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‟ There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion that old-time music was the inheritance of white America.
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‟ There is a black folk music audience. They're just very small.
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‟ Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument, you know?
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‟ We're not here as a black band playing white string band music. You know, we play stuff in the Appalachians, we play stuff in the white community, but we really highlight the black community's music.
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‟ I'm not gonna force something or fake something to try to get more black people at my shows. I'm not gonna do some big hip-hop crossover.
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‟ I'm not an urban black person. I'm a country black person.
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‟ I'm still black in the eyes of America.
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‟ My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race.
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