Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Songs

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In 1935 the Mississippi Sheiks recorded this jazzy piece and 90 years later I'm playing it on clawhammer banjo. It's the Tune of the Week, so go to the thread if you want to learn more about its history.

Wrote this for my dearest guitar playing partner after he prematurely died of cancer - again AI enhanced - not a fan of AI but results are remarkable.

Wrote this a few years ago fro a neighbor of ours - my mate put it through A1 -

I recorded this at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 1975 - can anyone identify the banjo player?

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

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

Cripple Creek on my Hatfield Special

This tune comes from fiddler Buddy Thomas (1934-1974) of Lewis County, Kentucky, who learned it from Ohio fiddler Morris Allen. Jeff Titon notes the A part's close similarity with the English dance tune The Rose Tree.

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The Carter Family first presented this iconic song to the world of country music. These lyrics came from Carlene Carter, daughter of June and Johnny Cash. The 3/4 timing for the verses was my idea.

I'm playing a Deering Calico banjo.

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Using cello banjo, this recording adds chordal accompaniment to the previous solo banjo posted for Tune of the Week.

A fun little tune where I keep singing the more common B part in my head, "Johnny, get your hair cut, hair cut, hair cut..."

Tippy Get You Hair Cut (Melvin Wine, fiddle GDAD and Carl Baron, banjo gDGDE) was recorded from an over the air public radio broadcast of the 1977 Chicago Folk Festival.

Eck Robertson, Arkansas fiddler with a phenomenal recording history, played multiple versions of the commonly known old-time tune Sally Goodin. Check out the Tune of the Week link for an interesting story. I play just a few of his variations, plus add my own at the very end.

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An original tune

An upbeat tune, sounds to me like a horse that rears up in great spirit and power. This arrangement is first arranged from the source recording, Oklahoman fiddler George Mert Reeves, and then from Kerry Blech (1947-2023), wonderful collector, scholar and player of fiddle tunes.

Double C; key of D, After Bob Siggins. "Hell if you can't play that you can't play nothing"

G tuning key of A

Double C tuning; Cello Banjo

German folk song in G tuning

Popular song in 1931 composed by Johnny Green with lyrics by Edward Heyman