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Playing Since: 1997
Experience Level: Purty Good
handsup8 has made 10 recent additions to Banjo Hangout 
Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing]
Occupation: Educator
Age: 51
My Instruments:
Teilhard Frost #31--Gourd (2011); Jason Mogi Fretless #22 (2007); Enoch Tradesman #380 (2007); Prust Tackhead (2009); Stew-Mac "Eagle" Kit (1970s?).
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Wade Ward; Clyde Davenport; Dink Roberts; Andy Cahan; Pete Sutherland; Tom Waits; Fred Cockerham; John Hurt; The Crooked Jades; Booker White; Charlie Patton; Buell and Bascom; The Clash; Skip James; Blanton Owen; Minor Threat; Kyle Creed; Bruce Molsky; X; Bob Carlin; Grayson & Whittier; Paul Brown; Geeshie Wiley; John Herrmann; Hindemith; Tetes raides; Ornette Coleman; Chet Baker; Jimmy Triplett;
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Created 5/14/2007
Last Visit 5/21/2013
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Play count: 1182
Size: 1,785kb, uploaded 1/11/2009 1:40:01 PM
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First tune recorded on my new Prust Tackhead. I'm lovin' this banjo! Played out of "Double-A" tuning.
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27 people like this
Play count: 1935
Size: 3,595kb, uploaded 7/2/2008 10:45:17 AM
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Country blues classic by Skip James, which I've set on the banjo [double-c tuning]. Hope you like the Tradesman's ring.
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Play count: 547
Size: 3,118kb, uploaded 8/13/2009 7:59:40 PM
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Great tune I learned from Vermont fiddler Katie Trautz, who caught it from WV fiddler Jimmy Triplett at Augusta one summer. BrendanD shared a sound file of Melvin Wine playing a vey similar version, so p'raps through Katie and Jimmy I'm a couple degrees away from Mr. Wine! I'm in "Old G" on the nylgut-strung Stewart Universal Favorite (gDGDE), and Katie's on the fiddle.
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3 people like this
Play count: 520
Size: 2,676kb, uploaded 3/8/2009 10:22:24 AM
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Classic Libba Cotten tune, which I've done clawhammer on the Tackhead on a day when it's almost 50 degrees in Vermont in March!!!! I guess I should get myself outside..........
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Play count: 99
Size: 4,143kb, uploaded 3/12/2009 11:56:06 AM
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Robert Johnson classic, played in A on my son's Gretsch "Wild West Sweethearts" toy guitar. Sounds way better on head-phones or out of decent speakers than on computer speakers. (But what doesn't?)
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8 people like this
Play count: 416
Size: 4,617kb, uploaded 10/22/2009 9:36:29 PM
Genre: Old Time
House Carpenters version of Bascom's classic. Katie Trautz, fiddle/vocals; Dan Haley, mandolin/vocals; and me, banjo.
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10 people like this
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Size: 2,651kb, uploaded 11/5/2007 10:35:25 PM
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Played on the "Eagle."
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Play count: 320
Size: 3,852kb, uploaded 10/22/2009 8:41:07 PM
Genre: Old Time
House Carpenters version off our eponymous cd. Katie Trautz, fiddle/vocal; Dan Haley, guitar/vocal; me, banjo.
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6 people like this
Play count: 141
Size: 2,361kb, uploaded 9/28/2012 4:42:58 PM
Genre: Old Time
Medley of two tunes learned from Tom Mackenzie up here in VT. Recorded a while back, but I still like 'em.
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Play count: 600
Size: 2,407kb, uploaded 7/2/2008 11:24:57 AM
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My gloss on this great tune. Tradesman in a modal mood.
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Size: 2,719kb, uploaded 3/8/2009 10:31:47 AM
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JP Nestor and Norman Edmonds recorded the classic version in 1927, and many others have covered it since, although it seems to have become more of a staple in bluegrass playing than old-time. That said, Big Hoedown also did a great version. Played on the Tackhead in Open E (open G down a step and 1/2).
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20 people like this
Play count: 1492
Size: 5,023kb, uploaded 1/17/2009 9:36:49 AM
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Cover of Robert Johnson's great tune. Playing with a brass slide on the Prust Tackhead, which holds up real well to a heavy metal slide, much to my surprise and pleasure.
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6 people like this
Play count: 390
Size: 4,859kb, uploaded 1/7/2010 11:54:56 AM
Genre: Old Time
Slow version of this current fave around the sessions. People like it slow and the Prust helped out. Double C on the tackhead. Takes me about 15 seconds to get going. Sorry...........
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