Banjo Hangout Top 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

I recorded this yesterday. I play the banjo in two finger Thumb Lead style, and back it up on the guitar. And I sing. But you will notice that I presume. ;)

Solo banjo original song

Short Scale Chanterelle

Original tune on cigar box banjo

The first song I ever learned to play in this style. Banjo is tuned f#DGAD. This is part of a whole family of songs that includes Jimmie Rogers' Waiting for a Train.

Original tune I popped out, played on a Will Fielding Rooster banjo, tuned something ilke ebBbFAbC. I'm never sure how to name original tunes, but was just speaking with a friend about some upland game birds, thus it became The Covey.

This song was the first commercial record of the rural folk music that came to be known as hillbilly and, eventually, country music ever made, by Fiddlin' John Carson. Played here on my Gold Tone 250WL-LN. One condenser mic to catch the vocals and the banjo.

A title with a good wish for the new year, also known as God Speed the Plough.

For the TOTW, Dec. 21, 2012

For the TOTW--12/14/12