From the course: Banjo Lessons: 3 Playing Songs

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"Sandy Boys"

"Sandy Boys"

From the course: Banjo Lessons: 3 Playing Songs

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"Sandy Boys"

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- Sandy Boys is currently one of my favorite tunes. I love playing this thing, especially with two or three fiddle players and the guitar and just playing for about 10 minutes. It's one of those great old-time tunes that you can just zone out on, and it's a tune that I first heard played by the Hammons family, a family from West Virginia who recorded kind of home recordings back in the, field recordings back in the '70s. This is a little bit different version, and this is one I heard and learned from Russ Barenberg. We played this this past summer. This is 2009 as we're speaking here, in the fall, and I learned this from Russ at the Elkins Augusta Heritage workshop that we did down there with Casey Driessen and some other folks, and we played as part of the teachers concert, and I just fell in love with the tune and this arrangement of it. And, interestingly, the first part of it sounds just like Clinch Mountain Backstep by Ralph Stanley, but it predates Ralph's version by probably…

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