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Size: 1,172kb, uploaded 11/4/2012 8:58:59 AM
Genre: Old Time
Melvin Wine, the great West Virginia fiddled learned this from his father and it goes back to one of his great-grandfather Smithy's favorite tunes. This is for TOTW.
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by JanetB, written by Earl Scruggs
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Play count: 860
Size: 762kb, uploaded 4/12/2012 2:57:40 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
When studying Scruggs from his book I learned this tune.
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by JanetB, written by William Douglas
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Play count: 940
Size: 1,544kb, uploaded 9/17/2012 6:20:26 AM
Genre: Traditional
This old Scottish love song, based on William Douglas's poem in around 1700, was also the first performance attempt of Lotta Crabtree (1847 - 1923). Known now as the Shirley Temple of the 19th century, Lotta walked onto a school stage in San Francisco as a wee little girl under six years old. She burst into tears when trying to sing Annie Laurie and ran off stage. So, stage fright is certainly nothing new! She got over it and became a millionaire and successful Broadway performer, leaving her millions to charity in the 1920's.
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Play count: 314
Size: 1,268kb, uploaded 4/28/2013 2:03:08 PM
Genre: Old Time
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TOTW - Arkansas Traveler 4/26/13
For the Tune of the Week, April 26, 2013.
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by JanetB, written by Bill Monroe
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Play count: 615
Size: 1,048kb, uploaded 7/11/2011 8:49:47 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
Learned from Kenny Baker's version with Bill Monroe. Boy, he sure put in a lot of notes! God bless him.
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Play count: 124
Size: 1,220kb, uploaded 2/16/2013 4:06:23 PM
Genre: Old Time
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TOTW 2/16/13: Ask That Pretty Girl To Be My Wife
For the Tune of the Week, Feb. 16, 2013, played on a Gold Tone Cripple Creek mini banjo. Learned watching Clyde Davenport video. What a pretty tune and he's amazing at 92 years old!
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Play count: 74
Size: 1,280kb, uploaded 5/17/2013 5:55:17 AM
Genre: Old Time
In topics:
Backstep Cindy/Granny Went to Meeting
I'd been working on the "Galax lick" I learned from Adam Hurt, then turned to a Brad Leftwich arrangement of Tommy Jarrel's Backstep Cindy, and finally figured out how to insert that little phrase into a TOTW, Granny Went to Meeting. Other people have different names for the Galax lick, but it's still a convenient way to identify a familiar pattern of fingering and timing.
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by JanetB, written by Everett Kays
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Play count: 95
Size: 1,256kb, uploaded 5/19/2013 1:57:08 PM
Genre: Old Time
In topics:
TOTW 5/17/2013 Bacon Rind
For the Tune of the Week, 5/18/13. I listened to Everett Kays' fiddling and simplified it.
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26 people like this
Play count: 1159
Size: 825kb, uploaded 9/28/2012 6:31:00 AM
Genre: Old Time
I'm finally learning this tune. It made a great TOTW a while back. Playing on a fretless is quite challenging and also rewarding. The gourd gives it a unique tone. Hope you enjoy!
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by JanetB, written by Dallan Forgaill
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8 people like this
Play count: 390
Size: 1,055kb, uploaded 1/26/2012 8:36:13 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
An 8th century Irish hymn. The English translation is beautiful.
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11 people like this
Play count: 131
Size: 1,340kb, uploaded 2/11/2013 4:30:11 PM
Genre: Old Time
In topics:
TOTW February 8, 2013: Bells March
For the TOTW, Feb. 8, 2013. An emotionally moving modal tune.
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Size: 1,039kb, uploaded 7/9/2012 12:38:48 PM
Genre: Other
A song I wanted to learn after hearing Jim Reed's BHO video.
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22 people like this
Play count: 1315
Size: 572kb, uploaded 6/30/2011 7:57:50 AM
Genre: Old Time
A tune named after a river in Ohio
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8 people like this
Play count: 179
Size: 1,280kb, uploaded 3/19/2013 6:39:41 AM
Genre: Old Time
In topics:
Bill Cheatham (solo banjo, some melodics)
I like Doc Watson's version. Mine's clawhammered.
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Play count: 1036
Size: 931kb, uploaded 7/12/2011 8:40:20 AM
Genre: Old Time
Played chordally, then melodically.
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Play count: 358
Size: 1,316kb, uploaded 11/3/2012 9:53:08 AM
Genre: Old Time
I first learned this clawhammer, then recorded it 3-finger picking, now am re-learning it for clawhammer. It's tuned to double C.
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Play count: 581
Size: 680kb, uploaded 7/9/2012 8:34:16 PM
Genre: Traditional
For the brotherhood, from your sister. My favorite version has been Doc's.
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25 people like this
Play count: 1390
Size: 917kb, uploaded 4/11/2012 10:15:14 AM
Genre: Old Time
A favorite tune, a little too early for the blossoms here in the California foothill springtime, but with lots of good memories picking berries with the grandkids in summer.
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by JanetB, written by Bob Wills
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Play count: 175
Size: 1,471kb, uploaded 3/12/2012 5:45:50 AM
Genre: Other
The group I play with on Sundays--the Rough and Ready Fruit Jar Pickers--does a lot of songs that our band leader likes and he used to play pedal steel guitar. So here's Maiden's Prayer, Steel Guitar Rag, and Roly Poly (with some quiet vocals in honor of my new cello banjo arriving this week).
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Play count: 782
Size: 777kb, uploaded 2/8/2013 6:23:48 AM
Genre: Old Time
In topics:
Bonaparte's Retreat inspired by Stephen Wade's new book
Kentucky fiddler William H. Stepp so impressed Allan and Elizabeth Lomax in their 1937 Library and Congress recording, that Mr. Lomax recommended the tune to Aaron Copland who subsequently used it in his famous hoe-down piece in the ballet "Rodeo." The story is well-told by Stephen Wade in his new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us. Mr. Stepp played it an breakneck speed, different from the more charming versions abounding in other old-time recordings, but it was also impressive enough to use in the famous commercial: Beef--It's What's for Dinner.
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Play count: 227
Size: 1,188kb, uploaded 3/5/2012 6:21:04 AM
Genre: Old Time
These two songs are mentioned in Bill Monroe's song "Uncle Penn." His uncle fiddled them at dances, so Monroe grew up hearing them and even accompanying him on guitar.
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Play count: 248
Size: 805kb, uploaded 12/20/2011 9:02:01 AM
Genre: Traditional
It's said in the Library of Congress that Henry Reed learned this from Quince Dillon, the fifer, and that it was a tune used by the British to retreat from their defeat in the Battle of New Orleans. Alan Jabbour recorded Henry Reed.
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Play count: 184
Size: 1,400kb, uploaded 1/18/2013 6:28:24 AM
Genre: Old Time
Learned listening to Ed Haley's fiddling. It's challenging, like running through the brush. Yuck--stickers, ticks, tangles.
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by JanetB, written by Bob Flesher
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Play count: 186
Size: 632kb, uploaded 12/30/2011 7:36:14 AM
Genre: Old Time
Listening to Bob Flesher's clawhammer tunes is inspiring, though I play it with 3-finger picking. He's Banjo Hangout's own "Sandy Bob," aka Dr. Horsehair (drhorsehair.com). And a luthier as well, what a talent!
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Play count: 166
Size: 1,100kb, uploaded 1/21/2013 12:27:46 PM
Genre: Old Time
As played by Dwight Diller who learned it from Lee Hammons. The banjo here is a Bart Reiter Whyte Laydie.
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Play count: 124
Size: 968kb, uploaded 1/21/2013 1:00:33 PM
Genre: Old Time
The first recording of Lee Hammon's Calloway as learned from Dwight Diller was on a Bart Reiter with a White Laydie tone ring. This one is on a simpler, lighter banjo with no tone ring for comparison sake.
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Play count: 1039
Size: 746kb, uploaded 11/23/2011 9:20:30 PM
Genre: Traditional
A round with banjo and mandolin.
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by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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19 people like this
Play count: 1144
Size: 1,100kb, uploaded 12/17/2011 8:13:46 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Turlough O'Carolan (1670 - 1738) was influenced by Italian composers and this is one of his best such tunes.
