Banjo Hangout Top 100 Songs

Where Have All The Flowers Gone 28.01.2024 ↓

My abbreviated version of Seeger&#39s classic anti-war anthem with a I/vi/IV/V bridge added for color.

Big Mon 26.11.2023 ↓

This arrangement of Big Mon mixes melodic, Scruggs, and single-string approaches.

Little Princess Footsteps 12.11.2022 ↓

I learned this C tune from a 1931 Okeh recording of the Mississippi old time string bad the Newton County Hillbillies, featuring Alvis Massengale on fiddle. It&#39s a practice recording from a few years ago, uploaded for the 11/11/22 Old Time TOTW. I am three finger picking my 1928 Vega Tubaphone with a semi-fretless conversion neck, in double C tuning (gCGCD)

Rosebud Of Allenvale 11.03.2022 ↓

TOTW 03/11/23: Waltz written by James Scott Skinner, also known as &#34The Rose Of Sharon Waltz&#34 and &#34Rosebud Of Avonmore&#34

Harvest Moon 23.10.2021 ↓

Original Cello Banjo 3-finger picking Tuning: A C# A B E

Porter's Reel 14.12.2020 ↓

From the CD &#34The Old Texas Fiddle, Vol. II&#34, with Howard Rains and Tricia Spencer, fiddles; Brendan Doyle, banjo; Nancy Hartness, guitar; Charlie Hartness, ukulele; Virginia Musser, bass. Recorded in December, 2014 by Mike West at the 9th Ward Pickin&#39 Parlor, Lawrence, KS.

28th of January (TOTW) 20.11.2020 ↓

The date hasn&#39t rung any bells yet, but the minor key sure gives it a rather melancholy feel. I listened to some vintage Piney Creek Weasels to arrange this one and used a rare Am tuning rare -- aEACE.

A Rose for Polly (TOTW) 18.09.2020 ↓

Rose for Polly is a pretty, 3-part song in a minor key. Perhaps it makes for a good love story -- a hopeful suitor gives her a rose, she responds sweetly, but with a bit of reservation, though continuing to offer hope.

Blue Smoke ( a Merle Travis early fusion tune) 15.08.2020 ↓

my arrangement and adaptation of a Merle Travis guitar instrumental to banjo...it&#39s in Dm and shifts to Dmaj for the bridge...

Eastern Interloper 16.05.2020 ↓

Tunaday #106 - In G Modal-f (fDGCD).

Pancho and Lefty 23.03.2020 ↓

my attempt at a Townes Van Zandt classic...it&#39s in the key of G...backing musicians compliments of Band In A Box...

I Still Miss Someone 08.03.2020 ↓

this Johnny Cash song has been covered by a lot of folks including Flatt & Scruggs..I used to do it a lot at dance gigs because it makes a pretty good 2-step dance song...

Frosty Morn/Cold Frosty Morning medley (TOTW) 24.08.2018 ↓

Frosty Morn is the old-time Tune of the Week, 8/24/18. Related to Cold Frosty Morning in some of its melody and chordal movement, here&#39s a medley of the two. The first was learned from the guitar flat-picking of Doc Watson, who I idolize. The second was learned from Miles Krassen&#39s Clawhammer Banjo book. He used Henry Reed&#39s version which he had published previously in his Appalachia Fidd...

Sail Away Ladies 09.08.2018 ↓

This is the Luther Davis version of Sail Away Ladies, or at least my interpretation of it. Presented for Tune Of The Week for August 2nd, 2018. In any case a fine tune!

Mad as a Hornet 15.04.2018 ↓

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 4/13/18, Snake wrote this tune during a recording session and it was was recorded and kept for posterity with this title that was reminiscent of his experience as a child of being knocked down by an angry hornet.