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For the old-time Tune of the Week as played by Harvey "Pappy" Taylor, whose great fiddling contributed to the repertoire of the Indian Creek Delta Boys. Humpback Mule is also included as fiddle tune #106 in the Dear Old Illinois anthology of traditional music of downstate Illinois by Garry Harrison and Jo Burgess.

CH take on 4 part Jig. G tuning. Vega 2.

Banjo tuned aDADE.

Key of D, Banjo tuned f#DADE ("Half Shaved" tuning)

These are two Irish session tunes I recorded. Tuning is double d. At our sessions I play them with a tenor banjo. I wanted to give it a try with clawhammer banjo using a somewhat more relaxed tempo.

Here' a take on the great tune Abe's Retreat with my friend John Davis adding such wonderful guitar backup

I received the Brad Leftwich Round Peak book for christmas. Here is my attempt at playing June Apple. Always room for improvement, but constructive criticism is always welcome.

For the old-time Tune of the Week, this is a three part tune from Ohio which reminds me a bit of Devil's Dream. I play it clawhammer style melodically and can see it eventually becoming more rhythmic and less notey. But here it is for now, from the original recording on Slippery Hill by Ohio fiddler John Hutchison who learned it from his father who learned it from another fiddler.

From the playing of Kentucky fiddler, Estill Bingham (1899 - 1990), this old-time Tune of the Week is a nice, but rare tune, learned from his father Noah Bingham. Bruce Green first recorded him and there's a nice photo of him if you have the Jeff Titon book called Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes. He died at age 91 in an accident while walking to work.