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She had 11 brothers and sisters, and all of them could play the five-string banjo. She played gatherings around the neighborhood, like bean stringin’s. She tuned it up for me and played this tune, ‘Shout Little Luly,’ and I tried to play it like she did. But I think I developed my own style of the banjo.
—Ralph Stanley, on his mother.
too bad tbird still kinda sucks it.
Elaborate.
search is horrible/nonexistent for one thing. &c &c