Traditional Greek melody adapted for 5-string cello banjo, Gold Tone CEB-5, double C tuning, gCGCD.

I apologize in advance for the length of this recording, but I am still sharing it. My excuse is that I felt 'in the groove' . It was just fun to play and I didn't have to think about playing, I just closed my eyes. In any event, I felt I should post this since it is one of the first few songs I learned to play.

For my brother Mike on Father's day. Our Fave

A duet with Travis Wright (SCClawman)

This is my interpretation of Edden Hammon's fiddling. There's been much discussion on the Hangout about this tune and I wanted to find the oldest known source of it, though it's said it comes from his great-uncle Pete, born 1847. I like to think it's about the waterfalls of the James River, but the somber modal tone sounds more like it's about a historic event in Richmond, which would actually make the title "Fall of Richmond," as many also use.

I think that I picked this up from a Fleming Brown album which I borrowed from the public library in the mid 1970s.

A medley of sea songs with a banjo twist, this is also one of Morley's trickiest solos to play at speed, in which Old Joe predates Bill Keith's performance of Sailor's Hornpipe by at least 50 years! Nothing new under the sun, eh?

The songs/melodies in this solo are:

1 - Intro (Joe Morley)

2 - Tom Bowling (Charles Dibdin)

3 - Rule, Britannia! (Thomas Arne)

4 - Jack's the Lad/Sailor's Hornpipe (Anonymous)

5 - Outro (Joe Morley)

Played on my new Clifford Essex Weaver banjo, similar to the one Joe Morley would have played.

This style of playing is known as Classic Banjo. For more information visit: http://classic-banjo.ning.com/

A rather rough recording of O'Carolan's Concerto (Ken Perlman arrangement) complete with mistakes and incompetence!

One of the best songs ever for clawhammer and voice. Glad to finally have learned it.