Johnny Bring the Jug Around the Hill

Posted by Adam Kiesling

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Size: 1,140kb, uploaded 4/30/2011 5:50:14 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Mostly from the playing of Iowa fiddler Dwight Lamb.

Johnny, Bring the Jug Around the HIll

Posted by Adam Kiesling

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Size: 1,679kb, uploaded 4/30/2011 12:11:00 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Banjo/fiddle duet, with fiddling by my good friend Meghan Dudle. She drew on Lonnie Robertson's version.

Lady on the Steamboat

Posted by Adam Kiesling

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Size: 3,774kb, uploaded 6/21/2013 12:27:57 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

A recording from the Mill City Grinders. We were active in the Twin Cities from 2005 up until 2010 or so, and still get together to play the occasional dance from time to time. We got this tune from the playing of Lonnie Robertson. Matt Neil on fiddle Adam Brainard on banjo Adam Kiesling on guitar

Let's Hunt the Horses

Posted by Adam Kiesling

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Size: 911kb, uploaded 11/15/2012 2:55:39 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

An Edden Hammonds tune. Sawmill tuning (maybe around F or so)

Missouri Waltz

Posted by Adam Kiesling

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Size: 2,874kb, uploaded 1/10/2012 9:58:49 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Other

A take on the Missouri Waltz from a version by Hawaiian guitar great Frank Ferera. I'm on guitar, and my friend Gary is on the slide.

Payday

Posted by Adam Kiesling

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Size: 2,605kb, uploaded 3/25/2008 5:33:12 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

From Mississippi John Hurt, one of my favorite guitarists.

Poljana, Poljana

Posted by Adam Kiesling

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Size: 3,953kb, uploaded 4/23/2013 8:08:41 PM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

A Rusyn tune from Eastern Slovakia. This was recorded as part of singer Natalie Nowytski's Amerikana project.

Rocky Mountain Goat

Posted by Adam Kiesling

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Size: 2,693kb, uploaded 2/19/2015 7:04:57 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Meghan Dudle on the fiddle, Dan Libby on the guitar, Alyssa Bicking on the uke, and Adam Kiesling on the banjo.

Sebastopol

Posted by Adam Kiesling, written by Henry Worrall

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Size: 2,168kb, uploaded 11/3/2011 8:16:25 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Other

Played on the guitar in open D (DADF#AD from low to high). Originally published in 1860. Go to http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/208635 for more info. One of these days I'm going to work out a version on the banjo.

Steamboat Around the Bend

Posted by Adam Kiesling

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Size: 2,372kb, uploaded 6/21/2013 12:24:20 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

A quick banjo piece based on fiddler Dwight Lamb's piece.

Stillhouse Branch

Posted by Adam Kiesling

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Size: 3,792kb, uploaded 8/5/2010 6:00:56 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

From the fiddling of Buddy Thomas. G tuning on a banjo by Brooks Masten.

Sullivan's Hollow

Posted by Adam Kiesling

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Size: 3,340kb, uploaded 6/1/2012 12:55:39 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

From the playing Freeny's Barn Dance Band (Freeny, Mississippi). Played on my Menzies tackhead banjo. Double C, but it's tuned way down.

The Rosetree

Posted by Adam Kiesling

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Size: 1,871kb, uploaded 8/29/2007 5:56:24 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Unclouded Day

Posted by Adam Kiesling, written by Rev Josiah K. Alwood

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Size: 6,555kb, uploaded 1/9/2012 2:59:06 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

I think this hymn was first written around 1880 or so by the Rev. Josiah K. Atwood. I've heard a few different versions over the years, including a great one from my friend Bonnie, but I think I was finally driven to work out an arrangement after listening to Hobart Smith. Mac Traynham and Shay Garriock also have a nice fiddle and banjo take on their "Turkey on the Mountain" album. My friend Meghan Dudle on fiddle (fiddle is tuned to DDAD), and I'm playing a Menzies gut strung tack-banjo in standard tuned down to D.

Wagoner's Lad

Posted by Adam Kiesling

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Size: 5,663kb, uploaded 3/31/2013 3:57:48 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

This is another one from Corpse Reviver, a group I play with that focuses on the music found on the Anthology of American Folk Music. I'm on the banjo (in double D), Jillian Rae is on the fiddle and is also singing, and Mikkel Beckman is on the percussion.

What Wondrous Love Is This?

Posted by Adam Kiesling

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Size: 3,442kb, uploaded 10/30/2010 10:25:50 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

An old shape note tune. I first heard it on Bill Evan's album Native and Fine. Jeff Menzies tackhead banjo with gut strings. Sawmill tuning (not sure of the pitch)

When First Unto This Country

Posted by Adam Kiesling

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Size: 3,365kb, uploaded 11/8/2011 3:22:40 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

A song that I first heard from the New Lost City Ramblers. Menzies gut-strung tackhead, and it might be tuned in C (cGCEG)