26 posts tagged with folk and banjo.
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I Am Not A Lawyer & This Is Not Legal Advice
A result of the "make a request" thread I posted here a couple weeks back! I recorded the banjo, and greenish supplied the signing. This is for a presentation at a conference I'm part of in July. [more inside]
Bill Cheatum
Latest dispatch in über-short traditional clawhammer banjo songs. [more inside]
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.
Sandy River Belle
Another quick rendition of a traditional tune on the banjo.
Old Joe Clark
A quick rendition of the traditional tune on an Enoch banjo with a touch of guitar.
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]
Old Joe Clark
An old-time chestnut on guitar, mandolin, and my new Menzies tackhead banjo [more inside]
Danville Girl
Cover of the Dock Boggs song, on banjo naturally. [more inside]
Angeline the Baker
Traditional old-time fiddle tune in D, instrumental clawhammer banjo & guitar. [more inside]
Sandy Boys
A traditional old-timey tune as recorded by my pseudonymous string band, Crookneck John. [more inside]
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]
My Heart Will Give You Up
The third and final installment of my 2009 Valentine's day project. Celine Dion + Rick Astley, as if the internet needed another rickroll. [more inside]
Saint V. Massacree
Guitar Rag, with banjo. [more inside]
Hail Poetry
A short arrangement for solo banjo of the stunning Gilbert & Sullivan tune from The Pirates of Penzance. [more inside]
Chiefest Microns
Instrumental banjo waltz, written this afternoon. [more inside]
Oh! Susanna
Classical banjo and fingerstyle guitar arrangement of the Stephen Foster tune. [more inside]
No Going Back
This is not the happiest song I've ever written. [more inside]
Sunday Front Porch
Early morning front porch music... [more inside]
Louis Collins
Quick 'n' dirty cover of Mississippi John Hurt's old song played on my resonator guitar. Levels are a bit off, volume jumps up and down a little... but here it is anyway. [more inside]
Stay
cover of the song by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs. Fingerstyle guitar, vocals, banjo. Created for the 2008 Songfight! Gift of Music sidefight.
Further Than a Stone
Written by the mando player, Hamdog. I'm playing fiddle - everyone had a blast with this. [more inside]
Janie in the Lake
More banjo / fiddle stuff. [more inside]
Blue Train
Old-timey / bluesy ditty from our new album. That's me on fiddle. :D [more inside]
the River Girl
A song by my band, the Notes and Scratches, kind of about Vivian Eliot and featuring a bunch of water. I sing and play the acoustic and the harmonium.
Power of Love
Thanks to two class cancellations due to ice storms in the Capital, I was able to arrange and record this Valentine's day treat. Imagine Huey Lewis, baritone, with a banjo.
Sara K, Birthday Song
Birthday song written for my good friend Sara on her 19th birthday. Banjo and Vocals.
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