The "dueling banjos" scene is an iconic piece of film history... Love that scene and it gave rise to my appreciation of the banjo, so most of us can look past subjective opinions.
PR means Public Relations. The Relationship that the banjo has with the Public is a disaster, because nearly everyone who hears a banjo thinks of the movie, "Deliverance." I play banjo myself, and I can tell you from my experience that this is true. The banjo player in the movie isn't as much of a role model, as say, Mozart for piano. There's a dark undertone to it.
I have been playing guitar all my life and then I decided to pick up the banjo. I thought no problem. Big problem but in time I got it. These people are very talented. It was the hardest thing in music I ever tried.
Something every true outdoorsman has been grateful to Deliverance for ever since-- much more peaceful forests now that every Tom, Dick, and Harry city slicker won't venture too far into them!
growing up in the seventies, when I hear banjos, I think of watching Hee Haw with my grandparents, followed by the waltons, followed by the late show with Johnny Carson. After the 1100 news of course. Now the news starts at 10? wth??
Interesting history. The Deliverance version wasn't the original. Don Reno and Arthur Smith take that honor. It's a great song, a true bluegrass classic despite the jokes.
As humorous and entertaining as this was; seeing the person in the wheelchair up on stage for the audience participation segment was awesome. This is what the banjo is for me; an all inclusive joy for everyone.
Andy Griffith Show... the Darlings...Doug Dillard, on banjo. I met Doug and have been to parties at his Nashville home. Wonderful talent and kind, jovial man...
Johnny Cash was just a bit less than 3 years older than Elvis, and Presley was actually being produced at Sun Records before Cash was. Johnny's first work for them was in 1955. They were very much contemporaries. In fact, in 1956, they were recorded as they jammed together, along with Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis! I'm not a huge, huge Elvis fan, but he was not trying to impersonate Cash.
Deliverance was terrifying, but honestly it HELPED the banjo. Young'ns who buy their banjos online miss out by not hanging out in independent music stores. The one where I bought my banjo and took my first lessons was already old when that movie came out. The proprietor, and the older sales reps from the manufacturers whose products he carries have all all said that their best sales years came after 3 movies: Bonnie and Clyde, Deliverance and Oh Brother Where Art Thou. Say what you want about the films, the banjo picking was amazing, and sales skyrocketed.
I never though bad about the banjo after Deliverance. I grew up hearing banjo music from time to time. When I think of the banjo I think of Grandpa jones. Look him up.
I haven't seen the movie deliverance but I saw the clip of the banjo duel :) I didn't leave for my class because I wanted to watch the duel to the end...so I loved it.
Here in England the Banjo isn't the bug deal it is in parts of the USA. I'm from Liverpool in the 50's with professional family in Classical and Jazz and actually had the joy to meet 3 of the Beatles as family friends so that obviously was my musical roots. As a kid my exposure to American Bluegrass and the Banjo came first from the Beverly Hillbillies and later the great film Deliverance and I am very grateful to both.
The fact that he did not play well, but got up there anyway, should have clued most of the commenter 's in. He was talking about being a good person, not a good banjo player. To have some dignity for yourself. Go back and LISTEN to HIM TALK!!!
Mark Green Yes, and not just here. I have kept count of how many people LOVE to disparage people, idea's, others religious beliefs, etc, etc ad nauseam!!! Most folks know how to talk (and write) without swearing, but, most people who disparage others, rest in anonymity because they can't talk without sounding like a teenager, swearing behind mom and dad. If I wasn't a lady and sure of myself, I would chew them out for being so childish!!!
Whatever. Hardly prophetic was it? What he did say (which was brief) is so cliche that the only reason he must've gotten up there was to get a large audience to hear him play banjo. Badly
I played in a Bluegrass band for years,,, we never learned ''dueling banjos''' (or 'Feuding Banjos' as it was called before the movie) ... so when it was requested we could honestly say 'we don't know it', instead of 'we are not playing it'
Good tactic. Like not knowing polkas. I played in a polka band for years, I remember far too many of them.. but funny I can't remember them when asked. Great workout though, must say that.
oh please, one day I picked up a banjo at guitar center (not a banjo player) and I played that line, Immediately someone followed and we played the dueling banjos until laughter broke our flow. We were friends for a little bit, that guy and I
That also happened to me at a Guitar Center! I was there to go in and tune their banjos (like usual) and I started to claw out the tune (I play clawhammer) and this 50 year old comes outta nowhere playing it on a guitar. We started jammin out and everyone in the store was stompin and clappin!
