Hey Alan,
If you'd like to hear an interesting alternative on Banjo playing, check out The John Butler Trio, Grand National. You may already be familiar but they are three guys who incorporate an amazing number of different instruments from strings to horns. There are a couple of blue grass influenced tunes mixed with a slightly more modern sound. If you don't like that, they change genres and instruments about 5 times through out the CD so it's hard not to find a song you like.
Really nice quality sound too. The stand up bass really vibrates nicely.
Hijack over. Sorry, just not often I get to talk banjo.
