A banjophonic vision of this haunting Carolan's planxty played with some arpeggiated clawhammer. Standard G-tuning.

I fell in love with this tune when a friend of mine steered me to the recording of Wade Ward playing it on fiddle. I'm uploading it for the Old Time Tune of the Week for March 19, 2021.

Lone Prairie has a long history, coming from the popular old song Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie, which derived from a ballad called Ocean Burial, or Burial at Sea. These arrangements have five sources, ranging in dates from 1927 - 2011 and including Carl Sprague, Harvey "Pappy" Taylor, Bruce Molsky, Wade Ward, and Jon Bekoff. Check out the TOTW link to learn more.

Picking on "Grond", my 30's tb-11 conversion. Jerry Sloan nickel-plated, 20-hole ring and straight-grain maple Frank Neat neck. Recorded with a Zoom iQ7 Stereo Mic for iPhone.

Picking on "Grond", my 30's tb-11 conversion. Jerry Sloan nickel-plated, 20-hole ring and straight-grain maple Frank Neat neck. Recorded with a Zoom iQ7 Stereo Mic for iPhone.

Digging and digging this treasure mallet that is O'Neil's book

Since none of us knew the words to this John Hartford tune, we picked it as an instrumental... One of 17 cuts from some awesome campfire picking March 13, 2021 up in Ellenboro, NC. Last time I picked with the lead guitar picker was about 8 years ago, it's nice when things click like this. Frank Eastes (banjo) and Tyler Leonard (lead guitar).