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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.
This is the discography of the Grammy-winning banjoist Béla Fleck which consists of 25 studio albums (15 solo, two with Tasty Licks, three with Spectrum, two with Sparrow Quartet, three with Abigail Washburn), 13 collaboration albums, one live album, three music videos, 22 singles (16 as lead artist and six as featured artist), and 76 other appearances.
The song is an up-tempo rock-influenced song, accompanied by electric guitar and banjo, describing a male character who has saved up for expensive stereo equipment to place in his truck, so he can drive around town and "bob that head every Friday night" while playing his music loudly. The verses are largely spoken-word.
Dueling Banjos is a 1973 soundtrack album to the film Deliverance by American banjoists Marshall Brickman, Steve Mandell, and Eric Weissberg released by Warner Bros. Records and made up of the title track by Mandell and Weissberg and a repackaged version of the 1963 album New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass by Brickman and Weissberg.
"Dueling Banjos" is a bluegrass composition by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith.The song was composed in 1954 [2] by Smith as a banjo instrumental he called "Feudin' Banjos"; it contained riffs from Smith, recorded in 1955 playing a four-string plectrum banjo and accompanied by five-string bluegrass banjo player Don Reno.
The Infamous Stringdusters won three awards at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards Ceremony in October 2007: Emerging Artist of the Year, Album of the Year for Fork in the Road (in a tie with J.D. Crowe & the New South's album Lefty's Old Guitar), and Song of the Year for the album's title cut. [4]
Its computer generated music video, consisting of dancing robots and a crawling baby, received solid airplay on music television channels. The song was later sampled in "Banjo Thing" by Infernal and "Swamp Thing" by Pegboard Nerds. British magazine NME ranked "Swamp Thing" number 41 in their list of the 50 Best Songs of 1994. [2]
Billy Faier (December 21, 1930 – January 29, 2016) was an American banjo player and folk music evangelist. He, along with Pete Seeger, was one of the early exponents of the banjo during the mid-20th-century American folk music revival.
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