Podcasts by Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

Old Skedaddalink - WineBaronCarlin from 2022-02-21T15:31:42.052879

From acoustic concert at Fiddle Tunes, Port Townsend, WA, 1982
Melvin Wine - fiddle
Carl Baron - banjo (gDGde)
Bob Carlin - Guitar

Old Dan Tucker from 2022-02-21T15:31:42.046439

The Navvie On The Line from 2022-02-21T15:31:42.045683

Not really a hornpipe, not the structure of a rag, maybe a rustic dance probably of Northumbrian origin. Good for Morris dancing, good for "dots and triplets" players…

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My Grandfather's Clock - D from 2022-02-21T15:31:42.044925

Cousin Sally Brown (Gaither Carlton)(TOTW) from 2022-02-21T15:31:42.044083

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...

John Hardy (TOTW) from 2022-02-21T15:31:42.026803

From another time when Plinky & Plunky used to perform this ballad....I haven't sung it in years, but for the sake of TOTW, here is our version, less Plinky whose arthritic hands don't want t...

Cluck Old Hen from 2022-02-21T15:31:42.025970

Clawhammer style, gDGCD (relative). 1964 Gibson RB-175.

Darlin' Corey Intro from 2022-02-21T15:31:42.025163

The opening segment of Wake Up Darlin' Corey from the Art Stamper album of the same name. Fiddle-Art Stamper; Banjo-Harry Bickel; Guitar-Doc Hamilton

Sandy Boys 9-21 from 2022-02-21T15:31:42.024279

CH banjo, guitar, harmonica

Don Tremaine's Reel (TOTW) from 2022-02-21T15:31:42.023376

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, ...

Sandy River Belle - me and myself from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.967198

Clawhammer duet edited and combined with Audacity. Harmony from Kevin Neidig?s Book "Clawhammer duets".

Rambling Hobo - Pete Steele from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.966152

Harlan County Farewell Tune - Pete Steele from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.965386

Harlan County Farewell Tune/Rambling Hobo from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.964625

Pete Steele's Harlan County Farewell Tune/Rambling Hobo, gEADE tuned down a couple steps

Hallelujah, 'tis Done from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.963841

An old church song from the playing of Elizabeth Cotten. I try to stay fairly close to her simple up-picking style, though, being left-handed, she did not use the thumb string.

I made some...

Shoot That Buffalo from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.962814

Elizabeth Cotten learned this tune in 1910 from a man aged about 50. She added the words.

La Belle Catherine (TOTW 5/11/21) from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.942072

Quebecois fiddle tune from the playing of Louis Boudreault. Tune Of The Week 5/11/2021

La Belle Catherine (TOTW) from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.941176

We don't often get a French Canadian tune on Tune of the Week. This one is a charming dance tune, said to be Quebecois, which must mean that Quebec has its own style of music. The B part is cr...

Old Corn Liquor from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.929775

Based on the playing of Odell Thompson

Single Girl from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.929002

Black Eyed Suzie from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.928200

East Virginia from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.927389

John Henry from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.926354

Rocky Mountain from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.925573

Darling Cory from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.924800

Swanno Mountain from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.923838

Village Churchyard from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.922717

Cripple Creek, Old Joe Clark, and a "Pete Seeger"ish version of Leather Britches from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.772608

Tried a audio recording of me playing Cripple Creek, Old Joe Clark, and A Seeger-ish version of leather britches I came up with because there was no tab out there. I purposely went a bit fast on th...

Ducks on the Millpond (TOTW) from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.771702

The modern recordings of Ducks on the Millpond are great listening, and my first round through comes from them, in particular Rayna Gellert. Going back to the older for this week's Tune of the ...

Flowery Girls from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.770542

Grand River Whiskey (TOTW) from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.746626

No, still not drinking....Here's the Tune of the Week from a Georgian fiddler, "Fonzy" Kennemur. Slowing it down make it kind of pretty. :)

Shady Grove from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.745832

Slow 70bpm clawhammer banjo version for instructional purposes. Includes B part based on Steve Baughman's version on his Clawhammer Guitar instructional CD (very nice CD).

Goober Peas from 2022-02-21T15:31:41.745056

Simple clawhammer version.

Chinese Breakdown from Union Grove 1971 from 2022-02-20T07:21

This is one of the first fiddle tunes I learned to play on banjo. I made this recording fifty years ago at the Union Grove festival on the Van Hoy Farm in Union Grove, North Carolina, using a litt...

