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Size: 1,316kb, uploaded 11/3/2012 9:53:08 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
I first learned this clawhammer, then recorded it 3-finger picking, now am re-learning it for clawhammer. It's tuned to double C.
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Size: 1,483kb, uploaded 10/9/2015 1:06:39 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 10/9/15, this comes from the fiddling of West Virginian Melvin Wine and the accompanying tab of Carl Baron. Check it out: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/309849. I'd rather have a black cat in the briar patch, happily hunting, than have him cross my path. :)
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Size: 1,116kb, uploaded 3/2/2014 1:55:05 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the Tune of the Week, 2/28/14, this version is mostly from Bigfoot Stringband and Rhys Jones' fiddling. He based it on Robert Sykes (1914-1994). It's a much bluesier Black Eyed Susie than I've ever heard and I've been curious about it, so TOTW has again provided me a good learning platform. Tune in, if you haven't! I'm playing a very lightweight banjo with nylgut strings.
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Size: 1,280kb, uploaded 12/31/2017 12:31:22 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 12/29/17, this originally was recorded in 1949 by John Sharp, a Kentucky native living in Tennessee. It has resemblance to both Polly Wolly Doodle and a bit of Old Joe Clark. My arrangement comes from the Canote Brothers.
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Size: 1,747kb, uploaded 7/27/2013 1:36:29 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the Tune of the Week, July 26, 2013. This beautiful waltz is being played on a Mac Traynham Whyte Laydie and a Gold Tone cello banjo.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,795kb, uploaded 3/11/2016 8:18:40 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The old-time Tune of the Week for 3/11/16 is Black Jack Grove as recorded by the Lomax's in 1939, played by Texas fiddler Lake N. Porter. The other Black Jack Grove comes from Kentucky fiddler Walter McNew. I play them both here for comparison's sake, which worked out since I arranged them both in open G tuning.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 680kb, uploaded 7/9/2012 8:34:16 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the brotherhood, from your sister. My favorite version has been Doc's.
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Size: 789kb, uploaded 1/7/2017 9:18:09 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From Kentucky fiddler Clyde Davenport, this is the old-time Tune of the Week for 1/6/17. Clyde's fiddling is always great and goes along well with clawhammer banjo style. I'd hate that snake, though. Reminds me of the meat bees here that only bite my husband's toe!
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Size: 917kb, uploaded 4/11/2012 10:15:14 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A favorite tune, a little too early for the blossoms here in the California foothill springtime, but with lots of good memories picking berries with the grandkids in summer.
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Size: 2,034kb, uploaded 9/26/2020 3:49:16 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A wonderful champion fiddler, Tatiana Hargreaves, plays the Tune of the Week and bases it upon the older fiddler Emma Lee Dickerson. In an interview Tatiana claims that's her doppelg?nger, a new word for me. They look alike in photos. The tune is very familiar to me, but Emma Lee's is unique, so I also include the more traditional one in this recording.
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Size: 2,177kb, uploaded 4/15/2016 4:47:48 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From two Ozark fiddlers: Fred Stoneking of Missouri and Absie Morrison of Arkansas. Hope you enjoy the relaxing tempo of these waltzes!
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Size: 1,323kb, uploaded 5/14/2021 1:42:21 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the playing of Kentucky fiddler Clyde Davenport, who lived till recently to the ripe old age of 99 and who learned Blackfoot from his father. I want to call him Crooked Clyde. Listen why.
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Size: 1,723kb, uploaded 5/31/2017 8:28:32 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
There was really a harper in Ireland called Maire Dhall (Blind Mary) who is known to have taught harp to friends of Turlough O'Carolan (1670 - 1738), so it's assumed he knew her, too. The melody is rather dramatic and you get a feeling of respect for this woman, who, like O'Carolan, must have traveled, played harp, and taught for a living.
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Size: 1,316kb, uploaded 1/13/2017 12:54:35 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 1/13/17, this version comes from Missouri fiddler Cyril Stinnett. I liked it because the B part reminds of me Flop-Eared Mule.
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Size: 1,004kb, uploaded 9/12/2014 8:48:29 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, this version comes from Owen Snake Chapman of Pike County, Kentucky. He learned it from Kenny Baker's father, Thaddeus. Mine is slowed-down and I can imagine going up a river cautiously in the wilderness. I play it in open G tuning on a Mac Traynham Whyte Laydie. Check out this week's TOTW for more information and links. http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/291188
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Size: 1,544kb, uploaded 6/7/2016 11:00:16 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Tennessee fiddler Charlie Acuff played this one and told the story of the 1886 campaign for governor between two fiddling brothers of different political parties. Bob Taylor won and this was one of the tunes linked to that famous campaign. Charlie said the tune was first called "Old Squeaking Fiddle." It's waltz time, not march, but it all seems to fit in with an unusual story, and very appropriate on this election day.
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Size: 1,471kb, uploaded 3/12/2012 5:45:50 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The group I play with on Sundays--the Rough and Ready Fruit Jar Pickers--does a lot of songs that our band leader likes and he used to play pedal steel guitar. So here's Maiden's Prayer, Steel Guitar Rag, and Roly Poly (with some quiet vocals in honor of my new cello banjo arriving this week).
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Size: 1,077kb, uploaded 10/3/2022 10:16:06 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Here's an old tune played by Melvin Wine of WV learned from his father, Bob Wine. The B part goes into another mode, thus the intrigue of the tune. It's a fun one to play.
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Size: 776kb, uploaded 8/23/2021 10:26:09 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the fiddle playing of Tommy Jarrell and Jake Blount, and when the singing is added Boll Weevil tells the plight of the farmer victimized by the insect pests that destroyed his cotton crop.
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Size: 777kb, uploaded 2/8/2013 6:23:48 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Kentucky fiddler William H. Stepp so impressed Allan and Elizabeth Lomax in their 1937 Library and Congress recording, that Mr. Lomax recommended the tune to Aaron Copland who subsequently used it in his famous hoe-down piece in the ballet "Rodeo." The story is well-told by Stephen Wade in his new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us. Mr. Stepp played it an breakneck speed, different from the more charming versions abounding in other old-time recordings, but it was also impressive enough to use in the famous commercial: Beef--It's What's for Dinner.
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