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.

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.

on a Bell and Son minstrel banjo