søndag den 2. januar 2011

Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown


This is a performance from The Late Show with David Letterman featuring Earl Scruggs and friends performing the classic 5-string banjo piece "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" with a bunch of guest artists joining in.
The song is part of the musical genre called bluegrass which is a very fast paced kind of music, usually with a simple three chord structure throughout which people then jam on and do solos on top on. The piece was written by Earl Scruggs, and recorded by Flatt & Scruggs in 1949. It is considered one of the hardest pieces for 5-string banjos, and only very skilled players can play it at it's intended speed.
The line-up on stage is impressive, it includes; Paul Shaffer on piano, Steve Martin on banjo and Albert Lee on electric guitar, to name a few, it's a long list of performers, and I probably only know the name of half of them, I know shame on me.
Any ways, it's a great up tempo performance of a good song, and bluegrass is related to country which is related to blues, so I can justify posting this here.

Enjoy ; )

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