Yesterday, 09 September
2013, I posted a Youtube video of me playing Lee Hammons’ Calloway on an A
scale banjo. I learned the tune in the
early 1990s from Dwight Diller, and was prompted to revisit this great tune
when I saw an 8 September 2013 video posted on Youtube of Dwight doing the
tune:
I sent an email to Dwight
with the link to my video.
Late Monday night I got an
email from Dwight. He had seen the
video, and told me that it’s time to go back to the woodshed for some remedial
banjo work. “I think I can really help you now.
Probably a couple of days is what is needed.”
Nice to be reminded
that in this music, one is always a student.
Today I played the
tune on my Cloverlick banjo, by Jeff Kramer, much like the one Dwight is
playing in his 8 September video.
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