Nine Pound Hammer

Posted by Lew H

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

The oldtime, Merle Travis, Flatt & Scruggs, etc. song played in open G.

Nola --Bill Keith

Posted by Lew H

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Size: 3,948kb, uploaded 10/25/2015 12:11:03 PM
Genre: Jazz / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

At Suwannee Banjo Camp, one afternoon in the parking lot, a bluegrass student asked Bill to try his custom banjo. Bill played Nola, with some glitches, questions about the best way to play it, etc. This shows he was an unassuming guy, who wasn't afraid to make mistakes, and try out new licks and patterns to get the melody right. There is a piece of some other tune at the start before Nola starts.

Nowhere Man

Posted by Lew H, written by Beatles

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Size: 3,082kb, uploaded 1/24/2015 8:07:09 AM
Genre: Rock / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Tim O'Brien (aka Red Knuckles, of Trailblazers fame) recorded a slow country version of tis old Beatles song with all the minor chords deleted. My wife and I took the RK version and pushed it up to OT/BG speed, than our neo-trad contraband, Banjovi, recorded this back in the nineties.

Old Rosin the Beau

Posted by Lew H

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Size: 1,190kb, uploaded 11/26/2014 9:32:07 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Raleigh & Spencer

Posted by Lew H

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Size: 2,615kb, uploaded 7/26/2019 6:29:48 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

From Greenwillis album

Raleigh & Spenser

Posted by Lew H

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Size: 2,171kb, uploaded 10/22/2014 10:24:38 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen

Rocky Comfort

Written/Posted by Lew H

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Size: 1,519kb, uploaded 2/7/2015 6:10:36 AM
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This tune has a passage early on that I knew I had stolen from some other tune I'd heard. I asked a bluegrass buddy about it, and he said that two of the chords in the sequence are also in "Harley's Breakdown" and in "Interstate Breakdown." The quotation marks are there to indicate titles, not to denote direct quotes for I may be recalling what my buddy said. The title, "Rocky Comfort" is the name of a road here in southern Illinois. I find the name intriguing, seeming to specify ease-with-difficulty. I did an internet sears and found that it was the name of a large plantation in Florida, but the local road name remains a mystery. The tune seems somewhat bittersweet to me, so "Rocky Comfort" is apt.

Rollin' & Tumblin'

Posted by Lew H

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A blues song, made famous by Muddy Waters, but recorded by everyone on the block. Waters put 3 of the chocking riffs between each line, but using only two suits me better. The picking is straight bum-ditty in G modal on a pony longneck banjo with Vega style N pot.

Rollin' and Tumblin'

Posted by Lew H, written by Muddy Waters

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My friends Kent McDaniel and Tawl Paul Fredrick made a CD of Paul singing mostly blues with rock band backup. They asked me to provide some banjo licks for this Muddy Waters song. The CD is available on bandcamp with Tawl Paul after the slash.

Rosemary and Thyme

Posted by Lew H

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Example of a song ending on the V chord.

Salt Creek: Three banjos

Posted by Lew H

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Lew H jams with Mark (Clawgrass) Johnson and Gerald Jones at Suwannee Banjo Camp.

Salty Cat

Written/Posted by Lew H

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Sportin' Molly

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An Arkansas Ozark version of a "British broadside ballad." more generally known as "Whiskey in the Jar," or "Kilgary Mountain." See sound off forum for more information.

Stardust

Posted by Lew H, written by Hoagy Carmichael

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Stars and Stripes -- Clawbrass!

Posted by Lew H, written by Sousa

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Size: 2,214kb, uploaded 7/3/2015 7:52:40 AM
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A response to Ned Luberecki's challenge to post patriotic song.

The World is Waiting for the Sunrise

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Size: 1,798kb, uploaded 9/27/2015 6:45:03 PM
Genre: Jazz / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Made famous by Les Paul and Mary Ford (check youtube), and brought into bluegrass in the 1970s by Walter Hensley (again, check youtube), this may be the first clawhammer--make that clawjazz--version of this fabulous tune.

Under the Double Eagle

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Waiting for the Sunrise--Claw.

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Size: 2,042kb, uploaded 10/16/2017 11:43:36 AM
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Another try at this chordy tune, played three ways.

Whatever Lola Wants

Posted by Lew H

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Size: 1,561kb, uploaded 3/10/2015 3:03:29 PM
Genre: Jazz / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Jazz song from an old broadway play

Whatever Lola Wants - Voice and Claw

Posted by Lew H

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Size: 3,570kb, uploaded 6/14/2015 10:12:24 AM
Genre: Jazz / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Lola again, now with lyrics and echo