New River Train

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Size: 1,588kb, uploaded 2/9/2018 7:48:34 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Played in the key of E with banjo tuned f#(low), A(low), E, A, E. New River Train usually is played in the key of D. Played on a 1903 Fairbanks Whyte Laydie #2.

Old Jake Gillie

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Size: 1,490kb, uploaded 9/30/2017 9:05:50 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

A good ol' Oscar Wright tune that I first learned from Miles Krassen's Clawhammer Banjo book, but I have set here in the Half Shaved tuning (f#DADE).

Old Time Billy in the Low Ground

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Size: 1,901kb, uploaded 3/3/2017 4:34:17 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

From the Kentucky fiddler Kelly Gilbert. Banjo tuned gEADE.

Old Yeller Dog Come Trottin' Through the Meetinghouse

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Size: 2,526kb, uploaded 2/14/2015 1:38:16 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Played in Sandy River Belles tuning (gEADE).

Pretty Polly

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Size: 306kb, uploaded 4/13/2020 7:58:07 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

A quick run through, two finger style. Key of G. Banjo tuned gDGCD.

Richmond Cotillion

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Size: 1,615kb, uploaded 4/22/2016 5:46:15 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Banjo tuned aDADE. Tab available on my Tabs page, or go to TOTW (OT) 22 April 2016.

Rock the Cradle Joe

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Size: 1,678kb, uploaded 8/30/2013 3:29:56 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Rocky Road to Jordan

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Ome Flora with a 12'' pot. aDADE.

Run Down Boot

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Size: 2,712kb, uploaded 8/12/2015 12:35:14 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Saint Anne's Reel

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Size: 4,689kb, uploaded 9/11/2014 5:16:23 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Fiddlescratcher (David) from FHO on fiddle. Audio file (sans banjo) originally posted to the FHO Jukebox in 2008. CH banjo accompaniment overdubbed recently by Jack Beuthin. Thanks David for allowing me to share!

Sandy Boys

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Size: 1,712kb, uploaded 3/26/2017 2:16:38 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

My rendition is roughly based on the fiddling of Edden Hammons. I also used the Low Bass A tuning (as named by Art Rosenbaum) to get the droning 4th string. This is the tuning used by Tommy Jarrell on John Brown's Dream. The tuning is a(low)AAC#E, or in relative terms 12 4 3 5.

Sarah Armstrong's Tune

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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

We had a fun jam with Dan Levenson this past weekend, here in Colorado. Sarah Armstrong's Tune got plenty of play time, and I got motivated to learn it rather than always faking it. Really fun to play this one on the banjo. My rendition is roughly based on playing along with the Red Mountain White Trash on the "Chickens Don't Roost Too High" album. Banjo tuned aDADE.

Sheep's In The Meadow

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Size: 1,065kb, uploaded 11/30/2018 7:33:43 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

A fiddle tune from Gaither Carlton. Banjo is tuned gDGBD and is played in a two-finger style (mostly thumb lead). I've also posted a tab of my rendition to my tab collection.

Shooting Creek

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Size: 1,179kb, uploaded 5/1/2017 1:53:04 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Banjo is set in the "Half Shaved" tuning (f#DADE). This is an Oscar Wright tune that I first heard on the Fuzzy Mountain String Band album way back when.

Step Around Johnny (OT TOTW 1 Sept 2017)

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Size: 1,254kb, uploaded 9/2/2017 4:39:27 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Played on a fretless Tradesman with super nylgut strings.

Susannah Gal (aka, Fly Around, Western Country)

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Size: 1,619kb, uploaded 3/25/2018 10:49:57 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Banjo tuned to aDADE.

Sweet Nell

Posted by jack_beuthin, written by Rob Pine and Jim Mullany

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Size: 1,540kb, uploaded 11/12/2018 10:26:22 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Contribution for TOTW 9 November 2018. Starts with my "work in progress" two-finger picking and ends with clawhammer. Key of A, with banjo tuned aEAC#E.

The Arkansas Traveler

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Size: 2,093kb, uploaded 12/15/2013 3:35:19 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Rendition by Jack Beuthin

The Boatman (Ed Haley version)

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Size: 6,943kb, uploaded 4/27/2014 12:10:36 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

rendition by Jack Beuthin

Tippin' Back The Corn

Posted by jack_beuthin, written by Jordan Wankoff

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Size: 2,332kb, uploaded 10/6/2015 6:07:45 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

played by Jack Beuthin.