Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

From Greenwillis album

Tunaday #262 - Tuning is g#(BEBE) - known as Dead Man's" E-tuning

From a performance by Hobo Pie at the 2013 Harvest Moon Festival, Coverdale Farm Preserve of Delaware Nature Society, 543 Way Rd, Greenville, DE. Music groups were provided by the Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music. Members are: Barbara Johnson, Ray Frick, Carl Baron and Laura Kalnajs. Lead singing by Barbara and harmony by Laura.

TOTW for 7/19/2019 from Janolov.

key of g and played on new "upcycle" 10" 5 string with a goat skin head.

Promentory Point

When I ordered a custom banjo from Carolina Banjo I asked Ryan Navey, an artistic luthier, to carve the dove on my necklace. It was so exciting that I wrote this tune, no less in a unique tuning gGGAD.

Tunaday #370 - In D variant tuning (aDACD).

On a Bart Reiter

I don't expect to become the next big vocalist, but I was just practising singing while playing. I decided to make my version a bit more local by talking a bit about a now defunct railroad line in Northern New Brunswick, Canada. I also enjoy the supernatural...

I've been attempting to learn Mabel Kelly for a while and decided to enhance it with cello banjo accompaniment here. The chords give it a flavor that is just suggested in a clawhammer solo. The Garage Band recording quality isn't as good as I'd hoped, though I have a good Yeti microphone.

Mabel Kelly is one of O'Carolan's "planxties" written in honor of a patron where he would stay as he traveled, earning his living in Ireland as a blind harpist in the late 1600's and early 1700's. Miss Kelly was most likely the daughter and heiress of a castle, but died five years before her father. The best source for learning about O'Carolan's life is a biography by Donal O'Sullivan. My Gold Tone cello banjo is equivalent to double C tuning but down four steps to double G.

Mexican Cowboy

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.

Played on my Sagmoen Dobson 24 3/4" scale banjo with Nylgut strings and Renaissance head