Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Songs

Boogie-Woogie/Shuffle in N.O. Revival Style.

A church song derived from titles.

After nine months, still taking the flatpack to the five-string, and tonight working on getting smoother moving chord to chord while the laundry's finishing. Again, improvising with no particular plan other than to move around the neck for the exercise, but there's a melody in there somewhere.

A Civil War banjo player.

The Kingston Trio had a big hit....and Frank Proffitt is credited being the source....Doc Watson and Laura Boosinger had nice arrangements of the song. I ran across this in my old files....

After eight months of not jamming, I'm back at it, now jamming twice a month with better musicians than myself. Here is our second jam and first time trying this tune out on them. I think they've heard it somewhere before. I need to polish the ending with some harmonics maybe.

Owen "Snake" Chapman (1919 - 2002), Kentucky fiddler, recorded two CDs through which we can learn about him and his music. He knew BHO member Jim Reed well, and also played with and for notables such as Ed Haley and Kenny Baker. Snake felt Jenny's Waltz was his best composition, dedicated to his wife. In the recording he's accompanied by 3-finger picker Paul David Smith, who passed away a few years ago. My arrangement is clawhammered on my new small-scale Doc's Banjo, which I can't seem to put down. :)

Key of C in double C tuning. Played on new walnut 11" openback

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 7/7/17 Lazy Kate was recorded at the beginning of the 1930's buy a Mississippi stringband called Leake County Revelers. In the key of D, I put it in what's equivalent to open G tuning on the cello banjo (dADF#A). For an easy-sounding tune, it was a bit challenging to arrange, but easier for me to play than in double D tuning. Easier playing makes for a better end-result, don't you think?!