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Bill Cheatum

Latest dispatch in über-short traditional clawhammer banjo songs. [more inside]
posted by tmcw on May 21, 2012 - 4 comments

What the Thunder Said/The Purification Ritual (Epilogue)

After writing/arranging, recording, and mixing the first five sections of The Wasteland, I found myself a bit spent, and struggling with the final movement, so I took a few days off to back away from it. I finally returned to it tonight, and, renewed, even managed to squeeze an extra track from it. Thus concludes the tour. Enjoy! [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on May 13, 2012 - 4 comments

Spotted Pony

My first recording to share: this is the old-time banjo tune Spotted Pony, played on my new (to me) Bart Reiter fretless banjo, equipped with NylGut strings. Tuning is double-C.
posted by fritley on Jan 1, 2012 - 7 comments

Aegukka (The Patriotic Song - Korea (North))

LYRICS: Well, our country's kind of shitty, But we love it anyway (We have no basis of comparison!) This is Anthemic. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Dec 14, 2011 - 0 comments

Alabama Joe

Stroke style arrangement of an old minstrel tune, taken from "Briggs' Banjo Instructor" book of 1855. Tackhead banjo and tambourine.
posted by usonian on Sep 10, 2011 - 4 comments

Sometimes With You

Sometimes with you, I forget myself and laugh! (headphones recommended) [more inside]
posted by IngeChiles on Aug 30, 2011 - 0 comments

Sandy River Belle

Another quick rendition of a traditional tune on the banjo.
posted by tmcw on Aug 9, 2011 - 2 comments

Old Joe Clark

A quick rendition of the traditional tune on an Enoch banjo with a touch of guitar.
posted by tmcw on Aug 7, 2011 - 2 comments

Dynamite

Just what the world needs: another cover of a hit pop song by a white guy with his guitar. [more inside]
posted by ORthey on Jun 25, 2011 - 9 comments

Raindrops keep Falling

An arrangement of the classic song for banjo and a little bit of toy piano. [more inside]
posted by dagosto on Jun 15, 2011 - 3 comments

Tommaso Parentucelli

Also known as Pope Nicholas V, he didn't seem like such a bad guy, for the most part...other than the whole "Papal consent to the slave trade" thing. Live recorded video is available. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Mar 1, 2011 - 0 comments

Over The Gates

This is a new one from a short EP I just released for an upcoming tour. It's a stoney instrumental with banjo. You guys like those, right? [more inside]
posted by TheCoug on Feb 26, 2011 - 6 comments

St. James Infirmary Blues

Who Hit John tries our hand at this old standard. [more inside]
posted by Baby_Balrog on Feb 16, 2011 - 9 comments

Heinreich's Compulsion

Ambient modal psychedelic clawhammer banjo drone? Sure, TheCoug, whatever...
posted by TheCoug on Dec 9, 2010 - 7 comments

The Church's Desolation (and Old Hundred)

Guitar, banjo, and vox arrangement of the shapenote tune, The Church's Desolation, number 89 in The Sacred Harp. A quick fingerstyle arrangement of Old Hundred (49 on the top) was tacked onto the front. [more inside]
posted by The White Hat on Nov 10, 2010 - 2 comments

My Roots are Strong and Deep (the Microphones cover)

This is a cover (gah, feels like all I can do lately) of "My Roots are Strong and Deep" by the Microphones. Features my friend Taylor Bridges on heavily distorted banjo, and recorded in this wonderful, cement stairwell back at the school I used to attend. Anyone know of good, secluded, reverby spots in Portland, OR? The sort where people generally won't walk by, but if they do they won't snicker?
posted by Corduroy on Aug 30, 2010 - 3 comments

Lazy John

Old-time fiddle tune performed by the usual gang at The People's Pint in Greenfield, Massachusetts. [more inside]
posted by usonian on Jul 8, 2010 - 4 comments

Old Joe Clark

An old-time chestnut on guitar, mandolin, and my new Menzies tackhead banjo [more inside]
posted by usonian on Jul 2, 2010 - 3 comments

Where you are

This is a quick little tune about a few people I'll never meet. [more inside]
posted by Pecinpah on May 18, 2010 - 10 comments

minnesota pr0n

this started out as a remix of astro zombie's minnesota porn but... [more inside]
posted by peterkins on May 13, 2010 - 8 comments

Minnesota Porn

Courtney McClean & The Dirty Curls present a decidedly not-safe-for-work ode to porn stars and filmmakers from Minnesota. [more inside]
posted by Astro Zombie on May 2, 2010 - 1 comment

Eight of January

(Jackson's Victory). Played on my fretless bowlback banjo, in double A.
posted by tmcw on May 1, 2010 - 12 comments

Julia Delaney's Reel

A version of this traditional tune on a fretless bowl-back banjo tuned down to B. [more inside]
posted by tmcw on Apr 28, 2010 - 3 comments

Last Known Photo

Banjo + Trombone = Awesome? I'd love your feedback on this new project I am a member of (trombonist). Kind of "new wave bluegrass." I hope you like it.
posted by bengalsfan1 on Apr 21, 2010 - 7 comments

