Scott Ainslie: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed & Burnin'

The last performance of an 8-week tour around the periphery of the US, this spiritual has become a standard in my sets when I can travel with the little fretless gourd banjo that David Beede made for me. There is an ancient quality to this sound that I simply adore. The banjo is tuned e-E-A-B-D, a tuning I learned from Sherman Hammons' playing of Sugar Babe/Red Rocking Chair back in the 1970s. The tuning contains four of the five notes of the minor Pentatonic Scale commonly used in West African music and is perfectly suited to playing African melodies like this one.

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