And when the three pickers' bands all convene at the concert's end for three songs, the collective jumble sounds beautiful: the old-timey equivalent of Phil Spector's "wall of sound".
But top classical recordings typically account for less than 2% of the sales of popular chart-toppers, and pop-pickers want Oasis the band, not Sony the firm.Consumers therefore have little to gain from a direct connection to music publishers.
Marvin (Smokey) Montgomery, the longtime banjo picker for the Western swing band the Light Crust Doughboys, died on Wednesday of leukemia.
Mr. Zhu, who leads a band of trash pickers from Anhui Province that other scavengers describe in fearsome terms, stopped raking the garbage blowing around in his yard to contemplate that for a moment.
He was a prodigious drinker, and a brilliant campaigner, who travelled around the state with a hillbilly string band called the Strawberry Pickers.
Finally the notion of "Dust Up" as a "grind-house" flick, as advertised, recalls the bar scene in "Ghost World" when a ragtime guitar picker is succeeded by a headache-inducing band called Blues Hammer.
The Raveonettes, picker-outers of the bands at our next two Uncapped shows.
One scarred band specialized in raiding the migrant-pickers' cockfights.
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Williams's hot and nasally tone was often at odds with his studio band (usually a crew of unflappable Nashville session players, the purest pickers in the world), and his records are pocked with idiosyncrasies, moments of true dissonance.
Armstrong and his band were thrown in jail as policemen shouted that they needed cotton pickers in the area.