Tom Dooley from 2022-02-19T23:58:20.865392

Tom Dooley in C Modal tuning per the playing of Doc Watson gCGCD tuned down a step or so...

Chinese Breakdown (TOTW) from 2022-02-19T16:44

From the fiddling of Brad Leftwich on Bob Carlin's seminal CD Banging and Sawing. We can't figure out the title yet, but it sounds a bit ragtime to me.

Chinese Breakdown from 2022-02-18T20:00

Billy Kearney on Fiddle. Paul Perkins on the 5 string banjo! TOTW 2/18/22

Juillet from 2022-02-18T09:01:14.953330

Menzies gourd banjo

George Graham's Cotillion (TOTW) from 2022-02-11T16:23

Carl Baron learned this from an eastern Pennsylvania fiddler in the 1970's and still plays it with friends at a local folk festival. I know very few cotillions, but they all sound like good dan...

George Graham's Cotillion from 2022-02-10T14:46

George Graham's Cotillion is a tune from the Jehile Kirkhuff, a fiddler from northeast Pennsylvania (1907-1981). Banjo - aDAde. Jehile Kirkhuff, fiddle and Carl Baron, banjo over existing record...

Four Cent Cotton (TOTW) from 2022-01-29T10:20

A bit of Prohibition and Depression era history here, the poor farmer couldn't make enough money raising cotton. Four Cent Cotton led to raising corn instead for whiskey. Times haven't chan...

Bonaparte's Retreat from 2022-01-29T10:07

Played on refurbished "frankenstine" banjo. Recording King neck fitted to a Saga aluminum pot with a skin head.

Cripple Creek/Flop Eared Mule from 2022-01-29T05:50:34.257874

Played on Aluminum Rim 5-string conversion banjo

Clawhammer guitar test from 2022-01-29T05:50:34.255825

Clawhammer guitar

The Last Cold Whiskey from 2022-01-18T17:43

Sweet Marie from 2022-01-18T17:35

Richmond from 2022-01-18T17:33

Wayfaring Stranger from 2022-01-17T16:59

A great old song which I play mostly in a two-finger picking style. The vocal harmonies are inspired by the fairly recent recording of this song by Robert Earl Keen and Natalie Maines of The (Dixi...

Bill Cheatham from 2022-01-16T20:20

My first upload!

Old Number Third (TOTW) from 2022-01-15T10:15

As played by A.J. Hoggs from the Samuel Bayard collections of SW Pennsylvania, I'm always glad to learn a tune from my father's neck-of-the-woods. This Tune of the Week has roots around the ...

St. Anne's Reel from 2022-01-13T09:21

Double D tuning. Played on a new hand crafted Black Limba wood 11" open back banjo.

Jai Passe Devant ta Porte (TOTW) from 2021-12-31T11:24

This traditional Cajun waltz sings of the sad loss of a loved one. I like its melody and found it easy to play on clawhammer banjo.

Durang's Hornpipe from 2021-12-30T11:16

Double C tuning and played on old pot/new neck banjo with a skin head.

Eleanor Plunkett from 2021-12-26T02:45

An easy little classical piece by Carolan. Key of G. gDGBD

Old Abe from 2021-12-20T16:06

Multitrack recording of a tune by Old Time fiddler Paul Kirk. The title honors not the American President, but instead, in Paul's words, "the bald eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment d...

The Month Of May from 2021-12-19T10:53:36.486350

Clawhammer jig

Deep Blue Sea & Oh, Had I a Golden Thread from 2021-12-19T10:53:36.485535

Little Reed Island Creek (TOTW) from 2021-12-19T10:53:36.484679

Here's my very beginning attempt at a tricky tune. The B part rhythm is very syncopated. The C part is both melodic and rhythmic. If you listen to the Tune of the Week presenter play, Carl Baron...

My Dock-ish Polly from 2021-12-19T10:53:36.482984

Dock is my co-pilot.

Eight More Miles to Louisville from 2021-12-19T10:53:36.383795

I first heard this tune on the Duelling Banjo's played by Eric Weissberg. Very fast bluegrass style. I believe he doesn't play the chorus. I do. It's my 1st recording on BH. Device: Samsun...

