oldwoodchuckb - Posted - 09/15/2009:  15:30:57

Something in F a couple days ago. I'm not good at titles. My wife has been working on a batch of F tunes of late. I haven't yet figured out which tuning I prefer, so both of my main playing banjos are in F right now. Of course I might have been doing tabs since then.... in which case the tune would be "Robinson County" as that is teh tab I'm doing at the moment.


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banjo_brad - Posted - 09/15/2009:  15:41:48

"This morning, I grabbed up my new banjo and played a bunch of open C tunes sitting in bed in my pjs."

MaryZ - sounds like you're off banjo restriction. Again.

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Tamarack - Posted - 09/15/2009:  16:41:45

Cripple Creek and Big Scioto on Saturday afternoon whilst explaining clawhammer to a couple of guitarists.

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 09/15/2009:  17:09:00

June Apple, about an hour ago, right before dinner.

I switched to G at the very end of my "session" - before that I had been playing in Double C, mostly Angeline the Baker and Mississippi Sawyer.

Edited by - EggerRidgeBoy on 09/15/2009 17:15:51

ELWOOD - Posted - 09/15/2009:  17:39:36

The Grey Selchie . Just now....................Elwood

Steve

rteale - Posted - 09/15/2009:  17:47:06

TOTW - Big Eyed Rabbit about 5 mins ago, ( I've been chasing that particular rabbit all week, trying to teach it to the kids), and because my banjo is now tuned to G, I had a quick run through of Colored Aristocracy and Bill Cheatum.

Ray

Edited by - rteale on 09/15/2009 17:47:43

J-Walk - Posted - 09/15/2009:  17:50:06

I count 47 tunes so far:

All Go Hungry Hash Where I Live
Banjo Pickin' Girl
Big Eyed Rabbit
Bill Cheatham
Blackbird
Cherokee Shuffle
Chinese Breakdown
Cluck Old Hen
Cold Rain & Snow
Colored Aristocracy
Deck the Halls
Dry & Dusty
Duck on the Millpond
Eagle Island Blues
Fall of Richmond
Flop Eared Mule
Fortune
Goodnight Ladies
Ham Beats Meat
Help
I'll Fly Away / Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Jazz Medly
John Henry
John Henry
June Apple
Kitchen Girl
Last Chance
Little Bird of Heaven
Little Maggie
Liza Jane
Lulu Loves Them Young
Old Bunch of Keys
Old Joe Clark
Old Molly Hare
Polly Put the Kettle On
Robinson County
Salt Creek
Sandy Boys
Shady Grove
Sheebeg Agus Sheemore
Sourwood Mountain
Take Another Ride With Clyde
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Waiting For Nancy
Wayward Boy
When He Commeth / I Will Arise
Wild Horse

Kind of surprisingly, only one repeat: John Henry

pete hobbie - Posted - 09/15/2009:  18:16:56

Just makin stuff up a few minutes ago so my wife could practice hearing chord changes, Shes learning to play bass.


Things are more the way they are now than they've ever been.

Life is tough, it's even tougher if your stupid.
John Wayne

tomberghan - Posted - 09/15/2009:  18:20:50

The Battle of New Orleans . . . clawhammer . . . based on Johnny Horton's old Rock-a-Billy hit:

In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans

It don't git no better n' that!

Uncle Bead - Posted - 09/15/2009:  19:08:24

Add another John Henry to the list.
roundpeak style so it's really kind of a different song.

Eric

CW Spook - Posted - 09/15/2009:  19:46:12

I just put the banjo away before I got on the computer, but don't remember what the last tune I played was....probably Alabama Joe or Jim Along Josie.

Rick

"The King has note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of. "

Henry V, Act ll, Scene 2.

vrteach - Posted - 09/15/2009:  19:54:25

I can't remember. It was with LyleK 2 days ago, and it may have been Rabbit in the Pea Patch. I know we played that, and it was near the end of our tunes.

Since then I've thought about playing Rocky Mountain Goat, The Possum's Tail is Bare, and Old Bob. But I haven't.

Erich -- There's always room for cello..

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Edited by - vrteach on 09/15/2009 20:21:47

LEUllman - Posted - 09/15/2009:  20:08:17

Golden Slippers, stroke style on the tackhead minstrel banjo.

