Banjo Hangout Top 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

This crooked song from Kentucky is a good intro for me to J.P. Fraley's fiddling. John Hartford String Band does a great version, too, and it's in Jeff Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes book.

Learned from a recording of the author, Jean Ritchie (can’t tell you which one) many years ago.

Clawhammer: aEADE

Song has lines from Genesis (3:8) and John (21:15)

Fooling around with my new Zoom H4n recorder

This fantastic little tune comes from Illinois fiddler Mel Durham, and his family got the tune from an ex-slave named Alonzo Janes. The original name of the tune eluded Mel, so it's now named after the man who taught it to him. This is just a quick short recording to demonstrate the sound of my fretless slothead banjo made by Dan Pennington.

I wrote Miracles on the first night of Chanukah, and have embedded a Chanukah song.

It's said in the Library of Congress that Henry Reed learned this from Quince Dillon, the fifer, and that it was a tune used by the British to retreat from their defeat in the Battle of New Orleans. Alan Jabbour recorded Henry Reed.

Tuning - gCGCE; source - Vance's Tennessee Breakdowners; recorded in 2000.

Nice little tune I heard on "Inside Fezziwig's" by Ed Sweeney.

Learned from a Mike Compton mandolin lesson. Its minor key makes it sound different from other versions.