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Size: 3,056kb, uploaded 9/30/2023 11:14:35 AM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This old Celtic tune was recorded and tabbed by Art Rosenbaum in the 1970's based on banjo player Bob Lucas' rendition. As Tune of the Week, it's an interesting research project. Played in sawmill tuning, it might be a most enjoyable listen once familiar with it. Here I play rather slowly and am just trying to reproduce its many notes. The first half is based on a flutists' mp3. The second half is from Art's tab.
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Size: 417kb, uploaded 3/5/2026 11:45:37 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen
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TOTW 27th Feb 2026 - Chadwell's Station
Counting beats to the A part of Chadwell's Station as played by Foghorn String Band.
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Size: 1,795kb, uploaded 11/1/2015 7:08:35 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A tune learned from the playing of North Carolina fiddler Marcus Martin (1881 - 1974). I hear a sad and serious melody.
5 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,051kb, uploaded 8/7/2021 10:15:56 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Many of us know a Cousin Sally Brown with an evocative modal tuning. This is a different melody. The source is Gaither Carlton, to me known as the father-in-law of the more famous Doc Watson. My arrangements here come from Gaither, Doc, and another banjo player of the region, Calvin Cole. I'm playing on the slower side. Check out the TOTW to hear more, especially Paul Brown.
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Size: 1,122kb, uploaded 6/8/2012 8:04:35 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
At a music camp dance several years ago, Kit and I heard Heidi Claire fiddling this as the traditional last song of a dance. We just had to learn it and found a notated source by Elena Corey when she was active in the California Bluegrass Association. Here's our banjo/mandolin duet.
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Size: 1,591kb, uploaded 1/20/2017 2:12:32 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 1/20/17, this is a favorite Texas waltz my husband, Kit, and I have enjoyed. Don Borchelt does a great job covering its history if you check it out, and has lots of examples, including two superb videos of his own.
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Size: 1,539kb, uploaded 1/19/2024 3:38:46 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
As played by Missouri fiddler Lyman Enloe, tuned in what is called open C, but on a cello banjo, so that you are hearing Cowhide Boots in its normal key, which is G. (dGDGB)
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Size: 1,368kb, uploaded 10/23/2020 10:44:05 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
An original tune for Tune of the Week, 10/23/20, by a musician to admire, fiddler Joe Herrmann. He says the title came from an incident of coyotes marauding his wife's sheep, killing four and injuring one. Employing a sheepdog in the pasture later solved the problem, but the coyotes still howled. However, they also stayed away. I'm in sawmill tuning, an appropriate choice for this title.
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Size: 2,362kb, uploaded 2/22/2025 10:41:32 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the fiddling of an obscure Kentucky fiddler, Kelly Gilbert, the town of Crab Orchard once flourished. When the horse racing derby was moved to Louisville and became the Kentucky Derby, the population in Crab Orchard dwindled, as it does today. But the tune is lively and tells of its heyday.
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Size: 1,376kb, uploaded 11/27/2012 7:07:45 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the TOTW Marmaduke's Hornpipe/Cricket on the Hearth, this one is based on Kenny Baker's fiddling.
4 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,414kb, uploaded 7/15/2013 8:37:57 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Two versions alternate. The first one comes from Tommy Jarrell's Round Peak style, as taught to me by Adam Hurt. The second is my clawhammered rendition of the classic Scrugg's style first lesson taught in 3-finger style. The bluesy notes of Tommy Jarrell's compares with the major tones of the Scrugg's style, though both have slides.
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Size: 1,124kb, uploaded 8/11/2018 2:02:14 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Marion Thede was an Oklahoma native who notated fiddle tunes throughout the states in the late 1920's and The Fiddle Book is still sought after by old-time music fans. For the Tune of the Week, 8/10/18, a three-part Cripple Creek as performed by J.S. Prise, originally from Mississippi who had moved to Oklahoma, is hereby introduced. It's fun to play as you hear the traditional song embedded in this unique version.
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Size: 3,487kb, uploaded 8/15/2025 5:30:05 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The source of Crook Brothers Breakdown is a 1964 recording of a group who were with the Grand Old Opry from its inception in the 1920's. They play fast, fast, fast! I play at 65% of their speed. You'll hear a bit of cello banjo accompaniment.
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Size: 928kb, uploaded 9/1/2011 5:34:03 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
There's a mysterious sound to this tune, as if crossing those mountains wasn't an easy or safe thing to do. I enjoyed figuring it out with the melodic style, and then chordally.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 930kb, uploaded 2/11/2012 3:16:57 PM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Played on a Gold Tone Cripple Creek mini-banjo, key of G.
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Size: 792kb, uploaded 11/8/2014 9:29:07 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 11/7/14, I'm learning that Cuffy is the name of several historic figures in the era of slavery. I'm impressed there's even a Guyana silver dollar coin with Cuffy's image. The timing of the tune feels unusual, but the only crooked part would be a half measure between the A and B parts. It's the melody itself that has an interesting path. Check out this week's TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/294064
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Size: 1,340kb, uploaded 10/5/2012 8:36:20 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the TOTW, the first time I've used Cumberland Gap tuning, and after listening to many, many, many versions offered here, this is a combination of what I heard.
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Size: 944kb, uploaded 10/18/2012 6:09:09 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A slow-fast arrangement on gourd. I was trying to get more gourd sustain in the recording.
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Size: 678kb, uploaded 1/21/2023 11:46:20 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A version adapted from the Highwoods String Band
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Size: 925kb, uploaded 5/31/2014 5:09:56 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 5/30/14, from Kentucky fiddler Clyde Davenport, recorded by Jeff Titon and in his book "Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes." The timing in the A part feels like it has African-American influence--something I'd like to know more about. For tabbing the tune I used two measures of 4/4 timing followed by a measure of 2/2 timing.
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