Baskery - move over Dixie chicks

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 22 Sep 2008 6:11 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OubBrAFThmY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kyzOG7m ... re=related

from Sveden, ya?

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 22 Sep 2008 7:47 pm

Saw these young ladies at a local folk/blues fest. They branded their music as "Killbilly".

I was impressed with their show. b0b might want to avoid them 'cuz of the electrified slide banjo, though

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 22 Sep 2008 8:03 pm

COOL!

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 22 Sep 2008 10:35 pm

I really like it - but then again, I'm into blues and sometimes play my b@njars with a slide. I dunno - I think b0b oughta' give this a listen - just close your eyes, you'll never know it's a banjo. Well, maybe just a little.

How come people from Scandinavia and other parts of the world appreciate the roots of American music so much more than most Americans seem to? Not new, but increasingly troubling.

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 23 Sep 2008 5:28 am

I suppose it's like the following that Gypsy Jazz has here in the states.....so many U.S. cities boast a...."Hot Club"........

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 23 Sep 2008 9:37 am

Hi PreMod

yep ! Baskery are popular here & have their following
Le Jazz Manouche is the goin' thang here in France & draws even more
let me know when you'll be comin' over

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 23 Sep 2008 11:38 am

i like it...but it's not really a banjo. one of those fake banjo guitar six string cheater models like keith urban uses.

AJ Azure · Post by **AJ Azure** » 23 Sep 2008 11:45 am

it's a banjo just not a 5 string. remember banjo comes in a few set ups. The 6 string has a tradition. including being played by django reinhardt.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 23 Sep 2008 11:58 am

ok...but it doesn't make you a banjo player...just a guitar player with a banjo body.

maybe b0b could make a steel guitar with a banjo body...a pedabanjo.. (i'm not talking buck trent!)

i once made some business cards for 'taliban joe', banjo terrorist!!

AJ Azure · Post by **AJ Azure** » 23 Sep 2008 12:06 pm

that all depends on how you define "banjo player" AND how you define banjo. looks to me like if you play guitar, you're a guitar player. if you play banjo, you're a banjo player. You're thinking bluegrass 5 string banjo..that's very compartmentalized defining.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 23 Sep 2008 12:17 pm

are you calling b0b a banjo player?

AJ Azure · Post by **AJ Azure** » 23 Sep 2008 12:19 pm

does he belong to BPA= banjo players anonymous?

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 23 Sep 2008 12:21 pm

...are you compartmentilizing?? maybe i was thinking dixieland tenor banjo!

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 23 Sep 2008 12:21 pm

They're called banjitars or 6 string banjos as listed on websites that sell them.....doesn't matter (to me) what they're called.....

what does strike me is that she has the feel and expertise (= mojo) to get this unique sound that she is striving for and make this trio stand out.....which they do....

and that banjitar really cuts through!!!!!

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 23 Sep 2008 12:28 pm

i certainly wasn't implying that they didn't have some fine points that stand out. i like them!

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 23 Sep 2008 12:48 pm

I know......

AJ Azure · Post by **AJ Azure** » 23 Sep 2008 1:11 pm

chris ivey wrote:...are you compartmentilizing?? maybe i was thinking dixieland tenor banjo!

so was I :-p It's just what I usually run into on the reso forums ..bluegrass state of mind

Pete Burak · Post by **Pete Burak** » 23 Sep 2008 1:54 pm

Here's one:
http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/msg/852438631.html

Bob Bowden · Post by **Bob Bowden** » 23 Sep 2008 3:59 pm

Pete Burak wrote:Here's one:
http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/msg/852438631.html

or possibly even better...on the video she is playing an old Italian made EKO 6 string banjo. There is one on ebay right now. 1960s EKO banjo here

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 23 Sep 2008 5:24 pm

ok...but it doesn't make you a banjo player...just a guitar player with a banjo body.

Regardless of what one wants to call it, the 6-string banjo is a banjo, as is a tenor or a plectrum banjo. It was used to great effect by seminal Opry player Sam McGee. Even though he was rightly called "The Grand Dad of the Country Guitar Pickers" - CD With Samples Here - when he played banjo, he was a banjo picker.

The "banjo" part - in the body - controls the tone generation, which is significantly different than a guitar. Would you call a tenor guitar a banjo? Was Tiny Grimes not a guitar player?

A rose by any other name ... (OK, I left the door open, you banjo haters out there)

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 23 Sep 2008 5:35 pm

uh oh...now i'm confused...what would you call a 5 string banjo-like instrument with a dobro type resonator and metal body....it can't be a banjo if if it doesn't have that banjo drum body dealy, right?

AJ Azure · Post by **AJ Azure** » 23 Sep 2008 6:22 pm

truly bad taste? a product of an alcohol induced dalliance between a dobro and a banjo? lol

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 23 Sep 2008 7:07 pm

so,.....what tuning is that thing (banjitar) tuned to?......

Bob Bowden · Post by **Bob Bowden** » 23 Sep 2008 8:13 pm

HowardR wrote:so,.....what tuning is that thing (banjitar) tuned to?......

Looks and sounds like an open G

Ellis Miller · Post by **Ellis Miller** » 24 Sep 2008 9:16 am

Hmmmm... I thought the Dixie Chicks had already moved over...