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by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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Play count: 1419
Size: 954kb, uploaded 1/2/2012 9:17:17 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
This song is so pretty it's hard to imagine it's about a quarrel, but I think the landlady didn't want him to keep drinking her supply of ale, so he argues about it. At least that's what the biographic sources say.
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by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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Size: 1,030kb, uploaded 2/16/2012 7:43:26 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
A song O'Carolan wrote in honor of Dr. John Stafford, friend and patron, in celebration when he prescribed whiskey to treat depression, after the blind harpist had become depressed when another doctor had him refrain from whiskey for a medical condition.
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by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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Play count: 1530
Size: 753kb, uploaded 11/16/2011 5:55:11 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
In my continuing effort to study O'Carolan's works, I've found another gem of a melody, #171 in his notated songs from Donal O'Sullivan's biography Carolan,The Life, Times, and Music of an Irish Harper; and tabbed nicely in Ron Hughes O'Carolan for the 5 String Banjo book.
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by JanetB, written by Ed Haley
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Play count: 163
Size: 858kb, uploaded 6/13/2012 1:26:01 PM
Genre: Old Time
Ed Haley (1885 - 1951), a blind fiddler from WV who settled in Catlettsburg, KY, raised a family with his blind wife. Both were professional musicians.
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28 people like this
Play count: 1570
Size: 765kb, uploaded 7/7/2011 9:29:10 AM
Genre: Old Time
A great square dance tune.
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11 people like this
Play count: 186
Size: 1,364kb, uploaded 1/12/2013 3:52:34 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
Played on the slow side in A for TOTW January 11, 2013.
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9 people like this
Play count: 206
Size: 849kb, uploaded 5/4/2013 9:56:59 AM
Genre: Old Time
In topics:
TOTW - The Chicken Reel 5/3/13
For the Tune of the Week, May 3, 2013. Played Rough and Ready style on my new Mac Traynham Whyte Laydie.
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Play count: 857
Size: 1,759kb, uploaded 8/20/2011 6:33:42 PM
Genre: Traditional
Inspired by David Grier and friends. Chinquapins are like chestnuts. One thing I do enjoy is gathering pine nuts.
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by JanetB, written by Bob Wine
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Play count: 228
Size: 1,232kb, uploaded 12/19/2012 5:51:22 AM
Genre: Old Time
Melvin Wine's father traditionally played this for the kids. Along with the simple gifts of candy and fruit, with biscuits for breakfast, the tune became a part of Melvin's cherished memories.
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Play count: 289
Size: 783kb, uploaded 11/29/2011 6:00:25 AM
Genre: Traditional
A song that celebrates the season.
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Play count: 220
Size: 1,412kb, uploaded 12/15/2012 4:08:12 PM
Genre: Traditional
For the TOTW--12/14/12
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Play count: 208
Size: 729kb, uploaded 12/10/2011 2:25:39 PM
Genre: Traditional
The melody is tender and pretty.
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Play count: 883
Size: 730kb, uploaded 12/11/2012 7:14:36 PM
Genre: Traditional
One of the caroling songs we do every year.
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Play count: 1051
Size: 1,280kb, uploaded 12/6/2012 5:42:37 AM
Genre: Traditional
A very old hymn widely sung today.
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by JanetB, written by Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
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Play count: 272
Size: 1,006kb, uploaded 12/2/2011 6:02:24 AM
Genre: Popular
A song I sang long ago in the school choir.
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Play count: 840
Size: 781kb, uploaded 12/9/2011 6:13:17 AM
Genre: Popular
The first graders like to play the drums on this one.
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by JanetB, written by Rev. John Henry Hopkins, Jr.
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Play count: 938
Size: 619kb, uploaded 12/13/2011 6:08:01 AM
Genre: Traditional
Fun to play with full chords, like a piano.
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by JanetB, written by Felix Bernard & Richard B. Smith
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Play count: 290
Size: 804kb, uploaded 12/6/2011 5:49:30 AM
Genre: Popular
A popular Christmas song written in 1934.
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by JanetB, written by Tex Logan
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Play count: 219
Size: 1,173kb, uploaded 12/1/2011 5:53:38 AM
Genre: Other
Bill Monroe sang this one. It's the perkiest Christmas song I've heard.
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by JanetB, written by William S. Pitts
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Play count: 197
Size: 2,597kb, uploaded 9/30/2012 8:23:36 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
Written in 1857, but recorded by the Carter Family in the late 1920's. Definitely a favorite jam song for Kit and I, "Plinky and Plunky."
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by JanetB, written by Ralph Stanley
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Play count: 169
Size: 704kb, uploaded 7/14/2012 4:05:08 PM
Genre: Old Time
For the bluegrass boys who are so lightning quick and pin-point accurate, here's my mountain modal clawhammer. Thanks, guys.
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by JanetB, written by Noah Bingham
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Play count: 213
Size: 520kb, uploaded 6/26/2012 10:33:35 AM
Genre: Old Time
Learned for the Tune of the Week from the playing of Kentucky fiddler Estill Bingham. This one's also in Jeff Todd Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes book with its 170 tunes.
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Play count: 1365
Size: 1,122kb, uploaded 6/8/2012 8:04:35 AM
Genre: Traditional
At a music camp dance several years ago, Kit and I heard Heidi Claire fiddling this as the traditional last song of a dance. We just had to learn it and found a notated source by Elena Corey when she was active in the California Bluegrass Association. Here's our banjo/mandolin duet.
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Play count: 184
Size: 1,376kb, uploaded 11/27/2012 7:07:45 PM
Genre: Old Time
For the TOTW Marmaduke's Hornpipe/Cricket on the Hearth, this one is based on Kenny Baker's fiddling.
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by JanetB, written by Bill Monroe and Lamar Grier
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Play count: 1328
Size: 928kb, uploaded 9/1/2011 5:34:03 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
There's a mysterious sound to this tune, as if crossing those mountains wasn't an easy or safe thing to do. I enjoyed figuring it out with the melodic style, and then chordally.
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Play count: 1197
Size: 930kb, uploaded 2/11/2012 3:16:57 PM
Genre: Traditional
Played on a Gold Tone Cripple Creek mini-banjo, key of G.
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26 people like this
Play count: 1507
Size: 1,340kb, uploaded 10/5/2012 8:36:20 PM
Genre: Old Time
For the TOTW, the first time I've used Cumberland Gap tuning, and after listening to many, many, many versions offered here, this is a combination of what I heard.
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Play count: 230
Size: 944kb, uploaded 10/18/2012 6:09:09 AM
Genre: Old Time
A slow-fast arrangement on gourd. I was trying to get more gourd sustain in the recording.
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by JanetB, written by Merle Travis
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14 people like this
Play count: 1099
Size: 773kb, uploaded 7/26/2011 8:32:51 AM
Genre: Popular
This song reminds me of my dad who grew up in the coal mining town of Ashville, PA.
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Play count: 239
Size: 884kb, uploaded 1/21/2013 12:28:49 PM
Genre: Old Time
As played by Dwight Diller who learned it from Lee Hammons.
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by JanetB, written by Lee Hammons
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Play count: 273
Size: 851kb, uploaded 1/27/2013 1:46:26 PM
Genre: Old Time
As played by Dwight Diller who recorded Lee Hammons' banjo piece in the 70's. I'm trying to get a good tone on cello banjo recording.
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by JanetB, written by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
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Play count: 166
Size: 1,119kb, uploaded 11/6/2011 2:19:42 PM
Genre: Old Time
This is one beautiful song when performed by Gillian and David. Kit and I were inspired when we saw them on the Chieftains Nashville Session and wanted to do this duet. Kit's mandolin on melody was so nice I chose to stay with harmony and hope it supports him.
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by JanetB, written by Jim and Jesse McReynolds
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9 people like this
Play count: 292
Size: 781kb, uploaded 10/2/2011 5:37:38 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
Listening to a David Grisman collection called Mandolin Extravaganza, this one caught my attention.
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Play count: 812
Size: 875kb, uploaded 1/23/2013 6:36:37 AM
Genre: Old Time
Comparing this song to another I came to record it with the tuning f#DADE. I remember Doc Watson's singing of it best.
