Lee Babcock and His Black Hills Cowboys ･ﾟ✧

B&S B-DISC-S 7503 Beautiful Hills Of Dakota / Deadwood Dick (1949)

It was a tragic time for North America and banjo lovers's handkerchiefs were resplendent in caked snot. With the growth of the jazz age, the five-string banjo’s popularity dwindled. First, early jazz lopped off the fifth string and utilized a four-string tenor banjo. Then that banjo got phased out in favor of the louder guitar. Country blues was guitarring it up. Banjo sales plummeted during the Great Depression (I'd be depressed, too, without banjos) and WWII and manufacturers like Gibson quit making new banjo parts. There was no love for Band Joe's banjo in the band, yo.