Rebekah Weiler - Silver Bell - Stone Mountain Music and Dance Festival 2011

Banjo Demo of a Will Key's recording.

Below select oltime factoids about Will Keys from his son's banjohangout profile.

4. My first recollection of Dad playing the banjo involved 3-finger Scruggs style picking. In fact, Dad played the Scruggs style for many years. It wasn't until the early '70s that he went back to the 2-finger style he had learned as a child.

5. Dad always said that he learned to play on an old banjo strung with wire from a screen door by his brother Jay. Is it true?

6. Dad's musical career didn't actually start at the Carter Fold, as usually stated. It was the beginning of his career as an oldtime banjoist, but he had actually played bluegrass banjo on WJHL-AM radio (Johnson City, TN) back in the 50's with a guitarist/vocalist named Vernon Fillers.

9. Dad enjoyed all kinds of music, even though he played mostly oldtime.

10. Dad won over his mother-in-law by playing the banjo with her as she played the piano. She loved the old ragtime songs. Dad recorded "Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee" on his A Banjo Original CD in memory of her.

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