Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs banjo songs which Banjo Hangout members have uploaded to the website.
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Get Up in the Cool features conversations and musical collaborations with some of Old Time music's heaviest hitters, like Ken Perlman, Adam Hurt, Spencer & Rains, and Jake Blount. As an interviewer, Cameron balances an effusive curiosity for the potential of traditional music with a dogged respect for its origins. Serving as audience surrogate, Cameron asks illuminating questions to Old Time's best and brightest while telling the larger story of the tradition's modern era.
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A regular line-up of old-time, bluegrass and folk inspired banjo players and bands, in the downstairs Green Room of the Petersham Bowling Club, Sydney
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Top 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs banjo songs which Banjo Hangout members have uploaded to the website.
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The Brainjo Jam podcast consists of classic clawhammer and fingerstyle banjo songs, as well as musings on all things related to learning to play a musical instrument, including the science and principles behind The Brainjo Method of instruction.
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It's rare to work on a jig with clawhammer. This is a sweet tune with a real Irish (to my ears) melody. Its minor tones make it a bit bittersweet.By JanetB
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Bury Me Beneath The Willow (clawhammer banjo)
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Lead vocal performed by Julienne Ellen. Tab and tutorial now available in the Breakthrough Banjo course http://clawhammerbanjo.net/coursetour
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Episode 396: Church for Dogs (New Converts to Contra Dance)
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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are the members of my new contra dance band, Church for Dogs! Kate Gregory and Jonathan Craig Roberts. We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Isham Monday’s Fire on the Mountain (0:58) Halifax (22:05) Old Blind S…
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Episode 395: Kaden Hurst (Mandolin's Place in Old Time, Gender in Ballads, and Making a Nice Sound)
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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Kaden Hurst. We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Tater Roll (1:05) Five Miles from Town (18:36) Cold Mountains (34:58) Rye Straw (48:43) Poor Man’s Song (56:35) Bonus Track: High Up on Tug Visit Never Come D…
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Based on the playing of the Leslie Riddle and the Carter Family, the melody resembles White House Blues, an earlier song, and is included in a Tune of the Week featuring the latter. This recording was made when my husband, Kit, and I were performing locally at events focusing on local history. We liked choosing old-time tunes and songs and have a i…
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Tab and tutorial now available in the Breakthrough Banjo course for fingerstyle banjo: https://fingerstylebanjo.com/coursetour
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Episode 394: Hal Cannon (Old Time in Utah and Cowboy Music)
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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Hal Cannon. We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Peter Francisco (0:54) Frosted Horses (Hal Cannon original) (14:02) Dust Devil (Hal Cannon original) (28:47) Crippled Up Blues (Hal Cannon original) (36:12) Ut…
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Played on newly constructed parts banjo. Key of GBy hudie
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This old standard is played clawhammer style on a banjo I built which features internal-to-the-rim head tensioning, an internal resonator, and a Helix-style laid up rim made from carob wood.By Traditional, based on arrangement by Ralph Stanley
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Country bluesBy WalshyBanjo
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Classic clawhammer tune played on my new Stone Banjo Company Half Fretless banjo.By jbest
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Tune written for my daughter.Played on my new Stone Banjo Company Half Fretless banjo!By jbest
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Really fun tune played on my new Stone Banjo Company Half Fretless!By jbest
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Based on the playing of George Landers, fCFCD or thereabouts...By RG
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Self arrangementBy Carter family
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"House of the Rising Sun" - clawhammer banjo
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Episode 393: Kendl Winter (Banjo Mantras)
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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Kendl Winter! We recorded this last week at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode (all Kendl Winter originals): Tuesday’s Noods (0:57) Corduroy Pillows (23:59) Roscoe’s Blooping (33:25) Apple Core (48:54) One Blanket to Rule them All (59:06…
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From around the year 1800, Jamie Allen is named for the Northumbria bagpipe player, Jamie Allen. It is played as a march in New England these days.By JanetB
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Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.By mmuussiiccaall
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Episode 392: Hayden Stern (Blasphemy and Hot Nonsense)
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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Hayden Stern! We recorded this a couple weeks ago in Olympia, WA. Tune in this episode: Loren McKowen’s (0:55) Dry and Dusty (14:26) Noon Lasses (28:23) Hawk is a Mule (Andrew Marlin original) (38:22) Farewell Trion (48:39) Bonus Track: Fishing at …
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A Tune of the Week with various titles and styles, but popularized most by a Canadian string band as Kiley's Reel, whose style is normally notey and energetic. For the final B part, I combined this clawhammer arrangement with its minstrel roots in the last time through on the B part.By JanetB
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Episode 391: Adam Roszkiewicz (Old Time Tunes on Finger-style Guitar)
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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Adam Roszkiewicz! I’ll be calling him Rosco in the interview. We recorded this last weekend at his home in Olympia, WA. Tune in this episode: Cumberland Gap (0:37) Farewell Trion (19:02) A Prairie Jewel (John Reischman original) (35:33) Tennessee P…
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Tab and tutorial now available in the Breakthrough Banjo course for fingerstyle banjo: https://fingerstylebanjo.com/coursetour
