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The Ghost of Virginia |
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Jim Lloyd will be the first to tell you that he doesn’t want to be grouped and confined into one category or genre, and this record has something for everyone on it. Starting with old mountain ballads, and songs about ghost trains and coal mining. There are couple of traditional instrumental standards mixed in with Will Keys influences such as Silver Bell and East Tennessee Blues, the latter I was honored to get to record with Jim. This helps demonstrate the differences between the two common banjo styles. Jim differentiates these two styles by naming them, “The right way and the wrong way… ; )” Since it’s his album, I’ll give him a free pass on that one! Then you have some good old fashioned honest to goodness country thumb style guitar on the Merle Travis classic, “Midnight Special.” I really enjoy this tune, because I grew up hearing folks in my hometown play this style of guitar. Jim puts his own flair to this one, not trying to be a note for note copy of Travis’s version and putting his own style and musical influence into the solos. Lastly come the tunes that you might not expect to hear on an album like this… Starting with American rock band ‘The Turtles’ 1967 hit, “Happy Together,” The Monkees 1966 hit, “I’m a Believer,” and lastly the Sonny Curtis penned, “I’ve Fought the Law.” Jim has managed to arrange these tunes that are more well known to the non-folk music audiences, and they work out quite nicely for clawhammer banjo. Lincoln Hensley
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