Here’s Buddy Durham performing his Durham’s Bull. I’ve been working on playing this one on the banjo….still not where I want to be with it though. Practice, practice, practice.
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Banjo Practice – Ora Lee
I learned this tune from Bob Carlin at Midwest Banjo Camp back in June. It seems a lot of clawhammer players who play this one learned it from Bob, either at one of his workshops or from his fine recording of the tune on Banging… Read More
The Local Honeys
This performance was shared by someone on one of the facebook banjo groups. I liked it a lot so I thought I’d share it here as well. It’s a mighty sad tune about coal mining by two women from Kentucky. Beautiful performance! Here’s a link… Read More
Rocky Mountain (banjo practice)
I learned this tune from Cathy Barton Para at Midwest Banjo Camp earlier this year. I learned it in standard D tuning (aDAC#E) but somewhere along the way I started messing around with it in DD tuning (aDADE) instead, and I just kept playing it… Read More
Angeline the Baker (banjo practice)
Back in 1850, Stephen Foster published a song called Angelina Baker. Somewhere along the way it morphed into a fiddle tune known as Angeline the Baker. It’s a tune about regret: I bought Angeline a brand new dress Neither black nor brown It was the… Read More
Banjo Practice – Greasy Coat
Here’s me attempting to play a strange little old time tune called Greasy Coat. This is in A-modal or sawmill tuning, and as usual I’m playing clawhammer, which is the only way I know how to play.
The Other Spotted Pony
There is a fiddle tune called Spotted Pony or The Spotted Pony, normally played in the key of D, which seems to be pretty common among old time players. I had heard a different Spotted Pony, a Missouri tune played in A, on a recording… Read More
More banjo practice – a strange little tune
This weird and hypnotic minor key tune is called 41st Ave. Unlike many of the tunes I like to play, this one is not really old – it’s a contemporary tune. I learned it in a workshop taught by Cathy Barton Para at this year’s… Read More
Banjo Practice – Big Sciota
I recorded a bit of banjo practice today on my iphone. This is a tune called Big Sciota, except when it’s called Big Scioty, or Big Scioto. Whatever you want to call it, the c is silent. This tune is named after a river in… Read More
Banjo at Sam Smith Park Farmer’s Market
This Saturday, July 16, I’ll be playing some old time clawhammer banjo at the Sam Smith Park Farmer’s Market between 10:00 AM and noon. The market is located by the skating trail in the park. If you’re driving, enter the park by going south from… Read More
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