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Clawhammer arrangement of the Irish tune The Bag of Spuds.

Played on a Bacon and Day Silver Bell 5-string.

The old-time Tune of the Week for 1/4/19 is one of the Greasy String tunes. According to Adam Keisling there are six distinct tunes with that title. His choice for TOTW is the one Dwight Diller and Jimmy Tripplett learned from West Virginian Lee Hammons. I used tab on Dwight's site and combined it with Seneca Square Dance and another Greasy Coat Dwight recorded from Burl Hammons. I hear similarities on all three tunes.

This recording was made in the early 90's for a project that never came to fruition.

Bill LaWarre - Mandolin, Buddy Griffin - Fiddle,Ed Cunningham - Guitar, Joe Brashear - Bass, Wayne Clyburn - Banjo

This recording was made in the early 90's for a project that never came to fruition.

Bill LaWarre - Mandolin, Buddy Griffin - Fiddle, Ed Cunningham - Guitar, Joe Brashear - Bass, Wayne Clyburn - Banjo

VancePants wrote Tune for Janet today. I'm so excited I had to try it already. He plays it 2-finger picking in his beautiful way and I'm attempting it clawhammer style. The rhythm feels Baltic to me. You'd think it's crooked, but it's not. It would be the kind of dance tune the people have to do some quick little syncopated steps all together and proceed -- I can picture it! But don't ask me to try that....Thanks so much, Ken, dedicating a tune to me. That's a keepsake to always treasure, especially right here on BHO where we interact and encourage each other on our musical journeys.

Same song, same banjo, different bridge wood. Cut this red maple down on my back lot about a year ago.

Still trying to learn how to play this new fretless

A quick sound file of this hard maple bridge from a solid maple rockin' chair that was given to me from a friend of my wife. This is on my Kalamazoo conversion with brass tone hoop. Playing a Sammy Shelor version kick off in the key of B

Tunaday #39 - In G tuning with a 5th (gDGBD).

played on refurbished Recording King RKO-3S Key of G