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Jan 22, 2025 - 3:30:26 PM
26 posts since 4/5/2022

What do you think are the best J.D. Crowe moments?

Yesterday, I learned the solo from “I’m Walkin” off of the J.D. Crowe & The New South record. Crowe always has a magical ability to play standard Scruggs licks, but syncopate/vary them in such interesting ways. This solo is a great example of this, and it caught me off guard: I had to really turn my ears on to capture the nuance and timing.

With this in mind, I’d like to go learn more solos in this vein. Any suggestions?

Jan 22, 2025 - 5:11:27 PM

2 posts since 12/8/2024
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His break on “some old day” from live McCabe’s performance is so cool.

Jan 22, 2025 - 5:36:42 PM

4 posts since 5/15/2021

His cover of Earl’s Somehow Tonight has always been my favorite.

Jan 23, 2025 - 4:30:59 AM
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Texasbanjo (Moderator)

USA

31217 posts since 8/3/2003

You might take a look at the J. D. Crowe sticky in other banjo related forum as it has several videos of J.D. playing and several discussions about his style.

Go here: banjohangout.org/topic/380083

Jan 25, 2025 - 6:04:34 AM

46 posts since 6/30/2020

The first song of his that really stuck out for me is the opening break on "I'll Talk It Over With Him". When people talk about playing with "drive" I think of that break.

youtube.com/watch?v=CbURhvveMs8

I also really like his 2nd break on Blueridge Cabin Home. It sounds like quintessential JD to me.

youtube.com/watch?v=7uN2MZGX7H0

Jan 25, 2025 - 7:36:50 AM

5005 posts since 3/28/2008

Great all around, but this lick was so good that someone told the cameraman to focus on the banjo.

;^)

youtu.be/gK0iMLvCfFM?t=103

Jan 25, 2025 - 9:39:05 AM

3 posts since 6/6/2023

I love when he absolutely explodes into the b part of Cheyenne on BGAB Vol 4

Jan 25, 2025 - 9:41:14 AM
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RB3

USA

2264 posts since 4/12/2004

Back in the early Seventies,  I put a lot of miles on my car driving back and forth from Cincinnati to Lexington to see J.D. at the Red Slipper Lounge in the Holiday Inn North. Occasionally,  I would take my tape recorder and plug it into J.D.'s PA.  I shared some of those recordings with some of my old friends, and a few of the recordings have made their way onto YouTube. One of my favorites is "Sittin' On Top Of The World".  J.D. plays a neat lick at the end of his last break, but he does something else that demonstrates his subtle sense of humor.  At the 2:35 minute mark of the recording, Tony Rice flubs his G-run; check out what J.D. does at the 2:40 mark.

Sittin' On Top Of The World

Edited by - RB3 on 01/25/2025 09:43:58

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