Joe Bethancourt - Malaguena Clawhammer 

Joe was a great guy. My best friend and I would regularly see him at Funny Fellows. He was also a regular customer of mine at Radio Shack at 43rd Ave and Bethany Home Rd. We always had fun conversations. Oddly enough they were never about music. I'm fortunate to have known him. R.I.P. my friend !

Sometimes to this day you can manage to catch the entire concert this performance came from on Maricopa County's Community College public access cable channel MCTV.... Joe was a truly, mind-blowingly talented artist, could play over 60 instruments... And one helluva cantankerous character! Miss you, man! Be at peace.

LIKE LIKE LIKE .... sooo much passion.

This is stunning. Anybody can play classical or flamenco on a banjo--heck, even I can--but not like that!

Im a spaniard guy and I just tried this on my banjo. Marvelous to say the least

Thinks: If I had half of this man's talent,I could play this half as well in twice the time.

Playing it on the 6-string guitar is easier than playing it on the 5-string banjo. Joe, ya done good!

RIP bro...oddly enough I found Who fears the devil by him on cassette the same year a couple months after he died. Thats how I found out about him and not I intend on finding all of his physical recordings no matter how hard it is.

el amor me llevó hacia ti con impulso arrebatador...

wonderful music

Love

Cross-pollination keeps music fresh and vital. Notice the similarity of sound between "purist" and "putrid" :)

"I ran out of banjo, im sorry" LOL!

he is nice and funny .that thing he made with his hands its very funny

malagueña salerosa es la cancion q tu nombras, pero LA MALAGUEÑA ES UN BAILE Y CANCION TIPICA DE MALAGA .... ESPAÑA sai no la conoceis ya sabes pasad a verla

Man, this guy can tease a banjo to do whatever he wants!

Oddly enough, I found this video (still one of my favorites) while searching for massage techniques. :D

ALL RIGHT JOE!!!!!!!!!

gnnoriega, Musicians often play Malaguena, preceded by the flourish of Espnana Cani, as Joe did in his version.

The Shrunken Head and The Broken String!

Yeah, but can he do it on a tennis raquet?

@IcyScythe why should he play it on a guitar, maybe it sounds better on a banjo?

actually malaguena was originated/ccomposed by spanish gypsys from a village in spain called malaga

RIP

interesting!

You say that as if it were a bad thing... :-D

And then some. I was very sorry when he stopped playing music for political reasons, even when I understood the reasons.

You're very good but play it on a guitar!

no coordination! that's it