My version

From there brand new Ep being released on the 20/01/2018.

A fine mix of Banjo, Bass, Guitar and Drums please let me know what you think good or bad thoughts please :)

I've heard numerous versions of this one. Clawhammer banjo is gFBbFCD and slide banjo is gDGBD.

Here's an advance track from our new album dropping on iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora next week. I played bass, accordion, and percussion on this tune.

My band, Black Dirt Tango.

Banjo is my Yates RS tuned down to F#. Nice and twangy.

Tony Ellis and Stephen Wade are good friends, with Stephen having produced at least one of Tony's CDs. The tune "Stephen" I understand was written for him by Tony. It's another beauty. It uses syncopation in the last parts, which is something I understand Tony learned about from Earl Scruggs. I hope to learn more from Tony himself about these tunes and am researching one for a future old-time Tune of the Week.

The tuning I used isn't the one Tony composed with, as I hear a higher 5th string than I'm using. Soon I'll have Tony's tab book and perhaps will see first hand how he arranged Stephen, as well as several others I've worked on. I think it's okay to adapt a tune in an inventive way and it's more fun than memorizing somebody else's playing. Do you agree?