Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Wed, 08/23/2017 - 5:09amSomething/Someone Old
Something/Someone Old
Not from me, this time, though. This is my friend "Whitey", and his composition "Can of Cream Corn"...only playable by him, because he is the only banjo player that plays the way he does. He invented a whole new style. I played opposite him in a jam a couple weeks ago, and was just amazed watching him play (my banjo).
By Bisbonian , adapted, from That Orange Place
Tuesday May 29, 2012 · 4:07 AM PDT
I first heard the song as a young boy, recorded by Arlo Guthrie on the album One Night. Arlo, of course, learned it from his father, (though there are slight differences between their versions). Woody and Arlo both called the song "Buffalo Skinners". Here is Woody:
Too much talk of war, yesterday.