WFMU: Sounds Under 64 Not Allowed with Jan Turkenburg: Playlist from July 10, 2021

Listener comments!
	♥ 7:16am Jan Turkenburg: Hi everyone, it's non-stop again today. I'll be around to check the comments every now and then.
	♥ 8:01am WR: banjorific greetings to all.
	♥ 8:02am MHLee: Woke up for this
	♥ 8:03am MHLee: I see the great Gus Canon here
	♥ 8:04am Jan Turkenburg: Goodmorning WR! Goodmorning MHLee!
	♥ 8:05am Jan Turkenburg: @MHLee, yes, Gus wasn't in my archives, but I'm getting in the habit of looking a little further now.
	♥ 8:08am MHLee: Gus Canon and Canon's Jug Stompers were one the really big names in jugband music. The rival band was the Memphis Jugband.
	♥ 8:09am MHLee: I'm pretty handy with blues, hillbilly, bluegrass, and folk.
	♥ 8:12am yerfriendpaul: Hi Jan, MHLee and WR! Happy to be hearin’ some pickin’!
	♥ 8:13am Jan Turkenburg: Goodmorning, yerfriendpaul!
	♥ 8:14am MHLee: I've got the complete recordings of Charlie Poole who to me is one of the most important early banjoneers. Loudin Wainright III did a great cover album of his songs a few years back.
	♥ 8:15am Jan Turkenburg: Ah, thanks for another line of inquiry!
	♥ 8:17am MHLee: This one I have never heard though and I love. I know a banjo player who would get a kick out of this.
	♥ 8:19am yerfriendpaul: This sounds so good! Listen to that tuba (?)!
	♥ 8:20am Jan Turkenburg: I think that's the "jug"
	♥ 8:20am MHLee: It might be a jug
	♥ 8:20am Jan Turkenburg: great minds think alike ;-)
	♥ 8:21am yerfriendpaul: The jug part is fantastic
	♥ 8:21am Jan Turkenburg: And there might be a bariton sax playing along, but it could also be a second, bigger jug
	♥ 8:21am MHLee: There's a great banjo documentary from PBS called give me the banjo... worth checking out
	♥ 8:22am Jan Turkenburg: 👍
	♥ 8:31am Jan Turkenburg: Frank Jenkins was the father of banjo player Oscar Jenkins.
	♥ 8:34am WR: listening while working so can't be active in the comments. Great show!
	♥ 8:35am Jan Turkenburg: thanks WR!
	♥ 8:37am MHLee: Thinking of other early banjo players. Dock Boggs was very active in the 1930s... in the late 20s there was a Dock Walsh... Stringbean was playing some stuff and in Bill Monroes bluegrass boys before Scruggs created the Scruggs style of banjo playing which revolutionized banjo
	♥ 8:39am Jan Turkenburg: I think we found ourselves another rabbit hole!
	♥ 8:45am yerfriendpaul: My first exposure to banjo came from our next door neighbor, Mr. Moynihan. He used to greet me and my brothers with a deep, loud, “Hey gang!” every time he’d see us. One day he was sitting on his front steps playing his banjo. My Dad , (a piano player himself) brought us over to listen to him play. That was the only day we ever saw him play but I’ll never forget it. He was good. Wish he would’ve played it more. Hard to find banjo-playing-neighbors these days
	♥ 8:46am MHLee: Indeed. Heck I can spit tons of names. There's a big difference in the style of playing and in the banjos played. Jazz prefers the plectrum which is a kind of four stringed banjo. Pre-scurggs most banjo playing is "failing" or clawhammer, there are some early 3 finger banjo players like Don Reno but 3 finger becomes predominant with Scruggs and in bluegrass music.... you see scruggs doesn't just play notes in melody he produces "banjo noise" which makes his banjo playing very loud and full
	♥ 8:48am MHLee: per wikipedoia "Scruggs style is the most common style of playing the banjo in bluegrass music. It is a fingerpicking method, also known as three-finger style. It is named after Earl Scruggs, whose innovative approach and technical mastery of the instrument have influenced generations of bluegrass banjoists ever since he was first recorded in 1946. It contrasts with earlier styles such as minstrel, classic or parlor style (a late 19th-century finger-style played without picks), clawhammer/frailing/two-finger style (played with thumb and nail of the first or middle finger), jazz styles played with a plectrum, and more modern styles such as Keith/melodic/chromatic/arpa style, and single-string/Reno style. The influence of Scruggs is so pervasive that even bluegrass players such as Bill Keith and Don Reno, who are credited with developing these latter styles, typically work out of the Scruggs style much of the time."
	♥ 8:50am Jan Turkenburg: Paul, it so happens that a few weeks ago I was sitting outside in my little back yard garden with a friend, hearing somebody play and I asked my friend (also music teacher) "Is that a banjo I'm hearing?" It turned out is was. A black family with three or four young children has moved into a house in our street. Every now and than the father sits in the garden with his kids and wife and friends around him and plays the banjo for an hour or so. Sometimes the kids are playing along on glockenspiels. That really makes my music teacher's heart make a jump!
	♥ 8:52am Jan Turkenburg: And the funny thing is, he is mostly playing African (Senegalish) sounding music on a banjo, singing along sometimes.
	♥ 8:53am yerfriendpaul: That sounds amazing, Jan! What a gift! You need to do yourself a favor and introduce yourself to them! They sound like a great family!
	♥ 8:54am Jan Turkenburg: Yeah, I'm just waiting for the right occasion :-)
	♥ 8:54am MHLee: I was trying to remember this song's name
	♥ 8:58am yerfriendpaul: You have the perfect opportunity/opening line - all you have to say is , “I host a radio show and just featured an entire show dedicated to banjo! Let’s be best friends”, ha ha
	♥ 8:58am Jan Turkenburg: Thanks for listening and sharing everybody!
	♥ 8:59am Jan Turkenburg: :-)
	♥ 9:00am yerfriendpaul: Thanks Jan! Love your show. Have a great day everyone!
	♥ 9:00am MHLee: Well I got to talking. Used to play in a bluegrass band. Love the show, Jan.

