<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Banjo @ www.leastbest.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 www.leastbest.com</rights><subtitle>(Banjo) </subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-05T01:00:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.leastbest.com/read/banjo.rss"/><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2008-03-23:links.412091828</id><title>Shoveling Snow and Dreams of Spring</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/shoveling_snow_and_dreams_of_spring.htm"><![CDATA[I shoveled snow for a couple hours today and dreamed of sitting on the porch on a nice warm day playing the banjo.&nbsp; Spring will come.&nbsp; In the meantime I found a picture my daughter took last year that pretty much sums up my daydream.&nbsp;]]></content><dc:subject>banjo</dc:subject><dc:subject>photography</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/shoveling_snow_and_dreams_of_spring.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2008-03-23T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-23T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2008-03-22:links.412091758</id><title>NeverEnding Winter and Dreams of a New Banjo</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/neverending_winter_and_dreams_of_a_new_banjo.htm"><![CDATA[Winter has been dragging on and on.&nbsp; The onset of Spring seems far on the horizon.&nbsp; I&#39;ve decided to spend the day before Easter relaxing and catching up on all the little things I&#39;ve been avoiding.Meanwhile I&#39;ve been dreaming of]]></content><dc:subject>banjo</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/neverending_winter_and_dreams_of_a_new_banjo.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2008-03-22T19:11:00Z</updated><published>2008-03-22T19:11:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2007-09-14:links.412040704</id><title>My Banjo Instructor</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/my_banjo_instructor.htm"><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I went over to my banjo instructor&#39;s house and took my camcorder.&nbsp; I recorded him playing his banjo for over an hour.&nbsp; Here is him playing Rock About My Sarah Jane.&nbsp;&nbsp;For more videos of Rod you can go HERE]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/my_banjo_instructor.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2007-09-14T02:04:00Z</updated><published>2007-09-14T02:04:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2007-05-12:links.411994748</id><title>Jam in Lafayette</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/jam_in_lafayette.htm"><![CDATA[All of us contain Music &amp; Truth, but most of us can&#39;t get it out.-  Mark Twain in Vienna&nbsp;&nbsp;Tonight my father-in-law and I went down to Lafayette for a bluegrass jam.&nbsp; Lafayette is a little south of Lafayette.]]></content><dc:subject>banjo</dc:subject><dc:subject>photography</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/jam_in_lafayette.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2007-05-12T04:26:00Z</updated><published>2007-05-12T04:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2007-04-30:links.411989150</id><title>My new banjo teacher</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/my_new_banjo_teacher.htm"><![CDATA[I&#39;ve been trying to learn clawhammer banjo on my own and was coming along slowly but well.&nbsp; A couple weeks ago some on a website called The Banjo Hangout  put up a post that they were giving lessons in North East Ohio.&nbsp; I popped him an]]></content><dc:subject>banjo</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/my_new_banjo_teacher.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2007-04-30T16:06:00Z</updated><published>2007-04-30T16:06:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2007-04-29:links.411988827</id><title>Old Time Music in Homerville</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/old_time_music_in_homerville.htm"><![CDATA[Last night my father-in-law and I went to the Homerville Community Center for some old-time jamming.&nbsp;&nbsp;]]></content><dc:subject>banjo</dc:subject><dc:subject>music</dc:subject><dc:subject>photography</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/old_time_music_in_homerville.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2007-04-29T04:16:00Z</updated><published>2007-04-29T04:16:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2007-01-11:links.411911870</id><title>Sabata</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/the_banjo.htm"><![CDATA["The piano may do for lovesick girls who lace themselves to skeletons and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils. But give me the banjo, when you want genuine music, music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your syst]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/the_banjo.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2007-01-11T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2007-01-11T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2007-01-01:links.411905767</id><title>Clawhammer Banjo Circle</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/clawhammer_banjo_circle.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2007-01-01T18:37:00Z</updated><published>2007-01-01T18:37:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2006-09-17:links.411795259</id><title>The Kindness of Strangers</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/the_kindness_of_strangers.htm"><![CDATA[I've been delivering in Sheffield Lake for twenty five years and the people have treated me so well.  In the cold of winter people have given me hot coffee and cookies and in the dog days of summer they have given me ziplocs full of]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/the_kindness_of_strangers.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2006-09-17T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2006-09-17T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2006-02-19:links.1636592</id><title>Cheese Whiz, Fiddle Tunes and a box of Triscuits</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/cheese_whiz_fiddle_tunes_and_a_box_of_triscuits.htm"><![CDATA[My wife went on one of her marathon shopping sprees today.  I knew it was coming from the faraway look that can only come before a full day of shopping.  I knew she would come home and tell me how much money she saved, all the while forgett]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/cheese_whiz_fiddle_tunes_and_a_box_of_triscuits.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2006-02-19T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2006-02-19T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2005-08-05:links.1420632</id><title>Beat Complete</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/beat_complete.htm"><![CDATA[Heat, Humidity and long hours.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/beat_complete.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-08-05T03:11:00Z</updated><published>2005-08-05T03:11:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2005-07-30:links.1411636</id><title>Two New Banjos</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/two_new_banjos.htm"><![CDATA[ I was riding home from the library when I saw a handmade sign outside a home that said, &quot;Banjos and 2 Acustics for sale&quot;.  I immediately stopped in and a woman answered.  The instruments were her sons and he came out and showed them to]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/two_new_banjos.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-07-30T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-07-30T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2005-07-03:links.1369561</id><title>Plunkthumping</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/plunkthumping.htm"><![CDATA[If you've been reading my blog you've probably noticed that I've been playing a lot of banjo.  I've been learning from dvd lessons and help from The Banjo Hangout.  I found a great site called Plunkthumping that has virtual banjo lessons.  The sit]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/plunkthumping.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-07-03T05:44:00Z</updated><published>2005-07-03T05:44:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2005-06-26:links.1359220</id><title>Neat Banjo by the Lake</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/neatbanjo.htm"><![CDATA[My day at work is hard work, long hours and boredom.  The people I meet are fascinating but I don't really have a chance to have much in the way of conversation.  When I was a child I would ring doorbells and run.  I didn't know it was preparation]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/neatbanjo.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-06-26T23:55:00Z</updated><published>2005-06-26T23:55:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2005-06-19:links.1347721</id><title>Back and Catching up</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/back_and_catching_up.htm"><![CDATA[I've been getting a lot of emails asking where I've been and why I haven't been updating the blog.  Hopefully this entry will explain a few things.A few months ago I got a banjo (Deering Goodtime II)]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/back_and_catching_up.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-06-19T16:14:00Z</updated><published>2005-06-19T16:14:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:leastbest.blog-city.com,2005-04-03:links.1173370</id><title>Banjos and Roller Coasters</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/banjos_and_roller_coasters.htm"><![CDATA[I had a very hectic day yesterday.  My daughter wanted to go to the IX (International Exposition) Center for their Indoor Amusement Park.  Since I have a serious aversion to any ride that spins or goes up in the air I told her to bring a friend.  She]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/banjos_and_roller_coasters.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-04-03T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-04-03T04:59:00Z</published></entry></feed>