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Posted by UncleClawhammer, written by Dolly Parton
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Size: 1,985kb, uploaded 4/10/2015 1:42:38 PM
Genre: Country / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Probably the most modern song in my repertoire. My nieces love it. Banjo is in standard C tuning (gCGBD), down to an A chord.
Add CommentPosted by UncleClawhammer, written by Ira and Charlie Louvin
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Size: 2,102kb, uploaded 4/23/2015 6:03:32 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This song is fairly new to me. From Roy Acuff. On Acuff's original 78 of this it is credited to the Louvin Brothers. He does it at a much slower pace on the record than he later would in live performances.
1 commentPosted by UncleClawhammer
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Size: 1,408kb, uploaded 9/3/2021 11:54:54 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Clawhammer style, gDGCD (relative). 1964 Gibson RB-175.
Add CommentPosted by UncleClawhammer
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Size: 1,555kb, uploaded 4/8/2015 5:00:32 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This style of clawhammer I really only use on stage. Very little melody is played except in the break. I got this song from my dad, who got it from my grandma, who probably got it from the Osborne Brothers.
1 commentPosted by UncleClawhammer
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Size: 1,126kb, uploaded 4/2/2015 6:53:41 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Played clawhammer, fDGCD, tuned down to where it comes out in the key of E.
Add CommentPosted by UncleClawhammer
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Size: 286kb, uploaded 1/8/2013 8:58:31 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The first song I ever learned to play in this style. Banjo is tuned f#DGAD. This is part of a whole family of songs that includes Jimmie Rogers' Waiting for a Train.
2 commentsPosted by UncleClawhammer, written by Cousin Emmy (attributed)
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Size: 1,559kb, uploaded 4/27/2015 5:04:44 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From Cousin Emmy. Thumb lead, tuning f#DEAD, pitched one half step higher.
Add CommentPosted by UncleClawhammer
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Size: 2,877kb, uploaded 4/18/2015 10:44:18 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Up-picking ("Seeger style). This song was recorded by many groups during the Urban Folk Revival. My sources are the Dubliners and the Pogues. Billy Faier does a good version. A couple mistakes in here, as this style is relatively new to me.
Add CommentPosted by UncleClawhammer
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Size: 1,180kb, uploaded 10/8/2021 1:13:09 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
An old church song from the playing of Elizabeth Cotten. I try to stay fairly close to her simple up-picking style, though, being left-handed, she did not use the thumb string. I made some noise when turning off the recording.
2 commentsPosted by UncleClawhammer
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Size: 958kb, uploaded 3/1/2015 8:23:42 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Roscoe Holcomb's version. Two-finger thumb lead. The tuning is fDGCB, but I played this on the long-neck capoed at the first fret, so it's really d#CFA#C.
4 commentsPosted by UncleClawhammer
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Size: 2,007kb, uploaded 3/5/2015 4:35:18 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Two finger thumb lead. Roscoe Holcomb's version. fDGCD
Add CommentPosted by UncleClawhammer
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Size: 833kb, uploaded 10/27/2016 2:47:50 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
... bring along a demijohn.
2 commentsPosted by UncleClawhammer
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Size: 1,796kb, uploaded 3/10/2015 3:57:18 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Sad song. From Cousin Emmy, Roscoe Holcomb, and Frank Proffitt. G tuning, two-finger thumb lead. Rose Maddox recorded a lighthearted version.
2 commentsPosted by UncleClawhammer
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Size: 1,939kb, uploaded 4/15/2015 2:45:48 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From Pete Seeger. More of a fragment than a song. Child Ballad 74. Jean Ritchie sings a more complete version of the story. Sawmill tuning, down from G to F. Two-finger index-lead. Still learning this style.
Add CommentPosted by UncleClawhammer
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Size: 1,001kb, uploaded 9/15/2021 10:30:55 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Two finger thumb lead. Banjo tuned fDGCD.
1 commentPosted by UncleClawhammer, written by W. S. Hayes
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Size: 358kb, uploaded 1/7/2013 9:46:35 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This song was the first commercial record of the rural folk music that came to be known as hillbilly and, eventually, country music ever made, by Fiddlin' John Carson. Played here on my Gold Tone 250WL-LN. One condenser mic to catch the vocals and the banjo.
Add CommentPosted by UncleClawhammer, written by W.S. Hayes
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Size: 6,737kb, uploaded 9/2/2014 6:35:03 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
An old favorite that I recently played on the radio.
2 commentsPosted by UncleClawhammer
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Size: 1,119kb, uploaded 3/10/2015 3:29:48 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Just foolin' around with some blues on the banjo. It's kinda hard to figure out how to fit the 5th string in. Consider this a work in progress.
Add CommentPosted by UncleClawhammer
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Size: 1,839kb, uploaded 3/6/2015 9:58:55 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Little mistake towards the end, but oh well.
Add CommentPosted by UncleClawhammer
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Size: 1,461kb, uploaded 3/6/2015 11:34:31 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The mistake in the other one was driving me crazy.
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