She Left Me Again from 2021-12-19T10:53:36.382775

I made up this tune while searching for ideas in the key d minor. (double d tuning) when i myself felt a bit minor. My playing still needs some polishing and I tend to play the tune too fast... Listen

Jenny Lind Polka in D from 2021-12-19T10:53:36.381980

Clawhammer banjo aDADe
Three parts in D and one part in G.

Snider's Waltz from 2021-12-16T18:57

Wild Rose of the Mountain from 2021-12-13T09:46

Clawhammer banjo in aEAc#e

Ballad of Kyle Rittenhouse from 2021-12-10T11:54

Winter's Come and Gone from 2021-12-06T05:39:27.773941

Marching Thru Georgia (G version) from 2021-12-06T05:39:27.773222

Played on a 10 3/4" vintage banjo. Old pot/New neck

piano part from 2021-12-06T05:39:27.772507

Ladies Pantalettes (irish reel) from 2021-12-06T05:39:27.771786

gDGBD

Billy in the low Ground from 2021-11-30T10:22

Double C tuning. Played on new custom made Black Limba open back banjo.

Cat Tracks (TOTW) from 2021-11-27T09:34

An original tune by Kentucky fiddler "Snake" Chapman. I can see in my mind's eye the wet-pawed cat tracks on the porch, or the soft little tracks on the dusty dirt road where I live...

Wild Goose Chase (TOTW) from 2021-11-25T10:58

The Tune of the Week for 11/19/21 is called Geese Honking. When it was recorded by the source fiddler, Clyde Davenport, he called it Wild Goose Chase. Other tunes have this title and perhaps that...

Possum Up a Gum Stump from 2021-11-17T17:56

A simple version on a homemade gourd banjo. The strings are loose so slaps around a bit.

Otter Creek / Ithacan Ash / Rocky Beaches Medley from 2021-11-17T14:54

A medley of three "New Old Time" tunes by Brad Kolodner from Brad and Ken Kolodner's first album, "Otter Creek." A multitrack recording I made back in 2013 featuring clawhammer banj...

John Riley from 2021-10-31T14:09

Based on the version by Jon Wilkes

Western Country (TOTW) from 2021-10-30T11:40

Calvin Cole, recorded by the Library of Congress in the 1930's, played banjo for Peter Hoover in the 1960's and a CD was released with 37 cuts. It was said that in his 80's, Calvin was st...

Shagbark Hickory from 2021-10-30T10:04

Multitrack recording in 6 tracks: Muted banjo, guitar, bass (Michael Allen marimbula), fiddle, unmuted banjo, "clappers." The open back banjo is a Pisgah Rambler Special "foam-muted" ...

Rose Conley from 2021-10-26T12:20:04.472682

Rose Conley, 2 finger thumb lead, based on Grayson & Whittier's 1927 version, tuned a half step or so low out of standard "G"

House of Gold from 2021-10-26T12:20:04.471916

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.

Down in the Willow Garden (TOTW) from 2021-10-26T12:20:04.470757

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 bal...

Winderslide from 2021-10-26T10:46

Double D tuning. Played on new 11" open back with skin head

Lowery's Quadrille (TOTW) from 2021-10-22T15:31

John "Dick" Summers was a prolific playing fiddler from Indiana, born before 1900. This week's Tune of the Week features one of his tunes, offered by Carl Baron who played it in the 1970&...

Lowery's Quadrille - carlb 2021 from 2021-10-21T18:35

Banjo - aDAde
Recorded for TOTW 10-22-2021, the day before uploading.

Lowery's Quadrille - carlb 2000 from 2021-10-21T18:32

Banjo - aDAde
Version I recorded in 2000 for my self produced CD "Banjo Stuff".

Mashup 1 from 2021-10-18T05:24

Once More from 2021-10-13T12:07

Adapted from the playing of Will Keys. Double C Tuning.

Boil 'em Cabbage Down from 2021-10-09T00:25:08.061004

Sound sample of banjo #062 Boil 'em Cabbage Down

Far From Home (TOTW 2/5/2021) from 2021-10-09T00:25:08.060251

TOTW for 2/5/2021. Played CH in G tuning on a Wildwood.

Far From Home - 2010 Contra Dance, Louisville, KY from 2021-10-09T00:25:08.059533

This amateur recording is from a weekly contra dance in Louisville.

Far from Home (TOTW) from 2021-10-09T00:25:08.058622

Interesting to get a Tune of the Week from the Shetland Islands, which is far from home even if you're from Scotland. Our TOTW presenter suggested a homesick sense in a couple of measures, but ...

