Banjo Hangout Top 100 Songs

''End Of The World'' ... Skeeter Davis. 21.05.2016 ↓

Hope ya&#39ll enjoy this &#39&#39Skeeter Davis&#39&#39 country hit from 1962. &#39&#39Chet Atkins&#39&#39 stamped his arranging polish on this one, as he did with so many other legends, back then. ... Thanks for tunin&#39 in. ... Don. ... Key, Eb - tuning CGBD.

Heading Downstream 07.02.2016 ↓

Another rearrangement of the handful of notes I know how to play. In Double C.

Mr. Sandman 09.05.2015 ↓

An old pop tune from McGuire and Andrews sisters and from Les Paul and Mary Ford. Travis picking.

Lonesome Polly Ann 29.04.2015 ↓

Learned from the fiddling of well-known Missourian Lonnie Robertson (1908 - 1981). I&#39m just becoming familiar with some of his work and am impressed by his smooth, clear, fast playing.

Darcy Farrow arr. Alan Munde 23.03.2015 ↓

A tune from Alan Munde&#39s Banjo Sandwich album. Key of F.

Bossa Dorado (take 2) 03.01.2015 ↓

Ok, heres a second take. I shorted the backing track to about 2:50 instead of the original 5 minutes (haha). I used a mute on the banjo this time, added some reveb and EQ&#39d to get more &#39snap&#39.

Pretty Polly 11.08.2014 ↓

Messing around with this English Ballad tonight.

Old Blue Bonnet 29.07.2014 ↓

From the fiddling of Bruce Greene who learned it from Uncle George Nicholson (born in Laurel Co., KY in 1854). This tune reminds me of another I&#39ve heard before. For some reason the tune gives me a deep sense of deja vu when Bruce plays it. It&#39s on his solo fiddle CD Five Miles of Ellum Wood.

Meg Gray 20.04.2014 ↓

&#34Meg Gray&#34 from the fiddle playing of George Hawkins. Played by Bob Lanham on a Vega Tubaphone banjo.

Spootiskerry 28.03.2014 ↓

Clawhammer take on a Reel from the Shetland Islands written by Ian Burns. G tuning but way low.

Rock the Cradle Joe 29.05.2013 ↓

Played on a Nechville Phantom. Yup.. tonering, resonator...

Grandfather's Clock 29.05.2013 ↓

D-Tuners... etc

Bell's March 02.02.2013 ↓

A tune collected by Tom Sauber & recorded on the Banjo Gathering album produced by Steve Baughman as a fundraiser for the Swannanoa Gathering. Tom learned it from Peter Tomlinson Bell, who learned it from his father during the Civil War. It&#39s a version of &#39Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine.&#39 I play it here out of A modal. Thanks to my wife Lucy for backing me up on guitar.

Clear Creek 27.01.2013 ↓

Original tune on cigar box banjo and guitar

green sleeves 22.01.2013 ↓

another with some fine players

forked deer 22.01.2013 ↓

a tune i played a few years back

Back Yard Waltz 14.01.2013 ↓

Original tune on cigar box banjo and guitar

Foothills Stomp 08.01.2013 ↓

Original tune on cigar box banjo

Frosty the Snowman 20.12.2012 ↓

This year I have recorded a simple version of Frosty the Snowman. It was written for Gene Autry in 1950 by Walter &#34Jack&#34 Rollins and Steve Nelson. It became a hit for many others as well and also became the centerpiece of a television special. One of my favorite uses of the song is as the ironic background that it provides in the &#34Don’t Buy Anything” scene (R rated) in Goodfellas. That ve...

kitchen girl 26.10.2012 ↓

Tradesman fretless~

Golden Slippers 30.09.2012 ↓

My stab at this good ole fiddle tune.

Waiting for a Train 20.04.2012 ↓

Known as the Singing Brakeman, Jimmie Rodgers (1897 - 1933) songs are fun to sing, but lyrically a bit sad. His yodel is famous!