MARY Z. COX: Vintage Banjo

Mary Z. Cox

Vintage Banjo

© 1999 Mary Z. Cox (634479029622) (format: CD-R)

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Looking for a clawhammer banjo CD that you'd like to listen to more than once? Fourteen of our favorite old time tunes on clawhammer banjo with fiddle and guitar. Vintage Banjo was selected as Editor's Pick in the January 2001 Banjo Newsletter.

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"A simple no-frills collection of old time tunes on banjo...played with great delicacy and restraint. I found myself listening to it repeatedly..." Donald Nitchie/Banjo Newsletter, August 2000


Mary Z. is a third generation Floridian and received her first banjo when she was twelve. Her granddad was a professional banjo player, and his father was an old time fiddler from St. Joe, Missouri. His Dad was Cyclone Thompson who rode the Pony Express.

Mary Z. Cox's warm, laid back, banjo is featured on her four CDs. (Vintage Banjo, Walkin' That Banjo Home,Dulcimer Fandango& A Secret Life Of Banjo) She's the 2004 winner of the Tommy Thompson Memorial Old Time Banjo Contest (Florida Folk Festival), 2003 Florida Old Time Banjo Champion,and the 2002 Florida Old Time Mountain Dulcimer Champion. She plays string band dance music and duets with her husband, Bob, and records with friends and family.

Her tabs, articles, and MP3s have been published in Banjo Newsletter. She is a regular performer and workshop host at the Florida Folk Festival and takes great delight in helping others discover their banjo style.

NOW AVAILABLE! Vintage Banjo tab book ! Simple tabs to the fourteen tunes on the CD plus notes and historical photos.
Order from Mary's website: www.maryzcox.com

Other CDs by Mary Z. Cox

Walkin' That Banjo Home 2001
Dulcimer Fandango 2003 (don't be fooled by the dulcimer title--there is lots of good old time banjo, fiddle and guitar on this CD)
A Secret Life Of Banjo 2004
Banjo Dreamin' Suwannee Nights 2006

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  • Vintage Banjo
    author: Nancy Garrtt

    The CD arrived quickly in great condition. I purchased it for my husband who is still enjoying the banjo picking. He's always wanted to learn Cherokee Shuffle and now he can.

  • VINTAGE BANJO
    author: donna

    I loved it

  • Loved it, Well done.
    author: Pete Fife

    I love a well frailed banjo and I think Mary is brilliant. Especially enjoyed "Dixie". In fact I only bought the CD on the strength of "Dixie" and ended up loving the whole thing. Well done!!

  • Love that frailin!
    author: Tim

    Excellent playing in the traditional style, I just bought the tab that goes with it and hope to learn a bit. Thanks!

  • Hillbillies have culuter too and this is about the best of it.
    author: Bubba-Gills BBQ and Bait Pages

    I have lived and listend old time music all my life and this is as good as it comes. Selections are tops, Dixie brings a tear to the heart, Sally Ann got me out of my chair and my feet to moving. I am collecting all of Miss Cox's body of work. Gil Finn Morgan's Landing W Va

  • super Music well presented
    author: D W Roxborough

    I really liked this Cd well presented and well played, Mary has a style with no competition

  • Great
    author: Rorschach

    Great old time banjo tunes with some nice guitar and fiddle fills. Nice restrained technique. You can loop this CD for a very long time and not get tired of it.

  • Very good playing
    author: DLA

    I think this is a great resource... I'm learning to play old-time, and am especially interested in Civil War, or vintage, banjo. Great playing. Thank you!

  • author: c

    Just get it, any one of these songs is worth the cost of the CD and supporting such musicians. When that one song connects with you the joy is timeless, simple, and chalked full of that universal understanding. All her CD's have at the least 4 jewels in them. Not one lyric and just an essential exposure.

  • Vintage Banjo is great clawhamer
    author: John Thompson

    Mary Z cox is a gread clawhammer banjo player.My friend Wayne told me how good she is.I think this album is the best clawhammer album I have heard.I play clawhammer banjo and I know what clawhammer should sound like,and this is it thanks Mary Z.

