Rhiannon Giddens Comes Home
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
The Drone Sound of the Gourd Banjo
Gourd banjo is a short drone string. The claw hammer style, which is called stroke style during this time, can be found in West Africa. There's all the syncopation that's built into the instrument. I hear so many different aspects of like American culture in these tunes. That's really been a code. It was kind of like a, I feel like it was a code breaker for me.
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