“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -- Mark Twain

raybob - Posted - 09/15/2009:  21:04:42

I was listening then I went over the tab for Billy In The Lowground a couple hours ago. A friend wants me to learn it, gonna take some work.

Ray

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history." --G. Santayana

vernob - Posted - 09/16/2009:  03:49:50

Sugar Hill. Last night. My wife doesn't appreciate banjo this early in the morning.

Bruce Vernon

"A gentleman is a man who knows how to play the banjo, but chooses not to." - Mark Twain

"Don't worry about mistakes. There aren't any." - Miles Davis

Banjowik - Posted - 09/16/2009:  04:08:18

Big Scioti and boatman, brushing up on G tunes for the weekend!!

witty banjo related username - Posted - 09/16/2009:  04:29:53

quote:

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Originally posted by Banjowik

Big Scioti and boatman, brushing up on G tunes for the weekend!!

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JSCB - Posted - 09/16/2009:  12:40:31

Last evening with the local old time group
Shenandoah Falls
Speed the plough
Hollow Poplar
John Brown's March
Big Bear
Ducks on the Mill Pond
Telephone Tune

slabounty - Posted - 09/16/2009:  12:43:09

Hmm... last night I believe I was working on R.D. Lunceford's Liberty (off of Cotton Blossom). It may have been R.D.'s Dixie, I was playing both and don't remember the order. If you don't have Cotton Blossom (book and CD), please, please, please, just get them. Great stuff! Oh, and don't forget Drop Thumb (book and CD) also. Really, just get it all.


Scott LaBounty
Orange, CA

chip arnold - Posted - 09/16/2009:  12:59:43

Gotta' learn Dixie. By all means, get BOTH of RD's books and cd's. This is the real stuff. And his tabs are simple and to the point. Very good books.

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Brian T - Posted - 09/16/2009:  14:15:46

Had the drum machine cranked up (loud) and played as hard as I could: "I'm A Believer" and "Flowers On The Wall" (banjotom arrangements.) Just feels good.

We do not know where we are going.
Nor do most of us care.
For us, it is enough that we are on our way.
Le Matelot

dangibson - Posted - 09/16/2009:  18:58:41

About four hours ago: "Johnny, Don't Get Drunk" (gCGCD, capo 2)

Dan Gibson, Storyteller/Banjoplayer
Dallas, TX; Burlington, NC
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georgiacdt - Posted - 09/16/2009:  19:22:55

Angeline the Baker and Cluck Old Hen last night on the Stella.

vrteach - Posted - 09/17/2009:  06:55:13

Ok. Last night I played "The Possum's Tail is Bare".

Erich -- There's always room for cello..

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Jazzy J - Posted - 09/17/2009:  08:41:30

Down in the Willow Garden yesterday afternoon.

maryzcox - Posted - 09/18/2009:  05:56:37

[quote]Originally posted by banjo_brad

"This morning, I grabbed up my new banjo and played a bunch of open C tunes sitting in bed in my pjs."

MaryZ - sounds like you're off banjo restriction. Again.

Brad
Hello Brad,
Actually no--not exactly off banjo restriction. The Lame Horse kind of came out of the blue from some awesome guitar luthiers in Texas. They wanted me to try it because I already have a lot of nice banjos and they knew that I liked different banjo voices and didn't expect all banjos to sound just one way.

Several things happened to make it impossible to send the prototype back.
1. We bonded immediately
2. When I took it to a local luthier to have it set up and a railroad spike put in--he accidently pricked his finger and a drop of his blood fell into the banjo head.

Well, you can see the complication there--can't you? Obviously, OSHA is not going to allow a blood soaked banjo to cross state lines Even my husband can understand public health issues like this!
Then--there has been all the rumblings about Texas breaking free again.
I can see it all now--trying to return the banjo at the Texas border--I'd be in dusty camo digging under barbed and electrical fencing--agressive dogs nipping my boots, searchlights, sirens...

Anyway--last tune played--last night--Soldier's Joy with Bob and a friend--after dinner in the living room.

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janolov - Posted - 09/18/2009:  06:27:46

16 hours ago I played Big-Eyed Rabbit.

.