High On a Mountain from 2021-10-06T06:14:33.858531

Sound sample of banjo #062

Sandy River Belle (Wildwood Troubadour) from 2021-09-30T07:05

Goofing around on the back porch with my 1970s Wildwood Troubadour.

Mississippi Palisades (TOTW) from 2021-09-24T10:52

Chirps Smith is a legendary fiddler in my book. This Tune of the Week is an original by him, brought to my attention from Stephen Rapp, who with his fiddle-playing buddy Paul Kirk, brings us many ...

Spotted Pony from 2021-09-22T22:15

Old Man's and Old Woman's Quarrel (TOTW) from 2021-09-18T12:15

The tune's title meaningfully fits the music. I added some reconciliation at the end. The tuning is so different from what I normally play in the old-time genre -- f#ADAD -- which made playing ...

Lee Sexton's Shady Grove from 2021-09-15T10:30

Two finger thumb lead. Banjo tuned fDGCD.

Hunting the Buffalo from 2021-09-11T10:53

Key of A. Played on a vintage 1970's "frankenstein" banjo

Cricket on the Hearth from 2021-09-10T11:44

Paul Perkins and me playing with guitar player Jon Duvick. I cannot recall what model of banjo Paul is playing, but it used to have a resonator on it and he removed it to play clawhammer with me a...

Donegal Danny 2021 from 2021-09-10T08:47

Cripple Creek 2 from 2021-08-26T11:11

Boll Weevil (TOTW) from 2021-08-23T10:26

From the fiddle playing of Tommy Jarrell and Jake Blount, and when the singing is added Boll Weevil tells the plight of the farmer victimized by the insect pests that destroyed his cotton crop.

Falls of Richmond from 2021-08-22T10:17

2F version of Falls of Richmond as arranged by Nick Hornbuckle with Band-in-a-Box accompaniment

Wolves In The Wood from 2021-08-21T12:23

A beautiful haunting waltz in A modal tuning.

Sound Sample (I'll tell me ma) from 2021-08-21T04:55

McAlpine's Fusiliers (Full Performance with Singing) from 2021-08-16T15:10

McAlpine's Fusiliers (Full Performance) from 2021-08-16T15:10

Last Chance from 2021-08-15T15:13:34.459167

Such a compelling old time tune handed down to us from the great Hobart Smith. I prefer to play it at this slow groove tempo.

High on a Mountain (TOTW) from 2021-08-15T15:13:34.458273

Based on Ola Belle Reed's version for which you can read a lot of background on the Tune of the Week for 1/8/21. I used to think it was a bluegrass song, but it was old-time first.

Donkey Reel from 2021-08-10T10:18

Sandy Boys from 2021-08-09T15:44:14.960499

Goofing around with banjo, guitar and harmonica on a version of 'Sandy Boys' that I tried to figure out by ear rather than learn from tab.

Red Rocking Chair from 2021-08-07T21:23:52.108514

Sounded like Red Rocking Chair when i started....but then i drifted.....anyway it’s mellow!

London Hornpipe (TOTW) from 2021-07-31T12:18

This old tune goes by other titles, but I chose the recording made by the great Missouri fiddler Cyril Stinett. I tried to eliminate some of the notes so typical for Ozark hornpipes and managed to...

Sugar Hill from 2021-07-29T12:39

Double D tuning. Played on 11" open back. Aluminum pot with vintage neck.

The Angels Rejoyced Last Night from 2021-07-16T14:32

As far as I know, T.A.R.L.N. is a sweet-sad, happy ending gospelsong written and recorded by the Louvin bros. in 1959. This is my clawhammerstyle banjo interpretation of this beautiful song.

1-E nickel silver tone ring clawhammer from 2021-07-11T14:10

banjo with nickel silver tone ring played clawhammer

Old Skedaddalink (TOTW) from 2021-07-10T12:41

Here's how Melvin Wine played a tune which is also found in the 1903 book of Irish fiddle tunes compiled by Chief Francis O'Neill, known as Mountain Hornpipe. I like this funny title given, ...

Drop thumb demo from 2021-06-30T05:34:56.093186

Booth Shot Lincoln from 2021-06-30T05:34:56.091638

Played on a short scale a tenor to 5 string conversion. 10" pot with original skin head

Last Cold Whiskey (TOTW) from 2021-06-25T21:03

Paul Brown is a living legend, a quiet one who has and still contributes beautiful music. I know that someone else gave his tune this title, and so it is The Last Cold Whiskey. I made a few chang...

