Earl Scruggs & all the great banjo players in 1971 – Foggy Mountain Breakdown
An evening pause: I posted a more recent version in 2015 when Scruggs was much older. This version is exhilarating because of the number of great players involved.
Hat tip Able Windsor.
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That, me son, is the business. I trust the fire department was just out of frame.
Years ago Roy Clark performed Foggy Mountain Breakdown for his Live at the Landmark concert album. Introducing the tune he informed the audience:
“This is a banjo. It is the only instrument invented in America.. And you’re about to witness why this is the only country that had enough nerve!”
Earl and friends here emphatically confirm that assertion. : )
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6xP0gpBXL8Y
Great stuff. I am still working on “walking the baseline”
Phill
Collective noun: Collective nouns are names for a collection or a number of people or things. Words like group, herd, and array are collective noun examples.
Some are interesting. (A murder of crows), others mundane (a herd of cows).
I went looking for the collective noun for Banjos. There were several ideas, a pluck, a thrim, a bingo..
However, ” a scrugg of banjos” suggestion seems to be the best I saw.