Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

Doc Roberts version. Should be the key of G, but played in double C tuning (gCGCD). My banjo is probably tuned about 1 whole step higher.

Following the advice of LyleK, I'm playing out of Double-D tuning

Mike in the Wilderness

Played on my Doc Huff banjo. Guitar "Blacky". Banjo tablature from Josh Turknett.

Popularized by Virginia fiddler Albert Hash, this is a four part tune whose last part reminds me of Fishers Hornpipe. I learned it in conjuction with the current old-time Tune of the Week, another tune played by Mr. Hash called Nancy Blevins. He lived in an area of Virginia I visited now called "The Crooked Road," known for its "rich musical landscape."

For the old-time Tune of the Week, North Carolina fiddler Nancy Blevins supposedly wrote and fiddled this dance tune. It's described in a quote by Virginia fiddler Albert Hash, who was related to her and whose grandfather remembers dancing to it as a youngster after the Civil War.

Experimenting with the Emmett Lundy tune.

Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane

Played in A modal on new 11 inch custom walnut and cherry banjo with goat skin head.

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 1-1-16, this version comes from Marcus Martin (1881 - 1974), North Carolina fiddler, though the town he sings of is in Tennessee. He said that his father, Rowan Martin, played this tune.

Sawmill tuning, capo 2. Re-posted because I mistakenly deleted the previous one.

Fretless from nut to 5th string. Angelina Baker

Fretless Sourwood Mountain

Hawkins County Jail

Double D tuning (aDADE)