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Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A favorite gospel song.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A fine Tune of the Week from North Carolina with a crooked part that suits the title Green River.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, Green Willis is named for a fiddler from Willis, Virginia. It's also called The Raw Recruit. When it's played in slow jig time, it's called Chapel Hill March. Go back far enough to Scotland and it was called Da New Rigged Ship. Lots to think about here on this cheerful tune that reminds me of a new soldier marching enthusiastically.
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Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
It sounds like a marching soldier. It must be easier marching to music.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A dance tune Melvin Wine learned from his fiddling father, Bob Wine. Melvin played confidently, briskly and fluidly. He must have been a challenge to keep up with, but great fun for a dance!
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This is West Virginian fiddler Tom Dillon's version from the MacCrae Sisters. I wish I knew more about him, though Gerry Milnes wrote a little bit in his book called Play of a Fiddle. I think it's got an interesting A part that does a sort of skip-gallop kind of rhythm that intrigued me. A grey eagle is actually a buzzard.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This fun song is the old-time Tune of the Week for 2/1/19, a day before Groundhog Day.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from a Mike Compton mandolin lesson. Its minor key makes it sound different from other versions.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
As played by Rhys Jones, this tune is sourced to Kentucky fiddler George Lee Hawkins. Rhys is able to play intricate melodies on fiddle. Playing them on clawhammer banjo is a good challenge!
2 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Ed Haley
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For Tune of the Week, 1/26/13
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This week's TOTW has two versions to choose from -- Wade Ward, who I've heard of, and Dent Wimmer, who I haven't. So I found a Dent Wimmer version of Half Shaved in f#DEAD tuning. What a neat sound it has, though I wonder if the title is related to Shaving a Dead Man....
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Popularized by Virginia fiddler Albert Hash, this is a four part tune whose last part reminds me of Fishers Hornpipe. I learned it in conjuction with the current old-time Tune of the Week, another tune played by Mr. Hash called Nancy Blevins. He lived in an area of Virginia I visited now called "The Crooked Road," known for its "rich musical landscape."
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West Virginian fiddler Melvin Wine learned this from his father and never heard it played elsewhere.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, Happy Hollow is one of North Carolina fiddler Marcus Martin's tunes. I decided to play it on the cello banjo, so the key comes out lower than the original (and slower!). Don't you think it's a happy tune?
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Here's my second take on this tune, with added slides thanks to Marc Nerenberg's suggestion. I'm playing a George Wunderlich minstrel banjo.
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In learning some tunes in the Cumberland Gap/Sandy River Belle tuning I wrote a little tune. It has a darkish sound so I named it after a neat place where big boulders form a little cave where the grandkids like to climb around. I checked later and realized I wrote it in the Aeolian mode in the key of G, played on a Mac Traynham Whyte Laydie openback.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The Tune of the Week features a song and includes this banjo solo by Coon Creek Girl Lily May Ledford. The clawhammer techniques are standard and the tune would be a good one to combine skills of bum-ditty, hammer-on, and drop thumb. The lyrics, which you can hear on the discussion thread, tell of farmers trying to eliminate the threat of having their chickens eliminated by the hawk predator.
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Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from a Bill Monroe recording. A polka danced this fast must be easier than playing it.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the TOTW 11/1/13, Eric named his tune after his grandmother and called it Hell and Grace. I can understand how grandmothers could gently let their grandchild know the difference.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 7/8/16, this arrangement is from the fiddling of Arthur Smith. I found out from this TOTW that an explanation of the title is that yearlings referred to young cattle who stormed into a barn while the music was going on. I used to try to rope young steer and they were feisty....
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