Posted by JanetB, written by Chuck Levy
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Size: 942kb, uploaded 12/14/2013 3:01:06 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the TOTW, 12/13/13, this is an original by Chuck Levy named for a disastrous diesel oil fire upon an actual river in Ohio. I'm playing cello banjo with Chuck's video and hope the recording quality is bearable.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,408kb, uploaded 8/8/2022 3:07:38 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the playing of Alabama fiddler Sam McCracken, here's a kind of happy-go-lucky tune for Tune of the Week.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by William S. Pitts
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Size: 2,597kb, uploaded 9/30/2012 8:23:36 AM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
Written in 1857, but recorded by the Carter Family in the late 1920's. Definitely a favorite jam song for Kit and I, "Plinky and Plunky."
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,864kb, uploaded 12/9/2023 11:29:37 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A hornpipe from Ohio played by an Ohioan fiddler, Estil Adams, is my source. I learned another version from a Kentuckian and will be comparing the two versions for similarity.
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Size: 1,268kb, uploaded 12/9/2023 11:50:08 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For comparison sake to the Estil Adams recording, here's John Salyer's version of Cincinnati Hornpipe. Adams came from Ohio, Salyer from Kentucky, but who can say where the tune was composed?
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Size: 789kb, uploaded 7/16/2022 1:01:31 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A quick take on an old favorite song. Instead of out of open G, I worked it out of open C -- gCGCE, a tuning I've only used a few times.
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Size: 1,220kb, uploaded 1/2/2016 11:35:29 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 1-1-16, this version comes from Marcus Martin (1881 - 1974), North Carolina fiddler, though the town he sings of is in Tennessee. He said that his father, Rowan Martin, played this tune.
Add CommentWritten/Posted by JanetB
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Size: 1,327kb, uploaded 10/21/2015 10:45:15 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The tuning some call SRB or Cumberland Gap (fDGCD) is fun to play around with, as in this tune. It gave me the feel of three-finger rolls with clawhammer.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Ralph Stanley
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Size: 704kb, uploaded 7/14/2012 4:05:08 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the bluegrass boys who are so lightning quick and pin-point accurate, here's my mountain modal clawhammer. Thanks, guys.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,832kb, uploaded 9/21/2024 3:30:09 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A clawhammer arrangement of Ralph Stanley's classic 3-finger style, played in modal sawmill tuning.
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Size: 1,491kb, uploaded 12/18/2023 4:37:50 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This version of Coal Creek comes from the playing of Mannon Campbell. It is said to resemble Shooting Creek, so here are the two of them in a medley.
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Size: 1,627kb, uploaded 4/1/2017 12:57:55 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This old-time Tune of the Week, 3/31/17, came from the playing of Kentucky fiddler Manon Campbell who learned it from his aunt. The story is that a boat was caught in a slow whirlpool at Coal Harbor Bend and didn't realize that the dance tune they kept hearing, thinking they were floating downriver, was from the same gathering at the house by the river. My arrangement comes from fiddler Rhys Jones of the group Bigfoot.
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,051kb, uploaded 5/31/2025 3:51:26 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This version of Cold Frosty Morning is from Melvin Wine, WV fiddler, learned from his father. It's different and "happier" than the other two more commonly known tunes with this title.
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Size: 1,560kb, uploaded 7/17/2015 9:13:42 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week. I learned this listening to Don Borchelt and Ed Britt. Instead of using double D tuning for the key of D, I'm in open G and tuned down the 5th string to an A note. That may be a little quirky I suppose, but sounds okay to me and avoids the dissonance when playing the open G chord in the second measure.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 763kb, uploaded 5/10/2014 6:39:28 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the TOTW, 5-9-14, from Christian Wig and Mark Ward's fiddling. Played in modal tuning on a Mac Traynham Whyte Laydie openback.
5 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Turlough O'Carolan
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Size: 1,184kb, uploaded 5/21/2015 5:45:55 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A pretty planxty by O'Carolan written to honor a patron known to have brought together two great blind Irish harpists.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Noah Bingham
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Size: 520kb, uploaded 6/26/2012 10:33:35 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned for the Tune of the Week from the playing of Kentucky fiddler Estill Bingham. This one's also in Jeff Todd Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes book with its 170 tunes.
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Size: 2,499kb, uploaded 6/14/2025 4:05:12 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the playing of Virginia fiddler Dudley Spangler (1885-1981), the association with Angeline the Baker is strong, but who knows which came first...
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Size: 1,472kb, uploaded 6/13/2015 7:49:41 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, this version comes from Illinois fiddler Jim Reed on the Dear Old Illinois CD set, ready to be re-released soon. Cora Dye was the name of a musician who taught Mr. Reed, but the original name may have been Old Sage Friend. See the TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/305004. Hope you enjoy this delicate first effort to learn the tune.
11 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 750kb, uploaded 10/18/2014 6:02:27 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 10/17/14, as played by Clyde Davenport. Learning this tune has got me looking at an old Christmas present I got one year called Homemade Instruments by Dallas Cline. Wouldn't that be a fun one to make!
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