Bela Fleck Quotes
I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.
Bela Fleck
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
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I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him.
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I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.
Bela Fleck
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
