The Banjo: good or evil?
Here’s a quote from a recent post on the Dallas Morning News religion blog.
My grandfather…was kicked out of a church in 1919 for playing the banjo with the youth group. Obviously everybody knew the banjo was an instrument of Satan!
Discuss amongst yourselves!
Email This Post
| Print | Top | 3 Comments
Well, I'm heading out this morning for about two weeks in Poland. I don't expect to have much in the...
The good folks who manage Banjo.com have created a new banjo blog, for banjo players of course.
It's...
Leave a comment
Comments are open and unmoderated for our registered users, only your first comment will require approval before publication. Comments do not necessarily reflect the views of The Bluegrass Blog. Obscene, abusive, silly, or annoying remarks may be deleted, but the fact that particular comments remain on the site in no way constitutes an endorsement of their content by The Bluegrass Blog.
I think the saying goes like this: “Hell is full of amateur banjo players.” No offense to that guy’s Grandfather.
There’s a reason why the banjo player always switches to guitar on the gospel numbers…
A mountain minister once told Nat Winston, Sr., “You might as well give your son a ticket to hell as give him a five-string banjo” (Earl Scruggs, p. 8).
You must