Playing Since: 2012
Experience Level: Just Startin'
Occupation: IT Manager
Gender: Male
Age: 66
My Instruments:
Cheap Chinese Banjo (5 String)
Ozark 2146G 'Eagle'
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Jim Reeves, Bad Nicholas, Motor City String Band, Down County Boys
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Created 10/6/2012
Last Visit 6/11/2013
I have had an interest in old fashioned Country Music since I can remember; my dad played it on an old radiogram all the time. I love all sorts of music but could never play. Now I am determined to learn something before I finally shuffle off the mortal coil.
I decided I would add some stuff to this. I was born, or raised anyhow, with the ability to pick out all the rights notes in music and to hear when it was wrong. What I seem to be missing is the ability to keep time or to play by ear.
I was in Nashville earlier this year and went all those places I dreamed of as a child, really missed my Dad then. I think he walked with me around the Ryman Auditorium and Country Music Hall of Fame and sat next to me at the Opry. I saw him out of the corner of my eye in the Silver Dollar Saloon and up and down Broadway. He whispered in my ear that, if he could learn to play guitar at 55, unable to hold it because of arthritis so he laid it across his knees like the Dobro players, then I sure as hell could learn to play. Of course he was never any good with that guitar!
So, here I am, four weeks into playing Banjo, watching guys who have been doing it for years and dreaming. But the man did say, every journey starts with a single step.
