"Worried Man Blues": Down the neck

(banjo music plays)…- I love playing "Worried Man Blues"…ever since I was a Kingston Trio fan…in my early folk days and they did…"Worried Man Blues" with two banjos…they tried putting me on a five string banjo…I've been a big fan of this tune.…

Peter Seeger plays it.…It's been played a million different people.…There is some inspiration here from Sonny Osborne.…Some of my own stuff.…So it's just a kind a straight ahead version of the tune,…very bluegrassy, obviously.…It's not quite playing the syllables,…it's not like you're getting every single note,…but there is a certain closeness to the melody.…So it's a forward-backward roll for measure two.…(banjo music)…Fourth, third, first, fifth, first, third, fourth.…

You've got to bring the thumb over to the third string,…which is an Earl sort of thing to do…and then two forward rolls,…five, three, one, five, three, one just open…Then another forward-backward roll with a slide…and a pull off at the end.…Sorry slide at the beginning.…Forward rolls, second, first, fifth, first, second…