Fake news!
The pictures shows him tuning a guitar, fake news! This is banjo we can hear, make country music fans great listeners again!
In my days of dope and hope, in the 70s, I was not sectarian, I would listen to many artists, from Doc Watson to the Doors, from Planxty to Patti Smith and Zappa, not to mention local artists.
But the banjo picking made me think of - of course Pete Seeger, but also:
I've just opened my last can of Guinness - click, pshhh). Make me feel like taking my guitar again and try to convince myself that arthosis in my fingers is not a problem.
Well, it's not, I'll pick up my guitar and play it the way I can play it now, for:
"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."
The Merchant of Venice (V, i, 83-85)
I still can!
