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Christmas Train Primer

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Jump to other pages. Written by Paul D. Race for. For many people, nothing brings back Christmas memories like the site of a train circling a Christmas tree - a century-old tradition. In the early days, tinplate or cardboard buildings were often set up near the tracks, a tradition that presaged today's porcelain holiday villages, many of which include trains as well. The first Big Christmas Trains. So it's high time to have an index page that pulls all of these resources together in one place for folks w...

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Whatever Happened to the Banjo?

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What Kind of Guitar. Should I Start On? What Kind of Banjo. Axes in my Life. Who Owns Folk Songs? The Story - Real. People, Places,. Whatever Happened to the Banjo? Marginalization of an American Icon. Written by Paul Race for Creek Don't Rise. And School Of The Rock. Pete played banjo on songs in minor keys, on songs by J.S. Bach, on Latino songs, on blues, even on songs that had broken the charts as Rock and Roll numbers, and he delivered a credible performance on every song. And then the banjo died&#4...

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Beginning Five-String Folk Banjo - Part One - Introduction to Banjo Chords

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What Kind of Guitar. Should I Start On? What Kind of Banjo. Axes in my Life. What is a Zither Banjo? Who Owns Folk Songs? The Story - Real. People, Places,. Beginning Five-String Folk Banjo - Part One - Introduction to Banjo Chords. Written by Paul Race for Creek Don't Rise. And School Of The Rock. The banjo also re-crossed the Atlantic in the late 1800s to be played like a classical guitar by "Zither Banjo". Players, and to be adopted by several prominent Irish bands in the mid-1900s. The most popular i...

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Are you a "Brand Bigot"?

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What Kind of Guitar. Should I Start On? What Kind of Banjo. Axes in my Life. Who Owns Folk Songs? The Story - Real. People, Places,. Are you a "Brand Bigot"? Written by Paul Race for Creek Don't Rise. And School Of The Rock. I also can't help looking at the instruments that my favorite artists choose to use in their concerts. Mostly I like seeing what someone who could, frankly, afford any instrument in the world chooses to play in public (sometimes it's surprising). Again, there are a lot of reasons to ...

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Other Articles About Music

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What Kind of Guitar. Should I Start On? What Kind of Banjo. Axes in my Life. Who Owns Folk Songs? The Story - Real. People, Places,. Other Articles about Music. Written by Paul Race for Creek Don't Rise? Although this site is targeted to supporters of folk traditions, Americana, and related /a musical genres, we often come across - or write - articles on other sites that we think you would find interesting. For example, we have a sister site, SchoolOfTheRock.com. Did God Really Give Rock and Roll to You?

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If The Creek Don't Rise - About the Music

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What Kind of Guitar. Should I Start On? What Kind of Banjo. Axes in my Life. The Story - Real. People, Places,. If The Creek Don't Rise. Features live performances of acoustic-based music that reflects traditional folk and "Americana" styles. Instruments include guitar, bass, banjo, recorder, harmonica, and piano, all played by the actors themselves as the action unfolds. Folk, sung by Ben in "present day". You Can Change This Land. We'll Know it When We See it. Yellow and Green are the. Fish in the Corn.

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What is a Tenor Guitar?

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What Kind of Guitar. Should I Start On? What Kind of Banjo. Axes in my Life. Who Owns Folk Songs? The Story - Real. People, Places,. What is a Tenor Guitar? Written by Paul Race for Creek Don't Rise. When I was a kid in the sixties, every pawn shop in Dayton had deeply-discounted four-string guitars bleaching in the store windows, and nobody I knew wanted one. "Real" guitars had six strings, after all. I couldn't help remembering those poor things and wondering about their real history and uses. Turns ou...

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Dean Backwoods 6 Shootout

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What Kind of Guitar. Should I Start On? What Kind of Banjo. Axes in my Life. Who Owns Folk Songs? The Story - Real. People, Places,. Dean Backwoods 6 "Shootout". Written by Paul Race for Creek Don't Rise. And School Of The Rock. For a time I even toyed with the idea of taking the two apart and trying to get one good banjo. But my fear was that I'd just destroy both of them. If you've read our other articles, you know that I never expect to get a banjo or guitar in ready-to-play condition. This was no...

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Banjo Pickups 2016

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What Kind of Guitar. Should I Start On? What Kind of Banjo. Axes in my Life. Who Owns Folk Songs? The Story - Real. People, Places,. Banjo Pickups, 2016. Written by Paul Race for Creek Don't Rise. And School Of The Rock. That pick up vibrations directly from the banjo head,. Based on the pickups used on electric guitars, and. That hover over the drum head like Garth Brook's microphone hovers in front of his mouth. And some others require a balanced preamp input, though, which may add another piece of har...