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yes it's a dumb name but you catch the drift -- sufjan stevens, califone, some of the palace stuff...who else?

― notfazed (notfazed), Monday, 31 May 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

bad livers

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 31 May 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Flatt & Scruggs motherfuckers!

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 31 May 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

there's lots of banjo on the first palace brothers album, and also some on the Ghost album Snuff Box Immanence.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 31 May 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Magnetic Fields use banjo a lot

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Monday, 31 May 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

'Might as well chalk it up' from the new Sneeze album is 50 seconds of banjo heaven.

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Marie & the Atom

― Marcus Barr (Marcus Barr), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

are you just asking about cool banjo music or is there actually a genre called "banjocore"?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

thinking fellers - "father"

― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i've seen the word banjocore thrown around in reviews by those artists. whether or not that constitutes a genre is up to you.

― notfazed (notfazed), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

well, stone breath and related projects (the spectral light and moonshine firefly snakeoil jamboree), you know.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

they were pushing banjo when beards weren't cool.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Kolob! Whiskey-saturated belligerence from the trailer parks of El Cajon, California. Banjo, jug, washboard, tub bass. Good for drinkin', shoutin', wrasslin'. Named after a star that Mormons go to when they die. They've got a song about jizzin' on the cornbread.

― F Ath, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, yeh, and the wrist and pistols from philadelphia. it's like the drinking music of all nations played at the same time. banjo, organ, bass, snare. they need a website.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

how many of these dorky "new weird america" fuckheads (arrgh! KILL ALL BRITISH "JOURNALISTS" NOW) own Hot Rize lps? None of them, I'd wager. Buncha chancers.

― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha. FUCK TEH WIRE. WE ARE NOT NEW OR WEIRD BUT YES WE ARE AMERICAN SORRY. 1/3 DOES NOT PASS.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

hot rize? are they like nu-grass? i listened to some of that stuff courtesy of the wesu archives. didn't like any of it.

"old weird america" = worst meme ever. thanks greil marcus!

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

'Might as well chalk it up' from the new Sneeze album is 50 seconds of banjo heaven.

any thread that mentions sneeze in any way is automatically a good thread.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

the palace/oldham stuff = david pajo (who also plays it on peggy honeyweel records as well as his own stuff)

i saw Sun City Girls play some banjo stuff a few years ago.

search: steve martin

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

the first Hot Rize album is pretty great. I would think you might like it, Amateurist. Nu-grass? Is that like, Alison Krauss and that kind of stuff? They really didn't sound like that, they were pretty trad. On that album anyway. Which is the only one I've heard.

― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I apologize to americans for not keeping up with their CDR network scene.

When I saw sunburned hand of man they finished off by thanking, among others, wire magazine.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Old Crow Medicine Show, Be Good Tanyas.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't know if it fits, but I saw Leftover Salmon cover "God Save the Queen" one time. Sounded pretty banjocore to me.

― JC-L (JC-L), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

does need new body count?

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a hard time believing Will Oldham's ever referred to his own music as "banjocore" but googlers please feel free to refute.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't imagine the will oldham persona uttering anything with the "-core" suffix, unless it was dripping with deadpan irony.

nu-grass, is i guess, "progressive bluegrass," using bluegrass's basic setup and augmenting it with various rock/psychedelic/world instruments, covering fleetwood mac songs, etc. etc. from my limited appreciation, complete dreck.

but maybe hot rize isn't that kind of thing. the only reason i began to suspect as much is because of the jokey misspelled name--the sort of band name that was real popular in "progressive bluegrass" ("seldom scene," etc.).

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like the banjo sound on the last Sufjan album. I don't like how it's played. I prefer the fast picking sound to the strumming.

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots of the stuff on this thread is all "banjo," no "core"!!

― chuck, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/54/49/06m.jpg

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

btw gygax! I think Todd Brashear plays banjo too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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