I think it's a cover of "Hall of the Mountain King" by Rainbow, sung by a female singer with banjo accompaniment. Unfortunately, I don't know who it was.
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posted by Ghostride The Whip
on Oct 25, 2012 -
3 answers
Looking for a list of old-timey popular standard songs to play (guitar/banjo/mandolin/harmonica, etc) with friends in the living room while we drink beer and let the kids jump around.
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posted by Slarty Bartfast
on Oct 20, 2012 -
24 answers
I'm trying to identify a bluegrass-style banjo tune that was meant to sound like the honks of geese. I seem to remember the recording I heard was by the brother of a more famous player.
posted by phrontist
on Sep 16, 2012 -
5 answers
I need help finding uptempo contemporary/progressive bluegrass tracks for my running playlist.
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posted by drlith
on Feb 27, 2012 -
10 answers
Yes, I'm burning my question on this: Hi Memphis, TN, is there any old-time music jams happening Friday through Tuesday nights? Preferably Sunday/Monday nights?
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posted by circle_b
on Jan 20, 2012 -
7 answers
Where can I get a print/poster of an Annie Leibovitz photo? Specifically the second one on
this page. I know it is in a book of collected works, but I'm looking for something a little larger to hang on a wall. It seems a little odd that it wouldn't be available somehow, but that seems to be the case. Is there something about such high caliber photographers' work that I don't know about?
posted by daboo
on Jan 10, 2012 -
9 answers
Did you start learning to play an instrument in your 20s? I guess I have this feeling like it's Too Late for me!
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posted by showbiz_liz
on Jun 6, 2011 -
57 answers
I have been thinking about getting a banjolele, or possibly a tenor banjo, and I am looking for suggestions.
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posted by fings
on Jan 22, 2011 -
13 answers
I am starting a new Kickstarter fund to record an album. Need input for ideas on where to perform.
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posted by mediocre
on Oct 14, 2010 -
5 answers
Can anyone recommend some good resources - DVDs, websites, or books - for learning clawhammer/old-time banjo? I don't live anywhere near a teacher, and am starting from scratch with essentially no musical background.
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posted by pilibeen
on Sep 20, 2010 -
4 answers
Is it a grand gesture to anonymously give a woman I think is beautiful a banjo?
At the beginning of this semester, I briefly was in a relationship with a woman who I cared a great deal about. It didn’t end well, and really, it couldn’t have ended well. We have nothing in common. But as it is, I still think she is beautiful, and I’d like to do something truly grand, both to make this world a better (albeit stranger) place, and to give myself some closure.
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posted by Archibald Edmund Binns
on Dec 12, 2009 -
135 answers
My band does a great cover of St. James Infirmary Blues. What else should we do that's in the same vein?
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posted by Baby_Balrog
on Nov 23, 2009 -
13 answers
Help identify a music video I recently saw on MTV Europe...70s style video with a female lead singer and a banjo?
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posted by ciocarlia
on Aug 25, 2009 -
5 answers
I have just been gifted a beloved and much missed late relative's 8-string banjo mandolin. The relative bought the instrument (used) in the early-mid 1970s and died soon after. Despite googling the universe I cannot find out anything about the instrument or maker. On the head it says "Wayne" in a horizontal scroll and then vertically underneath, "Dixie". I'd love to know more about the instrument. Anyone heard of Wayne Dixie banjo mandolins?
posted by Kerasia
on Jul 13, 2009 -
7 answers
A bid of a wild side multi-layered question. Learning the banjo. And doing so in Shanghai. Most people who travel (younger free-spirited types, work with me here) sling a guitar over their shoulder.
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posted by dawson
on May 25, 2009 -
15 answers
How do I transpose guitar sheet music, not tabs, into banjo sheet music?
posted by shesaysgo
on May 17, 2009 -
9 answers
Help me find the Peanuts cartoon in which Linus says "The way I see it, as soon as a baby is born he should be issued a banjo!"
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posted by bondcliff
on Apr 7, 2009 -
8 answers
How can I store my banjo long-term to preserve the best possible sound? I have a hard case (not a soft "gig bag") and the instrument is in a dark closet. We keep the humidity between 40-55% whenever possible...
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posted by homelystar
on Aug 19, 2008 -
4 answers
Would it be way too expensive to get some minor work (installing railroad spikes) done on my banjo... in Washington, DC? (vs. 'the suburbs' ?) If not, any recommendations of general instrument guru shop guys?
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posted by tmcw
on Jun 6, 2008 -
7 answers
Dentures dentures dentures! In stage one of getting dentures, what should I expect in the weeks to come?
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posted by mediocre
on May 9, 2008 -
9 answers
Practicing & Playing Music in Washington DC: Learning the banjo without getting murdered
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posted by tmcw
on Apr 22, 2008 -
10 answers
BanjoBearFilter: Where online can I order a teddy bear (or other plush animal) holding a banjo?
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posted by Koko
on Mar 3, 2008 -
7 answers
I'm a sucker for the "dying but smiling" feeling I get from the sound of a banjo. What modern/recent songs have banjo in them? I'm looking for things that don't fall neatly under the category of bluegrass - a pop/rock/alternative song that just happens to have a banjo rather than Bela Fleck/String Cheese Incident/Cherryholmes type stuff.
posted by Kappi
on Feb 29, 2008 -
47 answers
What if Getz and Gilberto were, you know, cousins? Would they still have made beautiful music together?
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posted by Acari
on Jan 16, 2008 -
11 answers
Banjo Filter: Looking for great foot-stompin', lightnin-pickin' songs, a la Phillip Roebuck's "Pocket Knife", etc. Suggestions?
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posted by Cosine
on May 13, 2007 -
11 answers
Friend just got a banjo and I want to get her a banjo-related gift. Li'l help?
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posted by ORthey
on Oct 20, 2006 -
18 answers
I'm looking for artists/songs that sound like the slide-guitar/banjo intro to KMFDM's WWIII. I'm not really very familiar with bluegrass (is that even the right genre?) outside Bill Monroe, and none of his stuff sounds much like this.
posted by phrontist
on Aug 27, 2006 -
7 answers
I have recently been turned on to bluegrass, and am especially in awe of banjo players. I play guitar and would love to add banjoesque picking techniques to my arsenal, and assume other players have already done so. Are there any guitarists who employ banjo picking patterns? Online instruction, tabs, &c.?
posted by signal
on Aug 12, 2006 -
10 answers
I recently purchased a new neck for my banjo and am now filled with anxiety about installing it - that's major surgery! I'm especially confused about the truss rod.
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posted by smartyboots
on Aug 6, 2006 -
5 answers
This music video [YouTube link] is...um...hard to describe. It's also entirely in Japanese, and my wife, friends and I have all been wondering for
more than two years just who these people are, and just what, exactly, they're singing about.
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posted by davejay
on Apr 14, 2006 -
14 answers
After months of looking I have finally found a 5 string banjo that sounded good enough I wouldn't mind learning on it but was still within my means. Now I just need help learning how to play.
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posted by herting
on Oct 19, 2005 -
10 answers
Bluegrass Filter: Banjo specifically. Frailing vs. clawhammer vs. threefinger. What exactly are these methods? And how do they differ?
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posted by snsranch
on Sep 13, 2005 -
7 answers
BanjoFilter: I am looking to learn to play the banjo. I would like to buy a nice banjo that I can grow into (something with a decent tone ring), but I'd prefer to not spend a fortune on it.
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posted by amelliferae
on Sep 6, 2005 -
9 answers
