The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys took the world by storm when they appeared on Letterman (video at the bottom of this post). Here are the three (probably home schooled) prodigious brothers putting Duelling Banjos through its paces. Watch past the minute mark. They start slow.
Sparks really fly in this second version though. Two Tesla Coils.
Here are the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys on Letterman – they explain their name at the end.
For some reason this song was in my head last night.
And watching that clip, I found this one. That’s some impressive banjo.
A base banjo, to be precise.
It is huge. Huge enough to hide under during an airstrike.
““It was in a banjo band that went to the First World War to entertain the troops.
“The bloke who was playing it was called Wally Ogden and it actually got buried after the bunker got hit by a shell and they thought the banjo was lost.
“When they dug it all out again they found the tunnel was still there and they managed to get the banjo back, so it’s been through the wars.””
That makes my pun make sense now (I didn’t post the quote first time around…).
Love this. Mostly because it’s banjo. Partly because it’s Mario.
See also The Cleverlys playing some Beyonce.
I’m in a bit of a bind. I’m starting to think “this song is great, but it needs more banjo” and I’m worried that means I’m turning into some sort of yokel.
First it was Gomez (embedding is disabled on this one)…
Then Mumford and Sons…
Then Boy and Bear…
Now it’s Fleet Foxes.
Am I broken?