Cory Walker Banjo Maestro of East Nash Grass

Corey, thank you for joining us today.

Welcome to T-Shaw's Progressive Bluegrass.

How are you doing?

I'm doing good.

I'm happy to be here.

Thanks for having me on.

Man, I'm stoked to have you here.

I know we've been talking about it for quite some time, and it's finally here.

Most people know Corey Walker from East Nash Grass.

You play banjo with East Nash Grass, and I think it's safe to say that's your full-time gig.

And we're going to get into that in a little bit, but let me ask this question.

You come from a musical family.

Pretty much everybody in your family plays music.

Would you consider yourself a competitive person?

And music...

I think that it's to be competitive with yourself as far as getting better.

But yeah, I like to win if I'm playing football in the backyard.

I enjoy winning.

But as far as music, it's not really helpful to be competitive against others besides comparing it to how good you want to get.

So it's really a competition with yourself.

Okay, that makes sense.

And then, so I've just, one of my biggest curiosities, because your entire family is a musician of some sort, how does Thanksgiving go down? Is there any smack talk going down when it comes to Thanksgiving? Do you actually sit down and eat a dinner before the instruments come out? What's kind of the insight on that?

Well, I always say before we pray for Thanksgiving dinner, for example, you know, I always say attention, everyone.

Thanks for being here.

I just want to say that I'm a much better musician than my brother Jared and better than Tyler.