FLAC (tracks | 59:30 | Blues, Country, Folk | 1CD |178 MbBanjos tend to have four or five strings (the top fifth string is known as a ‘drone’).

The strings are stretched over a skin, not unlike a drum, which allows the strings to resonate loudly.

The earliest forms of Banjo were fashioned by African Americans who had retained the knowledge (before their displacement) of very similar African instruments such as the ‘Kora’, which has strings stretched over a guord.

The banjo occupied a central place in African American traditional music and Dixieland Jazz entering into the mainstream of popular culture with the minstrel shows of the 19th Century, it also plays a central role in the Folk culture of rural white Americans in Bluegrass and Mountain music.

The Banjo, as well as the fiddle, is the mainstay of American old time music.

Tracklist:[03:06] 01. Uncle Dave Macon – Don’t get weary Children[03:06] 02. Olly Oakley – Camptown Carnival[02:37] 03. Dock Walsh – Going back to Jericho[03:15] 04. Richard ‘Dick’ Burnett – Ladies on the Steamboat[02:44] 05. Hobart Smith – The Cuckoo Bird[02:50] 06. Coon Creek Girls – Banjo Pickin’ Girl[03:11] 07. Fred Van Eps – Lost Arrow[02:43] 08. Red Hooded Fiddlers – Far in the Mountains[03:09] 09. Dock Boggs – Danville Girl[04:04] 10. Alfred A Farland – Carnival in Venice[03:02] 11. BF Shelton – Oh Molly Dear[03:17] 12. Harry Reser – Heebe Jeebes[02:47] 13. Frank Jenkins – Babtist Shout ‘ Spanish Fandango[02:55] 14. Charles Cleveland Poole – Don’t let your Deal go Down[02:51] 15. John Hammond – Little Birdie[02:36] 16. Whitter Hendley Small – Shuffle Feet Shuffle[02:58] 17. Clarence Ashley – Coo Coo Bird[03:29] 18. Lamar Lunsford Bascom – Italy[02:27] 19. Sylvester L ‘Vess’ Ossman – Rusty Rags Medley[02:16] 20. William Smith ‘Bill’ Monroe – Bluegrass Breakdown