Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Songs

Jedson, D

We recorded this with the Millikin University Big Bluegrass Band.

We recorded this with the Millikin University Big Bluegrass Band. I was playing CH banjo on it.

Band in a box play along file with me playing dobro and banjo (banjo solo starts at 2:07)

From 1856, the Antebellum Period. A popular Minstrel song in support of the Abolition of Slavery. Sung in recitative style and played on early banjo stroke style. Written by Benjamin Russell Hanby, 1833-1867, who also wrote "Up on the House Top", "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas", and the hymn "Who Is He In Yonder Stall?"

In 2006, during an aborted reunion attempt with my former bandmates (minus one since our guitarist died in a car accident November 1994), following a couple of live appearances as Joyriders I was offered the chance of overdubbing banjo and fiddle on a dance arrangement of a famous old time song. A friend of my fellow banjo and harmonica player had his home studio set with synthesizers, computer, loop station and software tailored for producing disco music, dance floor, stuff like that. The chosen tune was part of a project soon to be released worldwide on CD, or at least this is what he was bragging at. My disappointment came as soon as I recognised the chorus modulation which is in fact my own work, the original arrangement I made in 2000 for Hard Trails' studio demo - he had literaly stolen it! Lacking any proper rig for recording acoustic music I played my 1890 violin and my former bandmate's archtop Pedro Martinez DX61 through a cheesy plastic, 'home karaoke grade' dynamic microphone. Subsequent looping and equalization rendered the tracks acceptable. To cut a long story short, following a subsequent copy-and-paste rework which further sliced the tracks I laid out, the whole project came to a standstill.

Home recording with Edirol R-09HR, unedited aside from fade-in. Played 9/10/2011 on a Washburn B-10.

Home recording with Edirol R-09HR, unedited. Played 3/12/2009 on a Washburn B-10.