Banjo Player Tony Ellis Speaks of His Music

NPR All Things Considered | July 16, 1993 | Copyright

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NOAH ADAMS, Host: The music comes from a memory - a young boy on his grandparents farm and there's a river and a summer shower on the other side. For Tony Ellis, now 53 years old, it's like a movie in his mind. It's now a banjo song called `Rain on the Water.'

[sound of banjo playing]

ADAMS: This is the first cut on his new CD. Tony Ellis can play the faster blue grass music. He once spent a couple of years touring as Bill Monroe's banjo player but many of the songs he writes are slow and evocative, images from his childhood in North Carolina and from ...

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