I learned this C tune from a 1931 Okeh recording of the Mississippi old time string bad the Newton County Hillbillies, featuring Alvis Massengale on fiddle.  It's a practice recording from a few years ago, uploaded for the 11/11/22 Old Time TOTW.  I am three finger picking my 1928 Vega Tubaphone with a semi-fretless conversion neck, in double C tuning (gCGCD)

Little Princess Footsteps

My take on Roscoe Holcomb's (Rosko Halcomb's) classic 2ftl version of "Single Girl" in open D tuning (f#DF#AD)

Single Girl

Needle Case

A bit of Prohibition and Depression era history here, the poor farmer couldn't make enough money raising cotton.  Four Cent Cotton led to raising corn instead for whiskey.  Times haven't changed so much, sad to say. This arrangement comes from the early recording of fiddler Lowe Stokes.

Four Cent Cotton (TOTW)

Elizabeth Cotten learned this tune in 1910 from a man aged about 50. She added the words.

Shoot That Buffalo

Two finger thumb lead. Banjo tuned fDGCD.

Lee Sexton's Shady Grove

Clawhammer style, gDGCD (relative). 1964 Gibson RB-175.

Cluck Old Hen

A fun song to play and sing, Forty Weight of Gingerbread uses some floating lyrics you can cater to your own tastes.  It sounds like someone has a sweet tooth!

Forty Weight of Gingerbread (TOTW)

Rose Conley, 2 finger thumb lead, based on Grayson &amp; Whittier's 1927 version, tuned a half step or so low out of standard "G"

Rose Conley

Based on Doc Watson's banjo playing, he learned this as a child from his uncle Jake Miller and said it was a courting song.  It was a pleasure to look at the video, hear his banjo and vocals, and learn his solo, as well as see him performing with his son Merle.  The video is an entire live performance if you're interested. Nice TOTW choice by Neill Connor!

I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground (TOTW)

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Sally Brown

I'm uploading this Marcus Martin tune as my contribution to the 1/29/21 old time Tune of the Week.  The fiddler is my good friend John Maguire.  We recorded it exactly one year ago, today.

Cousin Sally Brown

Such a compelling old time tune handed down to us from the great Hobart Smith. I prefer to play it at this slow groove tempo.

Last Chance

Upload for the Old Time TOTW for December 4, 2020.  The tune is generally called Too Young to Marry, but the fiddler I learned it from called it Buffalo Nickel.

Buffalo Nickel

Dock Boggs' Country Blues/Hustling Gambler in f#CGAD tuned a half step or so low...

Country Blues/Hustling Gambler

A fine Tune of the Week from North Carolina with a crooked part that suits the title Green River.

Green River (TOTW)

Emma Lee

A wonderful champion fiddler, Tatiana Hargreaves, plays the Tune of the Week and bases it upon the older fiddler Emma Lee Dickerson.  In an interview Tatiana claims that's her doppelg?nger, a new word for me.  They look alike in photos.  The tune is very familiar to me, but Emma Lee's is unique, so I also include the more traditional one in this recording.

Blackberry Blossom (Emma Lee Dickerson)(TOTW)

Rose for Polly is a pretty, 3-part song in a minor key.  Perhaps it makes for a good love story -- a hopeful suitor gives her a rose, she responds sweetly, but with a bit of reservation, though  continuing to offer hope.

A Rose for Polly (TOTW)

This is the one of the versions for the old-time Tune of the Week, differing from the famous Uncle Dave Macon song.  My arrangement comes from Erich Schroeder (BHO's vrteach).  I wish he was still active here and I really enjoyed learning a tune from his recording.  The title, as we learn in the discussion thread, is probably not the real one.  But if it were to be, I'm reminded of Old Sacramento where you walk on the historic old plank road as you visit the shops and museums and go on the old Delta King steamboat on the Sacramento River. At least, I nostalgically hope we can still do that....

Old Plank Reel (TOTW)

Finger picked on a newly crafted 11"walnut and pecan open back banjo in open D tuning d a f# d f#.

Coal Creek March

Roscoe's version of the old ballad in f#ADAD

Old Smokey

Wow! We stumbled upon this and a couple other associated blogs. These are so amazing. This blog catalogs some of the best songs ever written for the banjo. Everyone should try out this blog. You might just fall in live with the banjo.

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In gCGce. I've been obsessed with this tune played on the banjo, since playing with my friend Barbara last summer. I have played the tune on the fiddle, for years, but not on the banjo. Influenced by the recording of the Mississippi Possum Hunters https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/last-shot-got-him

In gCGce. I've been obsessed with this tune played on the banjo, since playing with my friend Barbara last summer. I have played the tune on the fiddle, for years, but not on the banjo. Influenced by the recording of the Mississippi Possum Hunters <a href="https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/last-shot-got-him" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/last-shot-got-him</a>

Last Shot Got Him

Early Banjo by James Hartel, Sweeney ModelBelle Breezing was born in 1860 and was a nationally known Madam in Lexington, Kentucky.Belle's first job began when she was 19 years old, in a brothel house maintained by Jenny Hill, which had the distinction of being the former residence of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.Her final and most elaborate "Gentleman's Club" was located at 153 Megowan Street.  Belle also wrote poetry.This tune, named after Belle, was first recorded in 1925 by fiddler Emmett Lundy who was born in Grayson County, Virginia on May 9, 1864

Early Banjo by James Hartel, Sweeney Model Belle Breezing was born in 1860 and was a nationally known Madam in Lexington, Kentucky. Belle's first job began when she was 19 years old, in a brothel house maintained by Jenny Hill, which had the distinction of being the former residence of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Her final and most elaborate "Gentleman's Club" was located at 153 Megowan Street. Belle also wrote poetry. This tune, named after Belle, was first recorded in 1925 by fiddler Emmett Lundy who was born in Grayson County, Virginia on May 9, 1864

Belle of Lexington

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