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Joel Sweeney

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    February 22, 2016 | by John Lawless

    Five string banjo pickers in the US, especially here in my home state of Virginia, typically know a little something about Joel Sweeney of Appomattox. He was an early popularizer of the banjo in the pre-Civil War south, often using

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