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Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from the playing of Eck Robertson, but inspired by Rayna Gellert. I guess growing good potatoes in sandy soil must not be too hard.
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Size: 1,053kb, uploaded 9/12/2016 7:40:06 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The old-time Tune of the Week for 9/9/16 is Green Corn, also heard commonly as Hot Corn, Cold Corn. Lena Hughes, an elderly and beloved 2-finger style picker from Missouri recorded this and I've taken the opportunity to try something for the first time with the 2-finger style. She uses thumb-lead and I also tried index-lead the third time through while "playing the melody."
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Size: 1,582kb, uploaded 4/23/2016 1:25:24 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 4/22/16, which is actually Richmond Cotillion. Green Mountain Polka is supposed to be a variation of it and several historic recordings exist of both tunes, including one with dance calls. My arrangement comes from Ed Haley's fiddling. I like the modulation and was pleased that open C tuning allowed that to seamlessly happen. Many times I'll get a discordant 5th string when I try tunes which modulate, but not in this one. Check out the TOTW this week: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/317585.
8 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,037kb, uploaded 7/18/2011 7:16:52 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A favorite gospel song.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 3,093kb, uploaded 10/2/2020 9:01:02 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A fine Tune of the Week from North Carolina with a crooked part that suits the title Green River.
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Size: 2,546kb, uploaded 2/10/2017 7:25:49 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, Green Willis is named for a fiddler from Willis, Virginia. It's also called The Raw Recruit. When it's played in slow jig time, it's called Chapel Hill March. Go back far enough to Scotland and it was called Da New Rigged Ship. Lots to think about here on this cheerful tune that reminds me of a new soldier marching enthusiastically.
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Size: 1,089kb, uploaded 10/27/2011 6:12:43 AM
Genre: Traditional / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
It sounds like a marching soldier. It must be easier marching to music.
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Size: 1,304kb, uploaded 5/7/2022 10:10:59 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A dance tune Melvin Wine learned from his fiddling father, Bob Wine. Melvin played confidently, briskly and fluidly. He must have been a challenge to keep up with, but great fun for a dance!
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Size: 861kb, uploaded 10/16/2013 6:10:56 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This is West Virginian fiddler Tom Dillon's version from the MacCrae Sisters. I wish I knew more about him, though Gerry Milnes wrote a little bit in his book called Play of a Fiddle. I think it's got an interesting A part that does a sort of skip-gallop kind of rhythm that intrigued me. A grey eagle is actually a buzzard.
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Size: 3,032kb, uploaded 5/11/2024 11:28:36 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from the fiddling of Mark Tamsula, a fiddler I respect a lot. Grey Haired Dancing Girl, however, is not one Mark learned from the collections of Pennsylvania's Samuel Bayard. The original source of the tune is still a mystery, but a 1990's jam in Maryland was Mark's source.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Jumahl
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Size: 3,200kb, uploaded 5/17/2024 12:16:49 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Thanks to Brendan Doyle for uploading the source recording for this week's Tune of the Week, Grey-Haired Dancin' Gal. I gave the tune another try. This version has a more Cajun swing flavor than the one I learned from, and Brendan shared with us the composer's background, so I thought it was worth another try. It's played slowly here and wants to be speeded up, but, oh well....
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Size: 3,725kb, uploaded 3/20/2026 7:55:16 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
In topics:
TOTW, 3/20/26, Grigsby's Hornpipe
A 9-part tune, Grigsby's Hornpipe source recording is Eck Robertson, the "Famous Cowboy Fiddler" from Texas. Colonel Melvin Grigsby may be the namesake for the tune, having gained some fame himself when he prompted Congress to pass an act to form his cavalry. That act led to Teddy's Rough Riders, which may have led to his ascension to the U.S. presidency.
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Size: 1,759kb, uploaded 1/31/2019 10:23:42 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This fun song is the old-time Tune of the Week for 2/1/19, a day before Groundhog Day.
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Size: 2,968kb, uploaded 1/10/2026 10:59:22 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A French Canadian tune with a title that says it all!
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Size: 563kb, uploaded 11/11/2011 11:29:36 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned from a Mike Compton mandolin lesson. Its minor key makes it sound different from other versions.
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Size: 1,902kb, uploaded 5/18/2016 6:37:51 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
As played by Rhys Jones, this tune is sourced to Kentucky fiddler George Lee Hawkins. Rhys is able to play intricate melodies on fiddle. Playing them on clawhammer banjo is a good challenge!
2 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Ed Haley
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Size: 1,244kb, uploaded 1/26/2013 3:10:15 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For Tune of the Week, 1/26/13
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Size: 1,711kb, uploaded 9/14/2018 1:33:53 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This week's TOTW has two versions to choose from -- Wade Ward, who I've heard of, and Dent Wimmer, who I haven't. So I found a Dent Wimmer version of Half Shaved in f#DEAD tuning. What a neat sound it has, though I wonder if the title is related to Shaving a Dead Man....
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Size: 1,891kb, uploaded 2/26/2016 5:40:44 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Popularized by Virginia fiddler Albert Hash, this is a four part tune whose last part reminds me of Fishers Hornpipe. I learned it in conjuction with the current old-time Tune of the Week, another tune played by Mr. Hash called Nancy Blevins. He lived in an area of Virginia I visited now called "The Crooked Road," known for its "rich musical landscape."
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Size: 945kb, uploaded 11/6/2012 6:11:53 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
West Virginian fiddler Melvin Wine learned this from his father and never heard it played elsewhere.
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