, my family gets GREAT enjoyment watching you play and sing. God bless.

  • @vpertoso
    @vpertoso 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cedric Watson thank you. You are better than good. You are great! Keep sing'n and pick'n.

  • @JUSTINthisworld828
    @JUSTINthisworld828 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wise man, keepin the soul alive. You bring your roots pride brother.

  • @massmanute
    @massmanute 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Beautiful sound from that gourd banjo!

  • @SteveGraves10
    @SteveGraves10 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Outstanding. I think I'll share this with my college classes.

  • @BFDT-4
    @BFDT-4 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I felt as if I had passed through a time portal, until I saw the Weber grill in the background! ;)
    A wonderful rendition, and at the end, those three profound chords!
    Wow.

  • @stevehurl298
    @stevehurl298 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice tone, and I love these minor-key ballads.

  • @brendanlowther6296
    @brendanlowther6296 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please come to Australia, love your work mate

  • @kataisa3
    @kataisa3 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    American bluegrass soul music! thanks for posting that excellent video.

  • @nothomelessonyoutube
    @nothomelessonyoutube 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I recently decided I want to play banjo. Before I do anything I research it a little bit. Start with its source, work my way up to modern day then start. I had no idea the banjo had an Africa/ Caribbean roots. I figured I would be learning all about how the Appalachians music was created. It was incredibly interesting to learn of the African roots of the instruments I will play to one day attract my wife.

  • @citizen1114
    @citizen1114 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love 'Mountain Music'...this is great.

  • @KushaDwipa
    @KushaDwipa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful and authentic America.

  • @grason9418
    @grason9418 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I transcribed the lyrics for a song analysis I'm going to do. Thank you Cedric Watson for showing me beautiful music like this. Here are the lyrics for those interested:
    Oh, go dig a hole in the meadow
    Go dig a hole in the ground
    Go dig a hole in the meadow
    And let me lay darlin’ Cori down
    The last time I saw darlin’ Cori
    At the edge of the deep blue sea
    Forty-four around her
    And a banjo on her knee
    Wake up, wake up darlin’ Cori
    How can you sleep so sound?
    Revenue officers are coming
    He's gonna burn your still house down
    Go way, go way darlin’ Cori
    And bring to me my gun
    I ain't no man for trouble
    But trouble has just begun
    I ain't no man for trouble
    But I'll die before i run
    The last time I saw darlin’ Cori
    Had a forty-four in her hand
    I killed that revenue officer
    If he leaves here with my man
    It crossed the deep blue ocean
    It crossed the deep blue sea
    Bring to me darlin’ Cori
    Wherever she may be
    Go way, go way darlin’ Cori
    Which your hanging around my bed
    The whisky done ruined my body
    Pretty women gon’ ruin my head

  • @rogerjuddmusic6798
    @rogerjuddmusic6798 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Thanks for posting, Cedric...I was searching for a good bluesey version of this tune, and your version is so much more than I was expecting to find...fantastic !

  • @brotherbroseph1416
    @brotherbroseph1416 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    cedric, I play fiddle. If I lived in the south, I'd love to lay some music down with you man. You got a great sound! Keep that traditional sound alive man!

  • @milliejohnson5782
    @milliejohnson5782 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love the banjo and this old song

  • @euphoricatlast
    @euphoricatlast 10 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    Original Southern Banjo music.

    • @banko1808
      @banko1808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      African American banjo music you mean? Yes

    • @thetitanian5544
      @thetitanian5544 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@banko1808 Black people are southern

    • @deskryptic
      @deskryptic 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      tight symbols and tight account name too

    • @oilchange6542
      @oilchange6542 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@banko1808 Are you saying Southerners can't be black?

    • @banko1808
      @banko1808 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thetitanian5544 beg to differ, I am not low class like that

  • @Noscrubjections
    @Noscrubjections ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i wanna play banjo like you do one day

    • @landonthomass
      @landonthomass ปีที่แล้ว

      I think you should go for it!

  • @HNXMedia
    @HNXMedia 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Speaks to the soul.

  • @paulbcote
    @paulbcote 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Never listened to all the words until now. Very trippy imagery. Thanks for the clear rendition.