Sounds Under 64 Not Allowed with Jan Turkenburg: Playlist from July 10, 2021

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July 10, 2021: 112 The Banjo Archives 01

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Emile Grimshaw (all left) and banjo orchestra

Artist	Track	Year	Comments	Images
Fred van Eps	L' Enfante "L' Enfante" by "Fred van Eps"	1902
Smith and Allgood	American And Spanish Fandango (S.J. Allgood)	1923
Vess Ossman	Pretzel Pete "Pretzel Pete" by "Vess Ossman"	1907
Jan Garber	Steppin' Around "Steppin' Around" by "Jan Garber"	1926	(Harry Reser - banjo solo)
Marion Underwood	Coal Creek March	1927
George Formby	I Promised To Be Home By Nine O' Clock	1935
The Coon Creek Girls	Banjo Picking Girl	1938
Dixieland Jug Blowers	Banjoreno "Banjoreno" by "Dixieland Jug Blowers"	1926
Harry Reser	Kitten On The Keys "Kitten On The Keys" by "Harry Reser"	1922
Eddie Peabody	La Paloma "La Paloma" by "Eddie Peabody"	1931	banjo mandoline solo
Samantha Bumgarner	The worried Blues	1924
Frank Jenkins	Baptist Shout "Baptist Shout" by "Frank Jenkins"	1920s
Gus Cannon	My money never runs out	1920s
Papa Charlie Jackson	Skoodle Um Skoo	1928
Fred van Eps	Sunflower Dance "Sunflower Dance" by "Fred van Eps"	1906
The Coon Creek Girls	How many biscuits can you eat	1939
Mike Danzi	Banjoreno "Banjoreno" by "Mike Danzi"	1929
Vess Ossman	Whoa Bill "Whoa Bill" by "Vess Ossman"	1904
Arthur Collins	Ghost Of The Banjo Coon	1910		Arthur Collins Arthur Collins
Fred van Eps	Keep Off The Grass "Keep Off The Grass" by "Fred van Eps"	1903
Gus Cannon	Can you blame the colored man	1920s
Papa Charlie Jackson	Gotta Shake that thing	1925
Samantha Bumgarner	Georgia Blues "Georgia Blues" by "Samantha Bumgarner"	1924

Lots and lots of other audio antiquities on WFMU:

Centennial Songs - The Antique Phonograph Music Program contextually presented by Michael Cumella

The Ragged Phonograph Program with Mike Haar Original ragtime, jazz, and pop music from the first quarter of the 20th century, with historical background on vaudeville-era artists

Thomas Edison's Attic The audio curator at Edison National Historic Site rummages through the archives of the legendary Edison Laboratory of West Orange, New Jersey

The Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!

Rare Oldies Radio hosted by Kitschy Mama, featuring lost songs from the 50s & 60s: Retro Obscuro with Kitschy Mama

Music from the 1920s in the January 7, 2020 episode of Continental Subway with David Dichelle

Music and other recordings of Lynda Barry in the june 7, 2020 episode of Canibal Stew with DJ ARB

and you might want to check out the Surface Noise archives with DJ Joe McGasko from 2008 and 2009

