banjoholic - Posted - 02/08/2010:  19:38:00

That was gorgeous, Robert.

Twas especially nice to listen to while sipping on this new batch of Groover's wine.

mojo_monk - Posted - 02/09/2010:  05:57:55

Thanks for sharing that, Robert!

I like what you've got going on in your arrangement. Good stuff and a great contribution.

Anybody else?


Sean

ramjo - Posted - 02/09/2010:  06:14:05

Aw shucks, you guys. Thank you. You make me want to leave work and go practice.
RAM

H Kimball - Posted - 02/09/2010:  09:33:23

I first heard this tune, before I started playing banjo, on the Starch & Iron cd (previously mentioned). Always liked it even if its on the dark side. I learned to play this clawhammer style early on since the tab is in Erbsen's Banjo for the Complete Ignormaus. He teaches it in gCGCD tuning.

RPM - Posted - 02/09/2010:  10:35:13

I agree. Very nice. But stay at work. You have to earn money to buy banjos.

supah_g - Posted - 02/10/2010:  17:53:14

Great job Robert! Very tasteful, dynamic, & expressive playing. One of my favourites of all I've listened to here.

g.

ramjo - Posted - 02/10/2010:  18:42:48

Thanks RPM and Supah! I stayed home from work today so as not to drive in the snow. Got some practicing in.

Edited by - ramjo on 02/10/2010 18:47:34

Viper - Posted - 02/11/2010:  09:52:11

Great pick! I too first heard this song through Raising Arizona, which I saw for the first time on accident because of a video store mix-up (was supposed to be Little Nikita with River Phoenix ... Phoenix, Arizona?). I now own the movie. Raising Arizona, not Little Nikita.

The Forge Mountain Diggers (with David Bass on fiddle between Freighthoppers incarnations) did a great version of it on their sole album (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/fmdiggers). Thomas Bailey's voice suits it well.

Thanks for Roscoe Holcomb's DLA recording!

Cheers ...

pixelbricks - Posted - 02/17/2010:  12:02:18

I love this song too and was also turned onto it by Bailey Cooke on Youtube. Took me a while to figure out that she was doing it in 4/4. I'm still trying to work out the 4/4 version, some of the tips in this thread will definitely help.

I also love listening to the Kruger Brothers with Maynard Holbrook singing. It's really well-performed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xedgsu6SkGU

riverstein - Posted - 02/17/2010:  13:06:32

It's a beautiful melody indeed but don't you get weary, forum people, of murdering the same girls over and over? The Pretty Pollies, the Little Sadies, the Roses etc...
Has anybody ever come up with alternate lyrics - in which the cups of poison are switched, or the killers kicked into the fresh-dug graves? If not, isn't it about time - just in a modern spirit of equal opportunity?