Deep Blue Sea from 2021-06-21T07:38

Deep Blue Sea - Pete Seeger Cover w/ Singing from 2021-06-21T07:38

Buffalo Nickel from 2021-06-17T18:10:22.625541

Upload for the Old Time TOTW for December 4, 2020. The tune is generally called Too Young to Marry, but the fiddler I learned it from called it Buffalo Nickel.

Four Leaf Clover from 2021-06-16T05:17

My son, Ben, had a knack for finding four leaf clovers. I named this one for him.

Little Maggie bare fingers and picks from 2021-06-14T14:05

Little Maggie played on a 12" banjo with bare fingers and fingerpicks

Old Time Brickyard Joe (TOTW) from 2021-06-13T20:14

Via Bruce Greene in his Five Miles from Ellum CD, Bruce gleaned Old Time Brickyard Joe from James "Pop" Baker (b.1889 from Franklin Co., KY). Bruce said the fiddler James was part of a band ...

Home Sweet Home from 2021-06-11T07:07

My clawhammer interpretation of the sugar-sweet folksong HsH.
I borrowed it from the Earl Scruggs' "Foggy mtn. banjo" album
recording. Don 't mind the lack of drive. I'm...

Waiting for the Boatsman/Waiting the Boatman from 2021-06-11T05:19:51.763562

Tune - Waiting for the Boatsman - Melvin Wine
Hymn - Waiting the Boatman - Virgil O. Stamps - Theme suggested while waiting at ferry on Tennessee River, midnite, July 3, 1917, near Section, Ala...

Rattlesnake and the Texas Pony (TOTW) from 2021-05-29T22:27

The Tune of the Week for May 28, 2021 is an obscure tune named for a rattlesnake, which could have been a desert sidewinder, and a Texan pony, recorded by an obscure Arkansawyer clawhammer player n...

Nancy from 2021-05-28T15:32

Double D tuning and played on a new Myrtlewood and Walnut open back 5 string banjo

Peter Street (TOTW) from 2021-05-22T13:39

From the transcription in Francis O'Neill's Music of Ireland collection of 1903. He wrote that it was well towards the top of the list at the time, found in most American piano publications ...

Peter Street (TOTW 5/21/2021) from 2021-05-21T05:53

Trad reel in G played CH style.

Cider Mill from 2021-05-17T09:58

Played on a Recording king Old Time RK-OT-25-BR Madison banjo

Blackfoot (TOTW) from 2021-05-14T13:42

From the playing of Kentucky fiddler Clyde Davenport, who lived till recently to the ripe old age of 99 and who learned Blackfoot from his father. I want to call him Crooked Clyde. Listen why.

Blackfoot from 2021-05-14T05:20

Clyde Davenport's Blackfoot

Ebenezer--TOTW from 2021-05-14T03:01:05.902202

Ebenezer as a title goes by three melodies. This Tune of the Week is a new one for me. Ivan Weddle of Floyd, Virginia played it in the 80's. He had roots in nearby Willis, where Mac Traynham...

Harmonics Test from 2021-05-05T04:59:06.894676

Little Reed Island Creek from 2021-04-29T21:16

gDGde, a setting from the fiddling of John Coffey. Betsy played it in gDGbe.

The Tap or Sleep Song from 2021-04-25T15:51

Ballad of the Waffle House from 2021-04-25T15:50

In Christ Alone from 2021-04-22T23:29

This hymn caught me off guard with its unusual meter in the second section. When I heard Allison Kraus' version I had to give it a try and was very surprised that it clawhammered quite easily. ...

Golden Slippers from 2021-04-20T15:07

Played on new refurbished 5 string open back in double C tuning.

Hawk's Caught the Chicken and Gone from 2021-04-17T09:24

The Tune of the Week features a song and includes this banjo solo by Coon Creek Girl Lily May Ledford. The clawhammer techniques are standard and the tune would be a good one to combine skills of ...

Medley6 from 2021-04-15T03:30:04.440590

Jadzia's Lullaby from 2021-04-13T09:05

Today our daughter-in-law gave birth to our fifth grandchild, Jadzia (it's a Polish name). The first four each has his/her own banjo tune composed by Grandpa so with this one Jadzia joins them. ...

