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According to Devon Wells, "Blackberry Blossom", as a banjo tune, was brought to the public's attention as one of the earliest arrangements of Bill Keith. [12] Wells, a bluegrass teacher, asserts that the tune is a standard in the bluegrass banjo repertoire. [13] Tony Rice recorded an influential version of the tune on the album, “Manzanita.”
Contradicting Jabbour, who clearly distinguishes the earlier version, is the account of Andrew Kuntz to the effect that "Betty Vornbrock and others have noted a similarity between 'Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom' and the West Virginia tune 'Yew Piney Mountain', a variant...also played by Kentucky fiddlers J.P. Fraley and Santford Kelly".
Johnson was raised in Yorktown Heights, New York and started playing banjo at the age of 15. In 1971, he began his first banjo lessons with Jay Ungar in Garrison, NY. While studying with Ungar he learned the "Frailing Style" of five string banjo playing. [5] Johnson is self taught in the Scruggs and Melodic style of bluegrass banjo playing. [6]
The 2nd South Carolina String Band was a band of Civil War re-enactors who recreate American popular music of the 1800s with authentic instruments and in period style. The group claimed to "perform Civil War music as authentically as possible . . . as it truly sounded to the soldiers of the Civil War."
A 5-string banjo. The violin (also known as the fiddle), five-string banjo, guitar, mandolin, and upright bass (string bass) are often joined by the resonator guitar (also referred to as a Dobro) and (occasionally) harmonica or Jew's harp. This instrumentation originated in rural dance bands and is the basis on which the earliest bluegrass ...
Other instruments he plays include the mandolin, 6-string banjo, fiddle, dobro, banjo and viola. [7] He is known for his loose, right-hand guitar technique, which arose out of his mandolin technique. Also well known is his devotion to 12-fret guitars, including Martin 00s, 000s, D18s, D28s, and Gibsons, like his 1929 12-fret Nick Lucas special.
Joel Sweeney. Joel Walker Sweeney (1810 – October 29, 1860), also known as Joe Sweeney, was an American musician and early blackface minstrel performer. He is known for popularizing the playing of the banjo and has often been credited with advancing the physical development of the modern five-string banjo.
James V. "Jimmy" Henley (September 2, 1963 – March 22, 2020) was an American banjo player who played bluegrass music.He won several banjo contests as a young boy. As a young boy he met country music star Roy Clark at the New Mexico State Fair and Clark invited him to perform on National television.