Vance No More (TOTW)

Posted by JanetB

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Size: 1,567kb, uploaded 10/25/2018 5:47:24 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 10/26/18, comes from Kentucky fiddler John Salyer (1982-1952). Vance No More is based on a sad ballad about a murder and a hanging. It's a crooked tune that you get used to.

Wabash Blues (TOTW)

Posted by JanetB

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Size: 1,212kb, uploaded 7/31/2020 6:57:23 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Hobart Smith, the amazing musician we old-time players much admire, learned from sources that placed some of his tunes pre-civil war. Wabash Blues is a tune whose age I don't know, but it's only known to have been recorded by him, which happened in 1963 when Fleming Brown befriended him. Stephen Wade released those recordings of Smith in 2005, "In Sacred Trust," and still enjoys playing this very tune to this day.

Waiting By the Window, Watching the Rain

Posted by JanetB, written by Daniyel Ben-Asher

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Size: 897kb, uploaded 7/20/2012 8:53:20 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Daniyel wrote this song and the cello banjo played along.

Waiting for a Train

Posted by JanetB, written by Jimmie Rodgers

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Size: 1,000kb, uploaded 4/20/2012 6:15:10 AM
Genre: Country / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Known as the Singing Brakeman, Jimmie Rodgers (1897 - 1933) songs are fun to sing, but lyrically a bit sad. His yodel is famous!

Waiting for a Train with vocals

Posted by JanetB, written by Jimmie Rodgers

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Size: 1,590kb, uploaded 4/21/2012 1:39:52 PM
Genre: Country / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

With apologies to Jimmie Rodgers, here are the vocals some of you wanted to hear.

Waiting for the Boatsman

Posted by JanetB

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Learned for the old-time Tune of the Week, the story behind this tune is that it's one Melvin Wine learned by hearing his mother sing this hymn. Now the lyrics are most gone, but the melody is still shared. Check out the current Tune of the Week: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/297062

Walk Chalk Chicken (TOTW)

Posted by JanetB

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Size: 1,424kb, uploaded 3/6/2016 2:19:37 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

West Virginia fiddler Melvin Wine learned this from his father. The title may relate to a cake walk song of the pre-minstrel era. Walk Chalk Chicken with a Bowtie On is another title Melvin gave the tune, which is the old-time Tune of the Week for 3/4/16. I found the timing a bit odd, though it has a cheery feel.

Walking in the Parlor

Posted by JanetB

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Size: 1,028kb, uploaded 9/10/2012 8:29:51 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

A Tune of the Week version from listening to several great players--Joe and Creed Birchfield, Franklin George, and Lester McCumber.

Walking in the Parlor--gourd banjo

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Size: 861kb, uploaded 9/10/2012 12:11:57 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

After recording with a fretted banjo I tried my small scale fretless gourd, too. I find getting all the notes challenging and think of the fiddle's challenge with a very short scale compared to a banjo.

Walnut Gap

Posted by JanetB, written by Owen 'Snake' Chapman

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This original song by Owen 'Snake' Chapman is named after a mountain feature close to his home in Letcher County, Kentucky. He wrote many tunes and reminds me of Banjo Hangout's Jim Reed from Pike County, Kentucky who also wrote many tunes and played with Owen.

Wandering Boy (CB)

Posted by JanetB

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Size: 1,269kb, uploaded 10/31/2015 3:23:39 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the old-time Tune of the Week 10/30/15. Many pickers have been inspired by Adam Hurt's lovely version. I thought I'd go back a little farther historically speaking and listened to DeCosta Waltz's Southern Broadcasters recordings of the 1920's, which is very similar to Adam's. I believe that the other historic recordings of The Wandering Boy (i.e. The Carter Family and the Stanley Brothers) are related. The lyrics are sad and meaningful, sung from a mother's view.

Warfield

Posted by JanetB

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Size: 1,112kb, uploaded 8/10/2013 2:02:01 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the Tune of the Week, August 10, 2013. This is based on Kentucky fiddler Perry Riley's recording. It has six measures in a part, which is rare. The upbeat feeling goes along with the story of going from one state (West Virginia) to the town of Warfield in another state (Kentucky) just because it was legal to drink there at the time.

Washington's March

Posted by JanetB

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Size: 1,412kb, uploaded 8/17/2013 5:16:25 PM
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For the Tune of the Week, 8/16/13, from the fiddling of Edden Hammonds.

Waterbound

Posted by JanetB

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Size: 1,845kb, uploaded 1/9/2016 5:59:09 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Two versions here for this old-time Tune of the Week, 1/8/16. The first comes from Dirk Powell. The next is a mix of every one I've ever heard.

Waters Street Waltz

Posted by JanetB, written by David Grier & Mike Compton

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Size: 1,448kb, uploaded 11/1/2011 5:49:07 AM
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Two of my favorite musicians wrote this.

Waves on the Ocean

Posted by JanetB

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Size: 1,306kb, uploaded 4/21/2015 7:58:19 PM
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As played by Emmett Lundy, I like the image of waves given by the song. It begins with something low and jumps to something syncopated up high -- like a big wave getting ready to break.

Wayfaring Stranger

Posted by JanetB

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Size: 1,144kb, uploaded 4/17/2022 4:55:37 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Played and recorded to add to a thread for sharing hymns, appropriate on Easter Sunday, '22;. I used 3-finger picking without picks.

Waynesboro

Posted by JanetB

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This arrangement is in old G tuning, played down a step (fCFCD) from the playing of Edden Hammonds and Alan Jabbour. I'm working on tunes I can transpose to this tuning as a *homework assignment* from Adam Hurt.

Waynesboro

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Size: 3,771kb, uploaded 6/13/2011 10:24:14 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)

Waynesboro cello banjo/mando duet

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First day home for my new Gold Tone CB5 and a first-time duet to see how the combination of cello banjo and mandolin sounds.