Title: Clawhammer Banjo and Fingerstyle Guitar Solos Artist: Ken Perlman Label: Folkways Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 093073109824 Genre: Country, Folk Release Date: 2012-05-30 Number of Discs: 1
The first half of Clawhammer Banjo and Fingerstyle Guitar features Ken Perlman playing banjo in the clawhammer style he is known for and helped develop. In the second half of the album, Perlman demonstrates his considerable skill as a melodic guitar player, taking inspiration from Irish harp tunes, including some that are several hundred years old. Many of these songs are dance tunes, but as Perlman explains in the accompanying liner notes, "When played for listening (as opposed to dancing) on five-string banjo and guitar, they take on a new character-they lose a little drive and rhythmic punch, but the melodies shine out as the exquisite gems they are. "
Tracks: 1.1 St. Anne's Reel / la Renfleuse Gorbeil (Medley) 1.2 Humours of the Castle Comer / the Blarney Pilgrim (Medley) 1.3 Beaumont Rag 1.4 Johnny Cope 1.5 Leather Britches 1.6 Golden Keyboard / Nine Points of Roguery (Medley) 1.7 Taylor's Twist 1.8 O'Carolan's Welcome 1.9 The Humours of Ballylaughlin 1.10 Madame Bonaparte 1.11 Don Tremain's Reel 1.12 The Return from Fingal 1.13 Planxty Lord Inchiquin 1.14 Swingin' on a Gate
