The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.
In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.
I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.
I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.
As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.
I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that songs can be narrative without having a story.
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