Awesome Sauce

Written/Posted by Russell Carson

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Size: 1,713kb, uploaded 2/4/2014 9:02:01 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

The new theme song I wrote for my 81crowe Youtube channel.

Blue Ridge Cabin Home

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Size: 4,901kb, uploaded 5/26/2015 8:44:05 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Cherokee Shuffle

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Size: 1,816kb, uploaded 1/11/2009 9:12:29 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

This is something i tried at a friends house last night. I am playing all the instruments.

Clinch Mt. Backstep

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Size: 5,039kb, uploaded 6/7/2009 8:34:43 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Here is another track that i tried playing all 4 parts on. It was a lot of fun recording at my buddies house at 3 am! On this recording I'm using my Gold Star parts banjo with a Huber Ring

Country Blues

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Size: 2,360kb, uploaded 4/26/2015 2:35:50 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Earls Breakdown - on a 1986 Kentucky (Gold Star) Banjo

Posted by Russell Carson, written by Earl Scruggs

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Size: 5,299kb, uploaded 3/17/2016 10:44:23 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Here is a clip of Kentucky Thunder from the beginning of the year. The banjo I'm playing is a complete intact ( factory rim & ring ) 1986 Kentucky ( the very last version of the original Gold Stars )

Fireball Mail

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Size: 2,676kb, uploaded 7/20/2007 8:45:36 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

This was a quick recording with my dad while we were messing around with my backup banjo. We got it in a trade with another BHO member. It has a Goldstar GF-85 neck and resonator, but the rim is an old wood rim with a Kulesh big 10 tone ring and the rest are prucha parts. We are still fooling around with the set up. Hope you like it.

Follow the Leader

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Size: 2,495kb, uploaded 8/12/2007 2:38:43 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Jeremy Stephens taught me this tune while we were sitting around our campsite at Clifftop. We got fooling around with twin banjos one night and recorded it together on a mini disc. I am playing my Prucha parts banjo, and Jeremy is playing an old Paramount.

Hand me Down My Walking Cane

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Size: 2,452kb, uploaded 7/3/2013 12:35:25 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

I Saw The Light

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Size: 1,922kb, uploaded 2/16/2011 1:18:52 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Here is a clip of my Huber Vintage. It has the new HR 30 tone ring, and a prototype hide glue rim. The head is set just between a G and G#, I am also using light strings. From 5th to 1st, 10. 20. 12. 11. 10.

John Hardy - Russ Carson

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Size: 1,631kb, uploaded 11/26/2006 9:51:30 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Julianne Johnson

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Size: 3,150kb, uploaded 1/9/2007 10:58:04 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

One more old timey D tune with fiddle and banjo. My dad is on fiddle and I am on banjo. First time we tried it like this together. We play a few tunes late at night once in a while, and this one has a few bumps as we were figuring it out as we went. There are a few more tunes on his BHO page.

Last Chance - Bluegrass style

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Size: 1,300kb, uploaded 11/11/2006 11:40:46 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Inspired by the playing of Reed Martin and Ned Luberecki

Methodist Preacher

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Size: 3,380kb, uploaded 3/25/2011 10:46:40 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Here is a cut off my new solo Cd "Last Chance" on Patuxent Records. I'm playing my Huber VRB-75 with the HR-30 tone ring & the hide glue rim. Patrick McAvinue & Michael Cleveland are playing the twin fiddles, Marshall Wilborn is playing bass, Jake Stargel is playing guitar & Dominick Leslie is on mandolin

Prucha 20 hole flat head tone ring

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Size: 1,386kb, uploaded 5/7/2017 9:04:41 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Prucha 20 hole flat head tone ring

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Size: 1,386kb, uploaded 5/7/2017 9:59:30 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Redwing

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Size: 1,948kb, uploaded 1/8/2007 11:21:32 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

I was inspired by Reed Martins clawhammer version. Key of G. Recorded on a Sony mini disc using the banjo my dad built for me.

Sandy Boys

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Size: 2,201kb, uploaded 1/8/2007 11:58:08 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Just fooling around. My dad plays the fiddle and I am playing 3 finger banjo. We usually play this in A with the fiddle cross tuned. This was done with the banjo in D while we were just messing around, probably the first and maybe only time.

Shuckin The Corn

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Size: 1,849kb, uploaded 11/26/2006 10:37:17 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Chris Warner's playing has influenced me, and he has been helping me to

Theme Time - Russ Carson

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Size: 2,676kb, uploaded 7/20/2007 9:03:51 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Another quick recording done while messing around with the Goldstar project banjo. (see Fireball Mail for banjo details). My dad and I had not played this for a long time, and it took a couple tries to get a half decent recording. Hope you like it.