Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

Recorded for my Banjo teacher November 2016

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 1-28-17, I listened to an Illinois fiddler John Ray "Doc" Corn recording, made on his birthday in 1976. The tune was also recorded by Lynn Chirps Smith, a fiddler whose work I respect and enjoy. There's not much other information yet on this tune other than it had another title that isn't so nice.

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

Lee Hammons' version of this beautiful tune. Played on an Enoch custom.

You Are My Sunshine

My version of an old classic in two finger.

Grandfather's Clock

Coke Oven March

Blackbird

Banjo In The Hills

Banjo Clog

Ballad Of Jed Clampet

Multitrack recording. Little ornamentation, simplified, skeleton version of this newer fiddle tune by Jordan Wankoff. Fiddle and Clawhammer Banjo with Bass and Guitar backing. The artist name on the recording, "Big Sugar Creek," is just the name of my "virtual" one-man band!

When I heard Don Huber play Red Prairie Dawn by Illinois fiddler and well-known tune collector Garry Harrison, I felt I had to learn that tune. On the same CD are several other originals. This one, called Jail Break, sounded like bagpipes at first, but Garry actually used a fiddle he himself had made. I like the B part where it goes up high and you can feel the emotion of the moment.

Written in honor of the death of Roscoe Holcomb. In double D tuning on my new Buckeye 6 string.