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Okay, I couldnt think of a better section to write this in so please correct me if Im wrong.

Anyhow, when I get done with a day of hiking, I usually relax to a book or some country music, well last year I picked up a Lee Oksar harmonica and have been learning to play and what better place then off the trail away from everyone? Anyway I was looking up "cripple creek" by "Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee" on youtube and ran across one of the best sounding bluegrass sounds that have ever filled my ears, and well... Im sort of in love. Mean Mary James... WOW! Now I want to learn the banjo and am thinking about picking up a Deering goodtime for myself for Christmas. But I cant really pack it in, so I guess Ill stick to the harmonica for hiking.

Anyways, Just thought I would throw her name out there, anyone else have any good banjo playing tunes to spread upon me?
 
[video=youtube;rrlqQ1_vZVE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrlqQ1_vZVE&feature=related[/video]

Or play with Mean Mary on her own Deering Goodtime!

[video=youtube;ofAQtE7zHe0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofAQtE7zHe0&feature=related[/video]
 
No , but I play harmonica badly.Started playing four years ago.I can bend notes pretty easily. I also like Lee Oskars. B flat is my favorite.
 
I've played a blues harp for years. Played it once on stage accompanying a well known folk singer back in the seventies, and in BB King's place on Beale in the nineties, but now I just annoy the dog.
 
Have fooled around with the Harmonica (Hohner Blue Midnite in A) for a few years now as my trail instrument. Recently got turned on to the tin whistle( or Irish Penny whislte, depending on who you ask). My trail model is a Walkabout from Carey Parks at Parks whistles http://www.parkswhistles.com/
 
Lots of The Corries, Gordon Lightfoot, Rich Mullins, Stan Rodgers, Dougie Maclean and the like. I often pack a Walton's Little Black D or the good ol' Clarke Concert C. Pennywhistles are fantastic backcountry instruments-light, simple, easy to play and a blast to improvize on. You could throw a Jew's harp into the mix for 3 dollars as well. Sea shanties make great rucking tunes, check out Fisherman's Friends and their rendition of South Australia. I summited Jarbidge Mountain in Nevada a few weekends ago to celebrate my good buddy's 28th birthday, and looking out over hundreds of miles of desert from horizon to horizon with four major river canyons cutting through it, the only song that came to mind was 'Stealin' by Uriah Heep. There's lots of good music for playing on the whistle, and looking to expand the collection with a G native american flute or one of the birch Scandinavian clarinets. I asked for a custom Mance Grady 16 inch bodhran for Christmas, we'll see if Santa comes through :D
 
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