That Banjo Business

Hi there!

Putting the bad into badnjo website one ill-informed line of code at a time.

I'm Haddock. I was a well-behaved classical pianist, flautist, and composer. I got bitten by the bluegrass bug after researching materials for Gravity Falls fanfiction. I got so excited by the Stanley Brothers and Earl Scruggs's picking that I abandoned my creative writing and raced for the banjo. Never been the same since.

I received degrees in linguistics and music composition. We can pretend this makes me "qualified" to talk about country music but it just means I'm susceptible to crying about dobros.

WORK IN PROGRESS

B & S B-Disc-S

This is a label I couldn't believe existed, hailing from the hill town of Deadwood, South Dakota! Active in the 1940s and 1950s, the B-Disc-S Recording Company recorded local and regional singers. The material was produced by Benjamin and Helmi Stoller. Talent recorded included Lee Babcock and the Swing Time Play Boys, Lil' Joe Bonner and the Idols, Jess Ervin and Fred Gibbs, Chuck Smith and his Western Ramblers, Tess Tessin & Blackhills Rhythm Rangers, Coyote Tootsie & Cowboy Ben, and Agnes Hansen the Finnish Nightingale.

1949