Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

Three fiddled versions with these titles have interested me for a while. After doing some research I found that Indian War Whoop and Indian Whoop are floating titles for several more tunes. Here are six of the eight versions I've listened to, arranged for clawhammer banjo.

Clyde Davenport's Kentucky fiddling is the inspiration for this arrangement. Rather than use open G tuning, the first string is tuned up to an E note, called "guitar tuning." I preferred staying at the 7th fret and below for the B part.

Niel Gow's Lament for the Death of His Second Wife, learned from Andyrhydycreuau.

4 part version. Local jam recording

Local jam recording

A second arrangement of this Tune of the Week with a more modal sound, plus the use of a capo to put it in its traditional A modal tuning (aEAC#E).

From the playing of Virginia fiddler Taylor Kimble. I like the melody, though it's rather squirrelly the way he played Wild Hog in the Woods. The lyrics -- well, no thanks!

Local jam recording

Local jam recording

Local jam recording

Local jam recording

Local jam recording

played on an Enoch fretless banjo

In old G, gDGde A song Joe Troop wrote in 2020.

A new version of Cumberland Gap for me. I can hear a bit of the traditional one here.