Banjo Aficionado Gifts

Know your Bluegrass Instruments

"Banjo!"

'He just burst into my campsite, and broke my banjo!'

"Woke up this morning, someone had nicked my guitar..."

The Origami Society...

Algorithm 'n' Blues

Jeff Tweedy caricature.

Flour, sugar, earth, air, fire, water.

"I've got those 'Don't worry about me, I'll just be here, all alone' blues."

"Who is 'coming around the mountain,' John? Could it be your mother?"

Cello Concert

"When it comes to good, old-fashioned roots music, this guy is the BEST!"

Blind mammal Johnson....part animal, all blues man!

"No, I'm still getting too much banjo."

Red hot little combo

Now, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto.

'Elaine, take a ditty.'

Ralph Stanley

Robert Johnson.

"And now, with apologies to Cole Porter."

'I don't mind you singing, but I draw the line at your banjo playing.'

Hellbillies.

"I came all the way from Alabama just to see you, Susanna. Why in tarnation are you cryin'?"

Slim, a blues guitarist, was taking his meds again.

Supply was out of harps.

"And now, Bach's Brandenburg Congerto Number One, first movement."

Bluesman's Hospital - Looking back it does seem kinda stupid to be standing at the crossroads."

'I see. So what you're saying is that you woke up this morning and your woman had done left you.'

Man playing bum-note.

"I'm sorry, I just don't feel like singing the blues today."

"Here's a blues number written about my inability to remember computer passwords."

Where the deer and the antelope play.

Carpe diem

The next song's called "Went on Prozac, Found a Job, Bought a Car, Met a Girl, Got a Puppy Blues."

"I'm sorry, but I don't think that putting our mission statement to banjo music sends the right message."