(That said, I can never get enough of this clip of Tim Twiss playing an 1886 'stroke style' (more or less like clawhammer, mechanically) song on a low-tuned fretless 1850s style banjo through an amp with distortion) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSaAAyE0R4w #nowplaying #tootradio #banjo #electricbanjo #fretlessbanjo #timtwiss

I forgot that Béla was fooling around with electric banjo as early as the Flecktones' second album. "Electric banjo" always sounds like it's going to be cool but of course it just sounds pretty much like electric guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDi7M4yeSko #nowplaying #tootradio #bélafleck #banjo #electricbanjo

The Flecktones' "latest" (from 2011) is pretty good! It feels like a return to form after their late-nineties/2000s stuff that I never really bonded with; I feel like Howard Levy's harmonica is as much a part of their original sound as Béla's banjo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGGzYOCmmUI #nowplaying #tootradio #bélafleck #electricbanjo