Posted by JanetB
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Size: 5,624kb, uploaded 2/12/2018 12:37:37 PM
Genre: Country / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 2/2/18, this is the Rough & Ready Fruit Jar Pickers sing-along version. Lots of people singing, lots of instruments, countrified style. My solo is minimal, heard after the electric guitar after the first verse. The FJPers disbanded last June. I played every Sunday with this rollicking group for 14 years. We always had an audience with songbooks who flipped through the book as our leader, Everette Burkhard, called out each song number. From gospel songs to old-time to country, we made lots of music over the years, sometimes sounding great, sometimes pretty awful. But it was always about being with friends and having fun together at the Rough and Ready Opry Palace and later at the Grange when they tore down the palace and put up a beautiful fire station.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Lynn 'Chirps' Smith
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Size: 1,472kb, uploaded 12/31/2016 8:08:01 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week this New Year's Eve, from the playing of Chirps Smith, Midwest fiddler. He's a big influence and mentor for one of my favorite fiddlers, Rhys Jones. It's a cheerful, rollicking tune, though mine's on the quiet side. I plan to stay home on New Year's Eve and watch sports and pick banjo!
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 3,196kb, uploaded 11/2/2024 11:53:19 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
As played by Kentucky fiddler J.W. Day and recorded in 1937 by John Lomax, No Corn on Tygart is a delightful tune with its minor chord in the A part and descending melody in the B part. I went with "guitar tuning" -- gDGBE.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by John Hartford
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Size: 1,544kb, uploaded 12/16/2018 12:38:44 PM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Intrigued by the title and the tune as played by Matt Combs, I had to work harder than usual to arrange John Hartford's fiddle tune. It has a Southwest/Latin flavor, though the title takes it much farther up north where John performed at an annual bluegrass festival in Mole Lake, Wisconsin.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Addie Graham
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Size: 1,236kb, uploaded 12/31/2013 9:08:32 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
When Addie Graham wrote this in eastern Kentucky the O and K train line had already been build in front of her home. I'm playing on a Robert Browder small-scale gourd banjo.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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Size: 917kb, uploaded 1/18/2012 6:10:21 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
O'Carolan had a sweet friendship with Bridget Cruise before he was blinded. Later he wrote four airs with her name as the title. He held her hand again one day for a fast moment while helping strangers board a boat he was about to leave. He recognized her hand!
4 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Greg Canote
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Size: 2,202kb, uploaded 5/6/2017 12:05:09 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 5/5/17, Obama's March to the White House is a stately, but lively tune composed by the fiddling Canote twin, Greg. I heard Adam Hurt's beautiful playing of it before this TOTW made me aware of the Canote Brothers own version.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 926kb, uploaded 11/27/2011 5:57:45 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
First played in waltz time, then as a hornpipe.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 530kb, uploaded 5/11/2012 5:22:58 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
By researching this song I've learned about the history of the Irish people. I've known the song since the 70's, but didn't know then I'd be living on the land of Irish immigrants. They came to California seeking to escape harsh conditions and ended up working hard in the mines and on farms, just like in my once-thriving community of Smartsville. For more information about this happy, hopeful tune see this week's Tune of the Week .
4 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Lloyd Chandler
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Size: 1,198kb, uploaded 10/24/2016 12:08:56 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 10-22-16. Dock Boggs and Ralph Stanley are the two seminal examples of this song. Dock Boggs played it picking style and gave us the common verses we hear and Ralph Stanley's best version was a capapella heard in Oh Brothers, Where Art Thou. I've attempted Oh Death in clawhammer style here on cello banjo, tuned in sawmill, thinking Dock Boggs' words as I play. Its lyrics are an icy portrait of death that could help lead a personal to repentance, as it did the original writer, Lloyd Chandler, a Free Will Baptist minister in the 1920's, after he dreamed it. Check out this week's TOTW for more info.
4 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,304kb, uploaded 4/3/2015 8:51:13 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
It's interesting that William Sydney Mount, the famous painter of The Banjo Player, had in his notes and diary this version of Oh Susannah in 1848, the same year that Stephen Foster published the song, too. I'm enjoying studying the great painter who was also a dedicated fiddler.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by A.P. Carter
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Size: 1,965kb, uploaded 8/27/2011 11:43:36 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
One of the Carter family songs Kit and I worked up for our duet performances.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,197kb, uploaded 4/9/2016 7:44:08 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This old-time Tune of the Week is quite old -- from the 1700's -- and comes from Sweden (and has a Swedish name if you check it out here: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/317105. I liked the fact that the lyrics describe the lonely but important work of the Swedish "cowgirl" who had to move and keep watch on the herds of cattle and goats at certain times of the year to allow the fields to be used for crop growing. I'm playing in open G in the key of Am.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,194kb, uploaded 3/29/2024 4:48:19 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the playing of an Alabama fiddler, Paisley Hagood. Mostly he plays ABAB, which is kind of a treat after always playing AABBAABB. The high note in the A part gives it an ancient tone feeling for me.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,053kb, uploaded 5/1/2013 12:10:01 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Kentucky fiddler Owen 'Snake' Chapman learned this from his father, 'Doc.' Played on a Mac Traynham Whyte Laydie.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Noah Bingham
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Size: 507kb, uploaded 6/30/2012 2:42:55 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Estill Bingham (1899 - 1990) learned this from his father, Noah, in southeastern Kentucky. I had learned another one of his songs for last week's Tune of the Week and it was recommended I also listen to this nice crooked tune.
4 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,220kb, uploaded 8/26/2016 5:02:13 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For this week's old time Tune of the Week (8/26/16) one of my favorite tunes learned from my lessons with Adam Hurt has been chosen. I've already recorded Old Beech Leaves a couple of times, so I thought I'd listen to the source recording and try arranging it in another tuning. This one is worked out in open G tuning, played on my cello banjo (so actually tuned down to an open C). It was recorded from the rather rough playing of a Kentucky fiddler from Logan County, Sid Hudnall, who lived with his family pretty much isolated from the rest of the world. Check out the TOTW for more info and tab of Adam's version (with his permission).
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 885kb, uploaded 6/8/2013 5:39:59 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the Tune of the Week 6-7-13. Something about this tune makes me play faster than usual.
6 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 831kb, uploaded 7/29/2014 5:28:54 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the fiddling of Bruce Greene who learned it from Uncle George Nicholson (born in Laurel Co., KY in 1854). This tune reminds me of another I've heard before. For some reason the tune gives me a deep sense of deja vu when Bruce plays it. It's on his solo fiddle CD Five Miles of Ellum Wood.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,744kb, uploaded 8/18/2024 6:04:36 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the playing of Bruce Greene via Kentucky fiddler Gusty Wallace. The measure count is very unusual, but it's a neat tune. Bruce Greene has found good crooked tunes, many probably from Kentucky. Check out his Five Miles from Ellum Wood CD.
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