John Haywood | "Hard for to Love"
Added 2018-08-18 12:16:31 +0000 UTCBrand new clip of one of my favorite banjoists, John Haywood, filmed by Dan Torigoe at Whitesburg, Kentucky.
I first met Haywood on the music festival circuit about 2008. In those days he was just getting back into tattooing after a several year hiatus but his focus seemed mainly on his banjo playing and his painting. At the festivals he was usually tied up at his own booth selling oil paintings but after the sun went down and the public mostly went home John would take his banjo out and play the Hell out of it.
He liked to play solo but would just as readily sit in the "jam circle" or join a friend's band on stage. I can only remember him playing two-finger back then and he immediately captured my attention as an interesting picker and singer. Also an accomplished guitarist and fiddler, John is perhaps most well known today for his tattooing business in downtown Whitesburg (where he also sells paintings and hosts the occasional party) The Parlor Room: Fine Art & Custom Tattoo: https://www.parlorroomtattoo.com/
Comments
Holy smokes--how's he get that much sound out of one banjo and two fingers?!! Awesome stuff.
Jake Tolbert
2018-10-04 13:50:45 +0000 UTCJohnny is truly a one-in-6-billion human. Art just flows out of him no matter what he touches. I think if he were ejected into outer space with no banjo, no tattoo machine and no paint brushes he would compose a brilliant poems for himself as he drifted out into nothingness...
Clifton Hicks
2018-09-01 15:02:26 +0000 UTCHis accent notes are insane. I'm working really hard right now on filling the space between the melody notes with meaningful accents. This gives me inspiration.
Alex Schupick
2018-09-01 14:53:17 +0000 UTCLove John's art, tattoos, and his music. It just pours out of some people.
Kurosh Ghodshowghi
2018-08-20 06:34:49 +0000 UTCDamn that’s good!
Joe Clark
2018-08-18 21:29:38 +0000 UTCJust type his name in YouTube their is an abundance there
Patrick Campbell
2018-08-18 17:55:31 +0000 UTCThis is only the second video I've seen of John, I think I should hear more!
Bobby Banks
2018-08-18 17:29:55 +0000 UTCThat was great! Thanks for sharing.
Old Joe
2018-08-18 14:07:13 +0000 UTCYES! I’ve been dying to hear this, he blows my mind every time I listen to him play. Got to hang out with him for a few minutes yesterday and we worked out a fretless tuba-phone tone ring banjo build for him, should be starting on it in a few weeks I’ve had some personal things come up and I will be on a hiatus for a week or so. But as soon as I start I will keep you guys updated
Patrick Campbell
2018-08-18 12:25:43 +0000 UTC
