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Darling Corey/Liquor Seller

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Size: 1,213kb, uploaded 6/23/2014 11:06:13 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Liquor Seller came from James Bryan's fiddling, but I discovered that Roscoe Parish of Virginia recorded it on both banjo and fiddle and assume he's the source. I chose Darling Corey because of its similar theme and the fact that I was looking for a tune with the mixolydian mode to go with Liquor Seller.

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Davy (TOTW)

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Size: 1,005kb, uploaded 11/13/2020 2:07:47 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Often accompanying by some silly lyrics about Davy and gravy, here is just the instrumental as learned from 1928 recording by the Weems String Band. They only made two, yet many outstanding banjo players have recorded Davy and credited the family band.

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Davy Come On Back and Act Like You Oughta (TOTW)

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Size: 1,400kb, uploaded 8/4/2017 1:41:33 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 8/4/17, West Virginia fiddler Delbert Hughes (1905 -1982) recorded this one. It sounds like Davy is responding in the B part with his grievances, which he finds reasonable enough. I think this story ends where he comes back home....

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Davy Dugger

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Size: 2,505kb, uploaded 8/5/2023 6:05:21 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Clyde Davenport's Kentucky fiddling is the inspiration for this arrangement. Rather than use open G tuning, the first string is tuned up to an E note, called "guitar tuning." I preferred staying at the 7th fret and below for the B part.

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Dead Man's Peace

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Size: 884kb, uploaded 1/21/2013 12:28:49 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

As played by Dwight Diller who learned it from Lee Hammons.

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Dead Man's Piece--cello banjo

Posted by JanetB, written by Lee Hammons

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Size: 851kb, uploaded 1/27/2013 1:46:26 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

As played by Dwight Diller who recorded Lee Hammons' banjo piece in the 70's. I'm trying to get a good tone on cello banjo recording.

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Dear Someone

Posted by JanetB, written by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

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Size: 1,119kb, uploaded 11/6/2011 2:19:42 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

This is one beautiful song when performed by Gillian and David. Kit and I were inspired when we saw them on the Chieftains Nashville Session and wanted to do this duet. Kit's mandolin on melody was so nice I chose to stay with harmony and hope it supports him.

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Deep Ellum Blues (TOTW)

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Size: 1,739kb, uploaded 11/25/2023 12:30:38 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

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TOTW 11/24/2023 Black Bottom/Deep Ellum Blues  

A song we used to play with the Rough & Ready Fruit Jar Pickers. Here's the 3-finger solo I worked out at the time.

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Denver Belle

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Size: 2,616kb, uploaded 12/16/2016 6:33:15 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

This tune comes from the repertoire of Bluegrass boy Kenny Baker. He learned it from his father, Thaddeus, and said he only heard it played by his family. I used Garage Band to combine my Mac Traynham Whyte Laydie openback with my Gold Tone cello banjo.

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Devil in the Haystack

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Size: 1,304kb, uploaded 5/25/2013 2:00:32 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the Tune of the Week, 5/24/13, from the fiddling of Pappy Taylor of Illinois.

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Dick's Handspike (CB)

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Size: 820kb, uploaded 5/4/2014 4:05:15 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Samuel Bayard collected this tune from fiddler and fifer Isaac Newton Morris. It's tune #45 in his book Dance to the Fiddle and March to the Fife. I learned it from the excellent recording by Mark Tamsula and Richard Withers in their CD Up in the Batten House. It's one of these tunes where the melody is embedded within some wandering passages. I'm playing in SRB tuning with tab in the BHO archive.

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Dixie Hoedown

Posted by JanetB, written by Jim and Jesse McReynolds

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Size: 781kb, uploaded 10/2/2011 5:37:38 PM
Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Listening to a David Grisman collection called Mandolin Extravaganza, this one caught my attention.

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Doc Corn's Tune (TOTW)

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Size: 1,017kb, uploaded 1/29/2017 7:31:10 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 1-28-17, I listened to an Illinois fiddler John Ray "Doc" Corn recording, made on his birthday in 1976. The tune was also recorded by Lynn Chirps Smith, a fiddler whose work I respect and enjoy. There's not much other information yet on this tune other than it had another title that isn't so nice.

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Don Tremaine's Reel (TOTW)

Posted by JanetB, written by Graham Townsend

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Size: 1,528kb, uploaded 9/6/2021 9:02:33 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Graham Townsend, Canadian winning dance fiddler and prolific tunester till his death in 1998, wrote this reel and played it rapidly and notes. I simplified the A part, but not as much the B part, and slowed it down here.

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Don't Drink Nothin' But Corn (TOTW)

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Size: 968kb, uploaded 12/2/2016 10:52:20 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 12/2/16, from the playing of Virginia fiddler Taylor Kimble (1892 - 1979). I wouldn't know much at all about this kind of corn, so I'm sure this version won't "set your head on fire," as the lyrics said.

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Double File (TOTW)

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Size: 1,640kb, uploaded 11/14/2017 10:17:22 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 11/12/17, Double File was recorded by Gaither Carlton. Anything that brings me closer to Doc Watson's family makes me hapy. I added a bit of cello banjo accompaniment.

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Down at the Mouth of Old Stinson

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Size: 877kb, uploaded 12/27/2013 10:56:25 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

From the fiddling of WV fiddler French Carpenter. I also heard Gerry Milnes play this, learned from Wilson Douglas' fiddling. It was a Tune of the Week a while back. I like the slide in the B part--it gives it a swing feel.

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Down in the Valley to Pray

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Size: 875kb, uploaded 1/23/2013 6:36:37 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Comparing this song to another I came to record it with the tuning f#DADE. I remember Doc Watson's singing of it best.

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Down in the Willow Garden (TOTW)

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Size: 1,204kb, uploaded 3/6/2021 3:56:04 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Also known as Rose Conley and Rosin the Bow, the melody is so nice, but the lyrics aren't, so I'd rather just play the instrumental. It's a song we all seem to learn, but why a murder ballad -- ugh!

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Dream Song

Posted by JanetB, written by Sarah Armstrong

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Size: 1,651kb, uploaded 10/24/2017 4:44:25 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Sarah Armstrong came from a large family in southwestern Pennsylvania and learned fiddling at the age of 5. Her favorite mentor was her Uncle Laney and her Dream Song came to her in a dream about him. She woke up and learned it. Samuel Bayard listened and transcribed many of her tunes in 1943 and 1944. You can see these transcriptions in an 80-page book called Hill Country Tunes. I'll post the pdf file in the discussion thread with another one of her tunes.

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