I AIN'T GONNA WORK NO MORE

Written/Posted by Ron Stanfield

- Play count: 125

Size: 923kb, uploaded 7/14/2014 6:23:42 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Whimsical song I wrote about getting tired of working

I'VE ET EVERYTHING

Written/Posted by Ron Stanfield

- Play count: 96

Size: 1,982kb, uploaded 8/30/2014 6:30:58 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Other than a banjo, here's an addiction that applies to so many of us.

IN THAT LITTLE INDIANA COAL MINE TOWN

Written/Posted by Ron Stanfield

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- Play count: 42

Size: 2,507kb, uploaded 6/30/2017 12:51:07 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

This is a song about a Black Betty coal mine disaster that took my Grandpa in 1918.

In The Pines

Posted by Ron Stanfield

- Play count: 165

Size: 1,478kb, uploaded 7/29/2014 1:04:49 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

An old favorite traditional folk song.

It Ain't Gonna Rain No More

Posted by Ron Stanfield

- Play count: 160

Size: 2,060kb, uploaded 8/9/2014 4:55:01 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

An old-time folk song favored by so many pickers.

JOHNNY REB AND BILLY YANK

Written/Posted by Ron Stanfield

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- Play count: 46

Size: 1,570kb, uploaded 11/7/2017 5:49:12 PM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

A banjo take on the Civil War.

JULIE ANN

Written/Posted by Ron Stanfield

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- Play count: 85

Size: 1,940kb, uploaded 11/11/2017 5:01:20 PM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

This song is based upon a newspaper article I saved some years ago.

JUMPIN' FROGS

Written/Posted by Ron Stanfield

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- Play count: 44

Size: 1,863kb, uploaded 11/3/2017 6:13:31 PM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

My song version of Mark Twain's "Jumpin Frog Story

JUST GETTIN' OLD

Written/Posted by Ron Stanfield

- Play count: 136

Size: 2,131kb, uploaded 12/22/2014 4:57:21 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

I wrote this song for benefit of us old folks. Hope you like it.

Keep On The Sunny Side

Posted by Ron Stanfield, written by A.P. Carter

- Play count: 189

Size: 2,762kb, uploaded 10/22/2014 6:31:36 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

An old Carter Family song.

LITTLE RED BRICK CHURCH ON THE HILL

Written/Posted by Ron Stanfield

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- Play count: 68

Size: 2,358kb, uploaded 9/17/2017 4:43:26 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

Reminescing early years going to church.

MISSOURI'S A-COUNTIN' ON YOU SAM

Written/Posted by Ron Stanfield

- Play count: 111

Size: 2,479kb, uploaded 11/7/2014 4:21:14 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

I wrote this song several years ago about Mark Twain's short-lived venture serving with the confederacy beginning of the Civil War.

MOVING BACK TO MEMPHIS

Written/Posted by Ron Stanfield

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- Play count: 56

Size: 2,030kb, uploaded 7/20/2017 6:35:28 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

Several years ago I was in Memphis on my birthday. Came back home to cold weather and wrote this song.

MY HAPPY HOME

Written/Posted by Ron Stanfield

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- Play count: 55

Size: 1,002kb, uploaded 11/12/2017 5:35:00 PM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

Home chores dilemmia as told by the banjo!

MY NAME IS OL' HARDTACK

Written/Posted by Ron Stanfield

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- Play count: 29

Size: 2,669kb, uploaded 7/15/2017 7:01:17 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

A Civil War banjo player.

MY OLD HOMESTEAD

Written/Posted by Ron Stanfield

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- Play count: 31

Size: 1,656kb, uploaded 1/25/2018 5:08:41 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

Song about mountain living

MY OLD TICKER

Written/Posted by Ron Stanfield

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- Play count: 42

Size: 2,166kb, uploaded 7/27/2017 6:10:43 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

I'll see my cardiologist next week. Will turn "80;" in about a month. So I wrote a song about it ahead of time.

MY WALKING CANE

Written/Posted by Ron Stanfield

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- Play count: 56

Size: 2,713kb, uploaded 11/9/2017 6:17:07 PM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

Old age creeping on us, sort of....

OH THOSETOMBS

Posted by Ron Stanfield

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- Play count: 56

Size: 2,826kb, uploaded 4/16/2018 12:36:25 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

An old traditional song suitable for the banjo.

Oh, Susanna

Posted by Ron Stanfield

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- Play count: 269

Size: 1,535kb, uploaded 8/4/2010 4:23:11 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

My version of a song that's played on most banjos.