All Videos Tagged Winans (Classic-Banjo) - Classic-Banjo

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.”

Eli Green's Cakewalk

2010-05-17T16:12:56.000Z

Eli Green's Cakewalk, by Sadie Koninsky, published in 1896 and recorded by Vess Ossman in 1899. Performed here by Bob Winans. I was inspired to upload this video by Marc Dalmasso's recently uploaded version, which is more intricate and interesting than mine. My version is gussied up a bit from the original banjo arrangement, especially where I have "ragged" the Trio. This video clip is my first attempt to use a webcam, so please excuse the reversed image (I am not a lefty).

St Louis Tickle

2010-05-13T21:51:42.000Z

Ragtime tune commemorating the 1904 St Louis Exposition, made famous as a guitar solo by Dave Van Ronk (but he did not play all the parts). Bob Winans, lead banjo; Larry Marschall, second banjo. Performed at a Greater Gettysburg Banjo Society concert, 1998, at Gettysburg College. Apologies for the terrible video; but the sound is OK.

Somewhere in Dixie

2010-05-05T16:07:13.000Z

The Greater Gettysburg Banjo Society (i.e., Larry Marschall and Bob Winans) gave a memorial concert for a deceased colleague, Mike McTighe, in the spring of 1993. In this clip, we (Bob plays lead and Larry second banjo) play "Somewhere in Dixie," a 1917 ragtime piece composed for classic finger-style banjo by George L. Lansing. The audio of the video was recorded at a very low level, so you will need to put your volume controls up to the max. With apologies to Hezekiah Urastus Anderton's more "authentic" rendition.