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Play count: 982
Size: 1,040kb, uploaded 10/28/2012 8:14:09 PM
Genre: Old Time
I really liked how Don Courchie fiddled this with Don Borchelt's banjo at their Clifftop jams, so I've learned it listening to their playing. Don's fiddle certainly had embellishments to challenge me.
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Play count: 98
Size: 1,267kb, uploaded 10/30/2012 6:11:19 AM
Genre: Old Time
After posting a fast version of Dry and Dusty, here's a slowed up one on the little gourd banjo. The title insinuates struggles, perhaps relating to the Dust Bowl era, since the Morrison brothers most credited with this tune came from Arkansas.
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by JanetB, written by Kit & Janet Burton
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Play count: 252
Size: 732kb, uploaded 2/18/2012 2:42:08 PM
Genre: Old Time
Kit and I wrote this over the phone years ago. It sounds like a hornpipe. He wrote the A part and I wrote the B part. He always wondered how my part ended in a chord other than the tonic, but then the song goes back to his A part and ends right on the tonic note. Maybe my part was a bridge, not a B part. This goes to show how tabbing (or recording) something as you create it is wise. I tabbed it, but never really learned it until today, played on my Gold Tone Cripple Creek mini openback.
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by JanetB, written by Plinky & Plunky
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Size: 2,850kb, uploaded 3/18/2012 12:41:25 PM
Genre: Old Time
This is the song Kit and I wrote over the phone. John "the KIDD" Kuhn added guitar. What a nice difference!
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Play count: 176
Size: 659kb, uploaded 5/5/2012 8:01:10 PM
Genre: Old Time
This lively song comes from the fiddling of Frank George of West Virginia and is in the popular clawhammer tab book of the 70's by Miles Krassen. I learned it for the Tune of the Week.
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Play count: 230
Size: 540kb, uploaded 2/26/2012 3:30:20 PM
Genre: Traditional
Though important historically as the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, the song is important to me as a useful lesson in learning melodic style. I used Tony Trischka's Melodic Banjo book.
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by JanetB, written by Marty Robbins
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Play count: 937
Size: 739kb, uploaded 8/1/2011 8:57:21 AM
Genre: Country
Its lyrics were changed for a gold rush era play:
Down in the gold camp of old Rough and Ready
I fell in love with a gal with blue eyes.
Nighttime would find me in Susan's great kitchen
Drinking fine coffee and munching on pies. Etc.
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by JanetB, written by David Richardson
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5 people like this
Play count: 233
Size: 668kb, uploaded 7/29/2011 5:31:35 PM
Genre: Traditional
We listened over and over again to this Texas song along Virginia's Crooked Road.
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by JanetB, written by DeFord Bailey
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10 people like this
Play count: 193
Size: 670kb, uploaded 7/31/2012 1:33:22 PM
Genre: Other
A comparison recording with the fretless gourd banjo. The slides from the gourd transfer easily to the fretted neck of the openback.
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by JanetB, written by DeFord Bailey
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Play count: 187
Size: 645kb, uploaded 7/31/2012 12:59:45 PM
Genre: Other
A fun and challenging project--something I've left unfinished for a long time. The gourd banjo is showing me how to use more slides. I'm also recording it on an open back, both clawhammered.
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by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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7 people like this
Play count: 247
Size: 1,032kb, uploaded 2/10/2012 6:02:18 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
O'Carolan's Fairy Queen is highly regarded by scholars of his work. To me its sound is more classical than Celtic. Irish folk have believed in fairies, the "good people," and O'Carolan's first composition, Shebeg Shemore, was about a battle between the little people of two hills.
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Play count: 587
Size: 1,179kb, uploaded 9/25/2011 7:13:36 AM
Genre: Classical
This reminds me of the swirling leaf eddies that keep my first graders from having an orderly line every fall by the cafeteria.
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Play count: 186
Size: 1,723kb, uploaded 4/1/2013 9:17:46 AM
Genre: Traditional
In topics:
Falls of Richmond
This is my interpretation of Edden Hammond's fiddling. There's been much discussion on the Hangout about this tune and I wanted to find the oldest known source of it, though it's said it comes from his great-uncle Pete, born 1847. I like to think it's about the waterfalls of the James River, but the somber modal tone sounds more like it's about a historic event in Richmond, which would actually make the title "Fall of Richmond," as many also use.
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Play count: 1233
Size: 1,627kb, uploaded 11/24/2012 4:11:36 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Learned from Dave Hum, it's my farewell piece for him. He's missed on BHO.
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by JanetB, written by Joe Blalock
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10 people like this
Play count: 390
Size: 2,145kb, uploaded 6/21/2011 9:33:09 PM
Genre: Old Time
A beautiful tune. Listen to James Bryan's version on Bob Carlin's Banging and Sawing CD.
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Play count: 179
Size: 1,758kb, uploaded 11/13/2012 6:06:08 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
A traditional Irish song about a man named Feilim who took his small boat and it crashed. It may have been an Ulster chieftain whose land had been taken. You can feel the admiration and sympathy in the music. The Irish have a great talent for such expression.
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Size: 1,556kb, uploaded 12/2/2012 9:38:49 AM
Genre: Old Time
This Hammons Family tune is one of those captivating mountain melodies that make fiddle tunes a pleasure to hear. Played on a Bart Reiter Whyte Laydie in open G tuning, it would be capoed at the second fret to play with a fiddle.
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Size: 1,268kb, uploaded 1/6/2013 8:55:47 AM
Genre: Old Time
For the Tune of the Week (TOTW) January 5, 2013. This version comes from the playing of Adam Hurt.
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Play count: 231
Size: 726kb, uploaded 7/18/2011 9:38:50 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Thanks to Ron Hughes for his classified ad on Banjo Hangout for his excellent resource, O'Carolan for 5 String Banjo, and for siting his resource--'Carolan, The Life and Music of an Irish Harper, by Donal O'Sullivan (1958).
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Play count: 1131
Size: 690kb, uploaded 7/20/2011 9:46:27 AM
Genre: Traditional
Played on a Gold Tone Cripple Creek mini in modal tuning. Learned from Miles Krassen's Clawhammer Banjo, based on fiddling of Henry Reed.
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Size: 873kb, uploaded 9/26/2011 6:11:26 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
The second air is played first, the first air is known as a drinking song. The Irish people must have enjoyed their get-togethers!
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Play count: 169
Size: 1,388kb, uploaded 2/23/2013 4:26:36 PM
Genre: Old Time
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TOTW GILSAW (2-22-2013)
For the Tune of the Week, 2-22-13. This tune's name is the name of a Missouri fiddler who played it. He must have been a happy fellow! It's in the Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes as played by Preston "Pete" McMahan (1918 - 2000).
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Play count: 150
Size: 1,926kb, uploaded 3/28/2013 4:44:14 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
In topics:
Give Me Your Hand/Kerry Fling medley
Two Celtic tunes to begin Spring break.
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Play count: 590
Size: 1,556kb, uploaded 3/4/2013 6:03:47 PM
Genre: Old Time
Learned from Luther Strong in the Library of Congress. This tune was claimed to have earned him $500 in fiddle contest wins. Reading about him in Stephen Wade's book The Beautiful Music Around Us reveals much about Mr. Strong's life and music.
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by JanetB, written by Bill Monroe and Byron Berline
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Play count: 200
Size: 698kb, uploaded 5/19/2012 1:57:23 PM
Genre: Old Time
Happy tune. The era of the gold rush had a huge effect on the U.S.A. We still feel the impact. My little ghost town of a community used to be quite large and the "miner forty-niner" was quite real. Being that Bill Monroe performed it, does that make it bluegrass? Or is it old-time?
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Play count: 201
Size: 1,225kb, uploaded 8/28/2011 2:37:40 PM
Genre: Traditional
We have close family in Virginia and thought about them during the hurricane.
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Play count: 194
Size: 1,315kb, uploaded 8/24/2011 5:17:55 AM
Genre: Traditional
Precious Memories, Farther Along, In the Sweet By and By
The first time I've recorded in one take, in honor of Jim Reed, my BHO friend whose friend, Paul David Smith passed away yesterday.
