Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Songs

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.

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

Though another melody goes by this title, and this version of WV fiddler Oscar Wright's resembles Paddy on the Turnpike, it's a tune that's been recorded with credit given to Wright.

TOTW 03/13/26

This is an exercise on the current old time tune of the week on the hangout 3/11/26 Baltimore fire. It is a Blues/ragtime version ala Gus Cannon. The instrument is a 1923 Vega Tubaphone with the Eastman Neck Eastman has used on its White Ladies. Anyone exploring this kind of banjo playing contact me, Thanks

Here are 2 version of the Baltimore Fire Song, one perhaps approximating a playing of it as a hymn or parlor ballad, another with my rough approximation of the banjo playing of banjoists like Gus Cannon who were mixing blues and rag on the banjo. My instrument is a 1923 Vega Tubaphone pot with a Eastman neck

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Lucy Farr's Barndance (with mistakes and maybe a missed part?) played in open G tuning on guitar. Not much of a barn dance feel :-).

Charlie Poole wrote the song and recorded it with the North Carolina Ramblers in 1929, but it's said that a similar older song centered around a much earlier fire in Boston was the inspiration.

hold what you got lick

Counting beats to the A part of Chadwell's Station as played by Foghorn String Band.

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

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

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

This arrangement of Chadwell's Station using cello banjo tuned down four steps allowed me to hit the lowest notes, but it also caused me to re-tune the first string because of the high fret notes needed. So the tuning is dGDGB -- open G. The alternate method to play used a regular banjo in normal tuning -- gDGDB -- and is easier to play.

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From the 1840's Hamblen collection of a Virginia fiddler, David Russell Hamblen. As these tunes become known and played from the musical notation made by Hamblen's grandson, their richness is appreciated in the old-time music world.

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As played on fiddle nearly one hundred years ago by the Stripling Brothers, without the insertion of the hymn In the Sweet By and By.

Shady Grove might be the most universal old time tune that ever existed. It 's pretty hard to make a rendition that is satisfactory as to combining the banjo with the singing.

Published on my "Instrumental"album:https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpm3MsqWfe0&list=OLAK5uy_mwYmHXIn5DIPZX9jUhQjAr-VNZUL0zFXg

Released on my "Instrumental" album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpm3MsqWfe0&list=OLAK5uy_mwYmHXIn5DIPZX9jUhQjAr-VNZUL0zFXg

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

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

From the notation of Virginian David Hamblen's fiddling, as played by Christian Whig. Thanks to Noah Cline for bring this collection to our attention.

As played by Humphrey Bates' harmonica in a 1928 recording. Terrible title, but a good dance tune, as it was probably intended.

This songs needs a Scruggs-style-banjo break where currently the flute is, If anyone want to step forward. Song is about a girl and her friend, one who liked my fiddle playing, in the Grand Canyon North Rim. If interested, please contact the author. I will send a chord chart, and you can send me back a wav file with your break. Quantum1MechanicAtGmail.com .

Banjo aDAde Derived from Dr. Humphrey Bate and His Possum Hunters

Via Eddy Arnold, here are the lyrics the woman can sing. She's determined to go with her roving gambler. Good luck to them both, but ....

Two-finger arrangement by Matt Brown

The Rovin' Gambler based on Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers 1929 Columbia Records recording