Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 11/12/17, Double File was recorded by Gaither Carlton. Anything that brings me closer to Doc Watson's family makes me hapy. I added a bit of cello banjo accompaniment.

Bill & Patti Cummings - fiddle, guitar. Yigal Zan - banjo. Tablature at, https://www.hangoutstorage.com/banjohangout.org/storage/tabs/h/tab-hunters-purse-22770-34211612112017.gif

Video showing playing hands' motions at, https://youtu.be/nFRQ2MtY2P4 (or at my media BHO page.

clawhammer, double-C tuning with capo on 2nd fret

I am playing banjo. The fiddle and banjo track is from the Centralia Parlor Pickers website. Tracks were combined using Audacity. Banjo is tuned aEAC#E. Tab is also available on here on BHO.

TOTW for 10 November 2017.

I just put steel strings back on my Sagmoen Dobson (24 3/4" scale, Ren. head, homemade maple bridge) after playing it with Nylgut/Sands for a few years and like the new sound.

Tuned to double C.

For the old-time Tune of the Week, Nov. 3, 2017, Georgia Railroad was popularized by Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers in the 1920's. It's been recorded many times since, sometimes with silly lyrics, which I like. The first version I heard was actually Adam Hurt's upbeat fiddle version on his new CD Artifacts. I combine three versions here, one from Riley Puckett, who sang and played guitar on the original recording, one from Adam, and one other related tune recorded by Fiddlin' John Carson and recently by Harry Bolick called Way Late Last Night When Peter Went a-Fishing.

gCGCD, Pre-war Jedson open back

Here's one of Tony Ellis' pretty 3/4 time original tunes. He said he and his son Bill wrote this after visiting Japanese families in Colorado and wanting to remember the special occasion. Tony wrote it in double C tuning for his gentle, sparse 3-finger picking, but I found it easier in open G for my clawhammer arrangement. The wind chimes at the end are real!

One more try for the old-time Tune of the Week, 10/27/17. This time it's in the 2-finger style -- a very simple, play-the-words version.