Posted by JanetB, written by Dudley Vance
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A recent old-time Tune of the Week (http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/291864) included one of the two tunes recorded in the 1920's for Okeh records by Dudley Vance (1880 - 1962) and his Tennessee Breakdowners. Here's the other tune, encouraged for me to learn in one of my Skype lessons with Adam Hurt. This tune was recorded along with a square dance caller. You can hear my banjo picking up on the fiddler's role in this tune to provide lots of dance rhythm.
6 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 878kb, uploaded 9/28/2014 2:47:54 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 9/26/14. Part of this one reminds me of an old favorite, The Chieftains version of The Fox Hunt. I listened to the Okey 1920's recording of Vance's Tennessee Mountain Breakdowners. I found it interesting that artist Thomas Hart Benton drew Dudley Vance and described him a bit in his autobiography. Check out TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/291864
4 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Jimmie Driftwood
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Size: 980kb, uploaded 8/13/2012 11:13:32 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
After hearing Jim Reed's Sound Off post I gave this old favorite a try. It has many chords and was a fun challenge to clawhammer. I never got tired of hearing Doc Watson do it with his sound effects and incredible guitar runs.
5 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Henry Reed
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Size: 1,316kb, uploaded 9/29/2012 1:46:42 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the TOTW on a fretless gourd.
7 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,098kb, uploaded 10/7/2011 6:08:38 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
I've heard the first song, but didn't learn it until it was played at the end of a Thomas Hart Benton documentary. Salt Creek was the last picking song I learned as a novice picker who changed over to clawhammer, and then much later back to picking.
4 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Jay Ungar
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Size: 1,384kb, uploaded 11/26/2022 12:34:59 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
An appropriate time to play Thanksgiving Waltz, just at the end of this memorable national holiday and family gathering.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,264kb, uploaded 4/18/2022 10:21:48 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the Walter family's 1930's recording and in the Milliner Koken book. This is a dance tune whose title can be literally sung in the B part.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This old English ballad is powerfully emotional in melody and lyrics.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Played by Kentucky legendary fiddler Buddy Thomas. Every time I learn one of his tunes I feel like I'm doing extra credit homework for a master's thesis. They're always challenging -- he was a heckuva a fiddler!
2 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by John A. Stone
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Size: 1,110kb, uploaded 7/15/2011 8:55:14 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This song was a parody of the stage coaches of the Gold Rush era written in 1858.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,358kb, uploaded 4/8/2013 4:45:56 PM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The Cat Came Back is the Tune of the Week for April 5th, 2013. This one doesn't sound like the TOTW, though I've now learned that this folksong from my childhood does have older roots. The closest one I've heard seems to be Fiddlin' John Carson's recording in the 20's. My first graders here sing it for the first time.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
An Irish "traditional slide", meaning it's kind of like a jig, but it's not. I'm always learning something on the Tune of the Week. :)
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Size: 1,476kb, uploaded 12/23/2024 7:29:56 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This old English carol has undergone many changes. I've attempted to capture the melody as sung by Shirley Collins, an English folk singer of the 1950's.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Doc Chapman
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Size: 1,184kb, uploaded 7/19/2013 6:44:17 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the Tune of the Week, July 19, 2013. Owen Snake Chapman learned this from his father. The title refers to an angry hunter after his dog ate the prepared meat.
1 commentPosted 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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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: 3,144kb, uploaded 9/6/2025 11:06:55 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This Tune of the Week is an old one that comes from Ireland. The town of Fermoy is in County Cork, a place where fine musicians have originated from, as well as gold rush immigrants who ended up in my native California.
Add CommentPosted 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: 2,153kb, uploaded 5/17/2025 12:20:41 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the playing of the late Christian Wig and the collections of old tunes by William Hamblen. Blacksmiths are near and dear to me, as my son is one.
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