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Banjo Picking Girl

Source Recording: Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (1976)

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Key B♭ Time 4/4

Verse × 7

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F / B♭ /

Song Details

Also Known As

Banjo Pickin' Girl, Going Around This World, Goin' Around This World

Songwriter

Lily May Ledford

First Release

The Coon Creek Girls (1938)

Further reading

Secondhand Songs

Genres

Classic Bluegrass Traditional Old-Time

Themes

Rambling States

Jam Popularity

Source Recording

Artist

Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard

Album

Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard cover

Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (1976)

Key B♭ Time Boom-Chuck Tempo 142 BPM Length 3:06

Musicians

Alice Gerrard — Lead Vocals, Guitar
Tracy Schwarz — Fiddle
Hazel Dickens — Backup Vocals
Mike Seeger — Banjo
Lamar Grier — Banjo

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Single: Banjo Pickin’ Girl (1938) Discogs

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Musicians

Dave Evans and River Bend

Goin’ Around This World

Goin’ Around This World (1981) Bluegrass Discography

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Stringbean

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Way Back in the Hills of Old Kentucky (2005) Bluegrass Discography

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Musicians

David "Stringbean" Akeman

Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet

Banjo Pickin’ Girl

Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet (2008) Discogs

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Kathy Kallick Band

Banjo Pickin’ Girl

Foxhounds (2015) Bluegrass Discography

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