Thanks to the movie the Banjo as well as the soundtrack for Deliverance were both hugely successful and it did spark many aspiring banjo players in the 1970's. Deliverance was a box office success in the United States, becoming the fifth-highest grossing film of 1972 after grossing a domestic total of over $46 million and earning three Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe nominations.
I always loved the music in Deliverance and Earl Scruggs' tune for it. I think the banjo's popularity did take a hit when musical tastes changed from the banjo in the rhythm section of dance bands in the 1920's to guitar in the 30's, and similarly, the string bass taking over for the tuba during that time. Bluegrass music resurged after Deliverance and the banjo became more of a virtuoso instrument with players like Danny Gatton, and Bela Fleck.
I didn't know Earl had any music in the movie. The Dueling Banjo's Music was written by Arthur Smith who lived around the Charlotte, NC area and was born in SC. He use to have a regional show around the Carolina's and Virginia. When Deliverance came out they didn't get permission to use his music and he sued and won the lawsuit. In the movie the Banjo Boy never played any music. They had a player positioned behind him who did some chords/picking of the banjo. A few years ago the boy who "played" the banjo was working at the Walmart in Clayton, Ga. near where a lot of the movie was filmed.
When we drive through a run down or otherwise sketchy looking area we say something like "I think I can hear banjo music, how about you?". We had a good laugh when we took a wrong turn in or near Perl Germany and came to a dead end with a deserted railroad infrastructure and overgrown landscape and heard banjo music in our heads.
As a banjo player, I'm entirely sick of being asked to play dueling banjos. I play clawhammer and yah I can play both parts at the same time, but god damn. Also Earl Scruggs is not the be all end all of banjo, there's an entire history of banjo music that came before his picking style and everyone decided to constrain themselves.
I hear a surge of tourism happened in northern Georgia after Deliverance came out, particularly single male campers. It must have been Banjo enthusiasm....
Steve Martin is a banjo picking genius get him to play King Tut, and The Who had a banjo in their song Squeeze Box, Daddy's got a squeeze box momma can't sleep at night.
They would book Steve Martin in a heartbeat if he was interested. He obviously has better things to do. By the way, I'm hardly alone. The thumbs down are at 40% of the thumbs up. Not too favorable.
Steve Martin is a professional banjo player. If course he is better. That's like comparing anybody who gets up there with a guitar to Jimi Hendrix or Keith Richard's. Give the dude a break.
PR disaster?! I think that scene in deliverance was awesome. Hey folks, they were trying to tell a story. The man who played the character playing the banjo, just wasn't going to be able to do it. Using as many people from the area in the cast was important to at least some realism of the movie. The scene with the other guy, I think the gas station attendant, dancing to the music was totally spontaneous. For those of you who don't know it, much of stuff done in movies and television, particularly where there is music (except for things like talent shows) is dubbed in a studio after the movie is shot. That's why in many shows where there is a lot of people who are both dancing and singing in a scene, you don't notice that the dancers are not out of breath as they usually would be. Personally I thought parts of that movie were in fact a great "shot in the arm" for folk/bluegrass music.
You get a good banjo player along with guitars and basses and You can have some very entertaining music. Deliverance was a movie based on a book. FICTION! Get over it!Remember JOHN HARTFORD who wrote GENTLE ON MY MIND?
Comments dogging this guys pickin is cracking me up. He clearly ain’t no Bela Fleck but so what? Banjo players wrote most of the jokes about banjo payers, it’s part of the culture and is the reason this dude was at TED, not because he was an outstanding player.
DAMN ADVERTS! I can feel your pain, BUT, if you want your word to be heard you need to be real, and be yourself! If you feel you are a small town stage performer, then accept that, or get your act to a point that it is WORLD WORTHY! I personally think you have the talent, just not the material. There is a LOT of competition, but you have to have a SIGNATURE shtick, and keep the material fresh to the times!
