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Synopsis
Top 100 Songs banjo songs which Banjo Hangout members have uploaded to the website.
Episodes
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Where Have All The Flowers Gone
28/01/2024My abbreviated version of Seeger's classic anti-war anthem with a I/vi/IV/V bridge added for color.
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Little Princess Footsteps
12/11/2022I learned this C tune from a 1931 Okeh recording of the Mississippi old time string bad the Newton County Hillbillies, featuring Alvis Massengale on fiddle. It's a practice recording from a few years ago, uploaded for the 11/11/22 Old Time TOTW. I am three finger picking my 1928 Vega Tubaphone with a semi-fretless conversion neck, in double C tuning (gCGCD)
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Single Girl
07/07/2022My take on Roscoe Holcomb's (Rosko Halcomb's) classic 2ftl version of "Single Girl" in open D tuning (f#DF#AD)
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Salt Spring
30/04/2022I first heard this lovely tune a few weeks ago in a jam session and it showed up twice in other sessions. Hence, it was time I learned this tune. I set up a backing track and played with it until I was happy with my arrangement.
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Rosebud Of Allenvale
11/03/2022TOTW 03/11/23: Waltz written by James Scott Skinner, also known as "The Rose Of Sharon Waltz" and "Rosebud Of Avonmore"
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Four Cent Cotton (TOTW)
29/01/2022A bit of Prohibition and Depression era history here, the poor farmer couldn't make enough money raising cotton. Four Cent Cotton led to raising corn instead for whiskey. Times haven't changed so much, sad to say. This arrangement comes from the early recording of fiddler Lowe Stokes.
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Jai Passe Devant ta Porte (TOTW)
31/12/2021This traditional Cajun waltz sings of the sad loss of a loved one. I like its melody and found it easy to play on clawhammer banjo.
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Shoot That Buffalo
08/10/2021Elizabeth Cotten learned this tune in 1910 from a man aged about 50. She added the words.
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Rose Conley
05/03/2021Rose Conley, 2 finger thumb lead, based on Grayson & Whittier's 1927 version, tuned a half step or so low out of standard "G"
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Porter's Reel
14/12/2020From the CD "The Old Texas Fiddle, Vol. II", with Howard Rains and Tricia Spencer, fiddles; Brendan Doyle, banjo; Nancy Hartness, guitar; Charlie Hartness, ukulele; Virginia Musser, bass. Recorded in December, 2014 by Mike West at the 9th Ward Pickin' Parlor, Lawrence, KS.
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Buffalo Nickel
06/12/2020Upload for the Old Time TOTW for December 4, 2020. The tune is generally called Too Young to Marry, but the fiddler I learned it from called it Buffalo Nickel.
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Green River (TOTW)
02/10/2020A fine Tune of the Week from North Carolina with a crooked part that suits the title Green River.
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Blackberry Blossom (Emma Lee Dickerson)(TOTW)
26/09/2020A wonderful champion fiddler, Tatiana Hargreaves, plays the Tune of the Week and bases it upon the older fiddler Emma Lee Dickerson. In an interview Tatiana claims that's her doppelg?nger, a new word for me. They look alike in photos. The tune is very familiar to me, but Emma Lee's is unique, so I also include the more traditional one in this recording.
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A Rose for Polly (TOTW)
18/09/2020Rose for Polly is a pretty, 3-part song in a minor key. Perhaps it makes for a good love story -- a hopeful suitor gives her a rose, she responds sweetly, but with a bit of reservation, though continuing to offer hope.