Cumberland Gap - Meredith Moon - Clawhammer Banjo

Sep 19, 2022 12:50 PM

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Meredith moon doing an excellent rendition of the southern classic, Cumberland Gap. Meredith is the daughter of Canada’s Greatest Folk Musician, Gordon Lightfoot.

Terrible room acoustics for nasal country singing. Not bad for the banjo.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

This is one of the first songs you learn when picking up banjo.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Damn, I didn't realize there was talent in the Lightfoot family.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

look I couldn't find a snarky way to say this without sounding like an asshole, just listen to Stan Rogers

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Had an opportunity to meet Gordon a few years back and he was super nice

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

can you play some Megadeth?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Can you do even Fitzgerald

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Where are they getting all these cool last names?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Space I guess

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Here's the whole song https://youtu.be/ubC7ClPrH1g

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I see that pic in the background, a fellow merdude fan.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Stop downvoting this! That kid was good!

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Do you also rock metal tunes on banjo?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

BLUE MOON OF KENTUCKY KEEP ON SHINING.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

That’s…a different song

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought I might pick up on some KOTH fans.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh wow. Once in a while there is a pearl here.

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

She should do The Edmund Fitzgerald

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

How about Sundown?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nice vocals to go with the banjo. It would have been better if she had a mic.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There was a time in this fair land...

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Man, I hate the sound of banjos. Wish I didn't, some great banjo players out there...

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

you ever listen to a standard banjo string with nylon, like Clifton hicks, or a older minstrel or mountain banjo, like Rhiannon or Jerron?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Might change your mind. Most of the time when people say they don’t like banjos it’s because of the abundance of overtones

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That are produced on a higher tuned steel string banjo.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Only wish the recording was better, she's great

4 years ago | Likes 68 Dislikes 0

Very fitting for a banjo song :). Those early recording we pore over are terrible

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Go listen to some old Roscoe Holcomb recordings. Great stuff.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Make your own scratching sounds for a more authentic experience.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

FILM COPS

4 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

Always :)

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Do not, however, record COPS, the tv show, as thats piracy

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

If you have a Roku tv, you can watch COPS for free anyways

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The Cumberland Gap was also the name of the bit of dual-carriageway from where the M6 stops at Carlisle and the M74 starts at Gretna Green.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It existed because England and Scotland agreed to link the motorways to have a continuous one to Glasgow and Edinburgh. Scotland upgraded 2/

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

the A74 into a motorway, but England didn't bother for about 20 years, and because it was unlinked, the Scottish motorway had to be 3/

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

designated the A74(M). It's all a clusterfuck, and explains why there's so many weird junctions on it. 4/4

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

It’s a feature in a mountain range within the Appalachian, so probably unrelated to what you’re talking about

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C G was the original gateway to "beyond the mountains" from the East Coast into the interior of America. Daniel Boone & others lead the 1/

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first settlers into Kentucky through it. Cumberland is a widely used name in the KY/TN/WV area Cumberland Falls KY has the famous "Moonbow"

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