Banana in Your Fruitbasket

Posted by Richard Brown, written by Bo Carter

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Size: 3,290kb, uploaded 11/21/2011 11:54:12 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Other

Performed by Peter Norman on a mesquite tenor banjo-uke that I built with a 10" rim.

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Posted by Richard Brown

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Size: 2,223kb, uploaded 6/22/2010 12:14:42 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen

Black Gypsy Blues

Posted by Richard Brown, written by Furry Lewis

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Size: 1,194kb, uploaded 9/5/2011 11:40:09 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Other

Brown's Ferry Blues

Posted by Richard Brown

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Size: 2,400kb, uploaded 12/8/2012 11:42:14 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Banjo 38 sound clip

Cocktails for Two

Posted by Richard Brown, written by Spike Jones

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Size: 1,015kb, uploaded 11/21/2011 12:20:13 PM
Genre: Popular / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)

Libby Farrris performs her rendition of the Spike Jones version of "Cocktails for Two on her Richard Brown tenor banjo-uke.

Hog in the Pen

Posted by Richard Brown

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Size: 2,595kb, uploaded 3/5/2011 8:17:30 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Recorded in 2003 with my old band The Good for Nuthin; String Band, so named while playing a venue for free, someone made the comment "these guys are pretty good for nuthin'" and the name stuck.

Homeworth Hollar

Posted by Richard Brown, written by Peter Norman

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Size: 1,434kb, uploaded 11/21/2011 12:01:11 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)

This is an original composition written and performed by Peter Norman, played on a Tenor banjo built by Richard Brown

I Don't Recon it'll Happen Again

Posted by Richard Brown

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Size: 2,844kb, uploaded 3/5/2011 8:30:50 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Recorded in 2003 with my old band The Good for Nuthin' String Band, so named while playing a venue for free, someone made the comment "these guys are pretty good for nuthin'" and the name stuck.

James Alley Blues

Posted by Richard Brown, written by Richard Rabbit Brown

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Size: 2,964kb, uploaded 2/26/2012 6:01:09 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Liberty/Soldiers Joy

Posted by Richard Brown

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Size: 4,506kb, uploaded 3/5/2011 8:26:55 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Recorded in 2003 with my old band The Good for Nuthin; String Band, so named while playing a venue for free, someone made the comment "these guys are pretty good for nuthin'" and the name stuck.

MALTED MILK BLUES

Posted by Richard Brown, written by Robetrt Johnson

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Size: 3,187kb, uploaded 2/12/2012 7:24:58 AM
Genre: Jazz / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Richard Brown plays Malted Milk Blues on five string banjo.

Mole in the Ground

Posted by Richard Brown

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Size: 4,035kb, uploaded 3/5/2011 8:11:51 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Recorded in 2003 with my old band The Good for Nuthin; String Band, so named while playing a venue for free, someone made the comment "these guys are pretty good for nuthin'" and the name stuck.

POOR BOY

Posted by Richard Brown

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Size: 3,004kb, uploaded 5/7/2010 11:25:26 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

This song is not from a single source but rather inspired by the many fine versions I have listened to over the years. These include those by Gus Cannon, Robert wilkens, Willie Mc Tell, Sam Mc Gee and more

Poor Ellen Smith

Posted by Richard Brown

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Size: 1,656kb, uploaded 12/8/2012 11:40:00 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Banjo 38 sound clip

Red Rock Rag

Written/Posted by Richard Brown

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Size: 3,547kb, uploaded 9/11/2012 1:38:25 PM
Genre: Ragtime / Playing Style: Other

Played on the new Lo-Lo-Mi Ukulele by Richard Brown

The Cuckoo Bird

Posted by Richard Brown

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Size: 3,844kb, uploaded 3/5/2011 8:15:15 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Recorded in 2003 with my old band The Good for Nuthin; String Band, so named while playing a venue for free, someone made the comment "these guys are pretty good for nuthin'" and the name stuck.

The Train that Carried My Girl from Town

Posted by Richard Brown

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Size: 4,471kb, uploaded 3/5/2011 8:24:07 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

From the Frank Hutichison version of this song, not certain if he wrote this song or not as most of his material was said to have come from some old man. Recorded in 2003 with my old band The Good for Nuthin; String Band, so named while playing a venue for free, someone made the comment "these guys are pretty good for nuthin'" and the name stuck.

TROUBLE IN MIND

Posted by Richard Brown

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Size: 2,440kb, uploaded 5/7/2010 1:44:45 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Most like the Roscoe Holcomb version of this song though inspired by a host of earlier recordings.

TROUBLE IN THE WATER

Posted by Richard Brown

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Size: 2,702kb, uploaded 5/7/2010 8:25:08 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

This is a tune I composed in the last couple of days, it is a tribute to those who died and all who will suffer from the disastrous oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf has always been one of my favorite places and I consider it one of our greatest resources. It fills my heart with woe that those who are in a position to improve life for all are mostly self serving and are willing to gamble with human life and environmental destruction for their own greed. This song is played on one of my latert "Mesquite Banjos", it has an 11" mesquite rim with a Texas ebony tone ring, a 24 1/2" scale and is tuned to A minor. Richard Brown

Uncle Ned

Posted by Richard Brown, written by Steven Foster

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Size: 2,891kb, uploaded 3/5/2011 8:02:31 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

This is my version of the old Steven Foster song "Uncle Ned" Arranged for the banjo and made more politically correct by subtracting and adding content, some of the lyrics came from The Skillet Lickers.