I'm sorry, but he didn't do a thing to bring the banjo back to it's original popularity.. He pulled what I call a Nashville. Thats right! The Grand Ol Opry banned the banjo unless it was played as part of a Skit or was humorous - Until Earl Scruggs, and that was insult to injury. IF you've never heard the way it was originally played, you're missing out. Surry County North Carolina started a style of Clawhammer Banjo which uses the thumb and the nail of a finger to produce beautiful melodic sounds in total opposition to the Chicago typewriter nails on a blackboard. I implore everyone of you to check out Riley Baugus - Undone in Sorrow.. AND - Meredith Moon's Version of Darlin' Cory. - YOU'LL THANK ME
How do you think "players" like this make us older classic style banjoists feel? Prior to the 1940s the 5-string banjo was a proper instrument, not some hick stereotype played with picks, wire strings, and capoes. It wasn't deliverance that proved to be a disaster for the banjo- it was Earl Scruggs, Pete Seeger, and the re-imagining of the banjo as a Southern folk instrument (hint: Prior to the folk scare it wasn't viewed that way at all).
As for the movie, the banjo scene bears a damp heat cicada-sound density to it, which emphasizes the incompatibility of the two groups of persons involve. Not more, nor less.
Hearing Earl Scruggs live inspired me to take up banjo. Deliverance inspired me to take up archery.
Carl Mally Rotflmaololololololol ! Yes and it inspired me to wear a Chastity belt when camping ;-)
Hilarious!!!
Carl Mal
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The "dueling banjos" scene is an iconic piece of film history... Love that scene and it gave rise to my appreciation of the banjo, so most of us can look past subjective opinions.
It was never "Deliverance" ... it was "Dueling Banjos" He's not a Banjo Player. Unskilled but sincere.
Seriously, I think Deliverance was good for banjo players in that the movie introduced the happy sound of banjo music to many people.
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I certainly don't see what they mean by a "PR disaster" - I loved it.
PR means Public Relations. The Relationship that the banjo has with the Public is a disaster, because nearly everyone who hears a banjo thinks of the movie, "Deliverance." I play banjo myself, and I can tell you from my experience that this is true.
The banjo player in the movie isn't as much of a role model, as say, Mozart for piano. There's a dark undertone to it.
You didn't watch the whole film did you?
I saw the whole film, but that was many years ago now and about the only thing I remember about it was how much I liked the music.
I have been playing guitar all my life and then I decided to pick up the banjo. I thought no problem. Big problem but in time I got it. These people are very talented. It was the hardest thing in music I ever tried.
Deliverance did for the Banjo what Deliverance did for camping in the woods.
Something every true outdoorsman has been grateful to Deliverance for ever since-- much more peaceful forests now that every Tom, Dick, and Harry city slicker won't venture too far into them!
WMsandKFCisBackMOFOs And hog callin' contests.
growing up in the seventies, when I hear banjos, I think of watching Hee Haw with my grandparents, followed by the waltons, followed by the late show with Johnny Carson. After the 1100 news of course. Now the news starts at 10? wth??
Deliverance did for the banjo what Deliverance did for my ability to take anything Trey Gowdy says as serious as one should
Interesting history. The Deliverance version wasn't the original. Don Reno and Arthur Smith take that honor. It's a great song, a true bluegrass classic despite the jokes.
Greatest TEDx talk ever. God I love this guy.
The definition of a gentleman? Someone who knows how to play the bagpipes but doesn't.
I met this man's son when I was participating in a 24-hour play fest. Lots of talent in that family!
Excellent... really wonderful 😂👍
As humorous and entertaining as this was; seeing the person in the wheelchair up on stage for the audience participation segment was awesome. This is what the banjo is for me; an all inclusive joy for everyone.
Look at all those beautiful people. pure inspiration!
LOVE this Guy!
man I dont know about his banjo playing skills but his jokes really worked for me :D
It takes true talent to pick a banjo.
Banjo players are awesome.
Except it doesnt and he is terrible. Constantly off time. It's almost as atrocious to the ears as the banjos sound itself.
Adrian Soul No I think the banjo sounds cool
Adrian Soul the banjo is harder to master than the guitar
Andy Griffith Show... the Darlings...Doug Dillard, on banjo. I met Doug and have been to parties at his Nashville home. Wonderful talent and kind, jovial man...
Just a fabulous person and musician!! LOVE the Banjo!
And you Howard Golthwaite!
_Elvis never impersonated anybody_ Great moment in the talk...
He was a karate guy, he didn't impersonate one.
E impersonated Johny Cash....
Johnny Cash was just a bit less than 3 years older than Elvis, and Presley was actually being produced at Sun Records before Cash was. Johnny's first work for them was in 1955. They were very much contemporaries. In fact, in 1956, they were recorded as they jammed together, along with Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis! I'm not a huge, huge Elvis fan, but he was not trying to impersonate Cash.
