Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: D Tuning: Double C (gCGCD) Difficulty: Expert
Posted by LyleK, updated: 4/4/2010
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Notes: A rough attempt at getting Adam Hurt's playing of this TOTW onto "paper"
Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/29/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by mwblake, updated: 1/21/2014 - 1 Member Comments
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Notes: A bouncy little tune, with a tip of the cap to "Eight More Miles to Louisville". Not too tricky to play, in Scruggs style with a modicum of melodic style in the B part.
Genre: Traditional Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by Bill H, updated: 12/4/2022 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Key of A--Capo 2
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/31/2024 - 7 Member Comments
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Notes: Goodbye Liza Jane is a swing tune that I associate with Bob Wills, and of course it works well in bluegrass as an instrumental. The tablature is my take on GLJ, with 3 breaks – nothing too outrageous.
Posted by schlange, updated: 3/18/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by KCJBanjo, updated: 6/23/2026
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Notes: Standard tuning (capo 2)
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Posted by schlange, updated: 4/8/2006
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/31/2024 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: This is from the famous front porch tape Steve Arkin and Bill Keith made of Bobby Thompson’s playing in 1964. The quality of the recording is low, and I could not always clearly hear what Thompson was playing. So take it FWIW. Liza Jane must at one time have been a popular name, resulting in at least 3 songs or tunes in country music. There is Ole Liza Jane, which Merle Travis recorded as a nonsense song and Don Stover recorded as a lovely banjo tune (https://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=26264). There is also Goodbye Liza Jane, which I associate with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (https://www.banjohangout.org/tab/browse.asp?m=detail&v=27278). And then there is Bobby Thompson’s version, which seems to exist in a Universe all its own.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 7/29/2025
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Notes: Ole Liza Jane is a traditional nonsense song that Don Stover recorded as an instrumental. You can hear the lyrics in Merle Travis’s version on youtube. The tablature is my interpretation of Stover’s arrangement on the banjo. The first break is pretty close to Stover’s, whereas the second veers off a bit into modest improvisation. In particular, the B part of the second break is more faithful to Travis’s vocal than to Stover’s B part on the banjo. Stover plays OLJ at breakneck speed, and his recording features a fine mandolin break by David Grisman. You can hear me playing it on a practice tape from some years ago, on the media section of my BHO webpage:https://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/media-player/audio_player2.asp?musicid=9860&archived=
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