Banjo Hangout Top 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

For the TOTW 5/16/14, played on a Mac Traynham Whyte Laydie openback. I first heard clawhammer banjo by Mac Benford playing this Ed Haley fiddle piece, then listened to both recordings to learn it.

One of my favorites by Lynn Morris. I'm playing clawhammer banjo and guitar in this clip.

Samuel Bayard collected this tune from fiddler and fifer Isaac Newton Morris. It's tune #45 in his book Dance to the Fiddle and March to the Fife. I learned it from the excellent recording by Mark Tamsula and Richard Withers in their CD Up in the Batten House. It's one of these tunes where the melody is embedded within some wandering passages. I'm playing in SRB tuning with tab in the BHO archive.

Just fooling around with the voice memo recorder on my IPhone to see if I could get from there to here. Played on WL-250 in double C as I recall, outside on the patio swing.

Clawhammer take on trad 3 part dance tune. Supposed to be in D, but I'm in C. Wildwood.

"Meg Gray" from the fiddle playing of George Hawkins. Played by Bob Lanham on a Vega Tubaphone banjo.

A clawhammered, chordal approach to this light-hearted song John claimed in his lyrics that he dreamt about. I've heard this on BHO several times and am a great fan of John Hartford, though I have much, much more to learn about his music. I think the genre is considered Newgrass, but you can correct me.

For the Tune of the Week, 4-11-14. I listened to Erynn Marshall's fiddling for this version. As I was learning this old-time tune my pretty little cat, Louie--black with a white tuxedo, was amusing me with his hunting antics.

Scott Klamm making my banjo sound good.

the first track on Banjo Suite 2 (2013) with Paul Mills on guitar and bass, and Don Reed on fiddle.