Elvis impersonated Forrest Gump! :)
acemcjack, Elvis died before the movie was produced. What are you implying?
"paddle faster, I hear banjos!" :)
Jason Dutchman ... Ahead or behind ?
Wonderful!!!
The absolute best impersonation ever interpre-ted. i just can't say. but would it matter. i think i'll go eat worms.
Did I hear a bit of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in his last few chords? I think I did.
I love the banjo.
Deliverance was terrifying, but honestly it HELPED the banjo. Young'ns who buy their banjos online miss out by not hanging out in independent music stores. The one where I bought my banjo and took my first lessons was already old when that movie came out. The proprietor, and the older sales reps from the manufacturers whose products he carries have all all said that their best sales years came after 3 movies: Bonnie and Clyde, Deliverance and Oh Brother Where Art Thou. Say what you want about the films, the banjo picking was amazing, and sales skyrocketed.
Thank you! Wonderful post.
I worked a few benefit shows with Herb Pedersen, Chris Hillman and John Jorgensen. Now Herb, that is a B@NJO PLAYER.
I've been playing banjo for about 7 years, I've slayed with the banjo, lord knows my face hasn't done me any favors
I enjoyed this, thanks!
very nice and charismatic speaker, keep it up! god bless ya
Got to love ted
Dont call me maybe 🎶 😂
Dude is a riot😄
Is not the film's fault or the instrument itself. Is rather I think, the style of music they use it on. I love the sound of banjo in samba pagode!
A good bit of fun. Thanks.
I never though bad about the banjo after Deliverance. I grew up hearing banjo music from time to time. When I think of the banjo I think of Grandpa jones. Look him up.
The All Go Hungry Hash House. My favorite GJ tune. Look it up
Richard Pehtown, mighty fine! Thank you.
Both "Bonnie & Clyde" and "Deliverance" introduced bluegrass to a huge world-wide market.
And it did the world alot of good.
And “oh brother, where art thou?”
I haven't seen the movie deliverance but I saw the clip of the banjo duel :) I didn't leave for my class because I wanted to watch the duel to the end...so I loved it.
No please not one more. Just couldn't finish it. Deliverance didn't ruin the banjo for Howard. Great players did.
Tim Leary! what a talent!
I thought the acronym for Banjo was going to be "be amazing, not just ordinary"...or something like that. Oh well, his is cool too!
This is the guy that played the banjo on the porch in the movie. That explains the title.
Here in England the Banjo isn't the bug deal it is in parts of the USA. I'm from Liverpool in the 50's with professional family in Classical and Jazz and actually had the joy to meet 3 of the Beatles as family friends so that obviously was my musical roots. As a kid my exposure to American Bluegrass and the Banjo came first from the Beverly Hillbillies and later the great film Deliverance and I am very grateful to both.
"A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo but doesn't."
Great Stuff!
The fact that he did not play well, but got up there anyway, should have clued most of the commenter 's in. He was talking about being a good person, not a good banjo player. To have some dignity for yourself. Go back and LISTEN to HIM TALK!!!
Frances Lambert I agree completely, it's amazing how most comments are negative and completely focused on the wrong thing here
Mark Green Yes, and not just here. I have kept count of how many people LOVE to disparage people, idea's, others religious beliefs, etc, etc ad nauseam!!! Most folks know how to talk (and write) without swearing, but, most people who disparage others, rest in anonymity because they can't talk without sounding like a teenager, swearing behind mom and dad. If I wasn't a lady and sure of myself, I would chew them out for being so childish!!!
Whatever. Hardly prophetic was it? What he did say (which was brief) is so cliche that the only reason he must've gotten up there was to get a large audience to hear him play banjo. Badly
How cool was this??? VERY COOL & fun.
I played in a Bluegrass band for years,,, we never learned ''dueling banjos''' (or 'Feuding Banjos' as it was called before the movie) ... so when it was requested we could honestly say 'we don't know it', instead of 'we are not playing it'
Good tactic. Like not knowing polkas. I played in a polka band for years, I remember far too many of them.. but funny I can't remember them when asked. Great workout though, must say that.
After this, I am searching for some banjo songs. I really feel like listening to this sickness.
oh please, one day I picked up a banjo at guitar center (not a banjo player) and I played that line, Immediately someone followed and we played the dueling banjos until laughter broke our flow. We were friends for a little bit, that guy and I
Until he told you what a purdy mouth you've got?
