Whistling Rufus TBI

2010-06-24T02:01:44.000Z

Another hit song composed by Kerry Mills, this one published in 1899. At the Saturday night concert of the 1988 Tennessee Banjo Institute in Murfreesboro, TN, Dan Sinclair, Clarke Buehling (both playing the lead), and I gave this performance of the tune. Tim Brown recorded it while sitting in the audience. Sitting next to him were a few other classic fingerstyle banjo players, who were well aware that Dan had started this piece too fast and that it was only getting faster as we went along. The noises they were making were because they were expecting us to crash at any moment. Surprisingly, we didn’t, and we got a standing ovation at the end. It was kind of an historic moment, since most in the audience had never heard anything like this before. I was actually reading the second part from the music sitting on my knee.

At A Georgia Camp Meeting Sinclair Winans

2010-06-16T19:11:20.000Z

1897 Song by Kerry Mills. Dan Sinclair (lead) and Bob Winans (second), around 1984. In the early '80s I was doing a lot of research at libraries in NYC, and Dan offered to let me stay at his sculpture studio. In return, each evening I had to play second parts for his solos. After a while, we decided it would be fun to record some of our efforts. The only recording equipment at hand was a cheap boom-box, so there is a bit of distortion. Herewith, the first installment from “The Sinclair-Winans Tapes.”

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Whistling Rufus TBI

At A Georgia Camp Meeting Sinclair Winans