Banjo to Beatbox

-- School Library Journal, 10/30/2009

From the October issue

Banjo to Beatbox. CD. 29:37 min. cathymarcy.com. 2009. $7.99.

PreS-Gr 3–Grammy Award-winning veteran musicians Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer team up with Washington, DC’s new hip-hop sensation, Christylez Bacon, to present eight folk banjo and hip-hop tunes. Fink, a master banjo player, performs on five-string banjo, six-string banjo, cello banjo, and ukulele banjo, while Marxer plays rhythms on the washboard. Bacon rhymes, raps, plays percussion and banjo ukulele, and uses his mouth and body as a beatbox. These lively, bouncy, toe-tapping songs include “Jubilation,” “It’s the Beatbox,” “Syncopated Washboard Rhythm Song” (which includes Spike Jones-style sound effects), “Soup, Soup,”  a rousing rendition of “Froggy Went a Courtin’,” “Hip-Hop Humpty Dumpt” (an adaptation of the nursery rhyme), “Barnyard Dance,” and “New River Train” (with exceptional banjo picking). This recording’s unique concept and excellent musicianship makes it a must purchase for every library’s music collection.–Beverly Bixler, San Antonio Public Library, TX

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