JeffJo - Posted - 02/09/2023:  10:16:52

Hey All,
Looking to broaden my listening horizon.

What good clawhammer albums have come out in the last few years?

Thanks!

dpgetman - Posted - 02/09/2023:  10:57:48

I have been paying attention to Allison DeGroot and have not regretted it.

Dlye - Posted - 02/09/2023:  11:07:17

Check out Chris Coole and Nick Horrnbuckle.

JeffJo - Posted - 02/09/2023:  11:07:24

Listening now. Great stuff!

Bill Rogers - Posted - 02/09/2023:  11:38:14

Nick Hornbuckle plays two-finger, not clawhammer. 

 

Victor Furtado--but his playing is a challenge. 

 

If you haven't checked out Walt Koken on YouTube, do so. He posted a bunch of videos with banjo in 2021 and early 2022. Recent ones he's playing fiddle. You have to dig a bit for the banjo posts, but well worth it. Here's an example: youtube.com/watch?v=a3wl-ABmY2U 

Edited by - Bill Rogers on 02/09/2023 12:31:41

Dlye - Posted - 02/09/2023:  11:55:52

Right you are Bill, sorry about the misleading post. I would add Pharis and Jason Romero to the current clawhammer genre.

JeffJo - Posted - 02/09/2023:  12:31:07

Listening now to Brittany Haas-Impromptu Sessions.

Fantastic stuff!

Americanraga - Posted - 02/10/2023:  04:18:31

Adam Hurt is excellent, his newest album is gourd banjo clawhammer. Also, Jake Blount is innovative and talented at the same time.

Ziradog - Posted - 02/10/2023:  05:47:10

Arnie Naiman's Reflections is nice. Some of Jake Blount's stuff (Reparations, Spider Tails, and the one he did as 1/2 of Tui). Progressive stuff like Abigail Washburn, Hawktail Ring, some of the Honey Dewdrops. And +1 on Allison Degroot and Chris Coole (especially the live in the field CD he & John Shoman did during the lock down).

gentrixuk - Posted - 02/10/2023:  06:14:40

+1 for all the above and also Brad Kolodner, Hannah Read & Michael Starkey and Joseph DeCosimo (a lot of his is 2F, but all great stuff)

Crgibson - Posted - 02/13/2023:  07:39:19

Hi Jeff check out Kaitlin Chamberlin from the High Quadra Ramblers. She has a unique style a mix two finger and drop thumb.her and Mack Shields the fiddler have some amazing arrangements lots of their videos on y-tube

Bart Veerman - Posted - 02/14/2023:  11:42:01

Do check out members' homepages. Many of them, myself included, have posted their own recordings in their "media" page.

Literally hundreds of hours' worth of listening available there :

banjohangout.org/myhangout/mus...p?id=5526

BennyBleu - Posted - 02/24/2023:  04:59:35

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Originally posted by JeffJo

What good clawhammer albums have come out in the last few years?

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Hey Jeff!  Hello from Hemlock, NY to Hemlock, MI.  I just released this album of mellow clawhammer tunes, I hope you might like it 8^)

March of the Mollusk - Clawhammer meditations for modern humans inspired by ancient gastropods.