George Gibson & John Haywood | Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship
Added 2018-03-10 11:39:45 +0000 UTCGood morning everybody:
George R. Gibson and John Haywood talk about banjo playing etc. for the Kentucky Arts Council. George shows us a simple demonstration of Morphine and later breaks out (what I would call) his "extra-fancy square dance shuffle" on a pretty hot rendition of Hook & Line.
Watch closely: in this clip, Gibson's approach to the early dance song Hook & Line involves some highly effective rhythmic techniques that are not easy to follow. Note the hypnotic effect achieved by "fanning up the neck." Here, he's almost rifling up the neck!
"Master old-time banjo player George Gibson and his apprentice John Haywood are featured in the Kentucky Arts Council's 2011 Annual Report focus on the Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship grant program. The grant provides up to $3,000 to a Kentucky master traditional artist to teach skills, practices and culture to a less-experienced artist from the same community over the course of a year."
Comments
Listen to that heavy foot stomping. So cool.
Jake Tolbert
2018-03-12 21:50:23 +0000 UTCFor those who are curious here is a recording of the old regular baptist singing that John was talking about. No instruments in this but you can defiantly hear the old time style. It was sung like this 100 years ago and you can still hear it today. History lesson: these songs are “lined” by one person, usually a preacher and then repeated by the congregation. This is because back when these churches first started out most people couldn’t read so they had one man who was able to read “line” out the song for others to sing. And since most didn’t have a car in that area church was usually held in different locations every week to give everyone in the area a chance to worship <a href="https://youtu.be/5RejtoTc86c" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/5RejtoTc86c</a>
Patrick Campbell
2018-03-11 13:46:09 +0000 UTCI live in the same area as these guys and am good friends with one of John Haywood’s employees and visit his business frequently. It’s always great to catch these guys when they are not busy and listen to them play. I learn a lot by just being there in person and watching how it’s done.
Patrick Campbell
2018-03-10 15:32:54 +0000 UTCWhat a awesome video, love these guys, iv leanrt so much watching yr vids cliff, really glad i joined this, these are the sort of people i was on about, you know,
louie goodwin
2018-03-10 13:35:58 +0000 UTCMate love this video, these are proper people, i see the way he flicks after picking with the index, I'm not gonna keep going on but, i could sit with these two dudes all day. I can see , john Haywood, started watching all these guys , really good stuff,
louie goodwin
2018-03-10 13:22:43 +0000 UTC
