Our friends over at the Bluegrass Blog have posted a lovely conversation with Lynn Morris, who teaches our Clawhammer Banjo Volume 1 and Volume 2. It catches up with what she’s doing these days, a question we get asked often. So if you’ve been wondering that yourself, click here and read the article.
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Lynn Morris on the Bluegrass Blog
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Clawhammer Vol. 2 Now on DVD
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Folks, there’s good news today from the Murphy Method: Our Clawhammer Banjo Vol. 2 DVDs have come in! This excellent DVD is taught by Lynn Morris, and she explains complex techniques including double-thumbing in our trademark note-by-note, step-by-step style.
Here are the lessons on this DVD, all taught in the double-thumbing style:
1. Old Molly Hare
2. Melody to “The Black Pony”
3. Soldier’s Joy
4. Yellow Rose of Texas
5. Turkey in the Straw
These lessons are a fun challenge to those of you who’ve gone through Lynn’s Clawhammer Volume 1! As always, Lynn explains everything completely and leaves NOTHING to chance. More info about this brand-new DVD is here.
For those of you who made advance orders, your DVDs were shipped out today! for everyone else, we have them available now!
See you at the festivals!
Kristin Scott Benson wins Banjo Player of the Year!
Monday, October 6th, 2008At Thursday night’s awards show one of our favorite banjo players took home the award for Banjo Player of the year: Kristin Scott Benson. Kristin plays with the Larry Stephenson Band and is the second woman to take home the title, the first being Alison Brown in 1991. The other nominees in the category—Earl Scruggs, J. D. Crowe, Jimmy Mills, Ron Stewart— were unbelievably stiff competition.
Kristin was modest enough to think that it was a fluke that she was nominated at all, so when she won, she was very surprised. She gave a great speech, giving lots of credit and thanks to her parents, who were in attendance that night because her husband, Wayne Benson, was taking care of their son Hogan.
Dale Ann Bradley took home Female Vocalist of the Year for the second time in a row.
Kristin and Dale Ann were the only women to take home awards this year, although Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’s song “By The Mark” won Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year.
The before and after parties were great fun. This is FiddleStar/Murphy Method Camp co-host Megan Lynch and myself:
And here is Lynn Morris and Bass Player of the Year nominee Marshall Wilborn, who presented the awards for Vocal Group and Album of the Year:
The dress I’m wearing was made by my grandmother for my mom’s Junior-Senior prom. It was a pretty big hit, I have to say. Last but not least, here is me with my brother and fellow TMM instructor Chris Henry:
