Dads are the Original Hipsters

Your dad played the banjo before you did and he’s got the finger picking skills to prove it. In his quest to become a renaissance man of the obscure instrument world, he discovered the Tennessee 4 string. With a knife and his musical axe, he set off to hike the Appalachian Trail AKA the purest place on the planet to learn banjo. The woodland spirits showed him the chords and moonshine fueled his lessons. When he emerged from the wilderness 2,181 miles later, he had killed a bear, seduced mother nature and became a nimble-fingered, mother plucking prodigy of the hillbilly guitar. On quiet nights along the trail you can still hear his songs resonating through the trees and serenading the wilderness. 

So hipsters, next time you’re twanging strings while claiming to enjoy an unenjoyable instrument and dreaming that someday your folk band might become obscurely popular, remember this…

Your dad is the only man in history who has ever played something on the banjo that didn’t make listeners envy Beethoven and his inability to hear.   

Thanks to LG for today’s awesome photo.