Vintage Banjo

Don Nitchie, Banjo Newsletter, August 2000
"...played with great delicacy and restraint. I found myself listening to it repeatedly..."

Product Description:
Very listenable clawhammer banjo instrumentals from Florida's 2003 Old Time Banjo Champion. These tunes have been popular for more than a century!

Vintage Banjo

Vintage Banjo,Mary Z. Cox,Mary Z. Cox,Looking for a clawhammer banjo CD that you'd like to listen to more than once? Fourteen of our favorite old time tunes on clawhammer banjo with fiddle and guitar. Vintage Banjo was selected as Editor's Pick in the January 2001 Banjo Newsletter.

Average customer rating: Clear and beautiful and instructional banjo

Vintage Banjo Mary Z. Cox Manufacturer: Mary Z. Cox ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: A Secret Life Of Banjo Walkin' That Banjo Home Old Time Mountain Banjo Clawhammer Banjo, Vol. 3 Clawhammer Banjo, Vol. 1 ASIN: B00015NJ84 Release Date: 1999-12-01

Tracks:

1. Sally Ann
2. Dixie
3. Elzic's Farewell
4. Johnson Boys
5. Cindy
6. Bonapartes Retreat
7. Pigtown Fling
8. Little Black Dog Gone Trottin'down the Road
9. Dunsmore Lasses
10. Cherokee Shuffle
11. Sheebeg Agus Sheemore
12. Sugar Hill
13. Napoleon Crossing the Rhine
14. Sandy River Belles

Album Description

Very listenable clawhammer banjo instrumentals from Florida's 2003 Old Time Banjo Champion. These tunes have been popular for more than a century!

Customer Reviews:

Clear and beautiful and instructional banjo.......2005-07-01

I am a Big Mary Z Cox fan and was lucky enough to meet her right about the time she was coming out with this album, so I heard her explain it to a group of banjoists at the Florida State Fiddling Convention right after this was made. She this was a meditation on the C tunings, especially the open C tuning, or the double C tuning and was a lot of music she first put together sitting on her back porch playing the banjo.

Wish I was her neighbor!

Everything sounds deceptively easy, deceptively clear, deceptively delightful. You think you can see the tab for these tunes or the notes go by on the page she is so clear and precise. Even playing fast dance music or in competitions, Mary seems to know that music is about sounding good, sounding clear, sounding pleasant, and saying something rather than proving how fast your fingers and your mind can be going or how tricky your fingerings, your tunings, or your right hand work can be.

This is clear lovely music. It also gives banjoists on all levels a model of musical excellence. Without being watered down, this is a CD I wouldn't mind playing for folks who hate the banjo. At the same time if I am working on learning C tunings, I get this CD on the player, listen to it, and get educated as to what I could do if I worked at it.

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3. You're Where I Belong [CD-single] [Import]
4. 13
5. 15 of My Grandma's Favorites
6. 20 Best of Country Gospel
7. 24 Great Truck Drivin' Hits
8. A Long Road Home
9. Absolutely the Best of Slim Whitman [Original recording remastered]
10. Alamo Remembered

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