Posted on 08/04/2006 3:51:08 AM PDT by jimbo123
I agree with you, the dixie chick poll is dead on. And I love your tagline.
GREAT musicians are ten a penny in Nashville, the Dixie Chicks notwithstanding. The issue isn't talent.
Dueling banjo's?
I left out a lot of folks. One I've been listening to lately is a flat picker named Ricky Simpkins. Excellent stuff......
Amazing. There are some tours that don't last half as long - but your list is *cancellations only*!
I totally agree. I've never met him, but I do know a couple Nashville studio musicians who know him and have played with him. They say he's so good it's spooky......
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No worries. Everybody has their own favorites. My thinking is if you like the Dixie Chicks, check out any of the others I mention and you'll really love them. Check out a guy named Ricky Simpkins, too. Excellent flat picker....some of the best driving down the road music in my collection.
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Heck, even Steve Martin is a better picker.
Just guitar here. A misch-masch of classical and flat picking technique. Mostly I sing though.
I was taught banjo at an early age. I think that makes a whole lot of difference. I'm self taught on the guitar and didn't take it up until many years later. I can fake a lot of stuff on the guitar and can easily improvise. With the banjo, though, I play note for note what I've learned through instruction and from tabs. Improvisation is very hard for me with the banjo.
I once had a friend leave a fiddle with me for a couple of months. I tried and tried and the best I could do sounded like somebody trying to kill a cat......
I found a great bluegrass lyric site the other day
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/barb923/lyrics/
No music, but words to A LOT of great songs....lately I've been on a quest to learn every song the Dillards did on the Andy Griffith show. Flop Eared Mule, There is a time, etc.
Sure, that counts. Several here have said they are just as good live as in the studio. Thanks for the reply.
This Weeks Biggest Losers!
The Dixie Chicks:
Their latest album, "Taking the Long Way," is projected to sell only one-third as many copies as the two the group released before lead singer Natalie Maines' inflammatory 2003 anti-Bush comments at a concert in England. And, they've had to cancel 2006 summer tour dates in Red State locales like Memphis, Oklahoma City and Indianapolis due to poor ticket sales. So really, the last thing Maines and co. need is to remind the iTunes crowd how it all went down. But that's just the ticket, as this week the Toronto International Film Festival announced that it will give the gala premiere treatment to the documentary "Shut Up and Sing," co-directed by Oscar winning Barbara Koepple. If all else fails, these lovely ladies can always take a page from the Garth Brooks play book and re-invent themselves as an Australian folk trio.
http://www.tmz.com/2006/07/28/this-weeks-biggest-losers-07-28-06/
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