Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

I picked up this tune from a recording by the Corn Potato String Band. I think it sources to Jim Smoak & the Louisiana Honeydrippers, who also recorded it. Banjo is tuned aEAC#E.

What's a deadnin' (I had to look it up too)? It's an archaic term used by early settlers to describe a spot in a densely forested area where the trees have died and the spot can be used as farm land. Generally, white settlers would girdle the trees to kill them, rather the cut them down. At least, this is what I have gathered from reading some old sources.

medly of 3 A modal tunes

Tommy Jarrell's version of Little Maggie

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 12/29/17, this originally was recorded in 1949 by John Sharp, a Kentucky native living in Tennessee. It has resemblance to both Polly Wolly Doodle and a bit of Old Joe Clark. My arrangement comes from the Canote Brothers.

Here is a little tune I composed a couple of days ago while working on my clawhammer style picking. Nothing fancy but has a catching melody. I added a little guitar to it fill in and that was it.

A little tune I composed a few days ago while working on my clawhammer style. Added a bit of guitar to fill in and that is about it. Nothing fancy here.

Probably the best name for a song ever.

From the Bottomlanders via Garry Harrison, who comments 'This one comes from a couple of fellas down in Old Shawnee Town, down on the Ohio River side of Illinois, way down at the south tip (Gallitan Co.) They played the fiddle and banjo, Vince Uselton played the banjo and Ed Bradley played the fiddle and they called themselves The Bottomlanders and once again they didn?t have any name for it so we called it the Gallitan Special'.

I've been posting tunes for the last few holiday seasons so here I go again. Wishing all the best to my BHO friends for the season and the new year. In Double C.

I recorded it as I was bored, one leg in the plaster, after a motobike crash. I play a Slingerland banjo, a Takamine Guitar and a three string russian mandoline called Dumra. Thank you for your indulgence