Posted by JanetB
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Size: 800kb, uploaded 7/6/2012 6:05:24 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This 3-finger version of Indian Nation is based on Adam Hurt's clawhammer rendition in his Earthtones CD.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Burl Hammons
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Size: 496kb, uploaded 7/6/2012 6:03:51 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This tune is one of many of the West Virginian Hammons family's many recordings in the Library of Congress. It's the subject of the Tune of the Week for 7/6/12.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,231kb, uploaded 9/9/2015 2:07:01 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Another tune learned from Bob Carlin's CD Banging and Sawing. Bruce Molsky played with him on Indian on a Stump and says he learned it from the Balfa Brothers, five Cajun musicians (actual brothers) who played in the 40's and recorded in the 50's. They also played at the Olympics in Mexico in 1968. It's a pretty three-part tune with a hint of relinquishment. When the timber had been cut, what was left for Native Americans who had lived in the forests?
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Size: 1,196kb, uploaded 9/9/2015 2:19:35 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
I don't have good recording equipment, but liked hearing the deeper cello banjo playing along with my Mac Traynham openback on this tune. I'm getting too much sustain or something. One day I'll figure it out...
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Size: 983kb, uploaded 11/27/2013 8:19:04 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from Mac Benford's clawhammer banjo CD of Ed Haley tunes, "Half Past Four." Given the title, posting it the day before Thanksgiving reminds me of all the preparation that went into that first Thanksgiving feast that lasted three days.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 12,775kb, uploaded 8/11/2023 9:58:36 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Three fiddled versions with these titles have interested me for a while. After doing some research I found that Indian War Whoop and Indian Whoop are floating titles for several more tunes. Here are six of the eight versions I've listened to, arranged for clawhammer banjo.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,863kb, uploaded 12/29/2022 10:50:23 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The Tune of the Week for Christmas was a unique performance of an old hymn set to a melody from a Johnson Boys version. This arrangement is base on the vocals, as sung by the great presenter Andy Alexis.
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Size: 1,352kb, uploaded 3/11/2015 5:26:31 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From Missouri fiddler Cyril Stinnett, this tune was taught to me clawhammer style by Adam Hurt and then suggested that I arrange it for 3-finger picking style. Here's the result. You can compare it with the clawhammer version I learned and see what you think. Both are challenging!
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,292kb, uploaded 3/11/2015 5:24:49 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This Missouri tune comes from Cyril Stinnett and is from a recent lesson with Adam Hurt. He called it challenging, and indeed, some of it is! He suggested I arrange it myself with 3-finger picking for fun and to compare them. I'm posting both to see what you think.
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Size: 1,153kb, uploaded 12/21/2020 9:14:28 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Anything by John Salyer, Kentucky fiddler, has been worth learning. The Jack Wilson melody, however, was drowned out in the source recording by a banjo accompanist, so I went to the notation by Jeff Titon to help.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 594kb, uploaded 12/31/2021 11:24:25 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This traditional Cajun waltz sings of the sad loss of a loved one. I like its melody and found it easy to play on clawhammer banjo.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Garry Harrison
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Size: 1,375kb, uploaded 1/24/2017 7:27:19 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
When I heard Don Huber play Red Prairie Dawn by Illinois fiddler and well-known tune collector Garry Harrison, I felt I had to learn that tune. On the same CD are several other originals. This one, called Jail Break, sounded like bagpipes at first, but Garry actually used a fiddle he himself had made. I like the B part where it goes up high and you can feel the emotion of the moment.
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Size: 1,340kb, uploaded 11/13/2015 12:30:16 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 11/13/15, from the fiddling of Edden Hammons of West Virginia.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Kenneth Elkington
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Size: 1,424kb, uploaded 1/4/2019 9:46:12 PM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
VancePants wrote Tune for Janet today. I'm so excited I had to try it already. He plays it 2-finger picking in his beautiful way and I'm attempting it clawhammer style. The rhythm feels Baltic to me. You'd think it's crooked, but it's not. It would be the kind of dance tune the people have to do some quick little syncopated steps all together and proceed -- I can picture it! But don't ask me to try that....Thanks so much, Ken, dedicating a tune to me. That's a keepsake to always treasure, especially right here on BHO where we interact and encourage each other on our musical journeys.
5 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,071kb, uploaded 12/14/2011 8:17:06 PM
Genre: Popular / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Here's my first grade bunch getting ready for our performance that evening.
11 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 741kb, uploaded 4/6/2020 11:27:50 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week for 4/3/20, Jaw Bone (aka The Old Jaw Bone) is arranged from Bruce Molsky and the Mountain Drifters. Bruce is faithful to the older resources and got his from Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers. I keep thinking Jaw Bone is the name of a horse in the song, which has lyrics...
4 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 930kb, uploaded 12/13/2014 6:16:54 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From Etta Baker for the old-time Tune of the Week for 12/12/14. This tune is compared to a fandango. Etta learned it from her brother-in-law, who learned it from his father. It's the first fandango-type tune I've learned and the first I've learned from Etta Baker, who many people have admired. She picked this one 2-finger style on banjo. I'm using clawhammer
4 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,807kb, uploaded 10/13/2012 1:28:06 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
John Salyer of Kentucky is credited most with this song. Pete Sutherland's slow version on "Banjo Gathering" inspired me to learn it, listening both to his 3-finger picking and the original fiddle recording of Salyer in 1940. Thus I'm playing it slow first, then fast; picking, then clawhammer.
7 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,196kb, uploaded 9/17/2017 11:43:46 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 9/15/17, Clyde Davenport, wonderfully smooth Kentucky fiddler, learned this from his father Will who learned it from their neighbor, elder fiddler Will Phipps (b. 1829). It has a modal sound, so I arranged it in sawmill tuning.
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