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Play count: 139
Size: 1,208kb, uploaded 3/11/2013 6:21:52 AM
Genre: Old Time
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TOTW - 3/8/13: Granddad's Favorite
For the Tune of the Week, 3/8/13. West Virginian fiddler Ernie Carpenter's grandfather liked this. He learned it from his father since his grandfather had passed away.
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Play count: 461
Size: 885kb, uploaded 4/12/2013 6:27:53 AM
Genre: Old Time
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TOTW 4.12.13: Granny Went to Meeting With Her Old Shoes On
For the Tune of the Week 4/12/13. This is #801 on the Slippery Hill website by Earl Thomas, Jr. of Kentucky.
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Play count: 179
Size: 1,037kb, uploaded 7/18/2011 7:16:52 AM
Genre: Traditional
A favorite gospel song.
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Play count: 237
Size: 1,089kb, uploaded 10/27/2011 6:12:43 AM
Genre: Traditional
It sounds like a marching soldier. It must be easier marching to music.
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Play count: 129
Size: 563kb, uploaded 11/11/2011 11:29:36 AM
Genre: Old Time
Learned from a Mike Compton mandolin lesson. Its minor key makes it sound different from other versions.
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Play count: 191
Size: 1,244kb, uploaded 1/26/2013 3:10:15 PM
Genre: Old Time
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TOTW 1.24.13: Half Past Four
For Tune of the Week, 1/26/13
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Play count: 632
Size: 945kb, uploaded 11/6/2012 6:11:53 AM
Genre: Old Time
West Virginian fiddler Melvin Wine learned this from his father and never heard it played elsewhere.
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Play count: 573
Size: 1,220kb, uploaded 5/9/2013 5:40:17 AM
Genre: Other
In topics:
Harlan's Cave
In learning some tunes in the Cumberland Gap/Sandy River Belle tuning I wrote a little tune. It has a darkish sound so I named it after a neat place where big boulders form a little cave where the grandkids like to climb around. I checked later and realized I wrote it in the Aeolian mode in the key of G, played on a Mac Traynham Whyte Laydie openback.
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Play count: 593
Size: 644kb, uploaded 10/18/2011 6:05:49 AM
Genre: Traditional
Learned from a Bill Monroe recording. A polka danced this fast must be easier than playing it.
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5 people like this
Play count: 176
Size: 689kb, uploaded 1/14/2012 3:30:41 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Here's another lively song from O'Carolan.
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Play count: 545
Size: 1,435kb, uploaded 4/10/2013 5:54:30 PM
Genre: Old Time
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Hickory Leaf
This tune comes from Kentucky fiddler Owen "Snake" Chapman from his Walnut Gap 1999 CD. Paul David Smith played guitar for him. Both of them mentored to BHO member Jim Reed and that's how I heard about them. Hickory Leaf is the second tune if you go to the Slippery Hill website with over 1,400 tunes.
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Play count: 111
Size: 1,638kb, uploaded 9/11/2012 11:20:25 AM
Genre: Old Time
Kentucky fiddler Art Stamper played this, also known as Old Horse and Buggy. Played on my Bart Reiter Whyte Laydie.
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Play count: 168
Size: 1,124kb, uploaded 9/11/2012 12:57:41 PM
Genre: Old Time
After recording this on an openback I thought I'd try it on gourd banjo, too. The D chord is in the B part was hard to cleanly get.
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Play count: 391
Size: 633kb, uploaded 7/15/2011 8:07:31 AM
Genre: Traditional
A happy gospel song.
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Play count: 223
Size: 384kb, uploaded 3/9/2012 6:00:10 AM
Genre: Other
This song was played every night in Yosemite National Park, California before the fire falls were pushed over the cliff. Using partial chords I found all the notes.
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Play count: 211
Size: 800kb, uploaded 7/6/2012 6:05:24 AM
Genre: Old Time
This 3-finger version of Indian Nation is based on Adam Hurt's clawhammer rendition in his Earthtones CD.
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Size: 496kb, uploaded 7/6/2012 6:03:51 AM
Genre: Old Time
This tune is one of many of the West Virginian Hammons family's many recordings in the Library of Congress. It's the subject of the Tune of the Week for 7/6/12.
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Play count: 62
Size: 397kb, uploaded 7/20/2011 11:42:54 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
Craig Smith just rips this. Though I have to do it slower and less notey, it's still a great tune.
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Play count: 758
Size: 1,071kb, uploaded 12/14/2011 8:17:06 PM
Genre: Popular
Here's my first grade bunch getting ready for our performance that evening.
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Play count: 673
Size: 1,807kb, uploaded 10/13/2012 1:28:06 PM
Genre: Old Time
In topics:
Backstep Cindy/Granny Went to Meeting
John Salyer of Kentucky is credited most with this song. Pete Sutherland's slow version on "Banjo Gathering" inspired me to learn it, listening both to his 3-finger picking and the original fiddle recording of Salyer in 1940. Thus I'm playing it slow first, then fast; picking, then clawhammer.
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by JanetB, written by Bill Monroe
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Play count: 1389
Size: 1,363kb, uploaded 2/25/2013 6:12:52 AM
Genre: Other
Kenny Baker was a genius playing his fiddle. It's real hard on clawhammer banjo, but I can hear the melody and like to think of Bill Monroe listening to his fox hounds hunt on Jerusalem Ridge by his Kentucky home.
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Play count: 144
Size: 920kb, uploaded 12/22/2012 5:32:32 PM
Genre: Old Time
For the TOTW, Dec. 21, 2012
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Play count: 430
Size: 1,627kb, uploaded 2/14/2013 6:20:59 AM
Genre: Old Time
The similarity of these tunes' beginnings inspired me to combine them as a medley.
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Play count: 96
Size: 849kb, uploaded 9/30/2012 7:55:26 AM
Genre: Old Time
This is one of Don Borchelt's Clifftop, 2012 tunes he played with a WV fiddler named Ralph Roberts. This tune was learned from Ralph's grandfather, John. Its structure is unique, with 12 measures that lead right back to the beginning. I'm grateful to Don for sharing Ralph's music.
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Play count: 755
Size: 774kb, uploaded 4/9/2012 1:42:35 PM
Genre: Old Time
BHO pickers have posted so many good versions of this great tune that I was inspired to learn it.
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Play count: 165
Size: 783kb, uploaded 4/10/2012 7:22:54 AM
Genre: Old Time
Learning to play the cello banjo is an interesting challenge. It does remind me of playing the cello a long time ago, but with no bow. We called that "pizzacato."
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by JanetB, written by Bill Monroe
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Size: 1,080kb, uploaded 7/14/2011 8:47:06 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
This is a state song. What a wise choice for an official song, like an official bird or flower. I've never been there, but the song makes it feel like it would be a nice place.
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Play count: 255
Size: 873kb, uploaded 10/24/2011 5:58:42 PM
Genre: Traditional
Listened to Bill Monroe and liked Kiss Me Waltz. He recorded some great instrumentals like this one during the early 70's. Over the Waterfall seems to go along with the theme and also stays in the ending chord of Kiss Me Waltz, which modulates from G to D.
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Play count: 976
Size: 1,267kb, uploaded 7/19/2012 12:29:10 PM
Genre: Old Time
A friend played it long ago, a lot of BHO members post it, and it's on the Henry Reed collection. I'm finally learning it, but wonder about the major/minor parts.
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Play count: 651
Size: 783kb, uploaded 7/4/2012 7:20:37 AM
Genre: Other
This is the first part of an African slave song notated when Sir Hans Sloane was in Jamaica in 1668. It's quite a lovely tune and I thought putting it to clawhammer banjo was fitting. Sloane also drew the earliest known pictures of the gourd banjo, seen in many written reference materials.
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Play count: 344
Size: 447kb, uploaded 6/28/2011 7:38:46 AM
Genre: Old Time
Inspired by Megan Lynch. Also known as Lord McDonald's Reel.
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by JanetB, written by Bobby Neuwirth and Henry Burnett
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Size: 517kb, uploaded 12/22/2011 10:18:28 AM
Genre: Old Time
This song was used in the Cold Mountain soundtrack.
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Play count: 150
Size: 517kb, uploaded 11/11/2011 11:28:00 AM
Genre: Old Time
This song title is one of an 1849 collection for Christy's Minstrels. It actually sounds like someone walking with a limp. Mike Compton teaches it to his mandolin students. I'm playing it on my older Tennessee open back.
