The piano may do for lovesick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles, and slate pencils. But give me the banjo... When you want genuine music - music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whiskey . . . ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose - when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo! - Mark Twain, Early Tales and Sketches, Vol 2 (1864-65)
Yes, nice job, Slim. The over-bends sound great and I like the way you're bumping around the sixth string behind the concluding lick--very cool. All best, Johnm
Nice playing and singing! I just heard Bracey's recording of this song for the 1st time up on YouTube and was pretty floored by it. I immediately ordered Document's CD then searched for Bracy topics on weenie and ran across this. Just hazarding a guess - is it in standard tuning key of E?