Farewell Princeton (TOTW) from 2021-04-11T08:36

Played by the treasured fiddler of Kentucky, Clyde Davenport, this Tune of the Week introduced me to a second CD of field recordings I wouldn't have known about. This crooked tune is typical of...

Subtle Sounds from 2021-04-07T06:17:44.585673

Tunaday #387 - G Modal "Accident" tuning (eFGCD)

Country Blues/Hustling Gambler from 2021-04-07T06:17:44.584244

Dock Boggs' Country Blues/Hustling Gambler in f#CGAD tuned a half step or so low...

Green River (TOTW) from 2021-04-03T03:28:44.146787

A fine Tune of the Week from North Carolina with a crooked part that suits the title Green River.

Kitty Magennis from 2021-03-30T03:33

Another one by Carolan. Banjo scordatura gDGCD

Piney Mountains from 2021-03-28T22:07

Bruce Molsky sings Piney Mountains, accompanying himself on fiddle with Joe Newberry singing harmony. This arrangement takes its melody from his vocals. People have asked for tab, which will be upl...

Three Forks of Hell from 2021-03-25T22:03

Source recording: Arthur D Johnson

Captain O'Kane from 2021-03-21T04:28

A banjophonic vision of this haunting Carolan's planxty played with some arpeggiated clawhammer. Standard G-tuning.

Lone Prairie from 2021-03-19T19:37

I fell in love with this tune when a friend of mine steered me to the recording of Wade Ward playing it on fiddle. I'm uploading it for the Old Time Tune of the Week for March 19, 2021.

Lone Prairie (TOTW) from 2021-03-19T09:07

Lone Prairie has a long history, coming from the popular old song Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie, which derived from a ballad called Ocean Burial, or Burial at Sea. These arrangements have five s...

Baker from 2021-03-18T10:49

Angeline the Baker from 2021-03-18T10:41

Benny & Fred from 2021-03-14T10:45

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.

Going Down Town from 2021-03-13T17:35

Forty Weight of Gingerbread (TOTW) from 2021-03-12T10:07

A fun song to play and sing, Forty Weight of Gingerbread uses some floating lyrics you can cater to your own tastes. It sounds like someone has a sweet tooth!

Goin' back to Dixie from 2021-03-12T08:31

Brennan on the Moor from 2021-03-05T09:19:38.506501

Carrolltown Breakdown (TOTW) from 2021-03-05T09:19:38.505906

Samuel Bayard, the famous tune collector from Pennsylvania, had several versions recorded of Carrolltown Breakdown, popular during his day. He claimed it's related to Buffalo Gals, so I tacked ...

Risky Road from 2021-03-05T09:19:38.505287

Tunaday #374 - In D variant tuning (aDACD).

Little Black Train from 2021-03-05T09:19:38.504696

11" SuperWoodie Sail Away Ladies GS from 2021-03-05T09:19:38.503816

sound clip of 11" SuperWoodie banjo

12" SuperWoodie lighterweight AT Sail Away Ladies from 2021-03-05T09:19:38.503128

Sound clip of 12" SuperWoodie lighterweight banjo

12" SuperWoodie walnut P.G. Sail Away Ladies from 2021-03-05T09:19:38.502529

sound clip of walnut 12" SuperWoodie

12" SuperWoodie walnut P.G. Darlin' Pal from 2021-03-05T09:19:38.501888

sound clip of 12" walnut SuperWoodie

Biddy (TOTW) from 2021-02-26T12:34

From West Virginia fiddler Edden Hammons, this sawmill tune is so typical of what we love about old-time music. It's evocative and the two parts seem to make a conversation. Is the tune named ...

Johnny Don't Get Drunk from 2021-02-20T11:22

Played on newly crafted 11" open back. Double C tuning.

Kingdom Coming from 2021-02-19T15:14

gCGCD

Buffalo Skinners - Ed Britt from 2021-02-18T09:38

Ed Britt's version of Buffalo Skinners (and Texas) from Banjo-L's first Banjo Addiction project.

Cumberland Gap from 2021-02-13T08:07

My version, relative open D

I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground (TOTW) from 2021-02-12T16:25

Based on Doc Watson's banjo playing, he learned this as a child from his uncle Jake Miller and said it was a courting song. It was a pleasure to look at the video, hear his banjo and vocals, an...