  • ~you gotta love this music~
    author: Ceolsaige O'Donnell

    i would like to say that this CD is a really amasing CD! you feel nice, and sweet inside! I really don't know what a Clawhammer is....hmmm....o well that's ok! a lot of people that i talk 2 think that banjo music is for the people down south, but that's really untrue! who wants 2 hear killing, and other horrible stuff that other people say in other songs! this (i think)brighten's up your spirits when you down in the dumps! thank you ~Ceolsaige O'Donnell~

  • Great CD!
    author: Bumper

    Great CD! Loved the music. I'm a beginning frailer and found the music a big help to "feel" what clawhammer is all about!

  • i bet if more people listen to this than songs that talk about bad things that h
    author: kelsey byrne

    o wow, i love this c.d! my friends hate it but i love it! it's so humble and awesome! people should give banjo people a break and i bet if more people listen to this kind of music, then i think more people might be happier than listening to songs that talk about bad things that happen already in the world. I LOVE IT! yeeeehaaaalll! this rox my sox!

  • Beautiful claw hammer banjo from my favorite banjoist!
    author: Jael Kahn

    I love this music. It is more old time sounding than Ms. Cox's more recent CD, A Secret Life Of Banjo, because it also has guitar and fiddle. The standout track on this CD is a slow, haunting version of "Dixie" on banjo with guitar chords. There are no politics or war cries in this version--just a pretty melody that takes you beyond that. There is a banjo/fiddle duet on "Little Black Dog Gone Trottin' Down the Road" that really defines what I think old time music should sound like. The fiddle and banjo weave around each other in a sound that is almost organic. There are a couple pretty Celtic pieces too (Dunsmore Lasses is my favorite)--slow and pretty--that really opened my eyes on what a clawhammer banjo could sound like with some thoughtful arrangement. I've only owned this CD a short while and I've already played it everyday. Many good traditional tunes. My only criticism is that Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine is too short and I'd like to hear a longer version.

  • Melodic Clawhammer Banjo at its best
    author: Wick Smith

    This CD is so far from showboating you almost feel like there is a deliberate effort on the part of the artist to hold back. Mary Z Cox has a wonderful clawhammer style which is a refreshing change from the lightning-fast bluegrass banjo most people are accustomed to. Here, the emphasis is on the old-time melodies and a sure-footed technique that brings them out. Other clawhammer collections I have heard had a monotony to them that would put non-players to sleep. This CD has variety and good craft combined with good tune selection.

  • Wonder ful CD! Mary Cox is great!
    author: Marty

    Mary Cox is wonder gifted artist!

  • Mary Cox and CD Baby are great!
    author: Jeff Westbrook

    Great CD with old tyme banjo. Also shows that you don't have to play at lighting speed to be very,very good! I ordered CD on Monday and recieved it the same week! Outstanding!

  • Mary Cox is the best clawhammer player around.
    author: Doug Browning

    I really love clawhammer, old time banjo music and have for many, many years. Mary Z. Cox is the best out there at this sort of music. Her music is fun and uplifting. If anybody likes old timey banjo music, this is the CD for you.

  • author: Banjo L

    BANJO-L 2/3/2002 I've bought quite a few CDs because they were mentioned on BANJO-L. All too often I've been dazzled by the speed and virtuosity, but left with no desire to try to emulate or, indeed, to hear the CD again. One hearing is plenty. Sometimes blinding speed and dazzling technique ends up being tiring and “nervous-making” to listen to. Not so with one I got today. It is called VINTAGE BANJO. Mary Z. Cox frailing, Bob Cox on guitar, and Kay Van Treese on fiddle and guitar. Clean, sensitive, and deeply satisfying string band music. Oh, there's plenty of technique there, but it is employed for the sake of the music and not used to dazzle the listener. The usual disclaimers. Never ever heard of Mary Z. Cox before. Allan Hjer3pe, Hs.G.

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