Jan-Olov

minstrelmike - Posted - 09/18/2009:  06:58:24

Sweet Baby James yesterday afternoon on the back deck.
MM

u k sandra - Posted - 09/18/2009:  09:09:17

My Dixie Darling. I`m trying to learn it from Dolly Parton on Youtube. I`m not having a lot of luck but I`ll get there. Last try was about two hours ago.

s donnelly

kevinl - Posted - 09/19/2009:  19:34:49

West Virginia Gals a couple of hours ago

God plays a banjo and a child will lead them :)

kevinl - Posted - 09/19/2009:  19:35:30

West Virginia Gals a couple of hours ago

God plays a banjo and a child will lead them :)

handsup8 - Posted - 09/20/2009:  07:25:07

Hard to remember: played a little garden party w/fiddler Dave Hoke and I think we ended with "Texas." Learned "Pretty Little Girl w/the Hair All Down Behind" form him too and we might have played that last.

Handsup8

itockman - Posted - 09/20/2009:  09:35:14

We ended with "Elk River Blues" last night at a fundraiser for our local ice rink.

munchausen - Posted - 09/20/2009:  19:32:06

"Sugar Baby," Dock Boggs style, about 9 hrs. ago

Chad

oldwoodchuckb - Posted - 09/20/2009:  20:01:29

Today I think it was Black Eyed Susie.... or mebby Fly Around My Daisy. We played a lot of old standards at the jam

Wait a sec. A friend and I played a couple tunes I recently tabbed - Robinson County and.... the other one. I've already forgotten what it was.


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clawhammermike - Posted - 09/20/2009:  20:12:26

my band ended our session today with rockingham cindy and texas gals in c. we covered c and d tunes today. the rest of the band then played tanners rag in g but I was too busy messing with the dog or something.

manmademusic - Posted - 09/20/2009:  20:16:56

Today it was Red Mountain Wine.

Gary
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uncledaveh - Posted - 09/21/2009:  13:56:09

Clinch Mountain Backstep (clawhammer) to close our last show at the festival in Estillfork, Alabama on Saturday evening.

Hot dog!!



David "Uncle Dave" Holbrook
The Rockdale Ridgerunners

"Now good people, we're going to play this next tune with more heterogeneous constipolicy, double flavor and unknown quality than usual! Make it light on yourself."

Edited by - uncledaveh on 09/21/2009 13:56:55

mimmy - Posted - 09/21/2009:  16:26:43

Forkey Deer (a la Sidna Myers) about 5 minutes ago

-kathy

banjorino - Posted - 09/21/2009:  16:47:15

The theme from Poltergeist about 4 hours ago :)

WGE - Posted - 09/21/2009:  17:44:18

So for today, my last tune was one of my all-time favorites "Liberty." This, and some other tunes like "Year of Jublio" just really have that old-time sound to me that I like.

J-Walk - Posted - 09/21/2009:  18:52:30

Elk River Blues -- I just learned that one last week. What a fine tune it is!

chip arnold - Posted - 09/21/2009:  20:39:46

Texas Gals

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Give what is taken

Chip Arnold

manmademusic - Posted - 09/21/2009:  21:22:26

Tonight I close out with a wonderful tune I just learned called "Walking Up Georgia Row" in the key of D.

Here is Jane Rothfield and friends playing the tune:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyBB6ofBJJQ

Goodnight all

Gary
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Edited by - manmademusic on 09/21/2009 21:25:04

5stringpicker2 - Posted - 09/21/2009:  22:09:42

Banjo Riff Boogie, 9 Pound Hammer, Pig In A Pen less than 30 minutes ago.

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PaulKirby - Posted - 09/21/2009:  22:29:27

The new rigged ship about 18 hours ago while visiting a music store in Copenhagen.

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bluemule_77 - Posted - 09/21/2009:  22:37:59

Finally packed my banjo in for the night. Stayed up way too late. The last thing I played was Hangman's Reel.

BM

farmer bob - Posted - 09/22/2009:  06:33:57

Old Joe Clark mixed with a little Taterpatch at 2am, then fell a sleep on the banjo... Bob.

Banjo75 - Posted - 09/24/2009:  03:27:32

This is a great thread. I just started pickin' and learning the beginning notes of New River Train maybe 3 minutes ago.

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