Posted by JanetB
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Size: 811kb, uploaded 9/22/2014 6:23:05 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Researching more about the current old-time TOTW, 9/19/14, I looked for the Irish march tune linked to Bonaparte's Retreat through the research of Samuel Bayard. In a Fiddle Hangout link I found the notation by Patrick Weston Joyce in his 1909 book Old Irish Folk Music and Songs. The first part I'm playing comes from Joyce. The second part is my own interpretation of how Bonaparte's Retreat may have evolved from such a march. The Eagle's Whistle was said to be the marching song of the O'Donovan clan of Ireland.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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Size: 1,448kb, uploaded 4/11/2015 9:55:25 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This tune of O'Carolan's has a classical, ethereal sound. I dedicate it to Laurence Diehl, friend of O'Carolan's music and inspiring to all us little folk.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,304kb, uploaded 9/29/2017 11:50:13 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the playing of Virginian fiddler C.B. Wohlford in 1938, this old-time Tune of the Week was recently recorded by Bruce Molsky, a favorite fiddler and banjo player of mine. My arrangement is based on the older source recording.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Luther Strong
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Size: 456kb, uploaded 6/20/2012 11:46:54 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This Tune of the Week is a bit hard in deciding what to do with that one note, so I choked it. Imagine losing a hog in the wild and trying to get him back to the pen. I guess a couple of good hound dogs could do the job.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 961kb, uploaded 5/3/2014 5:38:18 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From R.D. Lunceford's tab in Banjo Newsletter, Nov. '99;. I played it faster than this and than remembered that R.D. said it was pretty and melancholy, but not sad. Slowing it down seemed like the right thing.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 801kb, uploaded 3/14/2015 4:55:24 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This week's Tune of the Week was in honor of St. Patrick's Day. It's actually a drinking song about a man who was disliked and the town celebrates upon his death. You've got to hear the lyrics to appreciate it, so tune in to: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/300790
2 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: 921kb, uploaded 10/29/2017 9:50:57 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
One more try for the old-time Tune of the Week, 10/27/17. This time it's in the 2-finger style -- a very simple, play-the-words version.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,172kb, uploaded 10/27/2017 11:25:54 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This traditional song is one dear to my heart, the old-time Tune of the Week for 10/27/17, also called I Gave My Love a Cherry. Since the poster, Cyndy, did such a beautiful job in open G tuning I thought to look for another tuning to try and found bDGAD. It's listed as "A Tony Trischka D/G tuning" in the Anita Kermode list of tunings I like referring to. Funny, but my 5th string didn't like being tuned down that low. It get tuning itself back up! I think it gives the song an old-time mountain feeling, which is good, since it was an old English song brought to Appalachia by settlers.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,663kb, uploaded 3/16/2016 6:02:30 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
An emotionally charge title with a melody to match.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,113kb, uploaded 8/24/2016 4:18:51 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This old tune was in the well-known fiddle tune book Knauff's Virginia Reels, published in 1839. I've heard good "source recordings" from Burl Hammons and Henry Reed. My arrangement is from listening to Alan Jabbour with Tommy Thompson on banjo on The Hollow Rock String Band CD, recently re-released as a 2-CD set called The Hollow Rock Legacy. The Route is one of those tunes that has a familiar feeling, even the first time you hear it.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 815kb, uploaded 10/12/2013 4:32:01 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from the banjo playing of John Herrmann accompanying Art Stamper's fiddle. For the Tune of the Week, Oct. 11 2013.
1 commentPosted by JanetB, written by Kenny Baker
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Size: 2,581kb, uploaded 6/20/2017 6:09:11 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
It's always a challenge to arrange a Kenny Baker tune for clawhammer banjo, but his music is so good that it's fun to try. The cello banjo chimes in a bit, too.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 826kb, uploaded 4/27/2014 1:48:38 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen
For the Tune of the Week, 4/25/14, this tune is one of Samuel Bayard's Hill Country Tune collection, available on line. It feels like a hornpipe to me. Check out this week's old-time TOTW. Learned from the fiddle and harmonica recording of Pennsylvanians Mark Tamsula and Richard Withers who have specialized in making recordings from Samuel Bayard's extensive work.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Donall MacConmara
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Size: 993kb, uploaded 1/23/2012 6:15:28 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
An Irish waltz included in the early 1800's harp collections of Edward Bunting, who also collected many of O'Carolan's pieces.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Greg Brown
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Size: 838kb, uploaded 7/22/2011 10:22:52 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Jimmie Rodgers had an effect on lots of people back then. We can still appreciate him now.
4 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,686kb, uploaded 5/31/2017 8:42:26 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This traditional air honors the Irish soldiers who left Ireland to fight for France. The last time they left marked the 1691 Treaty of Limerick , a momentous time in Ireland's history which ended the Williamite war and the reign of King James, who left, too, after the Battle of the Boyne (which has a namesake tune as well). When the Chieftains recorded The Wild Geese they were picturing women singing on shore while the soldiers sailed off forevermore to fight elsewhere. At the end of my recording listen for the geese flying off...
Add CommentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,316kb, uploaded 4/5/2014 5:01:10 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Listening to Ed Haley, it's hard to clearly hear his fiddling. This was Tune of the Week for 3/28/14 and has 3 parts instead of 2 in the other examples of historic recordings for this tune. After looking at a map we found there are actually three forks of the Big Sandy River, so it makes sense to have three parts. I wonder if Ed Haley performed on that river and wish the John Hartford book about his life would be published, even if unfinished.
5 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,106kb, uploaded 1/13/2018 3:37:31 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, this is a three part tune from Ohio which reminds me a bit of Devil's Dream. I play it clawhammer style melodically and can see it eventually becoming more rhythmic and less notey. But here it is for now, from the original recording on Slippery Hill by Ohio fiddler John Hutchison who learned it from his father who learned it from another fiddler.
4 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Jordan Wankoff
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Size: 1,328kb, uploaded 10/2/2015 11:18:16 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 10/2/2015, Tippin' Back the Corn was written by a Chicago fiddler, Jordan Wankoff. This version comes from Lynn Chirp Smith's fiddling. I wouldn't be tipping back the corn, but I do feel its joyfulness!
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