Folks have been playing and singing around their kids for centuries, and I know it can be a pain, but those sounds can also give a huge breath of life to a video like this; we see and hear a real human being, playing real music, in her real life, and it's refreshing to experience that in this age of editing and mastering everything we record. You played this song very well, and gave it a soul :)

@mesarah011

6 жыл бұрын

Daniel Thompson Thank you!! That is such an excellent point, and very encouraging. ☺️

@danielthompson6207

6 жыл бұрын

Sarah Nichols You just keep making beautiful music no matter where you are, everything will be bright and sunny there :)

@erinworley1601

6 жыл бұрын

What Daniel said - you playing your videos in real life makes them so much more awesome!! I'm a fan and totally inspired! I don't have kids to put in my videos, but maybe I'll try chickens or goats or something :o)

This reminds me of growing up in Knoxville and hearing bluegrass at the county fairs, watching the mules press sorghum into syrup, and running around the woods. Great memories to look back on, especially when you're far from home. Thanks for the great song!

You're allowed 10 mistakes per small child and didn't come anywhere near that. It's a beautiful arrangement.

@mesarah011

7 жыл бұрын

Gary Miller Haha! Thank you. ;-)

The little ones make this so wholesome

It's awesome you play banjo around your kids. Their growing brains soak in all this wonderful music and it can stick with them their whole lifetime. You are sharing a great gift, one that may be passed on to future generations too :)

This is beautiful. Even though I'm not from anywhere close to appalacia or have any connection to the history of the banjo, songs like Cumberland Gap always make me feel nostalgic and homely.

Sarah, I love that you are playing during a normal day full of kids. Keep doing these! i do childcare also, and my time for recording is very limited, but you and I have to continue to play, produce and post these performances. Never stop doing this! By the way, my ancestors on mother's side come from eastern KY, so this touches my heart. We sang so many of the folk and mountain songs growing up.

I admire the patience you have with the little ones, that's great....

Thanks for the tunes.

This was really lovely to listen to - that's a very soothing-sounding banjo tone, and it's equally as soothing to hear you sing it - wonderful!

This sounds amazing! Banjo and voice are both phenomenal!

I had a gang of them and they all grew up to be musicians.... Very good ones at that......

Love love love this!

This is golden therapy! Love that 5 string.

HELL YA i've had 1,5 bottles of red wine and i'm drunkenly enjoying this in my eastern Toronto basement apartment YOU SOUND FRIGGIN GOOD PLEASE COME TO OUR JAM

@Reginald-Montgomery-Astird-III

2 жыл бұрын

You eat people don't you?

Smallworld is such a cool game! Also your so talented. Thanks for posting

kids dont fight on the Cumberland Gap

@robertjohnson5795

5 жыл бұрын

LOL

Love it awesome!

I love that grain on the fretboard. Great job love your stuff. 1 sub up. :-)

Love this

This is how all musical cultural heritages should be learnt and passed on from one generation to the next. Inherited without being aware of it and completely unconciously. Musical breast milk DNA. It's what makes it worthy of the name traditional. Please allow me a request on behalf of not just myself but many, many more I'm sure.. Having filled us all with aural joy for three minutes or so, don't be shy, please round them off with a punctuating, reinforcing smile to echo the one you've put on all our faces!

Yea! Your back! :) lol at least my little siblings don't bug me when play the banjo (cause I will wack it at them)

Hey, that's better than I've heard most people play a fretless banjo. Sounds like you're tuned down a fair bit, always nice with the nylon strings!

Great rendition.

HI, what lovely contented children,so idilic, have they inherited your musical jenes just so cozy to listen. Dave Suffork UK

What a lovely sound that banjo has. Good on you , Sarah

@mesarah011

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

my kids always want to pull the strings when i try to play with them around!

@mesarah011

7 жыл бұрын

mike gager The baby JUST started doing that! I don't mind when they put their hands on the strings and dampen them because it makes a really cool percussive sound, but pulling strings is a definite no no 😑

Very nice

Good!

Please please can you put together some tablature? Can’t find this version and I’ve been looking everywhere. Love this version and your performance.

nice! you live in the south?

Nice playing... and nice boardgames!

@mesarah011

4 жыл бұрын

Lol! Thank you! Know my way around a Smallworld or two ;-)

what tuning are you using?

what model banjo are you playing sounds beautiful as does your voice !

@mesarah011

7 жыл бұрын

fralin1966 Thank you! It's a tackhead minstrel banjo by Terry Bell.

I know a good magician never reveals their secrets, but where/how did you learn this song?

@mesarah011

6 жыл бұрын

Schuylemagne One of the defining beauties of oldtime music is its perpetuation in the sharing of "secrets"; fear not! 😜 I learned it by ear from a Clifton Hicks recording, I'm pretty sure. Probably here on KZread but possibly from one of his records.

Brilliant performance. All the more impressive because you're a child...

Are those your children?