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Play count: 1527
Size: 1,305kb, uploaded 11/2/2011 5:45:09 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Just having fun remembering words learned long ago.
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Play count: 111
Size: 1,435kb, uploaded 9/24/2012 6:00:28 PM
Genre: Old Time
Earl Collins learned this from his father, William. Earl was born in Missouri, moved to Oklahoma, and ended up in Southern California, where my guitar teacher hosted a jam where I remember getting to play as a new clawhammer player. Earl was kind and encouraging. He passed away soon not more than a year later.
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by JanetB, written by Chuck Levy
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Size: 1,113kb, uploaded 8/14/2012 8:54:33 AM
Genre: Old Time
Original Tune of the Week, Little Olentangy is a river that runs into Big Scioto in Columbus, Ohio. It's been fun learning about geography and playing the cheerful tune on cello banjo behind Chuck Levy's banjo. You might be hearing Chuck's birds chirping in the background.
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Play count: 281
Size: 1,084kb, uploaded 10/4/2011 5:54:42 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
A slow waltz in the moonlight, a Monroe classic.
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Play count: 1102
Size: 592kb, uploaded 1/28/2012 3:30:59 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
O'Carolan composed this in honor of the 4th Earl of Inchiquin, County Clare, Ireland. It sounds like a minuet until the second part, when O'Carolan's signature melody surprises are heard.
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Play count: 249
Size: 1,112kb, uploaded 7/28/2012 3:32:46 PM
Genre: Old Time
An old tune I remember best from listening to Doc Watson.
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Play count: 190
Size: 980kb, uploaded 7/23/2012 11:47:34 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
This tune was composed for a funeral march after the Battle of Knockinoss in southern Ireland when the Irish and Scottish highlanders lost to the Parliamentary forces on Nov. 13, 1647. It honors the brave Scottish leader, Alisdair (Colkitto) MacAllistrum and his men.
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by JanetB, written by Giacomo Puccini
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Size: 850kb, uploaded 8/23/2011 6:13:35 PM
Genre: Classical
This operatic song was learned before a trip to Italy when I didn't yet know I'd be staying in Lucca, the very town of Giacomo Puccini's birth. As it turned out, he also wrote Girl of the Golden West which was performed in San Francisco in 1907 and included the well-known mistrel Jake Wallace, who taught Lotta Crabtree how to play banjo. Small world.
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Play count: 632
Size: 1,093kb, uploaded 11/11/2012 6:16:44 PM
Genre: Old Time
For Don Borchelt's TOTW. It's a happy, meandering tune for having such a title, but I figure the sheep ranchers are dipping their sheep in sheep dip, thus the picture of working together and accomplishing the job.
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by JanetB, written by Jim Reed
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Play count: 876
Size: 1,136kb, uploaded 12/26/2012 2:46:46 PM
Genre: Old Time
BHO's own Jim Reed from Sydney, Kentucky wrote this pretty piece.
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by JanetB, written by Richard Fraley
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Play count: 698
Size: 762kb, uploaded 2/23/2012 5:44:43 PM
Genre: Old Time
This crooked song from Kentucky is a good intro for me to J.P. Fraley's fiddling. John Hartford String Band does a great version, too, and it's in Jeff Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes book.
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by JanetB, written by Richard Fraley
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Play count: 204
Size: 1,271kb, uploaded 4/12/2012 10:17:07 AM
Genre: Old Time
This version of J.P. Fraley's fiddle tune includes banjo, mandolin, and cello banjo. I'm interested to see how the cello banjo can be used for accompaniment.
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Size: 1,215kb, uploaded 8/1/2011 7:16:26 AM
Genre: Old Time
Lets me see calm, reflective water at midnight. There's a bit of tension or longing in the song that resolves with a calm ending.
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Size: 996kb, uploaded 12/21/2011 9:11:53 AM
Genre: Other
I wrote Miracles on the first night of Chanukah, and have embedded a Chanukah song.
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Size: 772kb, uploaded 2/15/2012 7:32:21 PM
Genre: Old Time
An old square dance tune I learned.
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by JanetB, written by Bill Monroe
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Play count: 166
Size: 971kb, uploaded 7/7/2011 10:13:07 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
Such a pretty waltz...
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by JanetB, written by O'Carolan
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Play count: 226
Size: 1,034kb, uploaded 9/17/2011 3:57:20 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Another lively tune by the great Irish harpist of the early 1700's. His genius for composing baffles me.
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Play count: 127
Size: 903kb, uploaded 6/29/2011 9:24:46 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
Inspired by front porch picking.
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Play count: 133
Size: 705kb, uploaded 10/24/2012 6:00:11 AM
Genre: Old Time
For the Tune of the Week on the Playing Advice: Clawhammer and Old-Time forum. This is based on Isham Monday's version as tabbed by Maya Whitmont.
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Play count: 156
Size: 1,133kb, uploaded 7/25/2011 10:27:11 AM
Genre: Traditional
These were written to continue a tradition of honoring each grandchild with their own song.
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Play count: 164
Size: 861kb, uploaded 3/16/2013 6:02:54 PM
Genre: Other
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Nestlings
Dedicated to Paul Roberts and his creation, the Goldtone Soundbird tenor banjo. I composed this using clawhammer, but no 5th string to simulate a tenor banjo.
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Play count: 211
Size: 917kb, uploaded 1/18/2012 6:10:21 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
O'Carolan had a sweet friendship with Bridget Cruise before he was blinded. Later he wrote four airs with her name as the title. He held her hand again one day for a fast moment while helping strangers board a boat he was about to leave. He recognized her hand!
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Play count: 1091
Size: 926kb, uploaded 11/27/2011 5:57:45 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
First played in waltz time, then as a hornpipe.
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Play count: 1330
Size: 530kb, uploaded 5/11/2012 5:22:58 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
By researching this song I've learned about the history of the Irish people. I've known the song since the 70's, but didn't know then I'd be living on the land of Irish immigrants. They came to California seeking to escape harsh conditions and ended up working hard in the mines and on farms, just like in my once-thriving community of Smartsville. For more information about this happy, hopeful tune see this week's Tune of the Week .
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by JanetB, written by A.P. Carter
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Size: 1,965kb, uploaded 8/27/2011 11:43:36 AM
Genre: Old Time
One of the Carter family songs Kit and I worked up for our duet performances.
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Play count: 169
Size: 1,053kb, uploaded 5/1/2013 12:10:01 PM
Genre: Old Time
In topics:
Old Aunt Adkins
Kentucky fiddler Owen 'Snake' Chapman learned this from his father, 'Doc.' Played on a Mac Traynham Whyte Laydie.
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by JanetB, written by Noah Bingham
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Play count: 154
Size: 507kb, uploaded 6/30/2012 2:42:55 PM
Genre: Old Time
Estill Bingham (1899 - 1990) learned this from his father, Noah, in southeastern Kentucky. I had learned another one of his songs for last week's Tune of the Week and it was recommended I also listen to this nice crooked tune.
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by JanetB, written by Jim Reed
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Play count: 112
Size: 1,436kb, uploaded 9/15/2012 10:01:59 AM
Genre: Old Time
An original Jim Reed tune played on gourd banjo.
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Play count: 214
Size: 689kb, uploaded 7/8/2011 10:27:55 AM
Genre: Old Time
Learned from Miles Krassen's Clawhammer Banjo book. Played on a Bart Reiter Whyte Ladye open back.
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by JanetB, written by John Hartford
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Play count: 171
Size: 1,078kb, uploaded 8/3/2011 8:43:43 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
John Hartford captured our attention and our imagination. These two songs are about steamboats--one of the loves of his life.
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Play count: 133
Size: 801kb, uploaded 8/26/2012 6:58:24 PM
Genre: Traditional
This one's for Jim Reed's pick-a-thon, played ever so slowly and delicately for an old sailor to dance a hornpipe, actually because it's all I can do. You've got to respect these pickers who whip out this song like it's a ship in full sail.
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Size: 572kb, uploaded 1/4/2012 10:42:20 AM
Genre: Other
My father used to play the West Side Story album where I heard this long ago. I discovered I could play all of it out of closed chord positions and find it's quite fun.