That also happened to me at a Guitar Center! I was there to go in and tune their banjos (like usual) and I started to claw out the tune (I play clawhammer) and this 50 year old comes outta nowhere playing it on a guitar. We started jammin out and everyone in the store was stompin and clappin!
Thanks to the movie the Banjo as well as the soundtrack for Deliverance were both hugely successful and it did spark many aspiring banjo players in the 1970's. Deliverance was a box office success in the United States, becoming the fifth-highest grossing film of 1972 after grossing a domestic total of over $46 million and earning three Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe nominations.
Think I just about lost it when the lad in the wheelchair got on stage to do the can-can XD
I play banjo and I love deliverance. And i can play it well and i play it often. And he ain't unpopular he is on Ted, now bring out the cousins
I love banjo so much I got one.
I always loved the music in Deliverance and Earl Scruggs' tune for it. I think the banjo's popularity did take a hit when musical tastes changed from the banjo in the rhythm section of dance bands in the 1920's to guitar in the 30's, and similarly, the string bass taking over for the tuba during that time. Bluegrass music resurged after Deliverance and the banjo became more of a virtuoso instrument with players like Danny Gatton, and Bela Fleck.
I didn't know Earl had any music in the movie. The Dueling Banjo's Music was written by Arthur Smith who lived around the Charlotte, NC area and was born in SC. He use to have a regional show around the Carolina's and Virginia. When Deliverance came out they didn't get permission to use his music and he sued and won the lawsuit. In the movie the Banjo Boy never played any music. They had a player positioned behind him who did some chords/picking of the banjo. A few years ago the boy who "played" the banjo was working at the Walmart in Clayton, Ga. near where a lot of the movie was filmed.
I typed banjo into youtube and that scene is the first thing that came up! 🤣
When we drive through a run down or otherwise sketchy looking area we say something like "I think I can hear banjo music, how about you?". We had a good laugh when we took a wrong turn in or near Perl Germany and came to a dead end with a deserted railroad infrastructure and overgrown landscape and heard banjo music in our heads.
I'll fly away is the first song and Earl's breakdown.
THIS MAN IS A COVETER AND AN IDOLATOR.
Glorified Truth I dont think you're wrong but you might want to explain such a statement a little more in depth?
The message is correct - to add to my previous comment
As a banjo player, I'm entirely sick of being asked to play dueling banjos. I play clawhammer and yah I can play both parts at the same time, but god damn. Also Earl Scruggs is not the be all end all of banjo, there's an entire history of banjo music that came before his picking style and everyone decided to constrain themselves.
THEIRONCLAYMAN Right! I get asked all the time to play it! That or Orange Blossom Special! I am also a clawhammerist.
I always get Freebird yelled at me. I'm not kidding :)
And this guy cant realy play
It was one of most atrocious highkick line I've even seen.
Jean-Dominic Lapointe especially Asian girl in middle andother two on her left and right haha they just didn't have clue 😂😂
Saw the Movie, have the Soundtrack-LP. Nothing bad with Deliverance or the Contribution for the Banjo.
This guy’s the Earl Scruggs 🪕 of TED presenters 😄
Steve Martin is a cleaner picker than this guy.
100% worthy of a ted-->X
I can relate to this guy at 2:03 . That was hilarious
Deliverance did for the banjo what this vid did for TEDx
It’s a free county... For now! Lmao that was my favorite part
I hear a surge of tourism happened in northern Georgia after Deliverance came out, particularly single male campers. It must have been Banjo enthusiasm....
Steve Martin is a banjo picking genius get him to play King Tut, and The Who had a banjo in their song Squeeze Box, Daddy's got a squeeze box momma can't sleep at night.
This video made me feel like the Earl Scruggs of Ted youtubers
Strange how people always applaud when someone stops playing a banjo. Or is it?
Steve Martin blows this guy away in both comedy and banjo playing.
Has Steve Martin done a clever TED talk using the banjo as a foil for an inspirational message? Noooooooo....
They would book Steve Martin in a heartbeat if he was interested. He obviously has better things to do. By the way, I'm hardly alone. The thumbs down are at 40% of the thumbs up. Not too favorable.
Agreed. Recent his special with Martin Short he plays for a short while and waaaaaaaay better.
