Clawhammer Cello Banjo "Leaves"

http://www.banjocrazy.com/

Hi, my name is Paul Roberts; I'm a multicultural roots musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer. And I'm trying to awaken the world to cello banjos... and sell one (at least) to everybody in the world. Cello banjos are growly beasts that have only very recently returned to us from antiquity. These instruments -- and all Gold Tone musical instruments -- are available through my website: http://www.banjocrazy.com/ where you can also find my phone number to call me, free, within the US.

I'm playing a Gold Tone (CEB-5) 5-string Cello Banjo, tuned gCGCD, an octave below standard 5-string pitch. The Cello Banjo has 5 metal-wound nylon strings, like those used for classical guitar.

I am an independent Gold Tone product specialist and retailer who works over the Internet from a remote mountain village in Colorado. I am happy to consult in finding the right instrument. Please check out my website http://www.banjocrazy.com/ to see all Gold Tone instruments and read my interviews with great banjo players like Marcy Marxer, Adam Hurt, Cathy Fink, Gordon Johnston, Bob Carlin, Cathy Moore and others.

Check out my YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/strumstering
to hear Cello Banjos, the Bob Carlin BC-350 Clawhammer Banjo, Irish Tenor Banjo, Dojo, Banjola, and more to come.

If you're interesting in finding out more information about Cello Banjos, through free articles and interviews, please visit my website, where I sell the full line of Gold Tone instruments.

One of the great things about Cello Banjos is that they can go so many places, musically, without their sound being overly identified with a particular genre of music. Between the 4 and 5-string models, you can cover a lot of ground, culturally, such as old-timey American tunes, blues, jazz and classical music, to many styles of music from around the world.

I wasn't surprised when Béla Fleck began using a Gold Tone Cello Banjo for his collaboration with African musicians on "The African Project."

Other banjoists who are making good use of the the CEB-5 include Tony Trischka, Cathy Moore and Mike Iverson. Cathy and Mike got their Cello Banjos through http://www.banjocrazy.com/. Check out the other Cello Banjo videos on YouTube by these and other fine players.

After first being introduced in the late 1800's, Cello Banjos had only a very short life span. Their reemergence within the past couple years is due, mainly, to two banjo enthusiasts: Marcy Marxer, a fine multi-instrumentalist who borrowed Mike Seeger's ancient Gibson Cello Banjo and proceeded to show the modern world what this instrument can do; and, Wayne Rogers, president and founder of Gold Tone Banjos, who is responsible for bringing Cello Banjos back into circulation after almost a century since their disappearance.

If you're interested in the history of the reemergence of Cello Banjos in the modern world, check out The Buffalo Girls/ Puncheon Floor - played by Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, the YouTube video that woke up a lot of folks to delightful sounds of the Cello Banjo. In the video Marcy Marxer is playing her very old Gibson 4-string Cello Banjo, similar to the one she first borrowed from Mike Seeger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOYYCh...

Please visit my site http://www.banjocrazy.com/ to check out all the Gold Tone instruments and read my interviews with banjo greats such as Adam Hurt, Bob Carlin, Marcy Marxer, Cathy Fink, Cathy Moore, Gordon Johnston and others.

I hope you enjoy this video of "Leaves," an original clawhammer tune I composed.

Best regards,
PauL

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[apfelstrudelmaster]

what?? you wrote this piece??? god, you're really talented!!! :D i play the mandolin but you make me wanna start playing banjo too! :D

[strumstering]

@apfelstrudelmaster

Thanks for your kind comment. I got inspired to play banjo by watching others.

PauL

banjocrazydotcom

[RobMacKendrick]

As we say in country music: Dang!

Get yourself a rocking chair out on a street corner and put out a hat, Paul. If you're pickin' that good when you're just foolin' around on YouTube, might as well rake in a bunch of money while you're at it.

Just really fine, Paul.

[strumstering]

@RobMacKendrick

Hi, really glad you enjoyed it. I'll look for an inflatable rocking chair for my new gig : )

PauL

banjocrazydotcom

[bluedanbob]

I could listen to this composition over and over and never get tired of it. I love your music and how it sounds on the Cello Banjo.

[strumstering]

@bluedanbob

Wow! That's the nicest kind of affirmation I could ever hope for. Thank you so much.

PauL banjocrazydotcom

[strumstering]

@DasRaskalKing Hi, thanks for listening to my music. It's true, I haven't recorded any videos in quite a while. Thanks for encouraging me to do so. Lately I've been posting my music on banjohangoutdotcom in the Sound-Off section under my name, Paul Roberts. I've been doing a lot of music on a wooden banjo -- a mandola-lute tuned like a 5-string banjo. But I do intend to start putting up videos again. Please stay tuned.

Thanks,

PauL at banjocrazydotcom

[DasRaskalKing]

@strumstering And of course I can come to realize I seriously enjoy listening to the banjo. Perhaps you could record some more of your talents? And of course your nearly as impressive hat collection.

[strumstering]

@DasRaskalKing

I'm happy you stumbled across them as well. That's the cool thing about the Internet; how it can tie us all together.

Paul at banjocrazydotcom

[DasRaskalKing]

This is absolutely fantastic. I know very little of music but your banjo music is just awe inspiring. Very happy to have stumbled across your videos. They are all so great to listen to and just absorb.