Red Fox played by DougL

Posted by carlb, written by passed via Henry Reed

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

My friend Doug's version gDGbd

Rocky Pallet

Posted by carlb

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Banjo version in gCGCE as learned from listening to the Skillet Lickers.

Rye Straw

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aDADE - In my mind this is a D tune. From my CD "Banjo Stuff" recorded in 2000. Derived from Melvin Wine's fiddling.

Sally Gal or ??? Named by Will Adam

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Will Adam announcing the tune (slowed down by 50%) from "Close to Home" Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection 1952-1967, Smithsonian Folkways LC 9628.

Sally Will You Marry Me

Posted by carlb

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Banjo gDGde. Playing along with Melvin Wine's fiddling from a solo track on Augusta Heritage "One More Time: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine" DVD-CDRom set.

Sandy River Belle

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gDGDE First tune I learned in this tuning

Seneca Square Dance

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gDGDE Influenced by the recording of Fiddlin' Sam Long; recorded by me in 2000.

Shaking Down the Acorns

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An A modal tune with the banjo tuned aDADE. Mainly from Burl Hammons

Shuffle About

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Coarse version aDAde

Singing Birds

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Learned from the playing of Burl Hammons. f#DABE

Singing Birds - Little Birdie

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In f#DAbe. From Burl Hammons and various folk sources. It was up on the old BanjoAddiction web site a number of years ago.

Smart Squirrel

Written/Posted by carlb

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I made up this tune three years ago, but wasn't satisfied that it was unique enough. Then I forgot about it and stumbled across it the other day and decided to get some outside opinions, yours, if you'd be so kind. In G, fiddle - GDAE, banjo - gDGDE

Sullivan's Hollow

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In topics:
Converting a banjo to fretless

aDAde on a fretless; recorded in 2000.

Tear Down the Fences

Posted by carlb, written by Ola Belle Reed

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In topics:
Banjo songs for our times - songs of resistance

The song speaks for itself. Banjo - aEAc#e

Tennessee Mountain Fox Chase

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Tuning - gCGCE; source - Vance's Tennessee Breakdowners; recorded in 2000.

The Spring's All Muddy and the Pond's All Dry

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The banjo is tuned aEAC#E, is derived from Burl Hammons' fiddling and has three Galax licks in the 1st part. The approach, to the two consecutive thumbs on the 5th string, happens in three different ways. The first is a roll across the strings, the second is a hammer on the 1st string to the 4th fret and the last is comes after a single strike on the 1st string.

This Land is Your Land

Posted by carlb, written by Woody Guthrie (a few modifications by Carl Baron)

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Saturday, October 21,2023 Last Sunday, as I was preparing to sing with the youth at Gwynedd Friends Meeting, I asked the teacher what the lesson was for today. He told me that they were going to learn about Indigenous People's Day. I looked through the list of songs that I'd been singing with them, for the past 30 years or so and thought, that of all of them, "This Land is Your Land" would fit. However, I decided to change just a few words that were too specific to the European immigrants and make the song more about all who live on the earth, animals, plants, birds, insects and all other organisms. This land was made for them all to live on this finite planet Earth. Banjo: gCGce

Tippy Get Your Hair Cut

Posted by carlb, written by Jilly Grace (maybe passed down from someone else)

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Tippy Get You Hair Cut (Melvin Wine, fiddle GDAD and Carl Baron, banjo gDGDE) was recorded from an over the air public radio broadcast of the 1977 Chicago Folk Festival.

Twin Sisters

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aDAde - derived from Melvin Wine's fiddling. Not exactly as in my Banjo Newsletter tab of 31 years ago (February, 1984).

Upper Lehigh

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learned from the fiddling of Peter Kraus of Reading, PA and Gerry Milnes aDAde