Colored Aristocracy

[ClassicalWRR]

These Choclate Drops are GREAT!!!! Love it....When y'all comin' to Texas? Dallas to be specific.

[jedmarum]

I love it!

Great playin'! Great old song. Thanks for posting.

[dread66mon]

right, right, right, on!

[andyfedel]

great fidde and band

[Guit101]

wish someone would put some of the Ragtime Guitar Versions , Guy Van Duser's Grossman's or any , Any help would be great it is a great tune not that often heard !A. Strauss

[NOSMOJEFF]

The tune is good.. Period

[hobojazz]

Just found out about this band & i'm blown away! Hope they make it to California some day

[dmokri]

Aristocracy means blue blooded pur person!I am European and my family are tru aristocrate by blood but people in US or Canada think you have to be a jack ass to be one!There are no aristocrate in US or Canada since they did nto have any Kings or Wueens and I assume that the title has a veyr negative meaning here in NOrth America. We have a normal average working life style but it is only that we liek to carry our names through history, taht is all!

[PCPrabbit]

kill yourself!

[banjobrim]

l think you will find Joel Sweenny (usa) put the 5th string on (1873)The banjo is in a museum in Ca The banjo came over with the slave-trade called a Borack

[SuleDrum]

Sweeney's famous for adding the FOURTH, bass, string--not the high 5th. Whether he "invented" it is another question..but he's famous for it. I think he was dead by 1873 BTW... & ...what's Borack?

[ERB4511]

Yes, Joel Sweeney died in 1860. And as you note, he either added or popularized (most likely the latter) the long bass string (what we now call the 4th string), not the short thumb string (our 5th string). Sweeney and other minstrel musicians did help establish the five-string banjo as the "standard" form of the instrument. As best we can tell before the 1840s its most common form had four strings - three long and one short.

[sublimityeternal]

uhuh, wizzykins...why don't you get some knowledge about ethnomusicology and then see if you come up with the same conclusion.

loser.

[nswiking]

What a truly great band they are. I hope to se them someday. And greetings to all from The Glendessary Jam: Old-Time jam group from Santa Barbara, Ca.

[fractuss]

I just saw these guys this weekend. I can't describe how wonderful they are live, like nothing you'd expect. I was moved by their music... really. I am a total fan now.

[nubiannectar]

You know I don't know why I did not dig deep into my memory bank, but yes Afrikkans did invent the banjo along with many other instruments. Thanks for waking me up.

[tejada3]

sorry if i sounded like an ass... that wasn't the intention.

[greyimpala890]

Makes you feel good to be American doesn't it?

[nubiannectar]

I've never heard of black people playing Blue Grass, but this is just wonderful. Please download much more.

[tejada3]

its old-time. check your history books... they were side by side in creating it.

[greyimpala890]

Good you said it for nubiannectar.... I was just going to say the same thing.

[nubiannectar]

You know I don't know why I did not dig deep into my memory bank, but yes Afrikkans did invent the banjo.

[jonmusgrave]

my dad used to play this tune a lot. it's nice to know that the song is still alive somewhere else. thanks so much for posting and playing.

[superdave2112]

You guys/gal are GREAT!!!!

[thomas1976]

Y'all rock.