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This Tune of the Week, Echoes of the Ozarks comes from a 1920's recording by Kansas fiddler Sam Long. His fiddling was said to be smooth and rhythmic, but I found this piece too crooked to easily play along with him. It also has lots of syncopation. It's said to resemble Little Old Log Cabin in the Woods.…
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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are YOU ALL. Or rather, 5 of you. Thanks for submitting your questions and tune requests. Tune in this episode: Old Bowback (0:43) Davy Come Back and Act Like You Ought To (15:51) J.P. Fraley’s Dry and Dusty (36:34) a special non-old time song (45:14…
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The Tune of the Week features a contemporary old-time composition by one who is super talented at it -- Arnie Neiman. He truly loves his dog and the tune Walking the Dog is a happy one, with Arnie's ability to create something unique amidst so many hundreds of tunes in our repertoire.By Arnie Naiman
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Raw sound file for new album "Raging Seaward"By wrench13
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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Matthew Lynn! We recorded this earlier this week at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Wandering Boy (0:39) Snake River Reel (14:33) Chinquapin Hunting (29:55) Chirps and Williams (Calvin Vollrath) (41:17) Banjonique (Walt Koken origina…
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Send those questions and tune requests to getupinthecool@gmail.com Thanks! Support Get Up in the CoolBy Cameron DeWhitt
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For more on how to apply neuroscience to practice smarter, check out the book The Laws of Brainjo: The Art & Science of Molding A Musical Mind Click here to join the Banjo For Adult Beginners Facebook Group. To learn more about music courses based on The Brainjo Method, head to brainjo.academy
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The river title is familiar, but this is a unique tune by "Papa Jake," a Virginia fiddler recorded by David Bragger of the Old Time Tiki Parlour. The TOTW presenter went up the neck, so I thought that would be an added challenge this week. The tuning is open C here, gCGCE. Normally the tune is played in the key of D.…
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Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.By Andrew Prahlow
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Episode 388: Miriam Hacksaw and Rye (Old Time and Samba)
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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Miriam Hacksaw and Rye! We recorded this earlier this week at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: I’ll Reap What I’ve Sown / Who’s Been Here Since I’ve Been Gone (0:31) Come on in my Kitchen / Black Jack Grove (19:08) Half Irish / Boll…
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A tune from Ohio with a title referring to the old way of logging where a horse pulled the log attached to a chain. It's a good drop thumb workout for us clawhammer players.By JanetB
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"Soldier's Joy" (clawhammer uke and 3 finger banjo duet)
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Tab and tutorial now available in the Breakthrough Banjo course http://clawhammerbanjo.net/coursetour
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Episode 387: The Canote Twins (with Larry Edelman)
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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Greg and Jere Canote, with special guest Larry Edelman! We recorded this a couple weeks ago at the NW Portland Hostel in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Hoyt Ming’s Bonnie Blue Flag (0:46) Alabama Walk-Around (Greg Canote original) (16:15) Ge…
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As played by Missouri fiddler Lyman Enloe, tuned in what is called open C, but on a cello banjo, so that you are hearing Cowhide Boots in its normal key, which is G. (dGDGB)By JanetB
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Episode 386: Nadine Landry & Stephen "Sammy" Lind (Old Time in Quebec and Foghorn Stringband)
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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Nadine Landry & Stephen “Sammy” Lind. We recorded this last week at my place in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Gentleman from Virginia (1:01) Roland Cyr’s Reel (17:02) Waltz of No Return (31:55) Your Long Journey (48:12) Doney (57:04) Bonus …
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Episode 385: Lillian Sawyer and Patrick Gunning (All Joy, No Wisdom)
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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Lillian Sawyer and Patrick Gunning. We recorded this last week at my place in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Shaking Down the Acorns (1:13) Johnny Court the Widow (11:58) Willow on the Lake (Rayna Gellert original) (24:10) Polonäs från Reven…
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From Marcus Martin's fiddlingaDAdeBy carlb
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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friend is Nate Calkins. We recorded this a few weeks ago at his home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Cumberland Gap (0:29) Sail Away Ladies (20:04) Soldier’s Joy (30:14) Marching Jaybird (37:46) Western Country (45:33) Bonus Track: Sugar Hill Visit Na…
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From the playing of West Virginian Jimmy Triplett via a Mose Coffman recording. Who is this she-possum?!By JanetB
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Here's a Tune of the Week I used to play a long time ago, Wedding Dress. It's a sweet song, with a touch of a modal sound.By JanetB
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Episode 383: Countercurrent (Alex Sturbaum and Brian Lindsay)
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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are Alex Sturbaum and Brian Lindsay of Countercurrent. We recorded this a couple weeks ago at my home in Portland, OR. Tune in this episode: Cats in the Henhouse / Free Little Bird / Fair Wind (0:31) Whiteface (14:06) The Margaret Keene (from Mile 12…
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A Banjo Christmas Medley (Jingle Bells, Good King Wenceslas, Frosty the Snowman)
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Tab and tutorial now available in the Breakthrough Banjo course http://clawhammerbanjo.net/coursetour
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Episode 382: River & Annie (Old Time in Olympia, WA)
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Welcome to Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends! This week’s friends are River & Annie, River Scheuerell and Annie Davis’ new duo. We recorded this a few weeks ago at Annie’s place in Olympia, WA. Tune in this episode: Waverly (0:35) Table for One (Courtney Marie Andrews original)(8:47) Johnny Court the Widow (15:24) …
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This version of Coal Creek comes from the playing of Mannon Campbell. It is said to resemble Shooting Creek, so here are the two of them in a medley.By JanetB
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