Warren Waldron

This is a photo that was taken of me when I was working as a church janitor in in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. I had inherited this banjo from my father because, after playing the trombone in high school, right straight through the senior year, and having had the pleasure of being in the first swing band that they ever had there, I learned a lot of music that way. But, I also wanted to get a guitar, so I finally did. I saved up my money and bought a little Gibson Lg1 and I loved that. And when my dad saw that, he said, well, maybe you should inherit this. And he gave me the banjo that had belonged to his maternal grandmother, Minnie Warner Campbell. She lived in Michigan and she played the banjo. And you can tell from looking at this picture that she played the clawhammer style, because just the way the dirt's described on the head.