  • @kevinbrown1073
    @kevinbrown1073 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've had that song stuck in my head for a while now! love it!

  • @KeriAnnBanjo
    @KeriAnnBanjo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is one of my favorite old banjo tunes, your cover is beautiful!

  • @a-n-d-r-e-w-k
    @a-n-d-r-e-w-k 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love this kind of music.

  • @Africa1000
    @Africa1000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant!

  • @janicereid5238
    @janicereid5238 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this is absolutely divine.

  • @nicolecardinale6906
    @nicolecardinale6906 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love listening to this, so pure

  • @rpeek
    @rpeek 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That's awesome..

  • @Gimmer3
    @Gimmer3 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is so wonderful, thanks Cedric for bringing this music alive.

  • @davidsims1329
    @davidsims1329 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great old time music. Great job Cedric.

  • @alexandrMGr8
    @alexandrMGr8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just what I was looking for!

  • @JohnBecton-ds8vd
    @JohnBecton-ds8vd ปีที่แล้ว

    That is great music!!!

  • @andyman1532
    @andyman1532 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Really appreciate listening to your music up here in the Green Mountains of Vermont - thankful for TH-cam, and thanks for posting.

  • @yamakbats
    @yamakbats 7 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    sounds heavily like the instrument used by west african griots
    sounds alot more similar to it than the present-day banjo does, for sure

    • @jasminepearls1047
      @jasminepearls1047 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The akonting which it sounds the most like was not a griot instrument. It was played by anyone and in the rice fields in Africa just like banjo. Now the ngoni and xalam are griot instruments.

    • @banko1808
      @banko1808 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jasminepearls1047 rice fields where in Africa? I'm confused because Africa is not a country, I at least want to know where you are talking about

    • @TheJeweledBird
      @TheJeweledBird 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@banko1808 People from the west coast of Africa were enslaved and brought to work the rice plantations in South Carolina because they knew how to grow rice. The Gullah are their descendants.

    • @banko1808
      @banko1808 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheJeweledBird I am aware of the Ghulla people, they exist in my own family, And no, they are descended from those who were imported from the Bahamas to south Carolina.

    • @banko1808
      @banko1808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheJeweledBird the ethnic group in which they hailed from were prominent rice farmers and producers

  • @ripsnortinroy
    @ripsnortinroy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Like hearing this song for the first time again!

  • @Kirschkuchen18
    @Kirschkuchen18 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    dude you are awesome, thats really deep in the blues *****

  • @e.grieves2905
    @e.grieves2905 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastically beautiful....thankyou

  • @gabrielprado6314
    @gabrielprado6314 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cedric Watson, you are a stellar performer singer artist.

  • @DonChingaso
    @DonChingaso 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful! 🙏🏽💙🙏🏽

  • @WalterKerr
    @WalterKerr 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you Cedric, I really enjoyed that. Well played and very well sung.

  • @SquirrelsForAll
    @SquirrelsForAll ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beautifully performed and the sound from the banjo is absolutely wonderful. Thank you for creating and sharing.

  • @capt.dennis2081
    @capt.dennis2081 ปีที่แล้ว

    Diggin it! Thank ya for that Mr. Watson.

  • @robertjohnson5795
    @robertjohnson5795 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love that.

  • @Bahruse
    @Bahruse 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Banjo playing was great with singing. Thanks for posting.

  • @AlexCebe
    @AlexCebe 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Raw and I enjoy it . Thank you , Cedric . Greetings from Brazil .

  • @guywolff
    @guywolff 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Classy playing and great singing Cedric .. Great great stuff. Thanks for this , Yours guy

  • @tastas3880
    @tastas3880 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just picked mine up cause ever time I hear you play the kettle gourd, get my tears too flood my eyes. The art behind the African culture is beautiful and I'm so proud to be apart of the dysfunctional 2020 . AMD cant wait to let the ghost around me hear me playing it... I'm a habachi chef from va now working in wa , I wanna play that molly dear you play so through up lesson if u can

  • @irishpenguin13
    @irishpenguin13 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is one of the best things ive heard in my life.

  • @hillt0py0deler
    @hillt0py0deler 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Attaboy Cedric. Sounding good man!