<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)">Hi Doug,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)">Do you know this band? Sleepy Man Banjo Boys? I would never seek out banjo or bluegrass (no offense) but the universe brought them to me today and I'm glad it did. You see I had YouTube casting to my TV and had lined up some old Saturday Night Live skits to listen to and half watch while I worked on my computer. My YouTube was set to autoplay so after it ran through my picks it kept going. It went from SNL and Steve Martin's King Tut (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgTPH5y1-ZI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgTPH5y1-ZI</a>), to Steve Martin banjo videos to these guys. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)">For a couple hours now I've been listening to their brand of bluegrass and watching this little, and not so little, kid <i>wail </i>on the banjo. I've probably listened to as much bluegrass today as I have the whole rest of my life put together.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)">Lots of other stuff going on here but it's the youngest I saw him. The boys playing fiddle and guitar are his brothers. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"youtube noto",roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px">Sleepy Man Banjo Boys With JD Crowe and The New South!</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(56,118,29)"><div id="gmail-watch-uploader-info" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"youtube noto",roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-watch-time-text" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent;vertical-align:middle">Uploaded on Jun 11, 2011</span></div><div id="gmail-watch-description-text" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"youtube noto",roboto,arial,sans-serif"><p id="eow-description" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent">Jonny meets his banjo hero JD Crowe! You'll never see or hear a more talented, classy, and gracious group of musicians as JD Crowe and The New South. We were thrilled to be called up to play a few songs with them at the 2011 Wind Gap Bluegrass Festival.</p></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#38761d" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fmcg3x5Y8w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fmcg3x5Y8w</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#38761d" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#38761d" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">This is just pure WTF am I seeing / hearing. </font><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif">I love what he does by adjusting those tuner thingys while he plays. (Can you tell I don't play.) And his brothers are no slackers.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><div id="gmail-watch-uploader-info" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"youtube noto",roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-watch-time-text" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent;vertical-align:middle">Uploaded on Feb 20, 2011</span></div><div id="gmail-watch-description-text" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"youtube noto",roboto,arial,sans-serif"><p id="eow-description" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent">Another bedroom practice of Earl Scruggs's Flint Hill Special. Brothers Jonny Mizzone age 8 on banjo, Robbie Mizzone age 12 on fiddle, and Tommy Mizzone age 13 on guitar. </p></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3qbB4Kq3Y0&list=RDTDtciFBtAuQ&index=5">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3qbB4Kq3Y0&list=RDTDtciFBtAuQ&index=5</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#38761d" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Ditto.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"youtube noto",roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px">9-Year-Old Plays Banjo on David Letterman Show</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div id="gmail-watch-uploader-info" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"youtube noto",roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-watch-time-text" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent;vertical-align:middle">Uploaded on Jul 18, 2011</span></div><div id="gmail-watch-description-text" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"youtube noto",roboto,arial,sans-serif"><p id="eow-description" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent">9 year old banjo boy Jonny Mizzone and his brothers Tommy 13 on guitar, and Robbie 12 on fiddle perform "Flint Hill Special" by Earl Scruggs on the Late Show with David Letterman.</p></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXcRI0BdioE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXcRI0BdioE</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"></span><font color="#38761d" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">This did a performance at a TED event that jams. </font></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"youtube noto",roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px">Bluegrass virtuosity from ... New Jersey?</span><div class="gmail_default"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"youtube noto",roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Published on Jul 5, 2013</span></div><div id="gmail-watch-description-text" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"youtube noto",roboto,arial,sans-serif"><p id="eow-description" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent">All under the age of 16, brothers Jonny, Robbie and Tommy Mizzone are from New Jersey, a US state that's better known for the rock of Bruce Springsteen than the bluegrass of Earl Scruggs. Nonetheless, the siblings began performing bluegrass covers, as well as their own compositions, at a young age. Here, they play three dazzling songs in three different keys, passing the lead back and forth from fiddle to banjo to guitar.<span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif">"​</span></p><p></p></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#38761d" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB8UTheTR7s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB8UTheTR7s</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><div id="gmail-watch-description-text" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><p id="eow-description" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent"><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><div class="gmail_default"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#38761d">There first original album included a song for their brother who has epilepsy</font>.</div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"youtube noto",roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px">Sleepy Man - Man in Your Corner</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div id="gmail-watch-uploader-info" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"youtube noto",roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-watch-time-text" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background:transparent;vertical-align:middle">Published on Sep 15, 2014</span></div><div id="gmail-watch-description-text" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px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 class="gmail_default"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.8pt;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#674ea7">If we are facing in the right direction. all we have to do is keep walking. - Zen Proverb</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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