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banjer string

Some serious bluegrass right there, now...really great entertainment by 4 very talented fellers!

Mr. Fkn Chink

Dan is GREAT...

Ed M

The best of ALL incarnations of the LRB. Ronnie Bowman is an understated superstar in my book.

fedtsten

TheBibleWitness, nobody's calling anybody an idiot here. I must admit I honestly thought we agreed on which notes they were singing, and disagreed what those voices were called. I now realized that it was the other way around - and that I was wrong about who sings lead in the chorus. And thus we are now in full agreement.

Bible Believer

Sorry about leaving the wrong time in the vid. It's 1:35. Also, at about 1:59-2:00, Ronnie stops singing, but you can still hear the tenor. Once again, logic would indicate that this means that Dan, having the highest voice anyway and singing tenor in almost every other band he's ever been in, is switching from lead (melody) on the verse to tenor (3rd above) on the chorus. Seriously, listen to their voices. It's obvious that it's Ron is singing lead on the chorus.

Bible Believer

Ok, you seem to think I'm an idiot so let me spell this out. In bluegrass harmony, the tenor sings a 3rd above and the baritone sings a 5th below. In this case, they are in A. So, if the lead sings an A, the tenor sings a C# and the bari an E. Sometimes, someone will sing a 3rd below if the lead singer's voice is to high to tenor. The Osborne Bros started that. Sometimes this is called "low tenor," but this isn't right, though, because tenor is a classical term meaning the highest male voice.

fedtsten

Singing lead does not mean singing the highest note. 1:05 is an instrumental solo, no singing there - you must mean a different spot? The tenor in bluegrass is the highest harmony, but is not the lead/melody. Ronnie sings a third above Dan in the chorus, making Ronnie the tenor and Dan the lead.

Bible Believer

Dude, I've been singing since I was knee high to a grasshopper, I know what singing "lead" means. I know Dan and Ronnie's voices, I know how bluegrass harmony works, and I know how this band arranges their vocals. Go back to 1:05 in the vid. The "tenor" stops, but the lead comes going. Look at their mouths, it's Dan who stop singing first. Therefore, logic tells me that Dan must be singing tenor on the chorus.

fedtsten

Singing lead means singing the melody, at least to me. Dan is still singing the melody during the chorus. But there's a harmony above the melody, and Ronnie is singing that. The lead (= melody) is not defined as being the highest note in the chord made up by the harmonies, although it often is. The melody is what you would remove last if you had to cut down on harmony vocalists - it's the musical "story" of a song.

Ed M

Swank Son, Swank

Joe Wheatley

Saw my old buddies last night out here in California. Was great to catch up. Yes, they can still throw it down. Long live LRB.

Rosa Jones

great bluegrass band and great singers !!!

Kimmy Sue

THIS IS BUTTER!! VELVET!! AWESOME!! ;-) <3

235435sdfg

how does one dislike this?

hatchboy1

you are right!!

Bible Believer

Listen to the lead vocal on the chorus, its clearly Ronnie! If you don't beleive it, check out 1:35 when Dan stops singing a hair earlier than Ronnie, and you can still hear the lead. That means that Dan is switching to tenor on the chorus, which is common for tenor singers when they sing lead in bluegrass. When Don Rigsby sang with this group later on, he did the same thing.

Mike Bailiff

Craig Korth's 1942 Gibson original 5 string top tension flathead banjo in the early 1970's. The banjo was owned by Sonny Osborne and Sammy Shelor from the Lonesome River Band. This video was taken backstage at The Fretboard Journal 5th Anniversary party in November 2010 in Seattle.

Mike Bailiff

I've heard Sammy sold that prewar top tension for 40k! wow!

Mr. Fkn Chink

yanks`ve bluegrass,irish the green grass,russians the frozen grass,arabs the dry grass and chinks the rotten grass.

Noah Brown

This is absoulutley killer!! I know Sammy personly and he is killing it right here!!

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