Posted by JanetB
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Size: 3,661kb, uploaded 10/25/2025 1:50:50 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Using cello banjo, this recording adds chordal accompaniment to the previous solo banjo posted for Tune of the Week.
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Size: 815kb, uploaded 11/22/2011 5:45:29 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen
Played on my Deering Calico, learned from James Bryan's fiddling of Tombigbee Waltz and John Hartford's version of Gum Tree Canoe.
4 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by John Goodin
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Size: 1,372kb, uploaded 5/28/2022 3:47:13 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Our Tune of the Week doesn't have the familiar sound of a fiddle tune, and indeed, it was written by a mandolinist, John Goodin, of the group Contratopia, who sadly passed away last year. To get his notes I reverted to cello banjo. I understood the banjo player of the group played Too Many Goats with a capo on the seventh fret -- not me. Now that would be climbing as high as any mountain goat. :)
1 commentPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,808kb, uploaded 12/28/2025 4:17:45 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
An Irish polka with a long history and various titles. I'm curious how the cello banjo would sound with regular banjo chordal accompaniment. Perhaps I can try that later for this Tune of the Week.
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Size: 1,627kb, uploaded 6/8/2018 10:33:10 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 6/8/18, Trouble on My Mind was recorded by Kentucky fiddler John Salyer's sons at home. Salyer never recorded commercially, but was an excellent fiddler. This tune is crooked in the last measure when it repeats and is unusual in having six measures in the A part and eight in the B part.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 981kb, uploaded 4/2/2013 9:00:27 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Played by Doc Watson, this tune was popularized at the same name in Lenoir, North Carolina--not that far from Deep Gap where Doc lived. It's an interesting piece and makes quite a left hand banjo workout.
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Size: 3,120kb, uploaded 8/9/2025 1:02:48 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Here's a 4-part Alabama tune from fiddler Ralph Whited. I guess my favorite part was his slide in the A part. We have wild turkeys every day at our place -- big birds who use their feet to scratch, scratch, scratch the dirt, and also in ash and weed piles.
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Size: 2,944kb, uploaded 11/12/2024 11:41:58 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A seasonal title with two versions by Kentucky fiddlers who knew each other -- Buddy Thomas and Jimmy Wheeler.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Sidna Myers
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Size: 1,064kb, uploaded 7/16/2012 9:30:46 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned for the Tune of the Week, 7-13-12. This song gives me deja vu!
5 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,322kb, uploaded 4/3/2015 8:55:27 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This tune is notated by William Sydney Mount, dated in 1848. It has a rhythmic sound called "Scottish snaps," which I had to look up in Ken Perlman resources to define. You'll hear them. I'm enjoying learning more about this famous painter of The Banjo Player.
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Size: 1,160kb, uploaded 11/28/2015 5:39:34 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 11/27/15. I learned this from an Arkansas fiddler's recording when she was 93 years old! She's now 99. The title wasn't really Uncle Henry, but she learned it from him. Check out the discussion for more: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/311807.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 999kb, uploaded 12/22/2014 2:40:59 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Learned for the old-time Tune of the Week, 12/19/14, I arranged this by using notation in the Milliner-Koken American Fiddle Tunes book for Audley Cable's fiddling, as well as Bruce Greene's recording of it on Slippery Hill. He didn't know the name of the tune when Bruce recorded him in 1985, but told him he'd learned it from Mr. Jamison.
2 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,044kb, uploaded 4/7/2012 11:33:07 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This is a historic marching song for Prussian soldiers. "Plinky and Plunky" are Kit on mandolin and myself, 3-finger picking.
5 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 2,110kb, uploaded 3/11/2023 5:45:57 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This tune with the strange title goes by several other titles. I chose to learn by using the fiddle notation in the Samuel Bayard book, Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife, and to play it on the cello banjo in an equivalent tuning to double C.
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Size: 3,138kb, uploaded 4/8/2022 9:28:36 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Upper Lehigh was played in the first Brandywine Old-time Music Convention in 1974. Carl Baron was there and heard this lively polka and has presented it as the Tune of the Week. I've added the cello banjo for accompaniment and hope the recording quality is decent enough -- I'm not sure where the static came from.
Add CommentPosted by JanetB, written by Rory Dall O'Cahan, Hank Williams
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Size: 1,155kb, uploaded 2/13/2012 10:18:44 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Two songs from entirely different eras, but with similar themes.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,136kb, uploaded 10/26/2019 11:56:37 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time TOTW, 10/25/19, Valley Forge here is from Jimmy Driftwood's fiddled version. It's a 4-part tune where the C part represents to me the tension that must have been felt by Washington's soldiers during that horrendous experience wintering at Valley Forge. Playing it slower might be more effective to impart a story, but as it is, I'm playing at about 70% of the original recording tempo. It's said that Jimmy Driftwood learned the tune from Absie Morrison.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,567kb, uploaded 10/25/2018 5:47:24 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 10/26/18, comes from Kentucky fiddler John Salyer (1982-1952). Vance No More is based on a sad ballad about a murder and a hanging. It's a crooked tune that you get used to.
4 commentsPosted by JanetB
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Size: 1,212kb, uploaded 7/31/2020 6:57:23 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Hobart Smith, the amazing musician we old-time players much admire, learned from sources that placed some of his tunes pre-civil war. Wabash Blues is a tune whose age I don't know, but it's only known to have been recorded by him, which happened in 1963 when Fleming Brown befriended him. Stephen Wade released those recordings of Smith in 2005, "In Sacred Trust," and still enjoys playing this very tune to this day.
3 commentsPosted by JanetB, written by Daniyel Ben-Asher
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Size: 897kb, uploaded 7/20/2012 8:53:20 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Daniyel wrote this song and the cello banjo played along.
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