Another birthday milestone has rolled around for the BRC craftsman who has been picking the banjo for 65 years. So, after all this time, he should be better at playing the 5-stringer than he is.
On this annual occasion, however, his all-time favorite birthday card (above) that was sent to him decades ago by an older sibling is again posted.
Recently, a circa 1967 photograph was unearthed in family archives depicting a youthful folk musician playing an original tune at his college radio station in the Northeast. Back in those days, the future BRC craftsman played a long neck open-back banjo before converting to a resonator Bluegrass 5-stringer. On a cross-country car trip many decades ago, he visited the original Ode banjo shop outside Boulder, Colorado. He still has an Ode long neck banjo that he plays at home daily because of the wife-friendly mellowness of this open-back instrument. He never wears finger picks while practicing and seldom if ever plays his louder resonator banjos when in the house.
A young picker plays a BRC banjo that was recently gifted to him by his granddad. The lad`s grandfather seen below is giving his grandson a face-time lesson with the aforementioned long neck Ode 5-stringer.
From the BRC: Have a grand St. Patrick’s Day.
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