Topic: on the battlefield for the banjo

[frankie]

the final installment...

[blueshome]

Sweet!

[Prof Scratchy]

What blueshome said.

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[uncle bud]

Nice, frankie, a favorite o' mine.

[frankie]

thanks for listening, fellas. I tried to put these in perspective for myself in this post. Recording these three was a very interesting experience. For  me, anyway!

[Johnm]

That is really nice, Frank.  Really pretty singing, and your banjo really shines in that key with that approach.  Sort of a different sort of cross-note tuning, sort of like the C and D cross each other.  Thanks for that.
All best,
John

[frankie]

thanks! I'm just crazy about that banjo! for whatever reason, I didn't want to try too hard to harmonize the song. I love the way sam collins does what he does with the guitar, but felt that reproducing that on the banjo wouldn't be particularly satisfying to me.

In the end, I kinda let the tuning do the heavy lifting, so it would be fair to say that I didn't harmonize the song at all!

[Lyndvs]

Really gorgeous.

[Norfolk Slim]

Yup- that's great.  Love it.

[Pan]

What they said!

Pan

[Lastfirstface]

This is great. Is that a Kalamazoo, Frank?

[frankie]

yes - kind of a poor man's RB-0.

[Rockdale]

That sounds great.

[uncle bud]

Nice avatar, Rockdale. Where does that come from?

Still likin' it, frankie. 

[Rockdale]

Uncle Bud,

It was done by Matthias Lehmann. He's posted several other portraits on Tumblr; mostly of different musicians and all of them are just as cool.

Here's a link to his page:

http://mlehmann-portraits.tumblr.com/