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Key of A and played on a newly crafted 11" walnut open back...

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Alice Gerrard, a living legend herself, wrote a song about another musical legend, Elizabeth Cotten, who she knew and whose conversation with her inspired this song, released on Alice's CD Bittersw...

Grateful Dead classic built on a descending G scale...

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grassabilly blues...

J. J. Cale's classic blues song set in A minor...

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 12/9/16, Snow Deer was a popular song written in 1913 by the same composer of Moonlight Bay, and inspired by the success of Redwing in 1907. The Stanley Brothers di...

Sometimes an event and a new tuning combine to inspire a tune, like in Hillside. It's a tribute to my mother's neighbor, Mrs. Fields, who passed away in her late nineties. Growing up with good...

banjo-lute...

Think it was the tempo and notes from around :19 to :30 that suggested the title. Whatever. In Double C....

Clawgrass Example - Using Clawhammer in a Bluegrass context. Playing Clawhammer in a Bluegrass setting requires the banjo player to understand all the complexities of playing in a Bluegrass Ensamble. ...

Mike Sanyshyn sittin in for Chad Joiner on this one with latest band member Lantz 25 (1938)...

Original tune played in octave double-D on Gold Tone Bob Carlin BC-350 strung with metal-wound nylon strings....

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'd to get more 'snap'...

Messing around with some of the bossa backing tracks posted by Smitchtson. This is the Bossa Dorado..great tune and fun to play. My recording software was acting up during this session, so levels and ...

After watching a Giants baseball pennant win I wrote this tune as they celebrated. They're a downhome team to root for--with not a single hero, but all shining stars....

Been working on a couple of new fingerpicked tunes. Here's one of them, a bit off the beaten path. In Double C....

I'm playing a hot rodded Gold Tone Bob Carlin clawhammer banjo with wound nylon strings tuned down to Low A-modal....

Dedicated to my mother, now 93 years old. In my mind she's reached the summit, which was the original title of this piece. I'm playing on a Goldtone cello banjo....

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I wrote this late one night when I couldn't sleep. That's why it sounds like a late night thing, when the banshees are roaming around! ;>) Pentatonic CEFGBb...

A clawhammered, chordal approach to this light-hearted song John claimed in his lyrics that he dreamt about. I've heard this on BHO several times and am a great fan of John Hartford, though I have...

The first is from Buckley, the second from Converse....

the first track on Banjo Suite 2 (2013) with Paul Mills on guitar and bass, and Don Reed on fiddle....

Our first grandchild was born the day after Thanksgiving last year, so today she is celebrating her first Thanksgiving with us, something to be so thankful for. Before she had arrived I composed this...

After hearing Paul's Leap Frog I found that I could easily play along with it. I tried composing some counterpoint melody to it, but forgot to re-set the slow-downer back up to the key of D. This...

My beautiful daughter has a green thumb. This tune is dedicated to her. It's in double C tuning with the 5th string tuned down to an F. I found the pretty notes at the beginning by accident and ...

Jim has posted his incredible music again after a time away from BHO. This is one he wrote a while back and I'm inspired to try and learn it now. The notes flow. A poet could describe its beauty...

During The Vietnam War, The ''Red Garter ''at'' The Texas Tavern in Sydney,'' was set up to entertain U.S troops on R&R leave, Down Under . With a foot tappin' banjo band , ...

Just fooling around to see how this style of 5-string banjo playing might sound....

In learning some tunes in the Cumberland Gap/Sandy River Belle tuning I wrote a little tune. It has a darkish sound so I named it after a neat place where big boulders form a little cave where the gr...

This is what I wanted it to sound like back in 2009 when I posted the original. Long overdue reworking of the tune, but I think I finally was able to play it the way I was hearing it. Whew! - I can le...

Dedicated to Paul Roberts and his creation, the Goldtone Soundbird tenor banjo. I composed this using clawhammer, but no 5th string to simulate a tenor banjo....

Kenny Baker was a genius playing his fiddle. It's real hard on clawhammer banjo, but I can hear the melody and like to think of Bill Monroe listening to his fox hounds hunt on Jerusalem Ridge by h...

A comparison recording with the fretless gourd banjo. The slides from the gourd transfer easily to the fretted neck of the openback....

As I listened to this original song the first time the melody happily drove along just like the title suggests. But Jim's 3-finger picked melodic song is so incredibly intricate and skillful, I had...

A song I wanted to learn after hearing Jim Reed's BHO video....

This is the first part of an African slave song notated when Sir Hans Sloane was in Jamaica in 1668. It's quite a lovely tune and I thought putting it to clawhammer banjo was fitting. Sloane also...

A 2004 recording I did because the tune was stuck in my head. I have uploaded it now, in 2012, as an example of my brushing and non-brushing in a tune. Played on my Ramsey Electric. aCGCD capoed to ...

From the Briggs' Banjo Instructor of 1855....

A piece from the Brigg's Banjo Instructor of 1855....

This is a historic marching song for Prussian soldiers. "Plinky and Plunky" are Kit on mandolin and myself, 3-finger picking....

Some blues in E....

Two songs from entirely different eras, but with similar themes....

Since my Christmas song knowlege aint there yet I thought I would so something a little different MERRY CHRISTMAS BHO!...

I wrote Miracles on the first night of Chanukah, and have embedded a Chanukah song....

Two songs that remind me of people and places. My mom used to play and sing Finiculi Finicula on piano from the Fireside Book of Folk Songs....