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Listen to the official audio of Joe and Odell Thompson's "Old Corn Liquor" from the 1998 album 'Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia' on Smithsonian Folkways.

'Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia' is available on CD and digital.

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The sounds and social history of African American banjo playing—32 superb instrumentals and vocals, recorded between 1974 and 1997. Extensively annotated with performer's life histories, tunings, lyrics, bibliography, and discography. The banjo's gourd ancestors came to the Americas with enslaved Africans, forging the link between West African griots and performers of 20th-century blues and string-band music.

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