Georgia railroad - fretless banjo

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Here’s a real weird choice for a banjo cover

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Greens from my garden

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The Ramps have come in

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I grew lettuce

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Do all lives still matter?

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God Yamn that’s a big sweet potato

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A proud papa

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Playing my fretless tack head banjo by the water

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Got some cool local stuff at my co-op

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Here’s an old song called Greasy Coat. On a fretless tack head banjo

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Spring has spring at my co-op

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A classical guitar study by Fernando Sor, adapted for ukulele

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I bought a dobro - gonna learn to play - here’s a tune

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Here’s a fiddle tune called Cripple Creek, played on a fretless tack head banjo

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My dog stole a baguette

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Working on an OT3F version of “Needlecase”, an old banjo tune.

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Here’s a midwestern fiddle tune called Red Prairie Dawn, played clawhammer style on a fretless tack head banjo

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Here’s an old banjo tune called “Needlecase”

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Happy heavenly birthday to Earl Scruggs, the man who saved the 5-string banjo

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One of the most famous Irish songs of all time. Here’s “star of the county down”, Clawhammer style in sawmill tuning on my five string banjo.

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Here’s an old Irish tune called “Saint Patrick’s Day”. I learned it from Frank b. converse

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Old Cold Tater and Wait - a gospel song from the early 1900s

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I bought a lap steel guitar

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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day - here’s an old Irish fiddle tune

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Here’s an old, obscure Kentucky hoedown. It’s called Onion Tops & Turnip Greens

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Finger style blues guitar

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A small banjo makes a serviceable protest sign

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An old fiddle tune called “going down the river”

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I ain’t got none of my friends left - Jesse Welles cover

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Home sweet home

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MAGA Fever (the blight of empathy)

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Here’s a song from the ozarks, on my fifths tuned sopranino ukulele

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Here’s an old tune called “brickyard Joe” - I’m playing it in the old “fiddle style”, a three finger approach that allowed banjo players to play the entire melody of a tune, instead of being just rhythmic accompaniment, as was usual at the time. Learned f

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I got a banjo

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I tuned my smallest ukulele in fifths so I could play fiddle tunes on it.

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Here’s an old fife tune called “Santy Anny’s Retreat”, based on the Irish tune “Johnnie Cope”

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Green Willis, aka the Raw Recruit, aka da New Rigged Ship. This tune is quite old, and originally from the British isles. Here it is in the regional clawhammer banjo style of the area around Galax, Virginia

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Charlie’s neat - an old crooked listening tune from Granville Bowlin. Performed three finger style

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Red - Jesse Welles

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Turn on your love light - clawhammer style banjo cover

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The Coocoo Bird

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Jolene x Jolene - an experiment

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Little black eyed Susie - Dan gellert - clawhammer banjo

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Cruel world - a song from a video game

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A day late, but here’s an Irish American classic that usually played on the other kind of banjo.

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Cluck old hen

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Some clawhammer on my new banjo. Clawhammer is an ancient playing technique that originates in west Africa. It was brought to America with enslaved peoples.

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The red Haired boy aka the little beggar man - an Irish classic

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A song about the type of folks who settled in the ozarks - on my fretless banjo

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Here’s a song by The Dillards, though you may know them as the Darlings. You might recognize the melody to the A part, it’s been used for different mountain tunes for almost two hundred years

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New banjo day

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Here’s an old banjo tune called Sandy Boys. It dates back to at least the 1860s. You may recognize the B part, it’s the proto-melody to what would become one the most famous bluegrass tunes of all time, Clinch Mountain BackstepM

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One of the oldest and most widespread blues songs, This version is called Franky & Johnny. Played “old time” three finger style on my new 70s Japanese banjo

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The old man in the mill - an old “play party” song from the 19th century, here’s a ukulele version using an ambiguous open tuning

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Cluck old Hen - a fiddle tune from Appalachia. Modern versions are usually done in a minor key (Dorian) but here’s a nice major version in mixolydian

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A classical guitar study by Dionisio Aguado, adapted for ukulele

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Another guitar study by Fernando Sor

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