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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.
Dwight Diller (August 17, 1946 – 14 February 2023) was an American banjo and fiddle player and teacher. He was considered one of the most prominent exponents of the clawhammer banjo tradition. [who?] Diller lived in Hillsboro, West Virginia, and then Marlinton, and was an inheritor of the old-time music tradition of the Hammons Family of West ...
Kyle Creed (1912–1982) was an influential musician and banjo luthier of 20th century Appalachia. [1] Along with Tommy Jarrell, and Fred Cockerham, he was a central figure of the Roundpeak-style old-time music that began to find an outside audience in the 1960s, and his clawhammer banjo playing came to shape banjo practices in the Old-time music tradition.
Clawhammer, sometimes called down-picking, overhand, or most commonly known as frailing, is a distinctive banjo playing style and a common component of American old-time music. The style likely descends from that of West African lutes, such as the akonting which are also the direct ancestors of the banjo.
In 1885, he learned to play the banjo from a circus comedian called Joel Davidson. [4] He attended Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville. [2] Macon's father was murdered outside the hotel in 1886. [5] [6] His widowed mother sold the hotel and the family moved to Readyville, Tennessee, [7] where his mother ran a stagecoach inn. Macon began ...
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 ...
Clawhammer Banjo: Old Time Banjo and Fiddle Tunes: County: 701: reissued on County CD 2716, Clawhammer Banjo Vol 1 (2002) with extra tracks 1968: Down to the Cider Mill: County: 713: with Tommy Jarrell & Oscar Jenkins. This and the two below LPs were reissued with the exception of several tracks on 2 County CDs - 2734 & 2735 (2004) [2] 1970
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 ...