Bill Keith, Jim Rooney Live 1962 at the Philadelphia Folk Festival: Devil's Dream-I Ain't Gonna Work
Bill Keith and Jim Rooney, Live in 1962 at the 1st Philadelphia Folk Festival: Devil's Dream & I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow This version of Devil's Dream was recorded live in early September 1962 at the first Philadelphia Folk Festival, Paoli, PA. Bill Keith won the morning banjo contest with this tune. Bill and Jim played again in the evening concert: ''I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow'', a traditional tune first recorded by the Carter Family in 1928, and later covered by many bluegrass bands such as Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs. Devil's Dream is the prototype of the 'melodic' banjo style, also known as the 'Keith' style. Bill learned this fiddle tune from Loring and June Hall. His first interest was in adapting this fiddle tune to the banjo. This style became Bill's trademark. Bill recorded this tunes again with Bill Monroe himself in March 1963 (Decca sessions). Jim Rooney & Bill Keith in 1962: picture by Eric Von Schmidt Eric Von Schidt & Jim Rooney ''Baby Let Me Follow You Down'', The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years University of Massachusetts Press Amherst, 1978, second ed. in 1993. Thanks to Jim Rooney The general aim of this video is to help preserve the history of the "progressive" bluegrass on a benevolent basis, for educational, musicological and historical purposes, particularly here as regards the discography of the works of Bill Keith and Jim Rooney. @fretdreamer
About Eric Von Schmidt
Eric von Schmidt was an American folk musician and painter. He was associated with the folk boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s and was a key part of the Cambridge folk music scene. As a singer and guitarist, he was considered to be the leading specialist in country blues in Cambridge at the time, the counterpart of Greenwich Village's Dave Van Ronk. Von Schmidt co-authored with Jim Rooney Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years.
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