VA - Classic Banjo from Smithsonian Folkways (2013)

The banjo is a bigger than life instrument, a symbol of deep southern American heritage. At the same time, beneath its veneer of old-time icon, the story of the banjo is one of enormous creativity and adaptation to many musical traditions around the world–from Africa, to the Caribbean, to North America, to Europe, and beyond. In Classic Banjo from Smithsonian Folkways, banjo connoisseurs Greg Adams and Jeff Place cull 30 gems of banjo artistry from more than 300 albums in the Folkways collections, offering a gateway into the deep and varied veins of banjo history.

TRACKLIST
1. Pete Seeger – Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Girl/Cripple Creek/Ida Red/Old Joe Clark (02:38)
2. Hobart Smith – Banging Breakdown (01:20)
3. Frank Proffitt – Johnson Boys (01:44)
4. Wade Ward – Peachbottom Creek (01:27)
5. Dink Roberts – Coo Coo (02:13)
6. Mike Seeger – Josh Thomas’s Roustabout (02:39)
7. Willie Chapman – Jaw Bone (00:55)
8. Dock Boggs – Bright Sunny South (03:39)
9. Pete Steele – Coal Creek March (01:55)
10. Josh Thomas – Mississippi Heavy Water Blues (03:40)
11. Rufus Crisp – Walk Light Ladies (01:31)
12. Bill Cornett – Buck Creek Girls (01:03)
13. Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders – Gut Bucket Blues (04:18)
14. Mick Moloney – Skylark/Roaring Mary (03:27)
15. Ken Perlman – St. Anne’s Reel/La Renfleuse Gorbeil (02:51)
16. Roger Sprung – Smokey Mokes (02:22)
17. A.L. Camp – Golden Bell Polka (02:28)
18. Tony Trischka – Banjoland (with Bill Evans) (03:03)
19. Snuffy Jenkins – Sally Ann (01:13)
20. Roni Stoneman – Lonesome Road Blues (01:14)
21. Lee Sexton – Fox Chase (00:59)
22. John Tyree – Hop Along Lou (01:11)
23. “Big Sweet” Lewis Hairston – Cotton Eyed Joe (01:26)
24. Ola Belle Reed – Foggy Mountain Top (02:32)
25. Doc Watson – Rambling Hobo (01:38)
26. John Snipes – Old Rattler (02:49)
27. Elizabeth Cotten – Georgia Buck (01:45)
28. Irvin Cook – I Wish to the Lord I’d Never Been Born (03:10)
29. Roscoe Holcomb – Black Eye Susie (01:27)
30. Bill Keith – Bluegrass Breakdown (with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys) (03:09)