Beautiful Bruise

From my old band, recorded about 6 years ago. The crappy coda on the end was my bad idea, but I can't edit it out now.
posted by digitalprimate on Apr 10, 2010 - 3 comments

Danville Girl

Cover of the Dock Boggs song, on banjo naturally. [more inside]
posted by l2p on Feb 22, 2010 - 6 comments

Year of Jubilo

This month's challenge isn't much of a challenge for someone who plays oldtime music anyway, but I figure I get extra points for recording this American Civil War era tune on my new gourd banjo. [more inside]
posted by usonian on Feb 16, 2010 - 3 comments

Cowboy's Dream

A first stab at an old-time fiddle tune I've been obsessed with lately. [more inside]
posted by usonian on Jan 15, 2010 - 0 comments

Snow Drop

An old-time tune I recorded a few years ago, solo clawhammer banjo. [more inside]
posted by usonian on Jan 10, 2010 - 4 comments

O Little Town of Bethlehem

My second entry to Hark! The Herald Banjo Rings 2009. Clawhammer banjo and guitar. [more inside]
posted by usonian on Dec 19, 2009 - 7 comments

The Wassail Song

My first contribution to the Hark! The Herald Banjo Rings 2009 project. [more inside]
posted by usonian on Dec 9, 2009 - 2 comments

Angeline the Baker

Traditional old-time fiddle tune in D, instrumental clawhammer banjo & guitar. [more inside]
posted by usonian on Nov 18, 2009 - 9 comments

Sandy Boys

A traditional old-timey tune as recorded by my pseudonymous string band, Crookneck John. [more inside]
posted by usonian on Nov 11, 2009 - 6 comments

Old Friend

It's been way, way, way too long since I posted any music here, or in fact recorded anything. Anyway, it's always rough starting back up, but always a little interesting. Here's a song I was planning on submitting for the monthly challenge, but apparently I am unable to make scary music. [more inside]
posted by tmcw on Oct 24, 2009 - 4 comments

I Would Go Gay For You

A Dirty Curls song about girl on girl crushing.
posted by Astro Zombie on Sep 13, 2009 - 1 comment

That's Right

A naughtybilly song from the Dirty Curls about one of the classic themes of pop music: cousin on cousin incest. [more inside]
posted by Astro Zombie on Sep 11, 2009 - 0 comments

'Onna Get My Buzz On

An apocalyptic Dirty Curls songs about vibrators and the end of the world.
posted by Astro Zombie on Sep 10, 2009 - 1 comment

Buttsex

Another naughtybilly song from Courtney McClean and the Dirty Curls, this time about ... um .. a self-evident subject. [more inside]
posted by Astro Zombie on Sep 9, 2009 - 1 comment

Suck a Ring

An old-timey, shitkicking, jug-banding, bluegrassy number about oral sex from Courtney McClean and the Dirty Curls, a band in which I play jug, jew's harp, harmonica, and sing harmony vocals. [more inside]
posted by Astro Zombie on Sep 8, 2009 - 3 comments

Handlebars

Another itty bitty ditty. [more inside]
posted by ORthey on Sep 4, 2009 - 10 comments

Hawaii

Summer's nearly over, but never fear -- it's always the sunniest season on your HiFi! Ford and the Prefects and the Don Ho Symphony Orchestra present "Hawaii," this year's breakout good-times swingle. [more inside]
posted by ford and the prefects on Aug 18, 2009 - 2 comments

somewhere between cliffs and on

My vague memory of an aphex twin melody on this here banjo that I don't really know how to play. Took me a while to figure out which tune(s) I was thinking of. [more inside]
posted by 31d1 on Jul 20, 2009 - 6 comments

Staring Into Headlights

Dark sounds for an old barn. [more inside]
posted by Baby_Balrog on Jul 7, 2009 - 7 comments

Fingerpickujah

A largely pointless endeavor, a rendition of Hallelujah with quick fingerpicking and banjos (what's new?).
posted by ORthey on Jun 21, 2009 - 11 comments

Hillbillujah

This is the soundtrack to a movie about Leonard Cohen going on a rafting trip in rural Appalachia. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jun 18, 2009 - 15 comments

Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifters

First track off our new album, "Heirloom." I'm playing fiddle an jawharp. [more inside]
posted by Baby_Balrog on Jun 4, 2009 - 8 comments

You Still Look Like You Did Before

I don't know what this is; kind of a pseudo-jugband, neo-bluegrass-ish, Hee-Haw with a whiney singer. [more inside]
posted by chococat on May 28, 2009 - 26 comments

Silver Dollar

Bluegrass song about what sometimes happens with sons and dads. (In a bluegrass/country world.) [more inside]
posted by snsranch on May 17, 2009 - 10 comments

All Day Long

Very short and perhaps sweet. I've been working on this kind of music for a while and this is a good example of where I'm at with it right now. Two Chord Challenge!!! ENJOY! [more inside]
posted by snsranch on Apr 13, 2009 - 9 comments

Harpy Go Lurky

A quick, light-spirited, no-frills guitar/banjo instrumental.
posted by ORthey on Mar 19, 2009 - 19 comments

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