So I was in the music store the other day and in the back was a used banjo for sale. I’ve played guitar for a number of years but was never interested in the instrument. In fact no self-respecting, urban oriented black American would be. That twangy sound seems to transport you right back the plantation. It’s association with minstrelsy is also rather embarrassing and all the banjo music I ever heard before was country or folk. You might get your ass kicked listening to that kind of stuff in my neighborhood.

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