Posted by JanetB, written by Andy Statman
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Size: 1,340kb, uploaded 12/15/2015 9:19:23 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
KC stands for Klezmer Clawhammer. This is my first attempt at it, in response to Banjo Judy's query for some tab and after a look at a newly formed portion of her website devoted to Klezmer music (http://www.banjojudy.com/klezmer-music/). The tune is in Gm according to notation found there, so I used a Gm tuning of gDGBbD -- one I'd just been working on with another tune. If the tune was played in Am I'd be trying it out of open G tuning using chordal positions.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Clyde Davenport
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Size: 1,316kb, uploaded 9/29/2017 5:55:48 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
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TOTW June 30, 2023 - Flatwoods
Clyde Davenport, Kentucky fiddler and banjo player from Kentucky, still must be alive today, in his 90's because I can't find anything otherwise. There's a youtube of him playing at his birthday concert at 91 years old six years ago. I think the tune he plays like this one are enchanting and engaging.
6 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,797kb, uploaded 2/19/2018 9:15:01 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Other
This Chinese folk song is as old as the Ming Dynasty and is the title of an Oscar and Hammerstein musical of the 1950's. A friend in my photography class from Hong Kong sent it to me and wanted to hear it on banjo. I obliged him and also set it to photos, which I'll post in a Sound Off! thread.
1 commentPosted by JanetB, written by Ed Haley
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Size: 1,086kb, uploaded 5/30/2014 6:22:09 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This pretty tune comes from the scratchy recordings of the blind fiddler originally from West Virginia. Ed Haley's son, Ralph, recorded him in the 1940's, but Ed resisted commercial recordings. There are three volumes available on amazon.com of these home recordings. I first heard of Ed Haley through John Hartford when the soundmen were blasting a CD at a bluegrass festival intermission--my reaction was: "Who is that? That's the music I've been looking for!"
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,249kb, uploaded 6/20/2020 3:55:51 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Tennessee 2-finger style banjo player Omer Forster named his one CD with this title song in the 70's. Played on a vey short-scaled Doc's Banjo, it went all the way up the neck! I clawhammered, though with a very similar arrangement.
2 commentsWritten/Posted by JanetB
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Size: 2,027kb, uploaded 7/12/2019 6:39:35 PM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
When I ordered a custom banjo from Carolina Banjo I asked Ryan Navey, an artistic luthier, to carve the dove on my necklace. It was so exciting that I wrote this tune, no less in a unique tuning gGGAD.
7 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,400kb, uploaded 8/17/2015 3:17:34 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the playing of Henry Reed, inspired for learning from the fiddling of Rayna Gellert. I'm reminded of crawling into bed when very tired, but satisfied from having had a good day.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,421kb, uploaded 9/11/2014 6:21:37 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This has been one of the most popular tunes with old-time musicians for a long time and was the subject of the Tune of the Week a while back. This arrangement is first mine, then Kentucky fiddler Ed Haly's via Adam Hurt. My favorite version, which influences me in my arrangement, comes from bluegrass extrodinaire banjo player Craig Smith. He and Adam live within blocks from each other, so here they come together musically.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 884kb, uploaded 8/31/2014 1:57:45 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, based on Kyle Creed playing and Brad Leftwich's Round Peak Style book. Lots of Galax licks in the A part and slides in the B part.
8 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,133kb, uploaded 3/12/2021 10:07:49 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A fun song to play and sing, Forty Weight of Gingerbread uses some floating lyrics you can cater to your own tastes. It sounds like someone has a sweet tooth!
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Size: 961kb, uploaded 1/29/2022 10:20:45 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A bit of Prohibition and Depression era history here, the poor farmer couldn't make enough money raising cotton. Four Cent Cotton led to raising corn instead for whiskey. Times haven't changed so much, sad to say. This arrangement comes from the early recording of fiddler Lowe Stokes.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,567kb, uploaded 7/3/2016 9:54:32 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 7/1/16, this tune comes from the playing of Illinois fiddler Waldo Helton and is #67 in R.P. Christeson's Old-Time Fiddle Repertory Vol. 2. He played the tune every year at a fourth of July picnic. What makes this tune unique this week is that their is no longer an available recording from the tune -- just the notation in the book. BHO members have collaborated to resurrect the tune and even give it a title.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,952kb, uploaded 12/19/2017 6:51:35 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
As played on fiddle by banjo Bluegrass Boy Tony Ellis. Retiring from Bill Monroe's band in 1962, Tony now enjoys most fiddling with fiddles in his shop in his Ohio home. When I contacted him about his favorite tunes and what to learn, he didn't recommend this traditional Irish tune, Fox Chase Reel. Here it is anyway, and next will come more of his recommended original tunes.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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Size: 726kb, uploaded 7/18/2011 9:38:50 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Thanks to Ron Hughes for his classified ad on Banjo Hangout for his excellent resource, O'Carolan for 5 String Banjo, and for siting his resource--'Carolan, The Life and Music of an Irish Harper, by Donal O'Sullivan (1958).
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,380kb, uploaded 7/4/2020 6:53:05 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Famous fiddler Kenny Baker played Freda and Carthy Sisco (b. 1921), originally from Arkansas and later from Washington state, played his version of Freda. Carthy played lots of Kenny Baker tunes. Here I combine the two.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,204kb, uploaded 12/6/2022 2:38:41 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
It's not French and it's not a waltz. But it's the TOTW and it has some history and a story. Fun to play, though hard to play it just right!
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Size: 1,998kb, uploaded 8/24/2018 4:00:22 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Frosty Morn is the old-time Tune of the Week, 8/24/18. Related to Cold Frosty Morning in some of its melody and chordal movement, here's a medley of the two. The first was learned from the guitar flat-picking of Doc Watson, who I idolize. The second was learned from Miles Krassen's Clawhammer Banjo book. He used Henry Reed's version which he had published previously in his Appalachia Fiddle book. Sawmill tuning, playing on my Doc's Banjo.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 690kb, uploaded 7/20/2011 9:46:27 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Played on a Gold Tone Cripple Creek mini in modal tuning. Learned from Miles Krassen's Clawhammer Banjo, based on fiddling of Henry Reed.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 963kb, uploaded 11/20/2014 6:23:44 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Kentucky fiddler Clyde Davenport was the source fiddler for this tune as Wild Goose Chase. Alabama fiddler James Bryan recorded this with Bob Carlin on the great Banging and Sawing CD. Recently Nick Hornbuckle recorded it on his new CD, Twelve By Two, Plus or Minus One. In my adventurous Skype lessons with Adam Hurt it became one of the tunes I chose to transpose to a new tuning for me that we've been working on, equivalent to f#BEAD. I call it Old Cumberland Gap tuning because it's described as such in Anita Kermode's huge list of banjo tunings. Adam and I tune it up one step for better string tension, so this is in the key of E. Lots of fun to play. Hope you enjoy!
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 854kb, uploaded 9/23/2014 6:12:51 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned off the new CD of BHO member Nickhornbuckle called 12X2 (+/-), it's fitting title for the first day of fall today. I've seen the geese flying overhead while at school and point out their V formation to my first graders.
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