Banjo Hangout Top 100 Traditional Songs

It's fun to play a tune with more than 2 parts

Recorded July 2009 at Clifftop. Adam Hurt, Beth Hartness, Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer, Luke Richardson

Tom Berghan Clawhammer, Chuck Lee, Vintage Ovilla

Another old tune I wanted to learn for a long time,Monday I went back to Doc for this tremor in my hands and they are now saying early Parkinson's so you friends send up a prayer for me and I sure would thank you!! no excuses ,but there might be a couple glitches in my pickin',thanks!!

From a Christmas CD I played on. Huberized Granada Copy.

Midnight on the Water is a beautiful old cross-tuned fiddle waltz. It was written by Luke Thomasson, Benny Thomasson's Grandfather. It is so simple and beautiful and here is my shot at playing it. Didn't know what to put as "playing style" but it's 3 fingers style without picks. Hope you like this one

Everyone has their own version of this. Here's my take on it

Tune-of the Week, 5/1/09

A crooked tune from Québec. The title translates as "hide your buttocks." There's a little song that goes with the tune. One verse is about a young man following a young lady up a ladder into an apple tree... (Robin Kearton plays viola on this recording.)

This is Alan Munde's version of the tune - close as I get anyway!

This clawhammer banjo / classical guitar duet (Felipe Ferraz on guitar), originally learned from the traditional klezmer band Budowitz, was proobably composed by Aron Moyshe Kholodenko (1828-1902). It appears on our "And I in the Uttermost West" CD.