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Size: 7,348kb, uploaded 8/3/2008 4:09:58 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and 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.
Posted by Hunter Robertson
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Size: 6,291kb, uploaded 7/20/2008 12:35:48 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and 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’.
Posted by Hunter Robertson
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Size: 3,692kb, uploaded 4/8/2008 1:37:36 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and 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.
7 commentsPosted by Hunter Robertson
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Size: 4,058kb, uploaded 7/12/2009 9:31:22 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and 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.
Posted by Hunter Robertson
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Size: 2,896kb, uploaded 3/7/2010 6:08:49 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Old Joe Clark on my fretless Harmony Reso-Tone. gDGBD, tuned down.
5 commentsPosted by Hunter Robertson
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Size: 3,200kb, uploaded 11/1/2006 5:45:49 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Scary old ballad. Somewhat old timey 3 finger picking.
From my album Sings Songs for the Masses.
Posted by Hunter Robertson
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Size: 4,040kb, uploaded 11/1/2006 6:03:38 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and 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.
Posted by Hunter Robertson
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Size: 5,485kb, uploaded 7/25/2009 5:00:09 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and 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".
Posted by Hunter Robertson
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Size: 2,196kb, uploaded 11/1/2006 5:52:18 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Clawhammer - about equal parts Hobart Smith, The Skillet Lickers and my father's playing. From my album Sings Songs for the Masses.
Posted by Hunter Robertson
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Size: 5,496kb, uploaded 8/9/2008 6:51:59 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and 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.
Posted by Hunter Robertson
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Size: 3,583kb, uploaded 5/6/2015 3:11:23 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From my album If You Want to Go to Sleep, Go to Bed with Casey Joe Abair on fiddle. Fiddle: AEAE, Banjo: aEADE. A combination of the great versions of the tune by John Snipes, Dink Roberts and Rufus Kasey on the album Black Banjo Songsters. Similar to Hobart Smith's.
Add CommentPosted by Hunter Robertson
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Size: 4,572kb, uploaded 8/3/2008 3:59:34 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and 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).
Posted by Hunter Robertson
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- Play count: 995
Size: 3,489kb, uploaded 3/23/2007 1:24:27 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and 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.
4 commentsPosted by Hunter Robertson
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Size: 4,000kb, uploaded 11/1/2006 6:00:13 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and 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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