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Playing Since: 1989
Experience Level: Expert/Professional
Hunter Robertson has made 7 recent additions to Banjo Hangout 
Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]
Occupation: Musician, builder, jeweler. In that order by preference.
Gender: Male
Age: 41
My Instruments:
Flathead Gibson (my father got an old pot years ago and built a neck for it. It has no resonator), an S.S. Stewart and a Maya Masterclone turned into a thumpy gutbucket. A couple of homemade instruments: a fretless longneck with a Profitt-like head strung with gut, a fretless Danish cookie tin banjo. I just got a plastic Harmony. For what it cost and what it's made of, it's astonishingly good.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Wade Ward, Art Rosenbaum, Dock Boggs, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Buell Kazee, Hobart Smith, Virgil Anderson, The Holy Modal Rounders, Blind Willie Johnson, Marc Ribot, Captain Beefheart, John Lurie.
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Created 5/19/2006
Last Visit 5/15/2013
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Play count: 823
Size: 7,348kb, uploaded 8/3/2008 4:09:58 PM
Genre: Old Time
From my album Casey Joe Abair & Hunter Robertson: "If You Want to Go to Sleep, Go to Bed" (Yodel-Ay-Hee 074).
From Leadbelly, Art Rosenbaum, Bill Monroe, Dock Walsh and others. Fiddle: ADAD, Banjo: f#DF#AD (played on an S.S. Stewart strung with Nylgut). A lonesome song.
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Play count: 1854
Size: 6,291kb, uploaded 7/20/2008 12:35:48 AM
Genre: Old Time
From my album, Casey Joe Abair & Hunter Robertson: "If You Want to Go to Sleep, Go to Bed" (Yodel-Ay-Hee 074).
“Title of this tune's ‘The Last Chance’, something all of us will have before we die I guess, a last chance,” is how Hobart Smith introduced this at a 1963 concert in New York City. Fiddle: GDAE, Banjo: gEGDE. Casey had to eek a fiddle tune out of the banjo playing. A kissing cousin to ‘Rambling Hobo’ and Dock Boggs' ‘Davenport’.
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Play count: 1456
Size: 3,692kb, uploaded 4/8/2008 1:37:36 AM
Genre: Old Time
Liberty. Clawhammer banjo. gCGCD tuned down to who knows where. Learned this from John Burke's book, Art Rosenbaum's recording and my father's playing. Played on an S.S. Stewart strung with nylgut. What a pretty tune.
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Play count: 347
Size: 4,058kb, uploaded 7/12/2009 9:31:22 AM
Genre: Old Time
From my album, Casey Joe Abair & Hunter Robertson: "If You Want to Go to Sleep, Go to Bed" (Yodel-Ay-Hee 074).
Fiddle: AEAE, Banjo: aEADE (fretless). The first real tune my father taught me. He called it ‘Clinch Mountain Backstep’, and got it from the Stanley Brothers for all I know, but he clawhammered it. This is more John Salyer's version.
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Play count: 375
Size: 2,896kb, uploaded 3/7/2010 6:08:49 AM
Genre: Old Time
Old Joe Clark on my fretless Harmony Reso-Tone. gDGBD, tuned down.
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Play count: 1963
Size: 3,200kb, uploaded 11/1/2006 5:45:49 PM
Genre: Old Time
Scary old ballad. Somewhat old timey 3 finger picking.
From my album Sings Songs for the Masses.
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Play count: 2136
Size: 4,040kb, uploaded 11/1/2006 6:03:38 PM
Genre: Old Time
Gut strung fretless banjo made by my father. Some form of three finger picking. Tear-jerker. From my album Sings Songs for the Masses.
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Play count: 436
Size: 5,485kb, uploaded 7/25/2009 5:00:09 PM
Genre: Old Time
Casey Abair on fiddle. Casey learned this from George Stoneman’s banjo recording, changed the key and passed it on to me. Fiddle: GDAE, Banjo: aDADE (fretless).
From our new album, "If You Want to Go to Sleep, Go to Bed".
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Play count: 2125
Size: 2,196kb, uploaded 11/1/2006 5:52:18 PM
Genre: Old Time
Clawhammer - about equal parts Hobart Smith, The Skillet Lickers and my father's playing. From my album Sings Songs for the Masses.
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Play count: 736
Size: 5,496kb, uploaded 8/9/2008 6:51:59 AM
Genre: Old Time
From my album, Casey Joe Abair & Hunter Robertson: "If You Want to Go to Sleep, Go to Bed" (Yodel-Ay-Hee 074).
AEAE, Banjo: aEADE. Dock Boggs of course. Damn.
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Play count: 550
Size: 4,572kb, uploaded 8/3/2008 3:59:34 PM
Genre: Old Time
From my album, Casey Joe Abair & Hunter Robertson: "If You Want to Go to Sleep, Go to Bed" (Yodel-Ay-Hee 074).
The Devil's Dream as Hobart Smith called it, appropriately enough. It's a doozy. ‘John Brown's Dream’, ‘Little Rabbit’, ‘Herve Brown's Dream’ and ‘Pretty Little Miss’ are other names it goes by. Fiddle: AEAE, Banjo: aEAC#E (we're both tuned low, all the tunings I give here are relative).
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Play count: 895
Size: 3,489kb, uploaded 3/23/2007 1:24:27 PM
Genre: Old Time
Nylon-strung S.S. Stewart. Written by Rev. J.K. Alwood. My wife Fereale singing harmony. Recorded for the soundtrack of the documentary The Ostrich Testimonies. A nod is due to Mr. Hobart Smith.
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Play count: 1440
Size: 4,000kb, uploaded 11/1/2006 6:00:13 PM
Genre: Old Time
One man band: Slide banjo, hi-hat, bass drum, kazoo and voice. From my album Sings Songs for the Masses.
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