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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For this week's Tune of the Week for 1/17/20 here's an old song that is actually a Missouri battalion's motto with a dog on their emblem. The write-up is real thorough and in good humor, too. Check it out!
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Size: 1,328kb, uploaded 12/11/2015 4:18:02 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 12/10/15, the other titles for this song are Kingdom Coming and Lincoln's Gunboats, which I found very interesting. I'm playing on a George Wunderlich minstrel banjo.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Just one time through, as a study of Buddy Thomas' fiddling.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 2/23/18, this version comes from Earl Collins, Missouri fiddler who moved to LA. He was at my guitar teacher's house one night for a jam and he encouraged me greatly as a budding banjo playing college student. My guitar teacher really got around -- Mary Ellen Clark just turned 90 and still plays and dances a bit. She taught me The Cat Came Back, which was about a yellow cat.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from Alabama fiddler James Bryan. Anything he plays is golden melody in my ears.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Dwight Diller plays this beautifully with a tuned-down banjo and a different tuning than I arranged, but it's nice to play it in modal tuning. It's like the epitome of modal flavor to me.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
I decided to record this again, faster, and compare it to the first recording. This one has more of a lilt and driving rhythm.
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Size: 1,843kb, uploaded 4/6/2019 8:24:40 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This version of the old-time Tune of the Week comes from the iconic fiddler Bruce Greene, who visited Hiram Stamper in Knott County, Kentucky. It's a crooked piece and has only hints of the Clinch Mountain Backstep it's said to have influenced.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The old-time Tune of the Week for April 5, 2019 is Young Edward from Hiram Stamper. This arrangement is from his fiddling son, Charlie Stamper, (1930-2014). Clinch Mountain Backstep is definitely felt here and it's been said, but not proven, that Ralph Stanley may have learned the melody from Hiram.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This is the last song in Dan's book Buzzard Banjo Clawhammer Style. It's in a modified double C tuning played on a Gold Tone cello banjo.
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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 2/5/16 I learned this one listening to the fiddling of Dwight Lamb. He learned it from Bob Walters and it's in keeping with those Missouri tunes that are very notey, resembling a hornpipe to my ears. I appreciate LyleK's reason for choosing it: he thought we needed at least one tune that starts with a Z. This will go well with my "Granny's tabs A-Z" notebook where I also needed a Z tune. Coincidentally, I had just got a 1999 CD of Dwight Lamb's called "Joseph Won a Coated Fiddle."
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