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Thread #71922   Message #1506316
Posted By: fretless
21-Jun-05 - 05:51 PM
Thread Name: Singing with just a banjo
Subject: RE: Singing with just a banjo
Pete Seeger's early Folkways album Darlin' Corey, reissued on CD with his Goofin' Off Suite, has lots of fine banjo/singing numbers. Some of Tommy Thompson's cuts on the early Red Clay Ramblers's records, and at last one of Tom Paley's on the first New Lost City Rambler's album are also really impressive. Of course there's Frank Profitt's singling along with his fretless and, if you can get your voice up there and your fingers to move that quickly, Roscoe Holcomb's spectacular singing/playing, although RH's sound may be a bit difficult for an audience not attuned to an Appalachian sound. And agreeing with postings above, Debby McClatchy gets it just right and Hedy West's banjo ballads are staggeringly beautiful.