Banjo Hangout Top 100 Old Time Songs

simple arrangement of one of the best christmas tunes!

For the TOTW, Dec. 7, 2012

For the TOTW, Dec. 7, 2012

This Hammons Family tune is one of those captivating mountain melodies that make fiddle tunes a pleasure to hear. Played on a Bart Reiter Whyte Laydie in open G tuning, it would be capoed at the second fret to play with a fiddle.

For the TOTW Marmaduke's Hornpipe/Cricket on the Hearth, this one is based on Kenny Baker's fiddling.

**No Banjo** Please don't shoot me -- but who else am I supposed to share this with? Recorded with a "High-Strung" Larrivee Parlor Guitar.

**No Banjo** Please don't shoot me -- but who else am I supposed to share this with? Recorded with a "High-Strung" Larrivee Parlor Guitar.

A poor attempt at one of my favorite songs

An Edden Hammonds tune. Sawmill tuning (maybe around F or so)

An Edden Hammonds tune. Sawmill tuning (maybe around F or so)

Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Will the Circle Be Unbroken

For Don Borchelt's TOTW. It's a happy, meandering tune for having such a title, but I figure the sheep ranchers are dipping their sheep in sheep dip, thus the picture of working together and accomplishing the job.

For Don Borchelt's TOTW. It's a happy, meandering tune for having such a title, but I figure the sheep ranchers are dipping their sheep in sheep dip, thus the picture of working together and accomplishing the job.

This is a tune from western Pennsylvania fiddler Sarah Armstrong, as transcribed by musicologist Samuel Bayard in his Hill Country Tunes collection, published in 1944. This recording comes from the Clifftop jam I had this past August with Don Couchie and Tim Rowell. Don is playing the fiddle, Tim is doing that neat low, growley clawhammer picking, and I am doing the three-finger picking on my semi-fretless Tubaphone in open D tuning.