Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

From Lee Stoneking, Missouri fiddler (1907 - 1989) for the old-time Tune of the Week, 1/24/20.

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Jim Jim Crow - Sunhearth banjo

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a jig from Northumberland played in clawhammer style

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For this week's Tune of the Week for 1/17/20 here's an old song that is actually a Missouri battalion's motto with a dog on their emblem. The write-up is real thorough and in good humor, too. Check it out!

Old Tom of Oxford (totw 1/10/2020). Double C tuning - CH on Wildwood banjo.

A song from East Kentucky I believe, I first heard it sung by Brett Ratliff on his album, Cold Icy Mountain

Multitrack (layering) recording (I use the name of Big Sugar Creek for these multitrack recordings) of a tune by Kentucky fiddler Wilson Mabe and played by the group Black Twig Pickers. Fiddle (GDGD), clawhammer banjo, bass, guitar, hammered dulcimer for melody sparkle).

This is a tune from an intentional session recorded in 1983, from the album Tunes from the Heart of the Valley.