Foggy Mountain Banjo Project Part 4 -- John Henry

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Posted by bellf on Friday, May 18, 2018

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This is the April edition of my Foggy Mountain Banjo Project.

https://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/videos.asp?m=d&catID=&id=33137

I'm submitting this more than two weeks late due to an illness during April that really slowed things down.

I learned the up the neck part by ear from Bennett Sullivan's recording of this tune. It is pretty close to Earl Scruggs's main break, but it is slightly different. I added my own down the neck arrangement, which I decided to do after listening to Tony Trischka's version of this tune from his Territory album. Tony's version uses Travis style in the main, which I'm not doing here. I just used Tony's version as inspiration.

Next time I will post Cripple Creek. I'll try to get back on schedule (posting at the end of the month), but there's a good chance it will be a little late.

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