Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

The source recording is from a 1930 recording of Seven Foot Dilly and His Dill Pickles. I learned from a modern recording of the Old Yeller Dog Band because I liked how the fiddle filled in the held notes.

Here's a Henry Reed version of Red Fox, recorded in the enormous collection of this West Virginia fiddler by the great Alan Jabbour. I went to gCGCE tuning for ease of playing down the neck.

My friend Doug's version

gDGbd

Passed to

us from Henry Reed

Banjo gDGde

This version of Portsmouth Airs is based on Buddy Thomas' fiddling. He'd visit Jimmy Wheeler, leaving Kentucky to go to the neighboring town of Portsmouth in Ohio.

A Tune of the Week written in the late 1800's, considered a ragtime or tin pan alley tune. It's a tough one to play, especially having just learned it today, but it was also an unusual tune to figure out.

What I worked out in gEADE tuning for playing clawhammer with piano at a contra dance. (it's for a dancing, so it's fairly long)

From a couple of years ago, first dance from long break of Covid. Was a bit rough.

Playing around with gDGDE tuning.

Also experimenting using BandLab app and some of built in fx and processing for mastering... to demo what it does (it is a bit much)

This was an experiment using iPhone and BandLab app for quick multitrack in kitchen.