This afternoon, I drove up to Cookstown Ontario, about a 45 minute drive north of 27th Street to meet Dena Lee and visit her shop, the Story Gourd Workshop. I’ve wanted to do this for some time since I found out she was making gourd… Read More
There seems to be various old time tunes called Cold Frosty Morning or Frosty Morning or Frosty Morn or some variation. In Toronto this morning it was so cold my thoughts were freezing as they bubbled out of my brain. It was the kind of… Read More
I’ve been listening to this tune because I’ve been trying to play it in my own beginner way on the oil can banjo. It’s played in sawmill, or mountain modal tuning in the key of A. On a regular banjo that would mean playing with… Read More
Mike Seeger and Doc Watson
I’ve continued to practice the oil can banjo like a mad thing and at the same time I’ve been listening to all the old time music I can. Tonight’s Daily Dose is Mississippi Sawyer. Here’s Richard Hood, playing it two-finger style on a fretless banjo…… Read More
Old Joe Clark is a tune that just about every banjo picker plays at some time or another. It was known to have been sung by soldiers from Kentucky in WWI. There are written versions of the tune going back to 1918. The Joe Clark… Read More
This is a really hypnotic performance… featuring Johannes Bonefaas and Hendrik Holst Anderson. I stumbled upon this one on the YouTube machine and it stopped me in my tracks.
Pigtown Fling is also Wild Horse, Stoney Point or Wild Horse at Stoney Point. Featured on this version is the sound of crickets in Chuck Levy’s garden. Here’s a nice string band version featuring Chance McCoy and The Saddle Horn Stringband (Matt Metz-Guitar, Ben Townsend-Banjo)… Read More
Watching and learning….it doesn’t sound like this when I try to play it on the canjo haha
I started playing Angeline the Baker today on the oil can banjo, based on the following tab I found on the banjo hangout… The little H’s are hammer-ons and the little P’s are pull-offs and the SL’s indicate slides. This should keep me out of… Read More
27th Street 