Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Songs

Simple multitrack version of the tune "Needlecase" (fiddle, clawhammer banjo, guitar, hammered dulcimer, bass).

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 10-22-16. Dock Boggs and Ralph Stanley are the two seminal examples of this song. Dock Boggs played it picking style and gave us the common verses we hear and Ralph Stanley's best version was a capapella heard in Oh Brothers, Where Art Thou.

I've attempted Oh Death in clawhammer style here on cello banjo, tuned in sawmill, thinking Dock Boggs' words as I play. Its lyrics are an icy portrait of death that could help lead a personal to repentance, as it did the original writer, Lloyd Chandler, a Free Will Baptist minister in the 1920's, after he dreamed it. Check out this week's TOTW for more info.

This is a sound comparison (limited by recording abilities) of three banjos. I play Twin Sisters twice through on each. In alphabetical order by builder (but not necessarily playing order), they are Enoch Dobson, Fairbanks Whyte Laydie #2, and Ome Flora.

Do you have a preference? Can you guess which is which?

I listened to several versions and used "mmuussiiccaall's" tabs and came up with this version.

It has a few "flub ups". Maybe you will like it anyway.

I am playing my homebuilt 12 inch cherry banjo and recorded this on a zoom H5. Larry

Here's a couple of short drop C tunings using the old counter top bridge wood.

Rock Bartley sent me some old hard maple he had gotten from an old counter top out of a house in Kalamazoo. Really nice sounding bridge wood.

A little tune influenced by Spanish and Irish music

Lloyd Chandler's "A Conversation With Death" played 2 finger thumb lead with some 3 finger Dock Boggs-ish thrown in

Kel Kroydon 116L Mahogany Neck