Lost Lula from 2021-02-12T10:35

"Lost Lula" by Jason and Pharis Romero

Before the Road from 2021-02-12T05:15

Before the Road
Sue Massek, of the Reel World String Band (other members: Bev Futrell (who kindly provided me all the words), Karen Jones and Elise Melrood), wrote this song, which I heard rece...

Danville Girl study- Doc Boggs from 2021-02-11T05:15

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.

Cousin Sally Brown from 2021-01-29T14:55

I'm uploading this Marcus Martin tune as my contribution to the 1/29/21 old time Tune of the Week. The fiddler is my good friend John Maguire. We recorded it exactly one year ago, today.

Pretty Polly solo Boggs tef from 2021-01-27T13:00

Pretty Polly solo Boggs from 2021-01-27T12:59

Pretty Polly - Doc Boggs solo from 2021-01-27T12:53

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.

Temperance Reel from 2021-01-24T11:47

finger picked on a refurbished 11" open back

3rd string then 1st string from 2021-01-24T10:54

First to Fourth from 2021-01-24T10:53

Old Folks at Home (Tom Roush Style Cover) from 2021-01-23T15:39

Old Jim Wren from 2021-01-22T17:28

Song i heard on the internet played by Neill Connor. A fun song to play....i hope i did it justice....

Sunshine Meadow Special from 2021-01-21T11:03

I tried.

Wednesday Night Waltz (TOTW) from 2021-01-17T14:47

Our diligent TOTW presenter, Carl Baron, gave us four versions of Wednesday Night Waltz to hear. I chose the ones from the Kessinger Brothers, because Clark Kessinger was such an influential fiddl...

Wednesday Night Waltz - Kessinger & Carlb from 2021-01-14T17:41

Wednesday Night Waltz - Clark Kessinger, fiddle; Carlb, banjo aDAde

Wednesday Night Waltz - Leake & Carlb from 2021-01-14T17:39

Wednesday Night Waltz - Will Gilmer, Leake County Reverlers; Carlb, banjo aDAde

Wednesday Night Waltz MWine & carb from 2021-01-14T17:37

Wednesday Night Waltz - Melvin Wine, fiddle; Carb, banjo aDAde

Wednesday Night Waltz carlb solo banjo from 2021-01-14T17:34

Wednesday Night Waltz - solo banjo (aDAde)

TB Blues from 2021-01-13T14:54

DreckPaeck Live with Gabi Weber - Voval & guitar, Rainer Diekamp - vocal & bass and me on banjo

Trouble in Mind from 2021-01-11T21:06

Coventry Carol from 2020-12-31T15:52

I Hope I'll Join the Band medley (TOTW) from 2020-12-30T09:45

The older spiritual background of this week's tune, called Christmas Time in the Morning, is explored in the latter part of this medley, with two different Black choir band recordings of the 192...

Katie Cruel from 2020-12-26T05:14

Das letzte Lied, das ich auf 5-saitigem Banjo gelernt habe.
The last song I learned on 5-string banjo.

Uncertain Hope from 2020-12-22T19:23

My annual new composition around the holidays. Usually an upbeat tune, but took a bit of a different path for this difficult year. For all my Hangout friends and the rest of the Hangout crowd, I wi...

Jack Wilson (TOTW) from 2020-12-21T09:14

Anything by John Salyer, Kentucky fiddler, has been worth learning. The Jack Wilson melody, however, was drowned out in the source recording by a banjo accompanist, so I went to the notation by Je...

Run Mary Run from 2020-12-19T13:08

Mike Gregory's original tune about the baby Jesus. Mike put out a request in 2019 for people to post recordings of this song. I finally got around to it.

Cumberland from 2020-12-18T08:47

Long after composing this untitled little tune, I heard a version of "Cumberland Gap" that had a familiar lick, and realized that I'd subconsciously borrowed (stolen?) it. As a nod to the ...

Porter's Reel from 2020-12-13T21:51

From the CD "The Old Texas Fiddle, Vol. II", with Howard Rains and Tricia Spencer, fiddles; Brendan Doyle, banjo; Nancy Hartness, guitar; Charlie Hartness, ukulele; Virginia Musser, bass. Rec...

Biddy from 2020-12-13T19:38

Shear 'Em / Take Me Back to Tulsa medley (CB) (TOTW) from 2020-12-12T19:19

The Tune of the Week goes by several titles. I chose two variations, especially since Take Me Back to Tulsa was a fun piece to sing with the Rough and Ready Fruit Jar Pickers. Shear 'Em had a ...

