Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

A try at the high lonesome sound.

Learned from my favorite old-time Alabama fiddler James Bryan, who learned it from another Alabama fiddler, Jim Cauthen, who learned it from another one, Henry Lee Hudson of Clarke County, who was taught the older fiddling styles of the 1800's, like that of his father, Joseph Hudson (b. 1860) and other family members.

Fiddle tune

Tunaday #303 - D variant tuning (aDGCE).

Hope all you Dads have an enjoyable time on this hopefully one and only quarantine Fathers Day.

Tennessee 2-finger style banjo player Omer Forster named his one CD with this title song in the 70's. Played on a vey short-scaled Doc's Banjo, it went all the way up the neck! I clawhammered, though with a very similar arrangement.

Duet of the Boatman's dance, clawhammer banjo and guitar

Tunaday #284 - In Dick Weissman E-minor tuning (bBGBE)

Chelsey Chancey's "Mulberry Gap" in fCFCD rapping style

Another tune I wrote myself, tab is here in the hangout tabs