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Was Frank Sidebottom the greatest banjo player in history?

Dec 05, 2008 by Omstarts | Posted in Polls & Surveys

I improvise he has retired from the circuit these days....

Undeniable you've never seen Haz in her ripped jeans barefoot, with her 9 kids playing the jugs!!

It's an awesome sight!!

Irksome | Dec 05, 2008

The most famous Instrumentals in Pop history?

Nov 14, 2006 by torosorogoro | Posted in Blues

Hi everybody,

I would like to cognizant of the most famous Instrumentals in Pop History.
I have so many melodies of Instrumentals in my head but don't know the titles.

I mean Instrumentals like this examples:

Hot Butter - Popcorn
Extent - Magic Fly
Fleetwood Mac - Albatros
Santana - Samba Pa Ti
Dan The Banjo Man - Dan The Banjo Man

It is very difficult to find the titles of Instrumentals because it is impossible to identify them by the non existing lyrics. Please support me and others to tell here the titles of very famous Pop Instrumentals.


Thank you to all Musiclovers

the entertainer,Roman gas,theme from Rockford files,2001 a space Odyssey.in my case i have the songs but not the artists,
a fifth of Beethoven,fresh onions,the good the bad and the ugly,theme song, plenty of Emerson,lake,and Palmer songs

jvg49er | Nov 14, 2006
Indian Rosewood, Acoustic Guitar and Electric Guitar 

String theory Mountain Xpress

12.05.10

Peradventure hip-hop on a banjo, specifically, hasn't happened with any degree regularity (at least not yet) but performing contemporary hits on string join instruments: Giddens says that's old school.

"There's never been any criticism [from the old-time community] because actually, it's a very old tradition," she points out. "People wanted to hear the most recent stuff and old timers played modern songs that they heard on the announce. They're just not modern to us anymore. It's kind of actually traditional to do that."

The Carolina Chocolate Drops are based in Durham and met five years ago at the first Felonious Banjo Gathering in Boone. When the three musicians — including multi-instrumentalists Dom Flemons and Justin Robinson — unquestionable to start a band, they studied with now 91-year-old African American old-time fiddler Joe Thompson.

And, though the Chocolate Drops still do Thompson's repertoire along

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- Aug 16, 2010
Soup of Guitar - musicians get together to create educational seriesStarNewsOnline.comModern banjo teacher John Mark Batchelor with clawhammer and banjo historian John Currie closed the show by giving a declaim-recital on the history of the

Roscoe Holcomb: From Daisy Kentucky Plays The Mead Fest At AMNH 11/13 Broadway World
- Aug 27, 2010
Roscoe Holcomb: From Daisy Kentucky Plays The Mead Fest At AMNH 11/13Broadway WorldIn Roscoe Holcomb, Cohen revisits the banjo better he first portrayed in 1963's The High Lonesome Sound. Combining intimate footage of Holcomb in his home and more »

Hometown Hero: Zeke Walters WBKO
- Aug 28, 2010
Hometown Leading man: Zeke WaltersWBKO"He was always helping the park and before long he took up banjo playin' and became very good." says Rodney Kirtley, a former Appraise/Executive in Muhlenberg

Out there in Katter country Sydney Morning Herald
- Aug 28, 2010
Out there in Katter country Sydney Morning Herald Sydney Morning HeraldOut there in Katter countrySydney Morning Herald the most unsuitable company - Winston Churchill (A History of the English-Speaking Peoples), Thomas a Kempis (The Imitation of Christ) and Banjo Paterson. and more »

Fine acting by Duvall, sparkling music help enliven folksy film Columbia Daily Tribune
- Aug 26, 2010
Fine acting by Duvall, sparkling music helper enliven folksy filmColumbia Daily TribuneDuvall is nothing less than a national treasure and without doubt one of the greatest actors in the history of membrane. His performance here embodies and more »

Garrison Keillor brings downhome fun to Britt hillside Mail Tribune
- Aug 27, 2010
Garrison Keillor brings downhome fun to Britt hillsideMail TribuneHe introduced soloist/fiddler Sara Watkins, of Nickel Creek fame, saying he'd saved her from "banjo music and weeping-on-your-eternal rest songs. and more »

Regional Happenings: Rodeo, Volkswagens, coin show and more Baxter Bulletin
- Aug 27, 2010
Regional Happenings: Rodeo, Volkswagens, enrich oneself show and moreBaxter Bulletin34th annual Banjo Rally International, Sept. 3-4, Eureka Springs. Two days of pickin' and grinnin' by the finest jazz banjo bands and soloists, jam sessions

Bluegrass Musicians Earn IBMA Nominations in Nashville CMT.com
- Aug 19, 2010
Bluegrass Musicians Earn IBMA Nominations in Nashville CMT.com Kansas Megalopolis StarBluegrass Musicians Earn IBMA Nominations in NashvilleCMT.comSteffey's wife, Tina, introduced him to the accustomed tune, and he joked that he had to persuade her to play clawhammer banjo on the track. News: IBMA Announces 2010 Famous Achievement Award Recipientsall 141 news articles »

England v Pakistan day two live! The Guardian
- Aug 27, 2010
England v Pakistan day two live! The Guardian The GuardianEngland v Pakistan - day two living!The GuardianAs we were stood waiting our turn, my friend (and OBO-er) Max Banjo used his umbrella to enthusiastically demonstrate every cricket dram. and more »

Chickasaw Nation to open Bricktown tourism center NewsOK.com
- Aug 26, 2010
Chickasaw State to open Bricktown tourism centerNewsOK.com"And now we've got ACM@UCO, the American Banjo Museum, office tenants and shops. It's remarkable to see what's going on. This is the first tribal entity to and more »




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