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"Cripple Creek" is an Appalachian-style old time tune and folk song, often played on the fiddle or banjo, listed as number 3434 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The lyrics are probably no older than the year 1900, and the tune is of unknown origin.
Influential recordings by Strothers include his versions of "Cripple Creek" [4] and "Good Shepherd", the latter entitled "The Blood-Strained Banders" on the Lomax recording. [5] Strothers's version of "Good Shepherd" was the basis for the Jefferson Airplane's recording on their album Volunteers .
Banjo music originated informally as a form of African folk music over a hundred years ago probably in the sub-Saharan region. When the Americans forced African slaves to work on the plantations, banjo music followed them, and stayed primarily a form of African folk music, up to the 1800s.
According to his son, Don Wayne Reno, "My dad told me more than once that the reason he started his own style of banjo picking was this: When he came out of the service, many people said 'You sound just like Earl Scruggs.' He said that really bothered him considering he never played a banjo while he was in the service, and when he returned to ...
Roni Stoneman, a country musician who was known as “first lady of the banjo,” and was seen by millions as a familiar face on television’s “Hee Haw,” has died. She was 85. No cause of ...
In the second, he sings and takes ideas from the children to invent new verses for "I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground", and then plays "Cripple Creek" on banjo as Gordon demonstrates the limberjack. [39] In the third segment, he sings Woody Guthrie's "Pick it Up" and then "Mi Chacra" ("my farm"), teaching animal names in Spanish.
Amy Lieberman, who reviewed Wider Circles for NYS Music, wrote "Seamlessly covering the entire spectrum of musical genres, ranging from traditional music of the American South highlighting the banjo and fiddle, to world music featuring African drums, there’s something on this album for everyone to enjoy."
The Cripple Creek Caravan’s tribute to “The Last Waltz” is at 7 p.m. Nov. 27 at The Tarlton Theatre in downtown Green Bay. Doors open at 5 p.m. Tickets are $30 for concert only or $45 with ...