John Salyer tune on my new Matthew Arcara banjo.

My 1st Cubase project. Playing all instruments - banjo, guitar, mandolin and bass. Again, 1st project so not perfect, but fun!

From an excellent jam in Tucson. Dan Levenson on fiddle, Dave Firestine on mandolin, Jerry Weinert on bass, George Flink on banjo uke, Greg Smith and Jennifer Levenson on banjo, Pete Bowers and me on guitar.

From the Spring, 2007 recording session. Musicians assisting me are: Dwight Milligan, fiddle; Dwayne Tew, guitar; Ed Pickett, mandolin; David Wilfing, bass. The banjo is a 1988 Gibson RB-3 re-issue, with a 5-Star head and a Snuffy Smith bridge.

recorded these before, but i re recorded them last night for my Soundcloud and Bandcamp page and thought the good folks at BHO would enjoy them.

Wild Bill Jones - thumb lead tuning fBbFBbD, based on Clyde Troxel's amazing index lead version...and as Leo Kottke so famously said, yes, my vocals sound like geese farts on a muggy day...

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 11/20/15, this version comes from West Virginia fiddler French Carpenter, grandson of Solomon Carpenter who played a tune he called Camp Chase when he was a prisoner-of-war at that location in Ohio during the Civil War. It's said that by playing the tune best Sol actually won his freedom. Check out the TOTW for more info.

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 11/20/15, this version comes from West Virginia fiddler French Carpenter, grandson of Solomon Carpenter who played a tune he called Camp Chase when he was a prisoner-of-war at that location in Ohio during the Civil War. It's said that by playing the tune best Sol actually won his freedom. Check out the TOTW for more info.

Played by Kentucky legendary fiddler Buddy Thomas. Every time I learn one of his tunes I feel like I'm doing extra credit homework for a master's thesis. They're always challenging -- he was a heckuva a fiddler!

A West Virginia tune from the Hammons family... which i (quickly) done learnt fer the Tune O' The Week!

Played on a Vance tu-ba-phone, primarily in 2-finger style.