"Poor Benny" Performance & Discussion
Added 2018-02-25 18:39:01 +0000 UTC(Banjo is tuned one full step below gCGCD)
Our recent discourse on the rhythmic possibilities of two-finger picking brought my mind back to this wonderful old song. The "waltz" picking pattern I use here is a mixture of both thumb-lead and index-lead (with the latter being mainly a plain guitar-style strum).
I learned this song from a recording of Jerron Paxton & Frank Fairfield.
Comments
Wow, thanks for that info, Joseph. I will read that.
Clifton Hicks
2022-03-06 00:01:52 +0000 UTCA comment on this poem website mentions it was seen in a civil war letter In 1862! So much history to be found around just one piece of music. https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/come-home-father/
Joseph Gabrielian
2022-03-05 23:21:06 +0000 UTCThat's a cool one--reminds me of the hymn Softly and Tenderly. I wonder if there's some relation between the songs.... Gotta love those waltz-y songs!
Jake Tolbert
2018-02-28 19:15:12 +0000 UTCHas to be one of the saddest songs ever
Mike Gager
2018-02-26 01:05:17 +0000 UTC
