Hello again, from this late Freakin Awesome Friday! This week we’ll look at the Lord God Bird. The song was featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered. There is a whole segment describing the story behind the quest for the Lord God Bird and it talks about the song itself. This FAF there also have a [...]
On this Freakin Awesome Friday we’ll look at a couple of just down right, sick, totally gnarly, nasty jams. It’ll be like a preservative factory in here. Everything featured today will come from Public Radio. You may be saying to yourself, “What?! but public radio is lame.” Well this isn’t your dad’s public radio. This [...]
This week, for Freakin Awesome Friday, we are featuring Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Live at the Quick. There a playlist on YouTube that has 12 songs from this concert. These videos are from the dvd, Live at the Quick. So if you enjoy these videos check out the dvd. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones [...]
After recently discovering some B-sides and live concerts, I have decided to start up a series called Freakin Awesome Friday. It’ll be a weekly post that will feature unreleased, dare I say ‘alternative’, versions of tracks that you may not have heard. This will range from bootlegged concerts to album B-sides from around the internet. [...]
Hello Everybody! There are some new tabs up and they are: Sufjan’s The Transfiguration and Seven Swans, Flogging Molly’s Drunken Lullabies. These tabs were sent in by Tony G. great success. a quiet moment of reflection… So now that alternativebanjo has a new website, there have been a lot of changes. The tabs are presented [...]
In conjunction with the release of his Throw Down Your Heart album, Bela Fleck has announced new tour dates. If you haven’t heard about this project it is really cool. Fleck visits Africa to discover the origins of the banjo and as he travels he plays with all sorts of musicians. So from the later [...]
Well I caved, I got a Twitter account for AlternativeBanjo. I figured I’d use for more informal, less banjo related items. I love discovering/hearing about obscure bands (listen to “Willow Tree”) or unbelievable mashups but usually it isn’t enough to warrant a blog post, so from now on I’ll use twitter for this instead. More [...]
Now I know that Christmas has come and gone but the Christmas spirit has been rejuvenated. Songs for Christmas vol. 8 has been leaked to the public! Now I just found out about this today but apparently it has been spreading around the blogosphere since December. So if you have heard about it please pardon the interruption.
One of the most common questions that I have received is: what kind of banjo should I buy? Well, I am no banjo connoisseur. If you are looking for advice on which model to buy I can’t really help there. You may want to post a question like on BanjoHangout.com. This article will show how the differences [...]