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by JanetB
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Play count: 787
Size: 1,030kb, uploaded 7/5/2011 10:35:12 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
This tune is probably Canadian. It used to be popular at fiddle contests. There's something poignant about it.
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Play count: 337
Size: 967kb, uploaded 7/27/2011 9:43:58 AM
Genre: Traditional
The Civil War song with an Elvis touch.
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Play count: 177
Size: 820kb, uploaded 7/4/2011 1:00:00 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
"Well, God Bless America!"--JS That's what Joe Sweiggert said when Rough and Ready, California re-joined the Union to celebrate the 4th of July in 1853.
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7 people like this
Play count: 181
Size: 776kb, uploaded 8/7/2012 10:39:46 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
The clawhammer version suddenly appeared. This is for Banjoy's post-a-thon.
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by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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9 people like this
Play count: 262
Size: 1,343kb, uploaded 6/18/2011 2:11:11 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
O'Carolan wrote this in honor of one of a hostess where he stayed awhile. He was a blind Irish harpist, born in 1670.
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14 people like this
Play count: 810
Size: 1,207kb, uploaded 8/3/2012 10:24:43 AM
Genre: Old Time
For the Tune of the Week, August 3, 2012.
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by JanetB, written by Jimmie Rogers
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Play count: 195
Size: 800kb, uploaded 7/8/2011 9:27:25 AM
Genre: Old Time
A pretty lullaby by Jimmie Rogers, the yodeling brakeman. "Tumble in bed my tired little ole sleepyhead to a prairie lullaby."
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by JanetB
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Play count: 655
Size: 1,316kb, uploaded 10/15/2012 7:20:07 PM
Genre: Old Time
Based on Missouri fiddler Gene Goforth's version as played by John Hartford. Known as Sandy Boys elsewhere.
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by JanetB
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Play count: 157
Size: 1,544kb, uploaded 2/2/2013 6:53:13 PM
Genre: Old Time
This is a West Virginian fiddler Edden Hammons tune. He probably learned it and didn't have the title, so gave it this unusual one. The title is found in similar lyrics in an 1850's shape-note book. He liked it so much he's heard to say, "Ain't that nice" at the end of the recording.
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by JanetB
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Play count: 196
Size: 725kb, uploaded 5/1/2012 6:59:49 PM
Genre: Old Time
Henry Reed learned this from the Civil War fifer Quince. Alan Jabbour recorded Reed and it's in the Library of Congress. I learned it when a friend showed it to me. The high D note creates a unique sound. I'm playing in open G tuning.
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Play count: 87
Size: 1,573kb, uploaded 12/24/2011 10:54:47 AM
Genre: Traditional
A nice song borrowed from Chris Sharp and the John Hartford String Band.
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by JanetB, written by Jim Reed
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Play count: 161
Size: 957kb, uploaded 5/14/2013 6:20:57 AM
Genre: Other
In topics:
Reed's Hornpipe
Jim has posted his incredible music again after a time away from BHO. This is one he wrote a while back and I'm inspired to try and learn it now. The notes flow. A poet could describe its beauty better than I!
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Size: 981kb, uploaded 10/22/2011 4:37:02 PM
Genre: Other
Two songs that remind me of people and places. My mom used to play and sing Finiculi Finicula on piano from the Fireside Book of Folk Songs.
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Play count: 736
Size: 1,268kb, uploaded 3/15/2013 5:43:04 AM
Genre: Old Time
In topics:
TOTW--3/15/13--Richmond
Richmond
For the Tune of the Week, March 15, 2013, Richmond is related to Cuckoo's Nest as played by Virginian fiddler Roscoe Parish (1897 - 1984).
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by JanetB, written by Jim Reed
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Play count: 135
Size: 920kb, uploaded 7/21/2012 12:31:00 PM
Genre: Other
As I listened to this original song the first time the melody happily drove along just like the title suggests. But Jim's 3-finger picked melodic song is so incredibly intricate and skillful, I had to simplify it with this clawhammer version so I could enjoy playing it, too.
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Play count: 753
Size: 1,136kb, uploaded 8/2/2012 10:00:40 AM
Genre: Old Time
I heard this on Ken Elk.'s video recently and it became one I "had" to learn. I'd heard it before, but who knows when and where. West Virginian fiddler Franklin George is credited with it, but he got it from someone else, and so on.
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Play count: 183
Size: 2,190kb, uploaded 3/9/2013 12:24:09 PM
Genre: Old Time
In topics:
Roscoe Parish's Waltz
Richmond
Coal Creek, Virginia fiddler Roscoe Parish (1897 - 1984) was visited and recorded in the 80's by Andy Cahan and Alice Gerrard. I found this tune in the Milliner-Koken American Fiddle Tunes Book and an MP3 of Alice performing it. Its melody is like a music box! As I'm researching Roscoe Parish right now; it's given me more insight into his music. This tune is related to Flying Indian and O Lassie, Art Thou Sleeping Yet?, indicating it has deep roots.
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by JanetB
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Play count: 938
Size: 1,699kb, uploaded 8/8/2012 7:08:43 PM
Genre: Old Time
John Salyer of Kentucky is credited with this version of the song in Jeff Titon's book of old-time Kentucky fiddle tunes. It's a beautiful and crooked tune.
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by JanetB, written by Bill Monroe
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Play count: 217
Size: 1,074kb, uploaded 8/13/2011 6:03:48 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
A sleepy waltz. Kenny Baker recorded it. It modulates from C to A and back to C.
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Play count: 1045
Size: 701kb, uploaded 6/22/2012 10:21:07 AM
Genre: Old Time
Learned from the playing of Jim Reed who says he learned it as a boy from his father. It's not like Stringbean's version, but when I first heard it I knew I wanted to learn Jim's way. Jim picks it, I clawhammer, and, as Jim tells in his interview with Paul Roberts, his dad played this clawhammer style, too, on a beautiful old Bacon banjo that Jim snuck and played.
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Play count: 170
Size: 1,270kb, uploaded 5/12/2013 6:07:01 PM
Genre: Old Time
In topics:
TOTW 05/10/13, Tommy Jarrell's Sail Away Ladies
For the Tune of the Week 5/13/13, based on Tommy Jarrell's fiddling. It's different from the tune as I learned it growing up. Played on my Bart Reiter Whyte Laydie in the tuning eDGBD.
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by JanetB
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Play count: 742
Size: 1,243kb, uploaded 7/17/2012 3:04:37 PM
Genre: Traditional
This one's for Jim, whose playing is inimitable, but he's glad to have us join in!
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Play count: 120
Size: 813kb, uploaded 8/13/2012 12:29:34 PM
Genre: Old Time
This one was tabbed out by Alan Munde. It's for Ian's Alan Munde post on Sound Off!
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Play count: 1269
Size: 867kb, uploaded 3/31/2012 12:35:44 PM
Genre: Old Time
Here's Sally Ann. The first part is from J.P. Fraley. The second is Scruggs. Oh, how he blessed us. The third is simple chording. The other version, Wistful Sally Ann, comes from Pete Wernick.
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Play count: 488
Size: 525kb, uploaded 9/24/2011 3:31:20 PM
Genre: Traditional
Learned from Pat Cloud's book Key to 5 String Banjo. Also similar to Katy Hill. Very pentatonic (Pat Cloud's major focus in this instructional book).
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by JanetB, written by Ralph Whited
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Play count: 186
Size: 900kb, uploaded 3/10/2012 1:54:58 PM
Genre: Old Time
James Bryan, the smoothest, greatest fiddler, learned this from Jim Cauthen and recorded it on his recent CD with Carl Jones, Cricket's Lullaby. Another crooked song.
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Play count: 949
Size: 915kb, uploaded 7/1/2011 9:03:59 AM
Genre: Old Time
Burnett and Rutherford played it as a dance tune called Ladies on a Steamboat. My mother once said that great tunes have a minor chord. This one has E minor. Does anyone agree with her? Ever since she told me that, I've found that my favorite tunes do have a minor.
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by JanetB, written by Henry Reed
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Play count: 675
Size: 1,089kb, uploaded 8/28/2012 6:20:56 PM
Genre: Traditional
Henry Reed learned these from the Civil War fifer Quince Dillon. The two tunes are both in Am and one leads easily to the other in a medley.
