Posted by JanetB
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Size: 999kb, uploaded 12/22/2014 2:40:59 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned for the old-time Tune of the Week, 12/19/14, I arranged this by using notation in the Milliner-Koken American Fiddle Tunes book for Audley Cable's fiddling, as well as Bruce Greene's recording of it on Slippery Hill. He didn't know the name of the tune when Bruce recorded him in 1985, but told him he'd learned it from Mr. Jamison.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,044kb, uploaded 4/7/2012 11:33:07 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This is a historic marching song for Prussian soldiers. "Plinky and Plunky" are Kit on mandolin and myself, 3-finger picking.
5 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,110kb, uploaded 3/11/2023 5:45:57 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This tune with the strange title goes by several other titles. I chose to learn by using the fiddle notation in the Samuel Bayard book, Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife, and to play it on the cello banjo in an equivalent tuning to double C.
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Size: 3,138kb, uploaded 4/8/2022 9:28:36 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Upper Lehigh was played in the first Brandywine Old-time Music Convention in 1974. Carl Baron was there and heard this lively polka and has presented it as the Tune of the Week. I've added the cello banjo for accompaniment and hope the recording quality is decent enough -- I'm not sure where the static came from.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Rory Dall O'Cahan, Hank Williams
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Size: 1,155kb, uploaded 2/13/2012 10:18:44 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Two songs from entirely different eras, but with similar themes.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,136kb, uploaded 10/26/2019 11:56:37 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time TOTW, 10/25/19, Valley Forge here is from Jimmy Driftwood's fiddled version. It's a 4-part tune where the C part represents to me the tension that must have been felt by Washington's soldiers during that horrendous experience wintering at Valley Forge. Playing it slower might be more effective to impart a story, but as it is, I'm playing at about 70% of the original recording tempo. It's said that Jimmy Driftwood learned the tune from Absie Morrison.
3 commentsPosted 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.
4 commentsPosted 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.
3 commentsPosted 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.
1 commentPosted by JanetB, written by Jimmie Rodgers
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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!
1 commentPosted 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.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 835kb, uploaded 1/3/2015 1:07:02 PM
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
6 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,635kb, uploaded 1/5/2024 12:30:15 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
As learned from NC fiddler Marcus Martin, Wake Robin resembles a couple of other tunes. It's short and sweet.
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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.
4 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 3,055kb, uploaded 9/13/2025 2:31:56 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the playing of Illinois fiddler Pauline McGinnis on the Dear Old Illinois compilation, it's a great little tune!
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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.
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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.
5 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Arnie Naiman
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The Tune of the Week features a contemporary old-time composition by one who is super talented at it -- Arnie Neiman. He truly loves his dog and the tune Walking the Dog is a happy one, with Arnie's ability to create something unique amidst so many hundreds of tunes in our repertoire.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Owen 'Snake' Chapman
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
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.
8 commentsPosted 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.
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