dmar57 - Posted - 06/22/2012:  13:27:44

What's your favourite OT tune to play. For me it's always been "Boatman". I just love that tune/song, it has an energy and when I play it I can get lost in enjoying playing it in a way that doesn't really happen with most tunes, even though I like an awful lot of tunes. Boatman just has great momentum or something.

Is there any one tune that you enjoy playing more than all the others? Recordings most welcome :) No 10 tune lists please, let's keep it to one :D

Edited by - dmar57 on 06/22/2012 13:36:16

bd - Posted - 06/22/2012:  13:40:56

I don't have a favorite but Boatman is one I keep coming back to. I play the Briggs version though sometimes I "frail it up" (to coin a phrase).

here's mine from a little while back

VIDEO: Dance Boatman Dance (click to view)

dmar57 - Posted - 06/22/2012:  13:49:07

Cool, that's really nice stroke style bd. Quite different from the way I usually hear it. I like it.

Maybe I should have called this thread "is boatman the best old time tune".

banjo bill-e - Posted - 06/22/2012:  13:50:29

Do you mean my favorite today or my favorite tomorrow or---------
My current tune obsession is a hybrid of "Quince Dillon's High D" and something that I must have made up! That one is going through my head almost 24/7 lately.

greadore - Posted - 06/22/2012:  13:53:48

I like Whiskey Before Breakfast.

bd - Posted - 06/22/2012:  13:58:42

quote:

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Originally posted by dmar57

Cool, that's really nice stroke style bd. Quite different from the way I usually hear it. I like it.

Maybe I should have called this thread "is boatman the best old time tune".

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Thanks! Liked yours too.

hoverflytheo - Posted - 06/22/2012:  14:04:03

OK, for old-time it's between Boatman and Soldier's Joy. Since I play them in different tunings I can't really pick the one I keep coming back to, because it depends what my banjo is tuned to.

Edited by - hoverflytheo on 06/22/2012 14:05:44

J-Walk - Posted - 06/22/2012:  14:16:39

My favorite changes from week to week. Currently, it's "Long Way Home," by Jim Childress. It's one of those "new" old time tunes. It has some great chord changes and is really fun to play. Here's a video of Milliner & Koken playing it (with Walt calling out the chords for the B part):

youtu.be/VN0ENU81vq8

UncleClawhammer - Posted - 06/22/2012:  16:15:12

My favorites will always be Cripple Creek and Soldier's Joy. Hackeneyed as they are, you can't beat 'em.

ZEPP - Posted - 06/22/2012:  18:35:58

Funny, as there are tunes that I like right now, today, but I will forget in a year.  OTOH, there are tunes that I have liked since I first heard them:  St. Anne's Reel and Over the Waterfall come to mind, as do The Cuckoo's Nest and Lark in the Morning.

Who knows what tomorrow may bring?

Cheers,

ZEPP

Edited by - ZEPP on 06/22/2012 18:36:44

Sultans of Claw - Posted - 06/22/2012:  19:12:14

I'm not very far along as a player, but it's Cuckoo for me.  I can really mesmerize myself playing that one and just zone out into the groove.  I've been trying to work up the courage to do a video, but I've been playing more guitar than banjo of late.

Edited by - Sultans of Claw on 06/22/2012 19:13:09

aeroweenie - Posted - 06/22/2012:  19:49:09

If I have to pick one, it's Soldier's Joy, but there are many that run a close second.  Rocky Mountains is one of my current infatuations, we'll see if it becomes a long term favorite.

pete hobbie - Posted - 06/23/2012:  04:01:01

My "favorite" seems to change every week or so....this week I've been obsessed with elsic'c farewell and goin back to israel. I think the most fun tunes I like to play are lost indian and debuque and they've hung in there for years now.

mbuk06 - Posted - 06/23/2012:  06:27:31

One tune? Currently I can't choose between these four...Red Bird,  Breaking Up Christmas, Cider and Big-Eyed Rabbit.

