Banjo Hangout Top 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

A quick banjo piece based on fiddler Dwight Lamb's piece.

For Tune of the Week, 6/14/13. From the playing of Harry Elie of Dundas, IL as transcribed by Garry Harrison in his book Dear Old Illinois. I'm playing in open G tuning on a Mac Traynham Whyte Laydie.

The Hotpoint Stringband, with Hilarie on banjo

an old recording with our band Hotpoint

This is my second recording of West Virginia fiddler Edden Hammon's tune. The first one was in modal tuning. This one's in open G tuning. I found it was easier and am puzzled why I didn't discover this while learning the piece.

Played on a Nechville Phantom. Yup.. tonering, resonator...

Banjo, Fiddle, and guitar on this awesome tune. still pretty new at fiddling, so go easy on me, but any advice, and constructive criticism is welcome!

My beautiful daughter has a green thumb. This tune is dedicated to her. It's in double C tuning with the 5th string tuned down to an F. I found the pretty notes at the beginning by accident and didn't want to forget them.

For the Tune of the Week, 5/18/13. I listened to Everett Kays' fiddling and simplified it.

I'd been working on the "Galax lick" I learned from Adam Hurt, then turned to a Brad Leftwich arrangement of Tommy Jarrel's Backstep Cindy, and finally figured out how to insert that little phrase into a TOTW, Granny Went to Meeting. Other people have different names for the Galax lick, but it's still a convenient way to identify a familiar pattern of fingering and timing.