Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Songs

Three Bluegrass tunes played in an Irish style. Tunes are Whiskey Before Breakfast/ Big Sciota/ Daley's

My JBS / Sloan tonering on a 9439-116L pot. Derek Easter in the drivers seat...

Early Banjo, Tambourine, Donkey Jawbone

For this week's old time Tune of the Week (8/26/16) one of my favorite tunes learned from my lessons with Adam Hurt has been chosen. I've already recorded Old Beech Leaves a couple of times, so I thought I'd listen to the source recording and try arranging it in another tuning. This one is worked out in open G tuning, played on my cello banjo (so actually tuned down to an open C). It was recorded from the rather rough playing of a Kentucky fiddler from Logan County, Sid Hudnall, who lived with his family pretty much isolated from the rest of the world. Check out the TOTW for more info and tab of Adam's version (with his permission).

The Heaton Brothers. We were teenagers in our basement in 1965.

CH take on Miss Thompson's Reel. in D. First heard on Sharon Shannon's first album.

Why not ?

This old tune was in the well-known fiddle tune book Knauff's Virginia Reels, published in 1839. I've heard good "source recordings" from Burl Hammons and Henry Reed. My arrangement is from listening to Alan Jabbour with Tommy Thompson on banjo on The Hollow Rock String Band CD, recently re-released as a 2-CD set called The Hollow Rock Legacy. The Route is one of those tunes that has a familiar feeling, even the first time you hear it.

BIAB