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Pete Steele's Harlan County Farewell Tune/Rambling Hobo, gEADE tuned down a couple steps

Harlan County Farewell Tune - Pete Steele

Rambling Hobo - Pete Steele

Clawhammer duet edited and combined with Audacity. Harmony from Kevin Neidig?s Book "Clawhammer duets".

Goofing around on the back porch with my 1970s Wildwood Troubadour.

Chirps Smith is a legendary fiddler in my book. This Tune of the Week is an original by him, brought to my attention from Stephen Rapp, who with his fiddle-playing buddy Paul Kirk, brings us many good tunes. Though the tune is relatively new, it has a sweet old-time feel. I'm playing on a cello banjo to get to the original tuning that Chirps wrote Mississippi Palisades in.

Spotted Pony

The tune's title meaningfully fits the music. I added some reconciliation at the end. The tuning is so different from what I normally play in the old-time genre -- f#ADAD -- which made playing it even more fun. Look it up on Tune of the Week to learn more and for tab.

Two finger thumb lead. Banjo tuned fDGCD.

Key of A. Played on a vintage 1970's "frankenstein" banjo

Paul Perkins and me playing with guitar player Jon Duvick. I cannot recall what model of banjo Paul is playing, but it used to have a resonator on it and he removed it to play clawhammer with me at barn dances.

Donegal Danny 2021

Graham Townsend, Canadian winning dance fiddler and prolific tunester till his death in 1998, wrote this reel and played it rapidly and notes. I simplified the A part, but not as much the B part, and slowed it down here.

CH banjo, guitar, harmonica

The opening segment of Wake Up Darlin' Corey from the Art Stamper album of the same name. Fiddle-Art Stamper; Banjo-Harry Bickel; Guitar-Doc Hamilton