Oh ok then...Red Bird.

blockader - Posted - 06/23/2012:  07:18:22

schew, what a question! i couldn't pick one. I'll tend to have a favorite but then end up playing it too much and move on. Elzic's Farewell was a favorite for a long time until we played it for 45 minutes while people danced a may pole. as folk's strings ran out they'd pick up an instrument and start playing along too. and there was just such a groove going we didn't wanna screw it up by moving into a different tune! kinda burned me out on it for awhile though.

-justin

minstrelmike - Posted - 06/23/2012:  08:08:04

Cluck Old Hen is my favorite tune to get lost in.

I have a version on my home page but can't figure out how the linking works best.

banjohangout.org/myhangout/mus...id=34463#

rendesvous1840 - Posted - 06/23/2012:  23:26:44

I like "Tyin' A Knot In The Devils Tail." Sometimes I can even remember all the verses.
Paul

maryzcox - Posted - 06/24/2012:  11:42:23

Snowdrop :)
Mzc

Ron44 - Posted - 06/25/2012:  08:22:34

"When it's lamp lighting time in the valley"

JanetB - Posted - 06/25/2012:  08:58:40

Waynesboro, the way my friend Carolyn showed me.  It was the first one I posted on BHO.

Waynesboro

JeremyS - Posted - 06/25/2012:  09:02:44

Cold Frosty Morning, Breaking up Christmas.

maryzcox - Posted - 06/25/2012:  10:42:03

Been playing Sally In the Garden a lot lately too :)

Best wishes,

Mary Z Cox

maryzcox.com

frailinrebel - Posted - 06/25/2012:  13:11:52

forked deer for d/c tunes, brushy fork of john's creek for g/a.

Maisy - Posted - 06/26/2012:  01:23:18

I just started learning to frail a couple of months ago, and lately I've been toddling through Rose Colleen quite a bit.  It's a great old tune and maybe I'll do it justice one of these days!

Oplunk - Posted - 06/26/2012:  10:23:54

While this is such a moving target, upon reflection my favorite tune to play year-to-year is the Ed Haley tune Half-Past Four.

RG - Posted - 06/26/2012:  11:54:16

All of them...

Edited by - RG on 06/26/2012 11:54:40

appicker - Posted - 06/27/2012:  10:26:03

This month it has been

Cabin Creek
Breaking up Christmas
Rabbit in the pea patch

jojo25 - Posted - 06/27/2012:  11:01:19

fav?...the one I'm currently doing...whatever it may be...give your all to the tune...and it will give back

doc.COM - Posted - 08/14/2012:  15:27:33

At the moment I am learning to play Chilly Winds and having fun with that

RWJones1970 - Posted - 08/15/2012:  05:31:21

Zepp, I was under the impression that your favorite tune to play was Shady Grove

jojo25 - Posted - 08/15/2012:  10:56:49

don't know about favorite...probably the one I'm playing...if I wasn't on this stupid pooter...but my current obsession is Hangman's Reel

this is a real nice version..Tricia and her crew rock this...and I love the babes on the backs!!

youtube.com/watch?v=1MForWi_fM...lpp_video

OldPappy - Posted - 08/15/2012:  12:21:03

Frosty Morn is my favorite, and sometimes Texas (Newcastle) is my favorite, but then again some other times John Browns March is my favorite, and sometimes else Angeline Baker is my favorite, and sometimes I think Solder's Joy is my favorite.

I like to play Boatsman's Dance too.

I like Whiskey Before Breakfast too, but it might get me into trouble once I get to work, so I usually wait until the evening.

Still say Frosty Morn is my favorite of favorites. I like to play it slow enough to stretch out the lonesome as far as it will stretch.

corgies - Posted - 08/16/2012:  07:30:44

Today I'm re-enjoying Cluck Ole Hen, tomorrow who knows?

Paul R - Posted - 08/16/2012:  09:44:47

Lately I've gone back to G tuning. I've just worked up a simple version of "Big Scioty" and hope to get it right some day. Also playing (really "playing", as in "having lots of fun with") June Apple, Boatman, Barlow Knife, Kitchen Girl, and Waterbound.