As you probably know, you can never predict what’s going to happen at a Hard 2 Git concert! Over the past few years, audiences have been surprised by the unexpected appearances of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, The H2G Promotional Executive (who actually ate a H2G CD!), Luther and Smooth, and The Papa Murphy String Band. This weekend was no exception! If you weren’t at the Lake Bonham Hoedown in Bonham Texas, you missed it! The band had just performed three bluegrass favorites and before the next song was introduced, the sound of a banjo could be heard playing the famous melody from the movie, Deliverance. Sam Bolton was caught speechless! James Martin swallowed his joke! Oh, I know what you’re going to say! “Hey, I saw Hard 2 Git recently and they played Dueling Banjos using the banjo and dobro.” Wrong, couch potato! Don’t you know you shouldn’t miss a single show?! This time, the banjo breaking silence was NOT Doc Stuart’s! “There were TWO banjo pickers on stage?”, you ask? Yep! And the two had a real knock-down, drag-out!
The fight started out slow, but quickly got out of hand!
Feet were stomping…
Fists and fingers were flying…
There were lefts…
There were rights…
Punches to the heads…
Punches below the resonators…
High strums…
Low strums…
String pulling…
Claw-hammering…
and all kinds of under-handed picking!
Strange melodies were heard during the ruckus…
”Yankee Doodle Dandy”…”The Entertainer”…”Jingle Bells”…chromatic scales…twisting tuners…reverse runs…
The Hoedown folks were on the edge of their seats…
The dust finally settled after the last double-shave-and-a-haircut. The crowd roared!
What banjo picker would dare climb on stage and duel with Doc Stuart?! Did he come out of it alive?!
Well, you just should have been there!
