Bang & Jangle Radio Hour, Episode 3: Old-Time Banjo Styles

Dock Boggs

Yesterday on the Bang & Jangle Radio Hour I featured Old-Time Banjo Styles. I played some of the greats of the genre, and here they are again in case you missed it:

Roscoe Holcomb – Hills of Mexico

Hobart Smith – Banging Breakdown

Hobart Smith – John Greer’s Two-Step

Dock Boggs – New Prisoner’s Song

Dink Roberts – Coo Coo

Buell Kazee – Yellow Pups (Fox Chase)

Tommy Jarrell – As Time Draws Near

Chubby Parker – King Kong Kitchie Kitchie

I worried I might be casting too wide a net featuring experimental instruments one week and old-time banjo the next, but hey, I like ‘em both, and I can’t be the only one. Next week we’ll focus on Narrative Songs, if I can dig up the right material in time for the show.

The Bang & Jangle Radio Hour airs Tuesdays 9:00-9:30 on Trent Radio, 92.7 in Peterborough, online at http://www.trentradio.ca/stream.htm.

Season 1, Episode 3