Showing posts with label Chuck Lee Banjo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chuck Lee Banjo. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Foggy Dew/ Tune of the week for BHO
Here's a short video of Foggy Dew that I taped today in my living room for this week's Tuna the week for Banjo Hangout.
http://banjohangout.org
This has become a regular thread on BHO and different folks take turns presenting an interesting tune each week.
I've been tabbing a simple version of Foggy Dew all week and hope to have it ready to put up at BHO soon along with a link to this video.
I decided to upload it to Banjoquest instead of Youtube because the sound and resolution are a little bit better when I upload to blogger.
In this video, I'm playing my 12" Chuck Lee Custom banjo. It has the Tony Pass ancient wood rim, real skin head, Texas style scoop, and Bill Keith tuning gears.
It has a colored inlay on the peghead of the girl in the moon playing the banjo with a basset hound floating on a cloud beside her.It is a sweet sounding banjo and I have been playing it almost every day since October--just to hear its voice. :)
To see more details about my banjo, visit Chuck's page.
http://www.leebanjos.com/cox.html
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Mary Z. Cox
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Banjoquest begins today!
Banjoquest begins with a field recording that I taped several years ago in the campground at the Florida Old Time Championships. Here is banjo builder, Lo Gordon, playing "Peach Bottom Creek" on his Cedar Mountain Banjo.
http://cedarmtnbanjos.com
My family has known Lo and his family for many years from Florida festivals. Now Lo and his family live in Brevard, North Carolina where Lo and Tim build his wonderful Cedar Mountain banjos, and Mary and Lo own Celestial Mountain Music.
http://www.celestialmtnmusic.com They host a wonderful jam for all to enjoy on Tuesday nights at the store. Lo taught me this tune a couple years ago, and we recorded it as a melody/ harmony duet, on two Cedar Mountian banjos, on our newest CD, "Florida Banjo." Lo's banjo tab to both the melody and harmony to this tune are in "Florida Banjo Tab Book"
http://www.maryzcox.com
Hope you enjoy hearing him play in the field as much as I have.
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Here's another North Carolina friend and banjoist that Bob and I have known and played music with for over thirty years. We played music and had great fun together when Bob and I lived in Cashiers, NC while Bob was at Western Carolina University. Today, John plays guitar and banjo in a band called the Cashiers Music Company.
http://cashiersmusiccompany.com
He and his wife, Marsha, and their lovely home, were just featured in the October 2008 issue of Southern Living.
Bob filmed this casual video of John playing Ragtime Annie on his new Chuck Lee Banjo. I join him on my new Goldtone 5 string Banjo cello in a jam in the little log cabin.
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