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Play count: 278
Size: 978kb, uploaded 8/18/2011 5:55:17 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
This was the first song I figured something out with melodic fingering. Bill Monroe is given credit for writing this, though it's very similar to I Don't Love Nobody.
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Play count: 1205
Size: 1,383kb, uploaded 3/14/2012 8:25:34 PM
Genre: Old Time
Kit and I enjoy this song. Together with mandolin and banjo we're Plinky and Plunky.
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Play count: 919
Size: 1,339kb, uploaded 1/9/2013 8:40:22 AM
Genre: Old Time
From Edden Hammons fiddling, inspired by Adam Hurt's fiddling (yes, fiddling).
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by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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Play count: 1437
Size: 1,581kb, uploaded 10/10/2011 8:58:18 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
This was Carolan's first composition at age 21, blinded since 18 years old, and embarking for the first time on his journey as an itinerant harper. The squire at his first stop suggested he compose a song about two neighboring hills where two fairy hosts had battled. Carolan's genius for writing was thus born.
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by JanetB, written by Jeremiah Carpenter
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Size: 1,096kb, uploaded 8/18/2012 2:41:50 PM
Genre: Old Time
This old West Virginia tune commemorates the place where Solomon Carpenter was born in the early 1790's under a rock ledge where his parents were hiding from Indians. His father, Jeremiah, later avenged the death of his brother Benjamin during the Indian raid. This version comes from West Virginians Burl Hammons and Dwight Diller. It's played on a small scale fretless gourd banjo made by BHO member Robert Browder.
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Play count: 188
Size: 1,388kb, uploaded 9/4/2012 5:39:25 AM
Genre: Old Time
A cheerful tune in A with a Bm sound in the B part. My mother still says at 91 years old that good songs always a minor.
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Play count: 281
Size: 843kb, uploaded 3/8/2012 6:20:53 AM
Genre: Traditional
Two songs expressing a western theme.
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Play count: 978
Size: 682kb, uploaded 2/5/2012 2:31:41 PM
Genre: Old Time
Thought I'd give Mark Johnson's great tune of the week a try. Anything he and Henry Reed do are great learning tools. I do it in open G tuning, 5th string spiked to an A, in the key of A. As challenging as a first grader learning to tie his shoes......
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by JanetB, written by Jim Reed
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Play count: 756
Size: 630kb, uploaded 9/21/2011 6:04:42 AM
Genre: Old Time
Jim surprised me with a song! Learning it lets me see into his magic and genius. He gave me permission to name it, so I did.
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by JanetB, written by Chris Coole
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Play count: 867
Size: 1,255kb, uploaded 12/7/2012 5:32:55 AM
Genre: Old Time
For the TOTW, Dec. 7, 2012
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by JanetB, written by Kit and Janet Burton
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Play count: 135
Size: 1,976kb, uploaded 7/2/2011 11:24:27 AM
Genre: Old Time
We heard the old bell ring in the historic Smartsville Church on Christmas Eve and wrote this song another day.
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by JanetB, written by Peter Lippincott
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Play count: 879
Size: 1,291kb, uploaded 8/25/2012 7:55:34 PM
Genre: Old Time
Played on a fretless gourd banjo, this song reminds me of Lewis and Clark, whose expedition Kit and I are learning more about. The Corp of Discovery canoed up the Snake River till it joined with the Columbia River, where they finally came out on the Pacific Ocean. Thanks to Dan Levenson in his Buzzard Banjo book for tabbing this.
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Play count: 141
Size: 1,256kb, uploaded 9/22/2012 5:15:10 PM
Genre: Old Time
Based on the playing of Missouri fiddler Earl Collins. He moved to Southern California and I got to meet and jam with him at my guitar teacher's house in the 70's.
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by JanetB, written by Kirk McGee
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Size: 997kb, uploaded 10/16/2011 7:48:30 PM
Genre: Old Time
First recorded in Sam and Kirk McGee's home by Mike Seeger in the early 60's and by Bob Flesher in 1992. It's written that the McGee brothers played it in the Grand Old Opry in the 30's and Kirk is generally given credit for writing it.
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Play count: 111
Size: 1,172kb, uploaded 10/2/2012 6:12:50 PM
Genre: Old Time
For Don Borchelt's joy-a-thon.
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Play count: 216
Size: 1,765kb, uploaded 8/4/2011 8:14:34 AM
Genre: Traditional
Five songs: Buffalo Gals, Froggie Went A-Courting, Groundhog, The Fox, Alvin & the Chipmunks Christmas
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by JanetB, written by Bill Monroe
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Play count: 251
Size: 807kb, uploaded 7/5/2011 8:16:23 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
Bill Monroe said he wrote tunes out of the air because he heard them first! He was an incredible composer. I've come to appreciate the South more lately and this tune brings it to my mind.
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Play count: 862
Size: 1,998kb, uploaded 1/1/2013 2:59:56 PM
Genre: Old Time
A title with a good wish for the new year, also known as God Speed the Plough.
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by JanetB
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Play count: 329
Size: 3,441kb, uploaded 6/15/2011 5:13:57 PM
Genre: Old Time
A happy song, fun to play, with images of little Appaloosas kicking up their heels. Mine was named Cookie. When I sold her, I was able to buy my Bart Reiter Whyte Laydie, so my banjo is named Cookie, too. Honestly.
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Play count: 507
Size: 857kb, uploaded 7/20/2011 7:49:22 AM
Genre: Traditional
Per request, you'll hear 3 different banjos--2 resonators (Gibson RB250 and Deering Calico) and 1 open back (Bart Reiter Whyte Ladye). Can you tell? Which one do you like best?
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Play count: 301
Size: 1,364kb, uploaded 10/22/2012 5:33:59 AM
Genre: Old Time
John Hartford credits this to Samuel Bayard. I'm playing the small scale white oak fretless gourd made by Robert Crowder.
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Play count: 152
Size: 717kb, uploaded 10/24/2012 6:06:17 PM
Genre: Old Time
This is the better recording I made after playing around with the Zoom 4Hn recorder. The first post was the thumpy one whose sound wasn't optimal.
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Play count: 674
Size: 760kb, uploaded 6/3/2012 2:02:03 PM
Genre: Old Time
Inspired to learn by Adam Kiesling's Tune of the Week.
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by JanetB
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Play count: 139
Size: 588kb, uploaded 7/13/2011 10:30:16 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
Just holding the banjo and fooling around, sometimes you come up with a sound you like.
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by JanetB, written by John A. Stone
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Play count: 263
Size: 411kb, uploaded 7/1/2011 12:58:51 PM
Genre: Old Time
Written about Gold Rush era pioneers who emigrated to California from Missouri.
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by JanetB, written by W.L. Bloomfield (1853)
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Play count: 448
Size: 559kb, uploaded 7/26/2011 9:11:45 AM
Genre: Traditional
A song about leaving one's home and sadly returning.
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by JanetB
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Play count: 164
Size: 1,651kb, uploaded 3/21/2013 5:53:21 AM
Genre: Old Time
In topics:
Swing Lady Home/Rocky Hill medley
These two pieces go together, both in chordal flavor and lyrical themes.
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Play count: 105
Size: 763kb, uploaded 7/27/2011 10:32:41 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
The blue sky and flowers on the hill remind someone of who is missed. The Nashville Bluegrass Band recorded this.
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Play count: 1608
Size: 935kb, uploaded 9/6/2011 6:29:32 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Learned from the fiddling of Rafe Stefanini.
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by JanetB, written by Jimmie Driftwood
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Play count: 154
Size: 980kb, uploaded 8/13/2012 11:13:32 AM
Genre: Traditional
After hearing Jim Reed's Sound Off post I gave this old favorite a try. It has many chords and was a fun challenge to clawhammer. I never got tired of hearing Doc Watson do it with his sound effects and incredible guitar runs.
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by JanetB, written by Henry Reed
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Play count: 169
Size: 1,316kb, uploaded 9/29/2012 1:46:42 PM
Genre: Old Time
For the TOTW on a fretless gourd.
