Lonesome Pine Breakdown

My not very well done version of an instrumental tune done by a group called the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers some sixty years ago. When I first started trying to figure out the banjo I hadn`t a clue how to do it; relied on slowing down 78rpm records and ended up picking the first string with my index finger instead of the middle finger. Years later, when someone pointed out I was playing "backwards" I attempted to reverse things; ended up using alternating "rolls", playing both backward and forward while playing the same tune. (This will all sound like meaningless gobblygook to anyone who doesn`t play the five string banjo. Sorry...)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• banjo
• bluegrass

[ComradeMorshu]

Great playing, cool dog too!

[Wishuey]

@ComradeMorshu

Thanks. Yeah, we freak out our neighbors by telling them the pooch is a half grown Irish Wolfhound....

[TimPeeling]

wow, that was awesome!

[Wishuey]

@TimPeeling

Many thanks.

[robindye47]

WHY ARE YOU NOT IN NASHVILLE TN,,,,,YOU ARE GREAT

[Wishuey]

@robindye47

Many thanks!

[hr2510]

I can't help but notice the eyebrow roll, nerves do it to me every time... I only wish I was any where near as good as you!!! I've gotta learn that tune!!

[banjoman1437]

yeah, the albumns name is,"Don Stover Things in Life."

[Wishuey]

No, until your question I hadn`t realized Don Stover had recorded it; just Googled it and it`s great, as all of Don`s stuff was.

I first heard the tune back in the `50s by the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, a wonderful old early bluegrass group. The banjo player was either Larry Richardson or Charlie Cline, Curly Ray Cline`s brother; not sure which.

Thanks for telling me about Stover`s version (identical but faster). I`ll order a copy!

[banjoman1437]

is this from the version from his albumn Things in Life?