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Posted by carlb
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Size: 2,198kb, uploaded 11/22/2024 4:14:30 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Derived from the playing of the Nation Brothers https://www.slippery-hill.com/content/magnolia-one-step-2
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Posted by carlb
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- Play count: 56
Size: 6,215kb, uploaded 11/22/2024 4:17:57 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Description of what I play, phrase by phrase
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Posted by carlb, written by JP Fraley's dad, I think
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Size: 1,180kb, uploaded 5/25/2013 11:04:39 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Replaces my earlier recording. Banjo tuned to open C (gCGce)
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Posted by carlb, written by John Phillips
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Size: 3,691kb, uploaded 3/21/2020 7:04:24 PM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Banjo - aEAde
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Posted by carlb, written by John Phillips
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Size: 2,294kb, uploaded 6/30/2022 2:00:11 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Solo banjo version for TOTW posting
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Posted by carlb, written by Hank Williams, Sr., Jean Ritchie and John Phillips
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Size: 4,421kb, uploaded 11/4/2019 10:46:54 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Here's a modal song medley on clawhammer banjo (aEAde) that I described in another topic a few days ago, played twice through each; no lyrics.They are: "Alone and Forsaken" - Hank Williams, Sr., "Now is the Cool of the Day" - Jean Ritchie and "Me and My Uncle" - John Phillips.
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 2,141kb, uploaded 3/24/2016 10:24:06 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen
gDGDE
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 2,631kb, uploaded 2/5/2026 5:19:08 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Banjo aDAde Derived from Dr. Humphrey Bate and His Possum Hunters
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 3,312kb, uploaded 2/5/2026 5:22:22 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Audio description of how I play the tune. Banjo aDAde
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Posted by carlb, written by Jean Ritchie
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Size: 4,116kb, uploaded 1/12/2012 10:27:57 PM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from a recording of the author, Jean Ritchie (can’t tell you which one) many years ago. Clawhammer: aEADE Song has lines from Genesis (3:8) and John (21:15)
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 2,256kb, uploaded 3/21/2019 7:35:44 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
see TOTW 3-22-2019 Banjo - aDAde
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 2,116kb, uploaded 3/21/2019 7:40:45 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
see TOTW 3-22-2019
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Posted by carlb
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- Play count: 70
Size: 3,245kb, uploaded 3/21/2019 7:31:58 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
see TOTW 3-22-2019
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Posted by carlb
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- Play count: 55
Size: 2,076kb, uploaded 3/21/2019 7:33:57 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
see TOTW 3-22-2019
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 1,496kb, uploaded 3/27/2023 8:45:53 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Recorded in about late 1978l or 79, I surely can play that fast 45 years later. Banjo - aDAde
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 2,430kb, uploaded 7/8/2021 5:09:02 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From acoustic concert at Fiddle Tunes, Port Townsend, WA, 1982 Melvin Wine - fiddle Carl Baron - banjo (gDGde) Bob Carlin - Guitar
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 1,993kb, uploaded 5/27/2017 10:41:07 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
I recorded this clawhammer version on a fretless banjo in 2000 and supplied the following information for my CD "Banjo Stuff": OLD SLEDGE - aDADE (tuned low to about B); Burl Hammons & Emory Bailey (via Bill Hicks on the first Fuzzy Mountain String Band record).
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Posted by carlb
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- Play count: 216
Size: 1,725kb, uploaded 3/4/2017 10:18:07 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
I played along with the Kelly Gilbert recording with banjo in gDGde. Note, the fiddle was pitched in about G#.
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Posted by carlb, written by Woody Guthrie
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Size: 1,630kb, uploaded 9/4/2019 10:52:30 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Tune used for Clawhammer TOTW 9-6-19; Banjo tuned (5th to 1st) - aC#F#BE (tuned up from gBEAD).
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 1,111kb, uploaded 2/14/2011 9:51:37 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
There are so many fiddle tunes that banjo players learn. Well, here's the reverse. Peachbottom Creek is the great Wade Ward banjo tune (f#DF#AD) that I adapted to fiddle (GDAE). My friend Bob Graff and I played this in the fiddle-banjo duet contest at the Henry Reed Festival in 2010. Thanks to Terry Reed who archived this (June 29, 2010) at the WNRV-AM (990) radio web site
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