Ode to the Banjo, by Lotus Wight

Ode to the Banjo

by Lotus Wight

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1.	Black-eyed Suzie 04:28	buy track
2.	Ducks on the Millpond 03:45	buy track
3.	Midnight 03:40	buy track
4.	Blue Goose 03:07	buy track
5.	Skillet 04:18	buy track
6.	Roustabout 02:50	buy track
7.	Boatman 02:25	buy track
8.	Devil's Jig 03:16	buy track
9.	I'se So Very Wicked 03:13	buy track
10.	Cumberland Gap 05:35	buy track
11.	Cluck Old Hen 03:51	buy track
12.	Leslie-loo 03:24	buy track

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Produced in tandem with fiddler and engineer James Stephens of Chelsea, Quebec, this album won a nomination for the Canadian Folk Music Award for best traditional album of 2017.
From Songlines Magazine:
Lotus Wight is the nom-de-guerre of Toronto native Sam Allison, a songster, poet, fiddler, banjo historian and instrument creator who also makes up one-third of the ragtime trio Sheesham, Lotus and ‘Son. Ode to the Banjo traces the centuries-old history of the instrument both literally, in the form of a 23-stanza poem penned by Wight/Allison (included in the notes), and musically within the album’s thirteen tracks, most of which are interpretations of American folk and blues songs. Wight employs a cornucopia of authentic and playfully derivative instruments including fretless gourd, banjo, four-string banjo-mandolin, and contemporary five-string claw-hammer banjo. On “Roustabout”, a composition by 19th century Virginia banjoist Josh Thomas, Wight sings the deeply melancholic lyrics while accompanying himself to haunting affect on the Kalimba (African thumb piano). On “Skillet” and “Cluck Old Hen” Wight plays a homemade contraption called the “Contrabass Harmoniphoneum” which must be heard to be comprehended. Wight’s imaginative take on traditional repertoire makes for compelling listening, while delivering a valuable history lesson about America’s most iconic musical instrument.

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released September 26, 2023

Lotus Wight plays kalimba, five-string open-back tubaphone and five-string gourd banjo, contrabass harmoniphoneum and four string-soprano banjo

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Lotus Wight Peterborough, Ontario

"Lotus continues to perform poorly in his sixth-grade curriculum, perhaps owing to his obsession with such musicians as Elizabeth Cotton and Maurice Chevalier. If he could cease his musical fancies and apply himself to his seat work in class, he would be a more successful student here at Huron Public School." Principal- Mr Galonska, Toronto,1982.

The love child of Sophie Tucker and Josh Thomas. ... more

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