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Nine-year-old Jonny Mizzone can play the banjo! On fiddle, you hear his 12-year-old brother Robbie, and 14-year-old Tommy accompanies them on guitar. The song is Ralph Stanley’s “How Mountain Girls Can Love.” You can see more of the brothers at the YouTube channel Sleepy Man Banjo Boys. Link -via reddit
Here’s a video of The Jaybirds, a bluegrass group, and Red Chamber, a Chinese string ensemble, playing bluegrass music. The members of Red Chamber are performing their contributions on several Chinese instruments: a liuqin, a pipa, a sanxian, and a ruan.
-via MetaFilter | Red Chamber | The Jaybirds (auto-sound)
The Cleverlys are a quintet of Bluegrass performers from Arkansas. Here they are with their cover of the 80s hit “Walk Like an Egyptian” by The Bangles.
via View from the Porch | Band Website
I firmly believe that a banjo can improve any kind of music. Even rock and roll. Behold, Guns N’ Roses re-made into bluegrass by the band Iron Horse Bluegrass. Won’t you take me home? Link
If you like this, then check out: Metallica Enter Sandman in Bluegrass, Cello, and Kazoo
Another of the many ways Queen’s classic Bohemian Rhapsody is performed, this time by Hayseed Dixie, from their new album Killer Grass. Link -via Arbroath
John of The Zeray Gazette has a neat compilation of various video clips of Enter Sandman, the iconic song by Metallica, as covered by others and played in um, different genres.
Included are: Enter Sandman as performed by the bluegrass band Iron Horse, the cello quintet Apocalyptica (quite famous, actually), and even a version played with a Kazoo!
Previously on Neatorama: Enter Sandman lyrics in LOLcats
