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Size: 1,424kb, uploaded 12/19/2016 11:04:27 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 12/17/16, this Bob Walters tune, recorded by R.P. Christeson and notated in The Fiddler's Repertory, Vol. 1, has roots in a syncopated minstrel tune called Hell on the Wabash. It's a happy tune, though nobody seems to know what the title really means.
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Size: 2,856kb, uploaded 12/1/2023 3:55:58 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Here's my arrangement of Lafayette from the playing of Kirk McGee and Arthur Smith found on the Slippery Hill site. It was a popular dance tune on the Grand Old Opry back in the days.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by John Jones
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Size: 1,424kb, uploaded 1/31/2016 7:16:30 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Here's another tune heard from the great Alabama fiddler James Bryan. Per usual, he makes it sound so good I just need to try it. The story behind the title is that Missouri fiddler John Jones was walking home with his children after playing for a dance, humming this new tune, and their lantern fell in the ditch. They walked the rest of the way in the dark.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
These two tunes also are the names for the tuning they use, also called Old G tuning, which I've been studying this month. I'm tuned a step down to fCFCD. I'm finding that some tunes work well in this tuning, some work okay, and others don't work well at all!
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Paul Brown
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Paul Brown is a living legend, a quiet one who has and still contributes beautiful music. I know that someone else gave his tune this title, and so it is The Last Cold Whiskey. I made a few changes because I learned it from another's tab and felt like it. In the discussion tab we haven't even heard Paul Brown play it yet. It's a beauty, though I don't know what I think the title should actually be...
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Old Kentucky crooked fiddle tunes are intriguing and Hiram Stamper is an authentic learning resource in my book. Bruce Greene recorded this one and it was tricky to arrange. I got some help listening to George Jackson, the New Zealander old-time player that's a pleasure to hear.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 5/11/18, Last Shot Got Him via the Mississippi Possum Hunters' 1930 recording. It resembles in melody Mississippi John Hurt's sung version called First Shot Missed Him. Hurt recorded as early as 1928, though this song isn't available to hear until a much later recording in the 60's. Hurt played it slower and didn't have the little tag ending on the A part. Music historian and fiddler Harry Bolick put the two together (see the current TOTW to hear that version). I think the Possum Hunters sound rather ragtime and I can imagine it being at one time a bar-room song about someone who was shot, an event not unheard of at that time in that place in Mississippi.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 7/7/17 Lazy Kate was recorded at the beginning of the 1930's buy a Mississippi stringband called Leake County Revelers. In the key of D, I put it in what's equivalent to open G tuning on the cello banjo (dADF#A). For an easy-sounding tune, it was a bit challenging to arrange, but easier for me to play than in double D tuning. Easier playing makes for a better end-result, don't you think?!
4 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,936kb, uploaded 6/28/2025 11:29:50 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A tune popular especially in Quebec, Rabbit Hop is a dance tune with some hopping heard in the B part.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Paul Roberts and Janet Burton
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Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
After hearing Paul's Leap Frog I found that I could easily play along with it. I tried composing some counterpoint melody to it, but forgot to re-set the slow-downer back up to the key of D. This came out in C with my banjo tuned to double C and I'm playing clawhammer. Paul is playing a mandocello tuned in 5ths and uses a flatpick.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A combination of learning Mike Seeger's version via W.A. Hinton's 1930 Okey recording, plus my own attempt at playing Francis O'Neill's Music of Ireland notation for Leather Britches -- a fascinating comparison.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Inspired by Megan Lynch. Also known as Lord McDonald's Reel.
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Size: 1,329kb, uploaded 9/17/2016 12:30:15 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, this version of Liberty is from a 1925 Okeh recording of Fiddlin' John Carson of Georgia, said by many to be the musician who recorded the first country record (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane and The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster is Going to Crow).
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Size: 1,328kb, uploaded 9/17/2016 12:34:44 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This version of Liberty is also called Liberty Two-Step, which distinguishes it from another tune called Liberty. (Check out the current Tune of the Week for 9/16/16 for more info.) I learned this one from John Burke's Clawhammer Book for Banjo back in the 70's and it was a popular square dance tune then. I think it's a pretty tune.
1 commentPosted by JanetB, written by Bobby Neuwirth and Henry Burnett
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This song was used in the Cold Mountain soundtrack.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Virginia fiddler Luther Davis was said to play this in his 90's. Alice Gerard extensively recorded him and plays it with Gail Gilespie on the Hangout archive (http://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/media-player/audio_player2.asp?musicid=3041&archived=%20). Unfortunately the album with Luther David -- The Old Time Way -- hasn't been reissued. I learned Lily of the Valley listening to an Adam Hurt and Christian Wig jam recording from last year's Clifftop.
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Size: 517kb, uploaded 11/11/2011 11:28:00 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This song title is one of an 1849 collection for Christy's Minstrels. It actually sounds like someone walking with a limp. Mike Compton teaches it to his mandolin students. I'm playing it on my older Tennessee open back.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,305kb, uploaded 11/2/2011 5:45:09 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Just having fun remembering words learned long ago.
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Size: 988kb, uploaded 12/29/2013 2:07:23 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For TOTW 12/27/13. I've been glad to learn a piece played by the great Uncle Jimmy Thompson of Grand Old Opry fame.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Jesse James Abbott
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A pretty, soothing tune for the Tune of the Week. Join in on the discussion thread and enjoy!
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