Greetings! I’m back from Dust Busters summer touring and I’m ready to get back on the job here at Down Home Radio. Its gonna be a great Fall season, with lots of excellent material waiting in the wings, ready for posting here on DHR.
Here’s my first offering- I’ve had several requests for this LP, and am happy to finally be bringing it out on Down Home Radio. This is a relatively forgotten but definitely classic record from the 1960’s New York City folk scene featuring performances by a number of its key participants. There’s great music on here! I had a hard time laying my hands on a copy of this record, but I did and here it is.
Musicians on this record include John Cohen, Peter K. Siegel, Alan Block (owner of the famous sandal shop), Bob Siggins, Winnie Winston, Hank Schwartz and Bill Vanaver all playing old-time style banjo.
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Hope you will enjoy. See below for liner notes and track information.
And if you like the Elektra Old Time Banjo Project LP you might also like my recent album with Old Time Banjo Project contributor Peter K. Siegel, his first recorded offering since that Elektra record came out many years ago!
“Twelve Tunes for Two Banjos” is a CD of old-time banjo duets played and sung by Peter K. Siegel & Eli Smith, using mostly 5-string but also 4 and 6-string banjos.
To Order: Go to http://cdbaby.com/cd/siegelsmith where you can order online. Its also on iTunes.
And don’t forget to check out our friends at the Old Time Herald Magazine – www.oldtimeherald.org – lots of great articles, reviews and more!
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Thanks Eli! Been looking for this for a long time.
Thanks a lot, Eli, for this gem…
from a belgian & banjo picker..
hooray! this rare bird is caged at last. as many thanx as trax on this album!!
let’s hope now that sooner or later, you’ll manage to catch another evading one – String Band Project – too…
best vibes, dustraman
Thanks for making this available. Great stuff.
I did not remember this one. Of course the disc I really want to hear again is the Electra Folk Banjo Styles mentioned in the liner notes to this one. Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
This, and String Band Project, were my most listened to revivalist albums in the 70’s. So much so that the sound quality is shot now. It’s almost unlistenable. I’m amazed that those two albums were never re-issued on CD.
Many, many thanks for an opportunity to hear this again.
Now,,, about that String Band album…….
Finding this recording available here has ended a search that began in 1965. I first heard this album when my parents borrowed it from the local library – I tape recorded it then but the tape got destroyed in a small flood in 1965. Finally!
Many Thanks
The String Band and Folk Banjo LPs can be found, along with other great music in great sounding rips, at http://ninehundredmilesfromhome.blogspot.com/
Thanks so much. A lot of these tunes are included in ‘Mel Bay’s Frailing the Banjo’ book from 1973, so I’m very grateful to listen, what a treat.