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Billy Faier
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Billy Faier (December 21, 1930 – January 29, 2016) was an American banjo player. He, along with Pete Seeger, was one of the early exponents of the banjo during the mid-20th-century American folk music revival. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he moved with his family to Woodstock, New York in 1945, and later lived in Marathon, Texas. Active in the Washington Square Park folk scene in Greenwich Village from the late 1940s, he recorded two albums for Riverside Records, The Art of the Five-String Banjo (1957) and Travelin' Man (1958). In 1973, he recorded Banjo for John Fahey's Takoma label. He died in Alpine, Texas, in 2016, aged 85. Selected discography In 2009, Faier decided to make much of his out of print and unreleased material available on his website. website The Art of the Five-String Banjo (1957 – with Frank Hamilton) Travelin' Man (1958) The Beast of Billy Faier (1964 – with John Sebastian) Banjo (1973) Banjos, Birdsong and Mother Earth (1987 – with John Sebastian and Gilles Malkine) User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Banjo
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SXSW 2006 Showcasing Artist
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Imaginational Anthem Vol 2
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The Thousand Incarnations Of The Rose: American Primitive Guitar & Banjo (1963-1974)
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Live at Caffe Lena: Music from America's Legendary Coffeehouse, 1967-2013
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Travelin' Man
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The Newport Folk Festival
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Imaginational Anthem Volume 2
Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 2
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The Banjo Story Vol. 1 (Digitally Remastered)
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Bluegrass Folk
Imaginational Anthem Volume Two