Give Me the Banjo

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

00:10:32 MUSICAL TRADITIONS THAT THESE WHITE PERFORMERS HAD, WHAT YOU WIND UP WITH

00:13:09 OF AMERICAN CULTURE.

00:15:50 BLACK CULTURE. THEY WEREN'T SELLING TO BLACKS, THEY WERE SELLING TO WHITES.

00:19:22 PLAYING THAT FINGER STYLE

00:22:57 INSTRUMENTS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE HOMEMADE AND THE RUSTIC. THE BRASHNESS OF THE BANJO FIT

00:26:02 DADDY, LET YOUR MIND ROLL ON ¶ ¶ DADDY, LET YOUR MIND ROLL ON >> [ APPLAUSE ]

00:29:30 LOCAL MUSIC SCENE. >> Rorrer: THIS AREA OF NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA AND

00:32:23 WAS DOING AND THE RESULT WAS IT JUST DOVETAILED BEAUTIFULLY, BLENDED

00:36:36 APPARENTLY DRANK UP THE REST OF THEIR ROYALTY PAYMENTS. THE FALLING OUT DESTROYED

00:40:22 INSTRUMENTS, I THINK THEY SORT OF CHARACTERIZE VICTORIAN EXCESS.

00:44:04 SOUTHERN CULTURE TO THE URBAN SETTING SET IN MOTION A CONTINUITY THAT IS

00:47:14 AND I INVENTED THE WORD "PULLING OFF." MY MOTHER SAID, "THAT'S CALLED

00:49:51 AND LEADBELLY AND SAID, "THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT MUSIC IN THIS COUNTRY THAT YOU HARDLY EVER

00:53:11 HOUSE. THEY WOULD PLAY AND HOPE TO BE IN TIME WITH EACH OTHER

00:56:02 THROUGH CHARLIE POOLE AND PEOPLE

00:59:11 A REGIONAL ACT TO BEING NATIONAL FOLK STARS, ALL THE WHILE ATTRACTING

01:02:26 IT'S AN ART THAT'S NOT ABOUT WHO'S BETTER THAN WHO. IT'S AN ART ABOUT MAKING IT WHAT

01:06:44 >> HE STARTS TO PLAY AND SING AND, OOH, MY HAIR STOOD ON EDGE. IT WAS JUST THIS INCREDIBLE

01:09:04 YOUNG PICKER FROM SHELBY WAS PERSUADED BY A FRIEND TO ASK

01:11:26 TO GIVE BACK TO OLD-TIME MUSIC

01:15:01 AND IT'S LIKE MERCURY NOTES. EVERY NOTE IS LIKE METAL. JUST PERFECT AND STUNNING

01:18:42 EASY TO DO BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH A LOT HAD BEEN DONE, THERE WAS STILL SO MUCH THAT COULD BE

102:00:00 WAS PHENOMENAL. >> HE BECAME UNBELIEVABLY