Posted by JanetB
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Size: 1,112kb, uploaded 7/28/2012 3:32:46 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
An old tune I remember best from listening to Doc Watson.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,448kb, uploaded 7/27/2016 10:00:08 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
When I heard this tune on the double CD set The Hammons Family it struck me as a unique fiddled version of Lost Indian. This is the fourth distinct tune I've learned with the same title and, really, I like them all. Mose Coffman was a good friend of the Hammons and was praised by Dwight Diller for his love of the music and his affinity for teaching.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,041kb, uploaded 12/27/2019 11:34:22 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the always delightful playing of WV fiddler Melvin Wine, here's the TOTW for 12/27/19. The B part is crooked and leads back to the A part quite easily.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Jay Ungar
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Size: 1,412kb, uploaded 5/11/2017 6:11:58 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Many know of and play Ashokan Waltz. This other waltz by Jay Ungar has a similar feel -- a lovely tune written in modern times, but as old-timey as I like.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Dave Hum
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Size: 1,008kb, uploaded 6/27/2014 3:27:57 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Today Dave's daughter, Perri, loaded an original tune Dave played while busking. We who looked forward to his videos here miss Dave and keep his music alive. I'm trying a clawhammer version of this tune and also enjoyed looking up the site called Lulworth Cove in Dorset. I figure Dave must have brought his family there.
1 commentPosted by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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Size: 971kb, uploaded 7/6/2019 5:11:35 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Mabel Kelly is one of O'Carolan's "planxties" written in honor of a patron where he would stay as he traveled, earning his living in Ireland as a blind harpist in the late 1600's and early 1700's. Miss Kelly was most likely the daughter and heiress of a castle, but died five years before her father. The best source for learning about O'Carolan's life is a biography by Donal O'Sullivan. My Gold Tone cello banjo is equivalent to double C tuning but down four steps to double G.
1 commentPosted by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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Size: 2,326kb, uploaded 7/6/2019 7:03:07 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
I've been attempting to learn Mabel Kelly for a while and decided to enhance it with cello banjo accompaniment here. The chords give it a flavor that is just suggested in a clawhammer solo. The Garage Band recording quality isn't as good as I'd hoped, though I have a good Yeti microphone.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 980kb, uploaded 7/23/2012 11:47:34 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This tune was composed for a funeral march after the Battle of Knockinoss in southern Ireland when the Irish and Scottish highlanders lost to the Parliamentary forces on Nov. 13, 1647. It honors the brave Scottish leader, Alisdair (Colkitto) MacAllistrum and his men.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 887kb, uploaded 8/23/2014 8:48:13 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 8/22/14. The lyrics are quite moving, telling of the real Jamie MacPherson of Scotland (1675 - 1700) who played a fiddle tune before being hung, who smashed his fiddle, and who would have been pardoned if someone hadn't moved the clock up by fifteen minutes. I like the part of the chorus which says, "He played a tune and danced it roon." Here's a link to the thread: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/290158
2 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Owen "Snake" Chapman
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Size: 1,438kb, uploaded 4/14/2018 10:51:25 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 4/13/18, Snake wrote this tune during a recording session and it was was recorded and kept for posterity with this title that was reminiscent of his experience as a child of being knocked down by an angry hornet.
5 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Giacomo Puccini
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Size: 850kb, uploaded 8/23/2011 6:13:35 PM
Genre: Classical / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This operatic song was learned before a trip to Italy when I didn't yet know I'd be staying in Lucca, the very town of Giacomo Puccini's birth. As it turned out, he also wrote Girl of the Golden West which was performed in San Francisco in 1907 and included the well-known mistrel Jake Wallace, who taught Lotta Crabtree how to play banjo. Small world.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Erynn Marshall
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Size: 1,520kb, uploaded 2/25/2017 11:23:48 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 2/24/17, Erynn wrote this song after earning an Appalachian Fellowship Award and spending time in Kentucky to research the music. The tune was her thank you to the local folk with a little "wistfulness thrown in" for her departure. I'm playing on a Gold Tone cello banjo using 2-finger picking style. I'm playing AB rather than AAB. The tuning is comparable to double C, but tuned down and the key comes out in G, just like Erynn's recording on her CD "Meet Me in the Music."
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,093kb, uploaded 11/11/2012 6:16:44 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For Don Borchelt's TOTW. It's a happy, meandering tune for having such a title, but I figure the sheep ranchers are dipping their sheep in sheep dip, thus the picture of working together and accomplishing the job.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,744kb, uploaded 1/27/2015 5:59:25 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Ever since hearing Dave Hum play this tune I've wanted to learn it. I happened upon it in a Ken Perlman clawhammer book and found I could play it.
6 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,556kb, uploaded 12/16/2016 6:30:22 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Epic Kentucky bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker played Make a Little Boat with his buddies after learning it from Howdy Forrester. I think of Mr. Baker as a swing-type of fiddler with Bill Monroe, but his family background was as an old-time fiddler. I can just see a little guy growing up in the country sailing his hand-made boat in a little creek....
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,079kb, uploaded 9/30/2013 5:51:00 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Ed Haley's version. It inspired John Hartford, too, and he played it for the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack. I heard it on an Ed Haley CD I was able to download and it became one of those "gotta learn" tunes.
6 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Jim Reed
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Size: 1,136kb, uploaded 12/26/2012 2:46:46 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
BHO's own Jim Reed from Sydney, Kentucky wrote this pretty piece.
2 commentsWritten/Posted by JanetB
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Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Dedicated to my mother, now 93 years old. In my mind she's reached the summit, which was the original title of this piece. I'm playing on a Goldtone cello banjo.
4 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,070kb, uploaded 3/16/2016 6:05:43 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
After hearing Matt Malloy of the Chieftains, Dave Hum, and finally Don Huber, I got inspired to learn this tune and some of its variations, just in time for Saint Patrick's Day.
1 commentPosted by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A planxty written to honor the head of an important Irish clan. The O'Connors were generous hosts of O'Carolan many a-time. A boyhood friend of O'Carolan's was also an O'Connor named Dennis. They would have known each other as neighbors before O'Carolan's blindness at age 18.
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