Here are Joe Birchfield and Harold Hausenfluck, from back in 1991 I love this one – Terry SoRelle singing it and playing clawhammer Let’s go out with the Carolina Chocolate Drops doing a rousing singalong version
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Sorting out Napoleon
Earlier I posted a version of the Old Time tune, Bonaparte’s March, but just before that I had been having a little facebook message exchange with a guitar-picker friend of mine and he mentioned Bonaparte’s Retreat but he was really thinking of Bonaparte’s March, which… Read More
Bonaparte’s March
Here are Nathan McAlister and Sours. I know Bonaparte’s March pretty well and play it on clawhammer. I learned it from the same players these folks learned it from, Cathy Barton and Dave Para. I learned it when I attended the 2014 Midwest Banjo Camp.… Read More
From the wide world of one-man bands….
Check out this guy’s mechanical guitar…
Bad Man Stagger Lee
The tall tale of Stagger Lee has been recorded countless times in many styles. The bad man Stagger Lee has been Stacker Lee, Stack-O-Lee, Stack Pole and more. We all know what happened. That bad old Stagger Lee killed Billy Lyons over a $5 Stetson… Read More
Hey all you cowboys….
Good-bye old paint. Here’s Meredith Axelrod Also nice on squeezebox, from Sqwzbox… I also really like this performance by Bruce Molsky, with Brittany Haas and Paula Bradley… Let’s go out with Tex Ritter… https://youtu.be/g7CQ5qS-ll8
Cluck Old Hen
Cluck Old Hen is one of my fave banjo tunes. It’s all about a hen, a hen that lays enough eggs for the railway men. The only problem is, truth be told she hasn’t laid an egg since way last spring or maybe way last… Read More
Buffalo Gals
I love Dave Hum’s treatment of this chestnut…he was a magical banjo player It’s a nice one for button accordion too…Lester Bailey And finally, an old time fiddle and clawhammer treatment, featuring Travis Brink and Dean Barber, under a bridge in Plano Texas.
Diamond Joe vs Diamond Joe
There are two completely different tunes (that I know of) called Diamond Joe, which appear to be unrelated. The first one is a cowboy song. I first heard it from an Ian Tyson record back in the early 80s, but it’s a tune that has… Read More
Black Eyed Suzie
Here is the Gladson Family Band performing Black Eyed Suzie. In Old Time Music, vocals can come in at almost anytime. Sometimes only a verse or two is sung, while at other times many, many verses are sung. The brief bit of singing in this… Read More
27th Street 