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Play count: 324
Size: 1,098kb, uploaded 10/7/2011 6:08:38 AM
Genre: Traditional
I've heard the first song, but didn't learn it until it was played at the end of a Thomas Hart Benton documentary. Salt Creek was the last picking song I learned as a novice picker who changed over to clawhammer, and then much later back to picking.
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Play count: 925
Size: 1,043kb, uploaded 3/6/2012 5:55:07 AM
Genre: Traditional
This old English ballad is powerfully emotional in melody and lyrics.
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by JanetB, written by John A. Stone
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Play count: 157
Size: 1,110kb, uploaded 7/15/2011 8:55:14 AM
Genre: Old Time
This song was a parody of the stage coaches of the Gold Rush era written in 1858.
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Play count: 207
Size: 2,358kb, uploaded 4/8/2013 4:45:56 PM
Genre: Other
In topics:
TOTW 4.5.13: And The Cat Came Back The Very Next Day.
The Cat Came Back is the Tune of the Week for April 5th, 2013. This one doesn't sound like the TOTW, though I've now learned that this folksong from my childhood does have older roots. The closest one I've heard seems to be Fiddlin' John Carson's recording in the 20's. My first graders here sing it for the first time.
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by JanetB, written by Luther Strong
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Play count: 120
Size: 456kb, uploaded 6/20/2012 11:46:54 AM
Genre: Old Time
This Tune of the Week is a bit hard in deciding what to do with that one note, so I choked it. Imagine losing a hog in the wild and trying to get him back to the pen. I guess a couple of good hound dogs could do the job.
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by JanetB, written by Donall MacConmara
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Size: 993kb, uploaded 1/23/2012 6:15:28 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
An Irish waltz included in the early 1800's harp collections of Edward Bunting, who also collected many of O'Carolan's pieces.
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by JanetB, written by Greg Brown
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Play count: 241
Size: 838kb, uploaded 7/22/2011 10:22:52 AM
Genre: Other
Jimmie Rodgers had an effect on lots of people back then. We can still appreciate him now.
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Play count: 469
Size: 815kb, uploaded 11/22/2011 5:45:29 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
Played on my Deering Calico, learned from James Bryan's fiddling of Tombigbee Waltz and John Hartford's version of Gum Tree Canoe.
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Play count: 487
Size: 981kb, uploaded 4/2/2013 9:00:27 AM
Genre: Old Time
In topics:
Tucker's Barn
Played by Doc Watson, this tune was popularized at the same name in Lenoir, North Carolina--not that far from Deep Gap where Doc lived. It's an interesting piece and makes quite a left hand banjo workout.
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by JanetB, written by Sidna Myers
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5 people like this
Play count: 250
Size: 1,064kb, uploaded 7/16/2012 9:30:46 AM
Genre: Old Time
Learned for the Tune of the Week, 7-13-12. This song gives me deja vu!
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Play count: 132
Size: 1,044kb, uploaded 4/7/2012 11:33:07 AM
Genre: Other
A welcome back for MP3s on BHO. Actually a historic marching song for Prussian soldiers.
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by JanetB, written by Rory Dall O'Cahan, Hank Williams
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Play count: 602
Size: 1,155kb, uploaded 2/13/2012 10:18:44 AM
Genre: Other
In topics:
Give Me Your Hand/Kerry Fling medley
Two songs from entirely different eras, but with similar themes.
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by JanetB, written by Daniyel Ben-Asher
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Play count: 143
Size: 897kb, uploaded 7/20/2012 8:53:20 AM
Genre: Other
Daniyel wrote this song and the cello banjo played along.
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by JanetB, written by Jimmie Rodgers
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Play count: 277
Size: 1,000kb, uploaded 4/20/2012 6:15:10 AM
Genre: Country
Known as the Singing Brakeman, Jimmie Rodgers (1897 - 1933) songs are fun to sing, but lyrically a bit sad. His yodel is famous!
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by JanetB, written by Jimmie Rodgers
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Play count: 214
Size: 1,590kb, uploaded 4/21/2012 1:39:52 PM
Genre: Country
With apologies to Jimmie Rodgers, here are the vocals some of you wanted to hear.
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Play count: 226
Size: 1,028kb, uploaded 9/10/2012 8:29:51 AM
Genre: Old Time
A Tune of the Week version from listening to several great players--Joe and Creed Birchfield, Franklin George, and Lester McCumber.
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Play count: 185
Size: 861kb, uploaded 9/10/2012 12:11:57 PM
Genre: Old Time
After recording with a fretted banjo I tried my small scale fretless gourd, too. I find getting all the notes challenging and think of the fiddle's challenge with a very short scale compared to a banjo.
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by JanetB, written by Owen 'Snake' Chapman
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Size: 1,496kb, uploaded 4/20/2013 10:20:03 AM
Genre: Old Time
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Walnut Gap
This original song by Owen 'Snake' Chapman is named after a mountain feature close to his home in Letcher County, Kentucky. He wrote many tunes and reminds me of Banjo Hangout's Jim Reed from Pike County, Kentucky who also wrote many tunes and played with Owen.
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by JanetB, written by David Grier & Mike Compton
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Play count: 178
Size: 1,448kb, uploaded 11/1/2011 5:49:07 AM
Genre: Old Time
Two of my favorite musicians wrote this.
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by JanetB
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Size: 3,771kb, uploaded 6/13/2011 10:24:14 AM
Genre: Old Time
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by JanetB
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Size: 1,034kb, uploaded 3/21/2012 6:02:07 AM
Genre: Old Time
First day home for my new Gold Tone CB5 and a first-time duet to see how the combination of cello banjo and mandolin sounds.
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by JanetB
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Play count: 165
Size: 1,220kb, uploaded 4/19/2013 4:51:12 PM
Genre: Old Time
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TOTW for 4/19/2013: West Fork Gals
For the Tune of the Week, 4/19/13. Like many, I learned it from Miles Krassen's Clawhammer Book of the 70's. Hope he knows we're still playing it.
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by JanetB, written by William Walker & Alexander Means
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Play count: 435
Size: 663kb, uploaded 1/11/2012 5:47:04 AM
Genre: Traditional
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best slow (sad?) clawhammer songs or players?
This old hymn of 1835 was in a shape note hymnal.
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by JanetB, written by J.P. Fraley
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Size: 880kb, uploaded 2/29/2012 6:18:52 AM
Genre: Old Time
This song is the title on one of Kentucky fiddler J.P. Fraley's albums of the 70's, performed along with his wife, Annadeene. It's a different tune from a more common one of the same title.
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by JanetB, written by Carter Family
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Size: 945kb, uploaded 5/25/2012 6:08:40 AM
Genre: Traditional
A signature Carter Family song.
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by JanetB
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Play count: 1381
Size: 650kb, uploaded 9/6/2011 8:51:48 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Originally learned clawhammer from John Burke's Book of Old Time Fiddle Tunes for Banjo, now picked 3-finger style.
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by JanetB, written by Joe LaRose
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Play count: 293
Size: 1,171kb, uploaded 7/21/2012 4:19:06 PM
Genre: Old Time
A beautiful tune played by Bruce Molsky and Rayna Gellert. I'm comparing 3-finger picking to clawhammer in my other version.
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by JanetB, written by Joe LaRose
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Size: 1,184kb, uploaded 7/21/2012 4:17:18 PM
Genre: Old Time
A beautiful tune played by Bruce Molsky and Rayna Gellert. I'm comparing clawhammer to 3-finger picking.
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by JanetB
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Size: 543kb, uploaded 7/20/2011 11:41:23 AM
Genre: Traditional
I like how Pete Wernick did this in D. The lyrics can be pretty sad and his version caught some of that with a minor sound. The high G is tuned down to an F#, which sort of fits my unwritten rule about only changing the tune of one string for any given song. Not that re-tuning doesn't produce a great sound...
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by JanetB
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Play count: 116
Size: 715kb, uploaded 1/5/2012 3:26:53 PM
Genre: Old Time
I heard Bill Monroe's version and learned it. It's a fun one.
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by JanetB, written by Dan Levenson
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Size: 1,052kb, uploaded 8/29/2012 6:03:12 AM
Genre: Old Time
This is the last song in Dan's book Buzzard Banjo Clawhammer Style. It's in a modified double C tuning played on a Gold Tone cello banjo.
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