Banjo Hangout Top 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

Played by the Banjovi contraband

Played by the Banjovi contraband

I decided to record this again, faster, and compare it to the first recording. This one has more of a lilt and driving rhythm.

Dwight Diller plays this beautifully with a tuned-down banjo and a different tuning than I arranged, but it's nice to play it in modal tuning. It's like the epitome of modal flavor to me.

Mike Sanyshyn sittin in for Chad Joiner on this one with latest band member Lantz 25 (1938)

The Ward Jarvis version of this tune played in F modal (tuned fCFBbC).

Billy Mathews Fiddle - Paul Breen Guitar - Christine Breen Banjo

I just put together this simple version of Fall on my Knees. Hope you like it.

Played in the key of C on a homemade banjo built in 1974.

The old-time Tune of the Week is from Kentucky -- one of those very old tunes that many in the region played and it's stayed alive and still being passed around. I found it to be very pretty, especially when slowed down some.

If you read the thread for the TOTW you find links to a local woman named Lella Todd who played the tune and was also well-known for her kindness to the neighborhood kids. She hunted, fished, fiddled, played guitar and banjo, and was remembered in an interview posted on the thread by a one of the neighborhood children, then already in her 80's. My kind of lady! Check it out: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/298998 I listened to another regional fiddler, Billy Stamper, to get my clawhammer arrangement.