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Size: 1,508kb, uploaded 5/1/2016 8:29:31 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This old-time TOTW explores one of the many tunes entitled Liza Jane. The Carter Brothers and Son recorded it for Okeh in 1928. Check out this week's TOTW -- I know I'm going to read more about this family. There's a link to a good and long article with the Jimmie Carter's (the "son") family stories. http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/317848.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,951kb, uploaded 7/3/2015 6:38:40 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 7/3/15, here are three versions. The first is Big Liza Jane from the banjo playing of Kyle Creed. Next is a similar tune via West Virginian fiddler Franklin George and his banjo-playing partner, Katie Johnson. Then comes my arrangement of Going Down to Cairo (sometimes called Goodbye Liza Jane).
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, 7/3/15, here are five versions of Liza Jane. The first is from a 1917 recording of Little Liza Jane by Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band. Second is J.P. Fraley's Little Liza Jane. Third is Mountaineer's Love Song via Al Hopkins and the Hillbillies (1926). Fourth is from Clyde Davenport and fifth is Bob Thornburg's Liza Jane, learned from Dwight Diller.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Wade Hemsworth
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Size: 1,196kb, uploaded 3/8/2015 7:52:49 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Someone played this tune a while back and I wondered about the lyrics. Today I received them in the form of a youtube video made in Canada to promote the composer who is revered there for writing some enduring folk songs. It's a cute animation and the beginning shows log rollers doing an amazing job of balancing on logs in a river. The song is about a girl choosing the log roller to dance with because he makes it so fun. I'm playing my little old banjo with no tone ring and some nylgut strings.
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Size: 1,456kb, uploaded 7/31/2021 12:18:12 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This old tune goes by other titles, but I chose the recording made by the great Missouri fiddler Cyril Stinett. I tried to eliminate some of the notes so typical for Ozark hornpipes and managed to simplify by using the 5th string as a kind of a drone.
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Size: 4,183kb, uploaded 3/19/2021 9:07:43 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Lone Prairie has a long history, coming from the popular old song Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie, which derived from a ballad called Ocean Burial, or Burial at Sea. These arrangements have five sources, ranging in dates from 1927 - 2011 and including Carl Sprague, Harvey "Pappy" Taylor, Bruce Molsky, Wade Ward, and Jon Bekoff. Check out the TOTW link to learn more.
1 commentPosted by JanetB, written by Bill Monroe
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Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A slow waltz in the moonlight, a Monroe classic.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,064kb, uploaded 4/28/2015 6:00:14 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from the fiddling of well-known Missourian Lonnie Robertson (1908 - 1981). I'm just becoming familiar with some of his work and am impressed by his smooth, clear, fast playing.
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Size: 1,509kb, uploaded 5/4/2019 1:30:57 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 5/4/19, Lonesome Road Blues is also known as Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad. Check out the discussion thread for a very thorough coverage of this well-known song. I just sing a couple of verses here, out of many, many.
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Size: 1,627kb, uploaded 6/25/2013 7:37:57 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From Alabama fiddler James Bryan who learned it from Mack Blalock. Lookout Mountain is near James home and Lookout Blues is the title of his first solo album. It has a crooked A part with lots of syncopation. The B part remind me of Cajun music.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
O'Carolan composed this in honor of the 4th Earl of Inchiquin, County Clare, Ireland. It sounds like a minuet until the second part, when O'Carolan's signature melody surprises are heard.
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Size: 2,023kb, uploaded 8/29/2014 6:00:55 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Kentucky fiddler John Salyer did the source recordings on both Lost Boy and Lost Girl. They're quite similar. The A parts differ, but the chordal flavor is the same and together they make a natural medley. Bruce Molsky recorded a CD with the title Lost Boy. Adam Hurt's Lost Girl on piano from his Insight CD inspired me to work on it.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This is a lyrical piece played by Stephen Wade using harmonics in f#DEAD tuning. It's been quite interesting to figure out how he did it.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From Adam Hurt's piano version, inspired by Kentucky fiddler John Salyer whose many tunes are always worth learning. I've also enjoyed playing my Gold Tone cello banjo with all nylon strings. Hope you enjoy, too.
5 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Ed Haley
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This comes from Kentucky fiddler (originally from West Virginia) Ed Haley's historic recordings. As I recorded it I tried to imagine what it would be like for a real lost Indian and figured the title is also an allegory for any problem when you don't yet have the solution.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 671kb, uploaded 10/11/2013 6:06:27 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This version comes from Paul David Smith of Kentucky who learned it from his father. It's in the unusual tuning of fCGCD, though Paul played it in fDFAD. Mine's clawhammered, his was picked. I've wondered how many different Lost Indians there are. I know three distinct tunes called Lost Indian and have heard more than that.
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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.
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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: 6,970kb, uploaded 5/13/2022 10:58:06 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
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TOTW 05/13/2022 Love Somebody
Known by other titles, this arrangement comes from the legendary WV fiddler Ed Haley. I played it on a short-scale Gold Tone Plucky travel banjo, ending up in the key of F and on a short-scale Doc's Banjo in the key of C --just a fun diversion to hear the difference. To play with a fiddler you'd need it in the key of D. Listen to Stephen Rapp with Paul Kirk, Jr. -- great duet!
1 commentPosted 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.
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