Banjo Hangout Top 100 Old Time Songs
Summary: Top 100 Old Time Songs banjo songs which Banjo Hangout members have uploaded to the website.
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2 finger picking my Pisgah longneck tubaphone. Double c tuning (3 steps down because it's a longneck)
G modal
A tune I learned while playing banjo to Melvin Wine's fiddling. aDAde
Tunaday #100 - In G Modal-f (fDGCD).
Tunaday #107 - In G Modal-f (fDGCD).
Inspired by RG for this week's TOTW and listening to Roscoe Holcomb, Bruce Molsky, Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby, here's a version of the ballad Hills of Mexico.
Hills of Mexico - mix of Rosko Halcomb and Bye Hutchins lyrics, banjo tuned eC#F#BC# (fDGCD tuned down a step)
Hills of Mexico
played on new walnut and maple 11" open back in double C tuning
For the old-time Tune of the Week, 5/4/19, Lonesome Road Blues is also known as Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad. Check out the discussion thread for a very thorough coverage of this well-known song. I just sing a couple of verses here, out of many, many.
From a late night session at Rich Hartness's house in Greensboro, North Carolina in August of 2002. Rich Hartness, fiddle; Tolly Tollefson, guitar, Brendan Doyle, banjo. Complete with Rich hollering square dance calls, inspired by Asa Martin on the 1932 recording of Charlie Wilson and His Hayloft Boys.
Tunaday #28 - In Sawmill tuning - (gDGCD).
Sally in the Garden
This fun song is the old-time Tune of the Week for 2/1/19, a day before Groundhog Day.
Tunaday #163 - G/D tuning (gDGAD)