Dubliners Style Chords from 2019 from 2020-11-26T11:06

West Fork Gals from 2020-11-24T08:26

Played on new 11" myrtlewood and walnut open back 5 string in double D tuning.

28th of January (TOTW) from 2020-11-20T11:47

The date hasn't rung any bells yet, but the minor key sure gives it a rather melancholy feel. I listened to some vintage Piney Creek Weasels to arrange this one and used a rare Am tuning rare ...

Jaunty Jeudi from 2020-11-19T08:51

Tunaday #345 - A Peggy Seeger "dulcimer" tuning (gDGDD)

Mike In The Wilderness from 2020-11-18T18:07

A song i have always loved....

F&D Rag from 2020-11-18T15:00

The Soup Dragon from 2020-11-13T15:57

A lovely jig by Gordon Duncan. In clawhammer style with some single string work, triplets and arpeggios. E minor flavoured but played in Bm. Enjoy!

Davy (TOTW) from 2020-11-13T14:07

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 ...

Davy Davy from 2020-11-12T12:02

This is an unknown player. I think I found it somewhere on Internet about 14 years ago. I posted it here for the Old Tome TOTW 11/14/2020

Old Piss (TOTW) from 2020-10-31T16:08

From the Samuel Bayard collection called Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife, this old march has a repugnant name, but may have been named after a General Pisselli. The Tune of the Week has int...

From Cork To York from 2020-10-27T13:22

This is my answer to the challenge from Mike Gregory to write a tune with this title. Its maybe a bit slow, but I tried it fast and I couldn't fit all the words in.

John Brown’s Dream from 2020-10-26T11:15

My house sets 40 miles from Lawrence Kansas. The house built in 1840. John Brown probably travelled the military road that runs a quarter mile from my place!

Coyote Howl (TOTW) from 2020-10-24T00:44

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 i...

The Lea Rig from 2020-10-21T12:44

Medley 4 from 2020-10-21T06:52

Ballydesmond Polkas w/CB (TOTW) from 2020-10-18T20:25

After arranging the TOTW, I thought I'd search for the chords and transpose them for cello banjo accompaniment. Admittedly, it's just a first effort, but I achieved my goal of getting the de...

Ballydesmond Polkas (TOTW) from 2020-10-17T16:50

A 3-in-1 Tune of the Week, Ballydesmond Polkas are three Irish tunes played together as a medley. It being so long, I play through it all once, giving it a structure of AABBCCDDEEFF. It's said...

Blow The Wind Southerly from 2020-09-30T08:36

Guitar, banjo and vocals.

Lace Collar from 2020-09-28T09:55

It appears that I have my first original tune! Lace Collar, in G, played on my Rickard banjo. Now I have to learn to play it well enough to add some variation.

Out On The Ocean from 2020-09-27T09:27

Banjo, bandurria, bongos and bells.

Blackberry Blossom (Emma Lee Dickerson)(TOTW) from 2020-09-26T17:49

A wonderful champion fiddler, Tatiana Hargreaves, plays the Tune of the Week and bases it upon the older fiddler Emma Lee Dickerson. In an interview Tatiana claims that's her doppelg?nger, a ne...

Treacherous Trek from 2020-09-23T15:22

Tunaday #369 - In D variant tuning (aDACD).

A Rose for Polly (TOTW) from 2020-09-18T17:18

Rose for Polly is a pretty, 3-part song in a minor key. Perhaps it makes for a good love story -- a hopeful suitor gives her a rose, she responds sweetly, but with a bit of reservation, though co...

Fill Up The Bowl Reel from 2020-09-18T08:35

Dusty Bob's Jig from 2020-09-18T08:34

Billy in the Lowland from 2020-08-28T10:21

This recording of the Henry Reed tune was taped in April, 2015, at a private jam I used to attend every Thursday night. The musicians are Linda Henry, John Reddick, and Mike Roguska on fiddle, Je...

Billy in the Low Land from 2020-08-27T20:54

Recorded via email for Tune of the Week. Banjo by Paul Perkins, fiddle by me.

Jack of All Trades from 2020-08-20T10:11

"Jack of All Trades" is a tune I learned from Melvin Wine and has over the last five years, or so, become almost a standard in some of the jams that I play in. From the Vintage Wine cassette ...

Waterbound from 2020-08-19T11:18

Key of G. 10 3/4" vintage pot with a new custom 5 string neck.