Give Me the Banjo

00:06:29 MUSICIANS AND SCHOLARS CAME TO BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA, FOR THE BLACK BANJO GATHERING

00:10:30 THE CELTIC MUSICAL TRADITIONS AND WESTERN EUROPEAN MUSICAL TRADITIONS

00:12:53 FROM LISTENING TO RECORDINGS

00:15:36 BUT REINVENTING THE INSTRUMENT WASN'T ENOUGH. THEY HAD TO REINVENT THE MUSIC

00:19:00 PRODUCE A METALLIC MOAN.

00:22:22 HE WAS LOOKING FOR THE NEXT BIG THING IN RACE RECORDS. CANNON WAS READY TO JUMP ON

00:25:27 "WALK RIGHT IN" SPENT THREE WEEKS AT NUMBER ONE AND SOLD OVER A MILLION COPIES.

00:28:43 HE WAS AUTHENTIC.

00:31:44 IT WAS THE ONLY WAY A PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN COULD MAKE A LIVING IN THOSE DAYS.

00:35:44 YOU COULD PAT YOUR FEET TO THE SOUND, THE METRONOME SOUND THAT THE LOOMS ARE MAKING.

00:39:15 STATUS AS THE HARD-LIVING, HELL-RAISING "MILLBILLY" SONGSTER

00:43:01 THE OLD MOUNTAIN MUSIC

00:45:47 AND TRY AND FIGURE OUT

00:48:53 SUCCESS SPARKED MAINSTREAM INTEREST IN FOLK MUSIC, THEIR POLITICAL CAUSES AND PAST

00:51:44 BUT EARL CHANGED ALL THAT.

00:54:47 THE THUMB AND ONE FINGER WAS...

00:57:33 TO BE KNOWN AS BLUEGRASS. BUT IT WAS EARL SCRUGGS' BANJO THAT PROVED TO BE

01:00:37 THAT EVER PLAYED FOR ME. HIM AND HIS TWO SONS ARE GONNA PICK FOR YOU HERE TONIGHT.

01:04:40 TOM PALEY, PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS; AND JOHN COHEN, A PHOTOGRAPHER.

01:08:08 IN THE NORTH MISSISSIPPI HILL COUNTRY.

01:09:23 "PRETTY POLLY" THE WAY I PUT IT

01:12:38 ¶ I'M AS PRETTY A LITTLE BIRD AS I CAN BE, I CAN BE ¶ ¶ I'M AS PRETTY A LITTLE BIRD

01:15:42 SOMETIMES I FIND PEOPLE WHO ARE HARD CORE ABOUT WHAT YOU SHOULD AND SHOULDN'T DO, AND YOU'RE

01:20:04 AND BELA FLECK. IT WAS WASHBURN'S EXPERIENCE IN CHINA THAT LED HER TO TAKE UP