Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

Really fun tune played on my new Stone Banjo Company Half Fretless!

Based on the playing of George Landers, fCFCD or thereabouts...

Self arrangement

From around the year 1800, Jamie Allen is named for the Northumbria bagpipe player, Jamie Allen. It is played as a march in New England these days.

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A Tune of the Week with various titles and styles, but popularized most by a Canadian string band as Kiley's Reel, whose style is normally notey and energetic. For the final B part, I combined this clawhammer arrangement with its minstrel roots in the last time through on the B part.

This Tune of the Week, Echoes of the Ozarks comes from a 1920's recording by Kansas fiddler Sam Long. His fiddling was said to be smooth and rhythmic, but I found this piece too crooked to easily play along with him. It also has lots of syncopation. It's said to resemble Little Old Log Cabin in the Woods.

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Learned, originally in G, from "Echoes of the Ozarks" On Volume III (https://www.discogs.com/release/5408109-Various-Echoes-Of-The-Ozarks-Volume-III)

The Tune of the Week features a contemporary old-time composition by one who is super talented at it -- Arnie Neiman. He truly loves his dog and the tune Walking the Dog is a happy one, with Arnie's ability to create something unique amidst so many hundreds of tunes in our repertoire.

Raw sound file for new album "Raging Seaward"