Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Songs

A Beatles song we never performed, but we liked the way it turned out ....

LeVan 12"-25.5"-Carbon Fiber tone ring banjo

My take on Roscoe Holcomb's (Rosko Halcomb's) classic 2ftl version of "Single Girl" in open D tuning (f#DF#AD)

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

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

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

BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME

Listening to Joni Mitchell and Carl Baron's vocals, I came up with this banjo solo in sawmill tuning, like Carl plays it for this week's Tune of the Week called Me and My Uncle -- a kind of modern-day cowboy ballad.

Bluegrass with tuba accompaniment and solo recorded at one of our jam sessions.

Our last jam session took place on the terrace of the restaurant where we usually play. A tuba player passed by on his bicycle, stopped to listen and was invited into the session. This is the first tune we played together.

tuning: dADF#A

A bit of a late night thrash at an oldtime classic. It sounds like a 33 played on 45... :-)

A solo banjo instrumental I wrote. Alternative genre and peacful. (Video in works - drone footage) I used my 2021 RK 76 Elite banjo, and for the 25 second long introduction I used a Roland TB-3 effects box. This is the first time I have recorded anything in years.

This is a fun little tune, happily re-discovered by Uncle Dave Sturgill years ago after he remembered it as a boy in Piney Creek, North Carolina, then heard it no more until it re-surfaced with an old fiddler in Seattle, Washington. Our TOTW presenter, Andy Alexis, tells us it was a favorite song of his predecessor Piney Creek Weasels banjo player, Rick Abrams, and that Rick had excitedly learned it at the Mt. Airy contests.

This is a disc recording of Carnival of Venice played by Alfred A. Farland.