Banjo Hangout Top 100 Old Time Songs

Love this song! I let my wife listen to this after I recorded it and she said, "that song is terrible" - she then told me she was referring to the lyrics and not the playing. Song includes clawhammer banjo (standard G tuning down a half step in F#), guitar (tuned dadgad), and vocals

Love this song! I let my wife listen to this after I recorded it and she said, "that song is terrible" - she then told me she was referring to the lyrics and not the playing. Song includes clawhammer banjo (standard G tuning down a half step in F#), guitar (tuned dadgad), and vocals

Banjo fiddle duet with my daughter Erica on modal version of a classic Charlie Poole tune.

Kit and I enjoy this song. Together with mandolin and banjo we're Plinky and Plunky.

Kit and I enjoy this song. Together with mandolin and banjo we're Plinky and Plunky.

James Bryan, the smoothest, greatest fiddler, learned this from Jim Cauthen and recorded it on his recent CD with Carl Jones, Cricket's Lullaby. Another crooked song.

Gallows Pole is from the singing of Frank Proffit, and Brushy Fork is from Hiram Stamper. My pal Colin Harris is on the fiddle in cross G. I'm in G sawmill with the low string tuned down to G (an octave below the 3rd string).

Gallows Pole is from the singing of Frank Proffit, and Brushy Fork is from Hiram Stamper. My pal Colin Harris is on the fiddle in cross G. I'm in G sawmill with the low string tuned down to G (an octave below the 3rd string).

These two songs are mentioned in Bill Monroe's song "Uncle Penn." His uncle fiddled them at dances, so Monroe grew up hearing them and even accompanying him on guitar.

Just a short clip with pick-up installed straight into the P.A. head...

Just a short clip with pick-up installed straight into the P.A. head...

Clawhammer/ guitar duet. Polymer strung Buckbee, om Martin flatop.

Clawhammer/ guitar duet. Polymer strung Buckbee, om Martin flatop.

This crooked song from Kentucky is a good intro for me to J.P. Fraley's fiddling. John Hartford String Band does a great version, too, and it's in Jeff Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes book.

This crooked song from Kentucky is a good intro for me to J.P. Fraley's fiddling. John Hartford String Band does a great version, too, and it's in Jeff Titon's Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes book.