Banjo Hangout Top 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

A blues song, made famous by Muddy Waters, but recorded by everyone on the block. Waters put 3 of the chocking riffs between each line, but using only two suits me better. The picking is straight bum-ditty in G modal on a pony longneck banjo with Vega style N pot.

AKA, Goodbye Liza Jane. Key of G. Tuning gEADE. You can get the Tab from my Tab page.

From an excellent jam in Tucson. Dan Levenson on fiddle, Dave Firestine on mandolin, Jerry Weinert on bass, George Flink on banjo uke, Greg Smith and Jennifer Levenson on banjo, Pete Bowers and me on guitar.

aka, Kingdom Coming, Lincoln's Gunboats

Wild Bill Jones - thumb lead tuning fBbFBbD, based on Clyde Troxel's amazing index lead version...and as Leo Kottke so famously said, yes, my vocals sound like geese farts on a muggy day...

From Arkansas fiddler Violet Hensley

Béla Fleck Baritone

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 11/20/15, this version comes from West Virginia fiddler French Carpenter, grandson of Solomon Carpenter who played a tune he called Camp Chase when he was a prisoner-of-war at that location in Ohio during the Civil War. It's said that by playing the tune best Sol actually won his freedom. Check out the TOTW for more info.

Played by Kentucky legendary fiddler Buddy Thomas. Every time I learn one of his tunes I feel like I'm doing extra credit homework for a master's thesis. They're always challenging -- he was a heckuva a fiddler!