The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #71922   Message #1233555
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
25-Jul-04 - 05:35 PM
Thread Name: Singing with just a banjo
Subject: RE: Singing with just a banjo
Hey, Martin: Good for you. Banjo seems to have become a band instrument, despite all the great music produced in the south with just a banjo accompaniment. I've always done two or three banjo songs in an evening... some finger-piched, and some frailing. There's a whole wealth of Charlie Poole stuff that suits itself well to solo performing, and much of the old-time string band stuff can easily be simplified just for banjo. I've found that people really respond well to solo banjo with singing because it's something that they hear so rarely.

Jerry