Avel Vor/The Gold Stud/Sligo Creek

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 8,742kb, uploaded 6/7/2013 7:33:21 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

The Hotpoint Stringband, with Hilarie on banjo

Barlow Knife in C (Fielding Rooster banjo)

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 598kb, uploaded 2/7/2008 10:26:38 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

one time through. nice low notes on this banjo, huh?

Black Eyed Susie

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 3,620kb, uploaded 4/15/2017 7:37:11 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

This a tune that our band Sugar Pie learned from Mark Tamsula and Richard Wither's lovely CD Up in the Batten House. The tunes on Mark Tamsula's CD are all collected in western PA by Samuel Bayard. Fiddle: Jane Rothfield; banjo: Hilarie Burhans; guitar, Kellie Allen; bass, Sabra Guzman

Boxing day

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 3,861kb, uploaded 12/8/2009 5:58:40 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

This is a waltz I wrote several years ago on the banjo, and recorded with Mark Hellenberg on ukulele on the Hotpoint Stringband album Light Fuse Get Away. When the terrible tsunami hit South Asia on the day after Christmas (aka Boxing Day) in 2004, it was a disaster of unbelievable proportions, but also memorable was the way there was a huge outpouring of love and contributions from the rest of the world toward the victims of the tsunami. This sad but hopeful tune is about that.

Bus Stop Reel

Posted by Hilarie Burhans, written by Anita Anderson

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Size: 5,074kb, uploaded 1/27/2011 4:00:12 PM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Banjo tuned to G modal, but capoed across all 5 strings at the 5th fret. With my old band the Hotpoint Stringband

Cantrell's Retreat

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 4,493kb, uploaded 2/7/2008 10:21:10 PM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

a pretty tune written by my husband Mark Burhans and performed by the Hotpoint Stringband on the out-of-print CD Steppin' on Cords.

Cotton Eyed Joe

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 2,069kb, uploaded 2/7/2008 10:06:57 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

with Peggy Conant on fiddle

Cumberland Gap (3-part)

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 2,918kb, uploaded 2/26/2008 12:40:03 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

with Peggy Conant on fiddle and Mark Hellenberg on banjo uke. Another living room recording.

Half Past Four

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 615kb, uploaded 1/11/2011 2:08:22 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Here's a version of Half Past Four to go along with the tab posted with my pictures. It's a (slower) companion to the YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWWP0Nif5Z4&fmt=18

Little Sadie

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 2,098kb, uploaded 2/26/2008 3:34:03 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

sort of a wacked-out version; as if we phoned it in! with Mark Hellenberg on percussion, and me on vocals.

Old Christmas

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 803kb, uploaded 1/6/2010 8:09:57 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

If anyone heard a loud buzzing coming from their beehives last night at midnight, or noticed their cows kneeling, it's because on the eve of Old Christmas (Christmas as traditionally celebrated in many parts of Appalachia on January 6th) animals traditionally did that sort of thing. I've uploaded a quick iPhone recording of Old Christmas played by yours truly but from the playing of Boyd Asher of Kentucky, Happy Old Christmas! Looking forward to the Eighth of January now...

Pateroller

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 3,339kb, uploaded 2/7/2008 10:11:54 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

a track from an out-of-print Hotpoint Stringband CD called Steppin' On Cords. With Mark Hellenberg on percussion (kenjira.)

Pretty Polly (from my album Put On the Skillet)

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 3,791kb, uploaded 2/26/2008 3:18:52 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

On the way to the studio a few years back, this song popped into my head; I hadn't thought of it for years. My friends Al and Emily Cantrell were with me as we were recording some stuff together. After I played and sang this song, I came out to listen to it and Emily Cantrell was sort of hooo-hooo-ing along, harmonizing. It sounded really cool and spooky and I asked her to go in and record it, which she did. We listened and she decided she wanted to redo it; her husband urged her to stay off the root of the chords. We listened and it was better. I had the brainstorm to put both her vocal tracks on. Way cool and spooky! As a side note: this track was purchased by HBO for use over the closing credits of an episode of Deadwood.

Red Rocking Chair

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 1,064kb, uploaded 2/1/2015 11:49:42 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

on a Bell and Son minstrel banjo

Richmond

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 2,975kb, uploaded 1/18/2022 5:33:56 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Sal's Got Mud Between Her Toes

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 3,562kb, uploaded 2/18/2008 12:27:14 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

with Peggy Conant on fiddle. On my Lyon & Healy George Washburn banjo with nylgut strings.

Sandy Boys

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 3,039kb, uploaded 6/7/2013 7:24:56 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

an old recording with our band Hotpoint

Sweet Marie

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 3,019kb, uploaded 1/18/2022 5:35:29 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Talk About Suffering

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 856kb, uploaded 1/9/2011 7:51:01 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

I just saw True Grit and this tune was vaguely present in the soundtrack at one point. It just stayed in my head. I remember first hearing this on a Doc Watson album like 30 years or so ago. Bill Van Horn gourd banjo, recorded at my desk on my iphone.

The Cuckoo (coo coo, coocoo, whatever)

Posted by Hilarie Burhans

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Size: 2,585kb, uploaded 2/26/2008 3:24:18 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

From the Hotpoint Stringband CD The Road to Burhania. With Mark Hellenberg on percussion and vocals and banjo by me.