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Size: 5,505kb, uploaded 5/11/2014 8:16:13 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For banjo class, Alice and I in G.
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Size: 1,785kb, uploaded 1/11/2009 1:40:01 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
First tune recorded on my new Prust Tackhead. I'm lovin' this banjo! Played out of "Double-A" tuning.
3 commentsPosted by handsup8
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Size: 3,595kb, uploaded 7/2/2008 10:45:17 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Country blues classic by Skip James, which I've set on the banjo [double-c tuning]. Hope you like the Tradesman's ring.
16 commentsPosted by handsup8
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Size: 4,161kb, uploaded 5/11/2014 8:15:21 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Midwest Tune my wife Alice picked up from Missouri fiddler Charlie Waldon at a Summit School workshop. For the banjo class!
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Size: 3,118kb, uploaded 8/13/2009 7:59:40 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Great tune I learned from Vermont fiddler Katie Trautz, who caught it from WV fiddler Jimmy Triplett at Augusta one summer. BrendanD shared a sound file of Melvin Wine playing a vey similar version, so p'raps through Katie and Jimmy I'm a couple degrees away from Mr. Wine! I'm in "Old G" on the nylgut-strung Stewart Universal Favorite (gDGDE), and Katie's on the fiddle.
2 commentsPosted by handsup8
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Size: 2,676kb, uploaded 3/8/2009 10:22:24 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Classic Libba Cotten tune, which I've done clawhammer on the Tackhead on a day when it's almost 50 degrees in Vermont in March!!!! I guess I should get myself outside..........
4 commentsPosted by handsup8
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- Play count: 119
Size: 4,143kb, uploaded 3/12/2009 11:56:06 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Other
Robert Johnson classic, played in A on my son's Gretsch "Wild West Sweethearts" toy guitar. Sounds way better on head-phones or out of decent speakers than on computer speakers. (But what doesn't?)
1 commentPosted by handsup8
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- Play count: 583
Size: 4,617kb, uploaded 10/22/2009 9:36:29 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
House Carpenters version of Bascom's classic. Katie Trautz, fiddle/vocals; Dan Haley, mandolin/vocals; and me, banjo.
4 commentsPosted by handsup8
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Size: 2,651kb, uploaded 11/5/2007 10:35:25 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Played on the "Eagle."
6 commentsPosted by handsup8
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Size: 5,520kb, uploaded 4/27/2014 10:39:35 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Richmond, a fiddle tune my wife Alice caught from VT fiddler Mark DiStefano. It's a bit different than the version played by Bruce Molsky on "Contented Must Be." This is a mid-tempo version for my banjo class.
1 commentPosted by handsup8
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- Play count: 405
Size: 3,852kb, uploaded 10/22/2009 8:41:07 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
House Carpenters version off our eponymous cd. Katie Trautz, fiddle/vocal; Dan Haley, guitar/vocal; me, banjo.
1 commentPosted by handsup8, written by Henry Reed
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Size: 2,361kb, uploaded 9/28/2012 4:42:58 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Medley of two tunes learned from Tom Mackenzie up here in VT. Recorded a while back, but I still like 'em.
3 commentsPosted by handsup8
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Size: 2,407kb, uploaded 7/2/2008 11:24:57 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
My gloss on this great tune. Tradesman in a modal mood.
3 commentsPosted by handsup8
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Size: 2,719kb, uploaded 3/8/2009 10:31:47 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
JP Nestor and Norman Edmonds recorded the classic version in 1927, and many others have covered it since, although it seems to have become more of a staple in bluegrass playing than old-time. That said, Big Hoedown also did a great version. Played on the Tackhead in Open E (open G down a step and 1/2).
2 commentsPosted by handsup8
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Size: 5,023kb, uploaded 1/17/2009 9:36:49 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Cover of Robert Johnson's great tune. Playing with a brass slide on the Prust Tackhead, which holds up real well to a heavy metal slide, much to my surprise and pleasure.
9 commentsPosted by handsup8
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- Play count: 455
Size: 4,859kb, uploaded 1/7/2010 11:54:56 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Slow version of this current fave around the sessions. People like it slow and the Prust helped out. Double C on the tackhead. Takes me about 15 seconds to get going. Sorry...........
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