Don’t try this at home kids, and remember old time music is addictive and may be dangerous to your health.
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All posts tagged “old time music”
Song and Dance
I found this lovely video on the YouTube featuring Adam Hurt on gourd banjo and Matthew Olwell flatfooting. Very nice.
Shortenin’ Bread
Shortenin’ Bread is a tune from the turn of the century – the 19th to the 20th that is. I grew up thinking of it as a children’s song but I’m rethinking that. Check out this excellent performance by Chicken Train, filmed by a banjo… Read More
Red Prairie Dawn
Since I started learning to play clawhammer banjo, YouTube has been an incredibly handy tool. When I want to learn a tune, I like to listen to different versions of it, and fortunately there is a ton of Old Time music available. It’s hard to… Read More
Old Time on a Sunday morning
Fly Around my Pretty Little Miss (aka Western Country aka Susananah Gal). This is from the whitetopmusic channel on YouTube. It’s the Whitetop Mountain Band back in 1990.
Salt Creek
Here’s your Daily Dose of Old Time music. I came across this video surfing around on YouTube tonight. It’s Spencer Branch playing Salt Creek. I love the driving clawhammer on this one. This group shows that a trio is plenty big enough to put out… Read More
Why traditional music #1468
I stumbled across this wonderful video of Harvey “Pappy” Taylor playing Devil in the Haystack at age 90. Is it true to play the fiddle you have to make a pact with the devil?
Major/Minor
I’ve known the tune Shady Grove for a long time. It’s well known, and has been recorded a zillion times. On the banjo, this is usually played in Sawmill tuning, or “mountain modal” tuning as it is also called. Here’s a fairly typical approach to… Read More
Sunday morning story and song…
I was thinking about the old cowboy song, Diamond Joe so I searched around YouTube and found this performance by Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, in which he talks about how he learned it from a cowboy at a rodeo in Brussels of all places. Jack struggles… Read More
Banjo Practice
This is me, practicing an Old Time standard known as Lost Indian. There are lots of different versions of this one, and even some very different tunes that use the same title. I’m playing my Bart Reiter Standard banjo in open G tuning, with a… Read More
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