I don’t think I’ve heard this tune before coming across it today on the YouTube. It’s called Hog-eyed Man and it features Tim Rowell on clawhammer and Cathy Mason on fiddle. Great tune and beautifully played too! Update on the new canjos: Today I drew… Read More
I’ve been continuing to immerse myself in old time music, listening to about as many clawhammer banjo and fiddle tunes as I can. Here’s a Daily Dose of Little Liza Jane… Let’s start with The Black & Tan String Band and then move on to… 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
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
You Daily Dose tonight features Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman playing an old fiddle tune called Ragged Bill.
I’ve started messing about with my home-made oil can banjo, which here-to-for I will simply refer to as The Can. Although I’m convinced it will be easier when I’ve grown my nails out a bit more, I’m starting (and I mean just starting) to be… Read More
It’s your Daily Dose. Take your medicine.
thanks to Salvelinas Fontinalis for turning me on to Ken Perlman’s banjo playing….
27th Street 