Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

Phone recording

Partial performance from an interview of the Juggernaut String Band on Gene Shay's show (WIOQ) in 1978 in Philadelphia, PA. Peter Taney (banjo, lead vocal), Janet Bregman-Taney (fiddle, harmony vocal) and Carl Baron (guitar, harmony vocal)

After hearing RG's Run Mountain and the original recordings by Wade Mainer, I liked RG's 2-finger picking and learned it like he plays it. Listen to RG and hear the many lyrics sung about this moonshine tune about "Run Mountain, sugar on the hill."

This is one of the first fiddle tunes I learned to play on banjo. I made this recording fifty years ago at the Union Grove festival on the Van Hoy Farm in Union Grove, North Carolina, using a little cassette recorder I had with me. If I remember correctly, I was in open G tuning using C positions, but capoed on the 2nd fret. These days, i play it in open D tuning.

From the fiddling of Brad Leftwich on Bob Carlin's seminal CD Banging and Sawing. We can't figure out the title yet, but it sounds a bit ragtime to me.

Billy Kearney on Fiddle. Paul Perkins on the 5 string banjo! TOTW 2/18/22

Carl Baron learned this from an eastern Pennsylvania fiddler in the 1970's and still plays it with friends at a local folk festival. I know very few cotillions, but they all sound like good dance melodies, but also pretty tunes.

George Graham's Cotillion is a tune from the Jehile Kirkhuff, a fiddler from northeast Pennsylvania (1907-1981). Banjo - aDAde. Jehile Kirkhuff, fiddle and Carl Baron, banjo over existing recording.

Simple clawhammer version.

Slow 70bpm clawhammer banjo version for instructional purposes. Includes B part based on Steve Baughman's version on his Clawhammer Guitar instructional CD (very nice CD).