Adam Hurt gourd banjo "John Riley the Shepherd"

[nancejo]

I really like the look of the bottle-necked gourd. Clever.

[evankerry]

melodic mush

[rickymullenmusic]

wow. if i had money i would get the album. this is .... cant find a word for it.. just.. wow.

[strumstering]

@rickymullenmusic

Wow -- yes, I think that's an accurate appraisal. If you go the CDBabydotcom and look up "Adam Hurt Earth Tones," there you'll be able to listen to a nice sample of each of the tunes on the CD. If you can manage to scrape together the money to buy it, this CD is sure to give you many hours of listening pleasure.

PauL banjocrazydotcom

[AntonEmery]

Just discovered this album a few days ago. What beautiful sublime playing

[Labrabob]

Wow! (I also got the album.) The gourd provides this banjo design a natural and ideal frailing scoop.

[ThomasHale]

Thank you for uploading these videos of my teacher playing these two songs. A few months ago I saw these videos. Then asked Adam Hurt teach me them, and I never got tired playing them.

[xSNOWYJOEx]

Amazingly clean, coherent and articulate. Beautiful banjo as well.

[JamesHunterRoss]

Oh my! Wow. Hypnotic and perfect, this just took me off and away. We have an artist here. I really didn't expect to find something so great here; thanks so much for that. I'm so much more into banjo having been listening to this Adam Hurt. (This is a random youtube find for me, I don't even listen to banjo.)

[strumstering]

@JamesHunterRoss

Hi James, I'm glad you "stumbled" across this gold mine. Check out Adam's solo gourd banjo CD, Earth Tones.

Regards,

PauL

[JamesHunterRoss]

@strumstering

I ordered it straight away... the CD should be here next week. (I forwarded links to all my music loving friends too. They'll understand.)

[strumstering]

@JamesHunterRoss I believe it's an album of great musically historical significance. Glad I was able to play a role in it's creation.

PauL

[banjalien]

This is AWESOME Adam! Makes me want a gourd banjo :P

[strangestfascination]

This is great. Adam's playing is so tasteful, and the tone of that banjo is awesome.

[strumstering]

Adam Hurt's new solo gourd banjo CD is now available on CD Baby, where you can sample the tracks and purchase it.

[buckhendrix]

That's the coolest gourd banjo I have ever seen.

[switzforge]

I had the privilage of attending this concert last year. A fantastic experience. Adam is truely a great banjo player. He even let me pick a few notes on this wonderful gourd banjo.

[FlatfootJohnny]

wow!

[placidtumult]

Can anyone tell me what type of gourd this is?

[clawhammerist]

Ooops...I am a bit late to this thread!

David Hyatt of Arkansas made this fine gourd banjo, which he has lent to me for the purposes of recording with it. He has it strung with nylon.

The tuning is a several-steps-lowered equivalent of gEADE, which I am using as an A modal tuning with a dissonant fifth-string pitch rather than as an alternate G tuning, which I am usually wont to do.

[Frailerpark]

Love it.

[tridentum]

Hurt could make a broomstick sound good.

[CageyKYT]

Very nice, indeed!!! Incredible tone. So well-played.

Can you tell us more about the banjo? What strings are you using (they sound nylon)? What is your tuning are you in for this tune.

You keep amazing us all with your contributions. Please keep it up!!

[fortalezamanaus]

Adam, would be so kind as to lets us know who the maker of that fine gourd banjo is? Thanks!!!

[kohjij]

this is amazing. Quite an ornate instrument as well, it's an inspiring design but I wonder how fragile it is.

[rottenhubert]

Beautiful sounding banjo, and beautifully played.