Posted by JanetB
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Size: 1,627kb, uploaded 11/24/2012 4:11:36 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from Dave Hum, it's my farewell piece for him. He's missed on BHO.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Joe Blalock
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Size: 1,070kb, uploaded 1/9/2015 8:38:54 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 1/9/15, this tune was written after Joe Blalock was laid off from his job at the textile mill in Trion. I heard it on Bob Carlin's Banging and Sawing CD. This introduced me to the fiddling of James Bryan of Alabama, who has since become my favorite fiddler. Check out the TOTW thread on Farewell Trion.
4 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Joe Blalock
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Size: 2,145kb, uploaded 6/21/2011 9:33:09 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen
A beautiful tune. Listen to James Bryan's version on Bob Carlin's Banging and Sawing CD.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,412kb, uploaded 10/10/2017 2:42:09 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 10-6-17. Vesta Johnson, Missouri fiddler, learned this from Cyril Stinnett who learned it form his father. I'm glad to see this elderly fiddler (age 95) showcased in this week's TOTW. I find the title amusing.
Add CommentWritten/Posted by JanetB
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Size: 1,591kb, uploaded 8/3/2015 7:20:12 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
An original clawhammer piece, written in semi-traditional ABB format, portraying the feelings of a concerned father and a happy child.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,136kb, uploaded 8/19/2023 3:30:48 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A great discovery tune this week to learn from the recordings of Kentucky fiddler Buddy Thomas!
Add CommentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,758kb, uploaded 11/13/2012 6:06:08 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A traditional Irish song about a man named Feilim who took his small boat and it crashed. It may have been an Ulster chieftain whose land had been taken. You can feel the admiration and sympathy in the music. The Irish have a great talent for such expression.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by John Hartford
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Size: 897kb, uploaded 1/26/2019 2:12:16 PM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
One of the hardly-known tunes of John Hartford from the new book, Find Your Thing has title with a deep thought. As I was watching the Australian Open wheelchair finals last night, practicing the tune, I was moved that these men had "found their thing."
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,556kb, uploaded 12/2/2012 9:38:49 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This Hammons Family tune is one of those captivating mountain melodies that make fiddle tunes a pleasure to hear. Played on a Bart Reiter Whyte Laydie in open G tuning, it would be capoed at the second fret to play with a fiddle.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,041kb, uploaded 7/28/2013 1:14:50 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from Adam Hurt's Earth Tones CD. This tune kept going through my head on July 8th as I wondered how close the Smartsville grass fire would come. It ended up burning 73 acres. This version appears to originally come from North Carolina fiddler Marcus Martin.
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Size: 1,967kb, uploaded 12/17/2017 9:38:14 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the fiddling of Kentuckian Clyde Davenport -- one never can get tired of his style or tunes. This one has those little unexpected twists in meter and melody that delight us. I'm in good company with Joe Newberry and Don Borchelt who both uploaded this tune on BHO years ago. Jeff Titon claims it's related to an Irish tune called The Mullingar Races and that other tunes with different melody have been recorded with this title.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 752kb, uploaded 7/29/2014 7:56:39 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from Bruce Greene's CD of this title. I recently "discovered" his fiddling and the significance it had in our knowledge of Kentucky fiddlers, though he first heard this from a banjo player in western Kentucky named James Dickison. It's in the Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes, which I'm happy to also discover.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,268kb, uploaded 1/6/2013 8:55:47 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the Tune of the Week (TOTW) January 5, 2013. This version comes from the playing of Adam Hurt.
5 commentsPosted 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
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.
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