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Listener comments!
	♥ 7:16am Jan Turkenburg: Hi everyone, it's non-stop again today. I'll be around to check the comments every now and then.
	♥ 8:01am WR: banjorific greetings to all.
	♥ 8:02am MHLee: Woke up for this
	♥ 8:03am MHLee: I see the great Gus Canon here
	♥ 8:04am Jan Turkenburg: Goodmorning WR! Goodmorning MHLee!
	♥ 8:05am Jan Turkenburg: @MHLee, yes, Gus wasn't in my archives, but I'm getting in the habit of looking a little further now.
	♥ 8:08am MHLee: Gus Canon and Canon's Jug Stompers were one the really big names in jugband music. The rival band was the Memphis Jugband.
	♥ 8:09am MHLee: I'm pretty handy with blues, hillbilly, bluegrass, and folk.
	♥ 8:12am yerfriendpaul: Hi Jan, MHLee and WR! Happy to be hearin’ some pickin’!
	♥ 8:13am Jan Turkenburg: Goodmorning, yerfriendpaul!
	♥ 8:14am MHLee: I've got the complete recordings of Charlie Poole who to me is one of the most important early banjoneers. Loudin Wainright III did a great cover album of his songs a few years back.
	♥ 8:15am Jan Turkenburg: Ah, thanks for another line of inquiry!
	♥ 8:17am MHLee: This one I have never heard though and I love. I know a banjo player who would get a kick out of this.
	♥ 8:19am yerfriendpaul: This sounds so good! Listen to that tuba (?)!
	♥ 8:20am Jan Turkenburg: I think that's the "jug"
	♥ 8:20am MHLee: It might be a jug
	♥ 8:20am Jan Turkenburg: great minds think alike ;-)
	♥ 8:21am yerfriendpaul: The jug part is fantastic
	♥ 8:21am Jan Turkenburg: And there might be a bariton sax playing along, but it could also be a second, bigger jug
	♥ 8:21am MHLee: There's a great banjo documentary from PBS called give me the banjo... worth checking out
	♥ 8:22am Jan Turkenburg: 👍
	♥ 8:31am Jan Turkenburg: Frank Jenkins was the father of banjo player Oscar Jenkins.
	♥ 8:34am WR: listening while working so can't be active in the comments. Great show!
	♥ 8:35am Jan Turkenburg: thanks WR!
	♥ 8:37am MHLee: Thinking of other early banjo players. Dock Boggs was very active in the 1930s... in the late 20s there was a Dock Walsh... Stringbean was playing some stuff and in Bill Monroes bluegrass boys before Scruggs created the Scruggs style of banjo playing which revolutionized banjo
	♥ 8:39am Jan Turkenburg: I think we found ourselves another rabbit hole!
	♥ 8:45am yerfriendpaul: My first exposure to banjo came from our next door neighbor, Mr. Moynihan. He used to greet me and my brothers with a deep, loud, “Hey gang!” every time he’d see us. One day he was sitting on his front steps playing his banjo. My Dad , (a piano player himself) brought us over to listen to him play. That was the only day we ever saw him play but I’ll never forget it. He was good. Wish he would’ve played it more. Hard to find banjo-playing-neighbors these days
	♥ 8:46am MHLee: Indeed. Heck I can spit tons of names. There's a big difference in the style of playing and in the banjos played. Jazz prefers the plectrum which is a kind of four stringed banjo. Pre-scurggs most banjo playing is "failing" or clawhammer, there are some early 3 finger banjo players like Don Reno but 3 finger becomes predominant with Scruggs and in bluegrass music.... you see scruggs doesn't just play notes in melody he produces "banjo noise" which makes his banjo playing very loud and full
	♥ 8:48am MHLee: per wikipedoia "Scruggs style is the most common style of playing the banjo in bluegrass music. It is a fingerpicking method, also known as three-finger style. It is named after Earl Scruggs, whose innovative approach and technical mastery of the instrument have influenced generations of bluegrass banjoists ever since he was first recorded in 1946. It contrasts with earlier styles such as minstrel, classic or parlor style (a late 19th-century finger-style played without picks), clawhammer/frailing/two-finger style (played with thumb and nail of the first or middle finger), jazz styles played with a plectrum, and more modern styles such as Keith/melodic/chromatic/arpa style, and single-string/Reno style. The influence of Scruggs is so pervasive that even bluegrass players such as Bill Keith and Don Reno, who are credited with developing these latter styles, typically work out of the Scruggs style much of the time."
	♥ 8:50am Jan Turkenburg: Paul, it so happens that a few weeks ago I was sitting outside in my little back yard garden with a friend, hearing somebody play and I asked my friend (also music teacher) "Is that a banjo I'm hearing?" It turned out is was. A black family with three or four young children has moved into a house in our street. Every now and than the father sits in the garden with his kids and wife and friends around him and plays the banjo for an hour or so. Sometimes the kids are playing along on glockenspiels. That really makes my music teacher's heart make a jump!
	♥ 8:52am Jan Turkenburg: And the funny thing is, he is mostly playing African (Senegalish) sounding music on a banjo, singing along sometimes.
	♥ 8:53am yerfriendpaul: That sounds amazing, Jan! What a gift! You need to do yourself a favor and introduce yourself to them! They sound like a great family!
	♥ 8:54am Jan Turkenburg: Yeah, I'm just waiting for the right occasion :-)
	♥ 8:54am MHLee: I was trying to remember this song's name
	♥ 8:58am yerfriendpaul: You have the perfect opportunity/opening line - all you have to say is , “I host a radio show and just featured an entire show dedicated to banjo! Let’s be best friends”, ha ha
	♥ 8:58am Jan Turkenburg: Thanks for listening and sharing everybody!
	♥ 8:59am Jan Turkenburg: :-)
	♥ 9:00am yerfriendpaul: Thanks Jan! Love your show. Have a great day everyone!
	♥ 9:00am MHLee: Well I got to talking. Used to play in a bluegrass band. Love the show, Jan.

Sounds Under 64 Not Allowed with Jan Turkenburg: Playlist from July 10, 2021

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