Banjo Hangout Top 100 Songs

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Where Have All The Flowers Gone

2024-01-2803:41

My abbreviated version of Seeger's classic anti-war anthem with a I/vi/IV/V bridge added for color.

Cluck Old Hen

2023-12-2602:12

Little Princess Footsteps

2022-11-1201:25

I learned this C tune from a 1931 Okeh recording of the Mississippi old time string bad the Newton County Hillbillies, featuring Alvis Massengale on fiddle. It's a practice recording from a few years ago, uploaded for the 11/11/22 Old Time TOTW. I am three finger picking my 1928 Vega Tubaphone with a semi-fretless conversion neck, in double C tuning (gCGCD)

Needle Case

2022-05-2901:57

2010 on Jason Burns #3

Rosebud Of Allenvale

2022-03-1002:22

TOTW 03/11/23: Waltz written by James Scott Skinner, also known as "The Rose Of Sharon Waltz" and "Rosebud Of Avonmore"

Four Cent Cotton (TOTW)

2022-01-2900:59

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 changed so much, sad to say. This arrangement comes from the early recording of fiddler Lowe Stokes.

Jai Passe Devant ta Porte (TOTW)

2021-12-3100:37

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.

Whiskey In The Jar

2021-10-3104:05

Harvest Moon

2021-10-2302:52

Original Cello Banjo 3-finger picking Tuning: A C# A B E

Shoot That Buffalo

2021-10-0800:58

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

29 - Here Comes The Sun

2021-07-09--:--

Last Chance

2021-01-0503:31

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.

Porter's Reel

2020-12-14--:--

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. Recorded in December, 2014 by Mike West at the 9th Ward Pickin' Parlor, Lawrence, KS.

Buffalo Nickel

2020-12-0602:00

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.

28th of January (TOTW)

2020-11-20--:--

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 -- aEACE.

Country Blues/Hustling Gambler

2020-10-0903:55

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

Blackberry Blossom (Emma Lee Dickerson)(TOTW)

2020-09-26--:--

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 new word for me. They look alike in photos. The tune is very familiar to me, but Emma Lee's is unique, so I also include the more traditional one in this recording.

A Rose for Polly (TOTW)

2020-09-18--:--

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 continuing to offer hope.

Blue Smoke ( a Merle Travis early fusion tune)

2020-08-1502:19

my arrangement and adaptation of a Merle Travis guitar instrumental to banjo...it's in Dm and shifts to Dmaj for the bridge...

Eastern Interloper

2020-05-16--:--

Tunaday #106 - In G Modal-f (fDGCD).

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