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Ad Astra - Joe Morley - My all-time favourite Classic Banjo solo
Joe Morley wrote a great many solos for the banjo, but this one is arguably the best he ever wrote. It has a brilliant opening movement in A minor, a march in A major followed by another march in D major, a sixteen-bar bridge and then back to the D major march.
I have re-recorded this one after one year of starting to learn it, with the piano accompaniment, in one take, without cheating, and with a brand new set of heavies for the occasion. It has been cleansed and redeemed of the iniquities of my early recording.
I. MORL. DIV. AVG. P.B. ME SCRIPSIT, M. M. ME FECIT.
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Comment by Mike Moss on March 12, 2012 at 15:51
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Of course -- you know what they say, pecunia non olet ;-)
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Comment by Trevor Boyd on March 12, 2012 at 21:39
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Ian, you clearly have a very good memory. Puts my "classical banjo-speak" to shame!
I came, I saw, I concurred :-)
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Comment by Sylvia on March 13, 2012 at 1:52
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Hi Mike, astral projection ..... no good for playing banjos..... no substance.
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Comment by Jody Stecher on March 13, 2012 at 2:02
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No astral projection in banjoland? What about nostril protection? Good if the audience throws tomatoes at your nose. Wastrel Perfection? That was the opinion late 19th century Respectable People and Law Enforcement Officers had of banjo players, especially in Kentucky.
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Late 19th century, well we don't care what RP and LEO thought, do we ? I mean that was way back when they thought the earth was flat. :)
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The earth is bumpy. Any one can see that.
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