Tonight I’d like to offer up a Daily Dose of Big Rock Candy Mountain… Here’s The Katfish Four If you have never heard Baby Gramps this version will be an eye-opener for you…this gets cut off at the end but by then you’ll have the… Read More
These days if you hear people talking about an old song, they mean from the early 2000s or maybe even from the 90s (imagine that). Here are a few performances of a REALLY old song. It was written in 1843 by Dan Emmett Now here’s… Read More
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
Played by Benton Flippen
Tonight’s Daily Dose features Sutton, Holt and Coleman performing Darlin’ Cory. Nice use of the mouth bow on this one.
Tonight’s Daily Dose is all about Sugar in the Gourd. I believe this is Dean Barber on banjo and Travis Brink on guitar. I more or less stumbled upon this on the YouTube Machine. They have a number of really good videos on Mr. Barber’s… Read More
I’m learning to play a tune on the oil can banjo called Julie Anne Johnson (various spellings for this one). One day I’ll put up an oil can version, but for now let’s enjoy some performances by far better players. Here’s Tony Spadaro AKA Old… 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
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
Continuing our exploration of old time banjo and fiddle music, let’s look at a song called Barlow Knife. A Barlow knife is a style of folding pocket knife, invented in the UK and popularized in North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Tom Sawyer… Read More
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