I’m learning this tune on banjo now, so I’ve been listening to various performances of it….let’s start with Heat Box And Dan Levenson… Here’s Mark Gilston playing it on mountain dulcimer… Finally, Mr. Nonouke with a uke version
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Best band name?
What’s your favourite band name? My current favourite is a band from the 1920s – Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers. Here they go….
Hell Amongst the Yearlings
Of all the tunes in the Old Time songbook, Hell Amongst the Yearlings has to have the best title. I hadn’t known it as an Old Time tune until recently. It is also the name of a Gillian Welch album, her second from 1998. The… Read More
John Brown’s Dream
It’s time for a Daily Dose of Old Time banjo music. Today, let’s listen to John Brown’s Dream. I’d like to start with a video featuring Guy Wolff. Listen to him take off…fantastic! Here’s a version with a bit of a different flavour featuring Riley… Read More
Learning Old Joe Clark
Old Joe Clark is a well-known old time tune from Kentucky. It is played in mixolydian mode in which the 7th note in the scale is lowered a half-tone, giving it what Aubrey Atwater refers to in the video below as that “Old Joe Clark-y”… Read More
Memory and music
I find the hardest thing about learning an instrument is keeping the songs I learn in my head. On button accordion, I’ve found I can keep the ones I play all the time in my little brain no problem, but if I stop playing one… Read More
She warbles as she flies…
I’ve got the old time tune Coo Coo on my brain so let’s listen to a couple versions. I think Clarence Ashley is the performer most closely associated with this tune, but today I’d like to hear how some other players approach it. To start… Read More
Conversion Project
At the Christie show today, I bought a junker 4-string banjo with a project in mind. When I get around to it (I’m going to finish the mountain banjo I’m working on and make a couple gourd banjos first), I’m going to fix it up… Read More
Hogtown Hoedown
We had so much fun square dancing when we were at Merlefest, we really wanted to do some up here in Toronto as well. The first opportunity we found was a dance called the Hogtown Hoedown that took place tonight in a church hall in… Read More
The Brake Fluid Banjo
I just finished the “Heavy Duty” Brake Fluid banjo. This is another A-scale oil can banjo using an “ebay neck”. I replaced the plastic nut on the neck with bone, and I made a cedar bridge. The tail-piece is once again a kitchen fork. I… Read More
27th Street 