Steve Martin is a professional banjo player. If course he is better. That's like comparing anybody who gets up there with a guitar to Jimi Hendrix or Keith Richard's. Give the dude a break.
Love this guy!
Call me maybe...I love how he sarcasticly calls it rock n roll
"That was nothing"...truer words were never spoken
PR disaster?! I think that scene in deliverance was awesome. Hey folks, they were trying to tell a story. The man who played the character playing the banjo, just wasn't going to be able to do it. Using as many people from the area in the cast was important to at least some realism of the movie. The scene with the other guy, I think the gas station attendant, dancing to the music was totally spontaneous. For those of you who don't know it, much of stuff done in movies and television, particularly where there is music (except for things like talent shows) is dubbed in a studio after the movie is shot. That's why in many shows where there is a lot of people who are both dancing and singing in a scene, you don't notice that the dancers are not out of breath as they usually would be. Personally I thought parts of that movie were in fact a great "shot in the arm" for folk/bluegrass music.
I like you already...don't fret. The banjo is one of the most difficult instrument to play. Fooey on them!!
goddamn, a 15 minute video and the banjo playing is just the last 3 minutes? i want my time back.
I've just ordered my first banjo in Britain. I am already dreading a lifetime of people throwing the Deliverance chords 🤦♂️
"This guy sure has a pretty mouth!"
'A Gentleman is someone who knows how to play the piano-accordion, but doesn't.'
You get a good banjo player along with guitars and basses and You can have some very entertaining music. Deliverance was a movie based on a book. FICTION! Get over it!Remember JOHN HARTFORD who wrote GENTLE ON MY MIND?
:Stop picking on the banjo!" I see what you did there lol Fantastic message but wish you would have played the dueling song.
He looks like my local mechanic, who is a good friend of mine...
The dancers are thinking: "How much longer do we have to do this...?"
Ok, what is the movie called again?
The "banjo kid" was Anderson Cooper's first role.
HA!
Comments dogging this guys pickin is cracking me up. He clearly ain’t no Bela Fleck but so what? Banjo players wrote most of the jokes about banjo payers, it’s part of the culture and is the reason this dude was at TED, not because he was an outstanding player.
And how many years does he say he has been playing ? This guy should stick to the jokes. But without a banjo he's got none.
the Hindenburg wasn't a blimp.
You know the difference between a banjo, and a trampoline?............... You take off your shoes, to jump on a trampoline.....
banjo = viola, when it comes to jokes. =)
Andy from the office made it cool 😂
DAMN ADVERTS! I can feel your pain, BUT, if you want your word to be heard you need to be real, and be yourself! If you feel you are a small town stage performer, then accept that, or get your act to a point that it is WORLD WORTHY! I personally think you have the talent, just not the material. There is a LOT of competition, but you have to have a SIGNATURE shtick, and keep the material fresh to the times!
Can't for the life of me can I figure out why it is called "Dueling Banjos" when there is only one banjo!
never saw deliverance ,banjo is awesome.
could have wished for some tighter picking though.
He's so funny!
I'm sorry, but he didn't do a thing to bring the banjo back to it's original popularity.. He pulled what I call a Nashville. Thats right! The Grand Ol Opry banned the banjo unless it was played as part of a Skit or was humorous - Until Earl Scruggs, and that was insult to injury. IF you've never heard the way it was originally played, you're missing out. Surry County North Carolina started a style of Clawhammer Banjo which uses the thumb and the nail of a finger to produce beautiful melodic sounds in total opposition to the Chicago typewriter nails on a blackboard. I implore everyone of you to check out Riley Baugus - Undone in Sorrow.. AND - Meredith Moon's Version of Darlin' Cory. - YOU'LL THANK ME
How do you think "players" like this make us older classic style banjoists feel? Prior to the 1940s the 5-string banjo was a proper instrument, not some hick stereotype played with picks, wire strings, and capoes. It wasn't deliverance that proved to be a disaster for the banjo- it was Earl Scruggs, Pete Seeger, and the re-imagining of the banjo as a Southern folk instrument (hint: Prior to the folk scare it wasn't viewed that way at all).
As for the movie, the banjo scene bears a damp heat cicada-sound density to it, which emphasizes the incompatibility of the two groups of persons involve. Not more, nor less.
Honestly just wanna hear you play banjo man
One of my favorite banjo tunes is 'Misty' by Ray Stevens.