Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Songs

What wonderous love is this.

Banjo is Bart Reiter Special and

Mike Spencer Arscott on Gibson J-45 in DADGAD

Marion Thede was an Oklahoma native who notated fiddle tunes throughout the states in the late 1920's and The Fiddle Book is still sought after by old-time music fans. For the Tune of the Week, 8/10/18, a three-part Cripple Creek as performed by J.S. Prise, originally from Mississippi who had moved to Oklahoma, is hereby introduced. It's fun to play as you hear the traditional song embedded in this unique version.

Played on 1890's Buckbee banjo in G.

A 3-part version of Cripple Creek from the Marion Thede collection. This is from a jam at the Black Creek Festival in 2018.

Another study from Frank Bradbury's book published by Mel Bay (recorded in my quest to read standard notation)

This is the Luther Davis version of Sail Away Ladies, or at least my interpretation of it. Presented for Tune Of The Week for August 2nd, 2018. In any case a fine tune!

Liza Jane in low D tuning, played on a Levan semi-fretless

Tunaday #161 - G/D tuning (gDGAD)

1982

Currently working on learning to read banjo sheet music w/ standard notation, so I've been using Mel Bay?s Banjo Method C-Tuning ? Concert Style by Frank Bradbury. Here is one of the pieces.