![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Tribe-Mountain Riff In D - Tribe
Recorded on September 3, 2003 in Toledo, Ohio. Banjo is a "Fairbanks Electric" model constructed by Mike Ramsey of Appomattox, Virginia. The banjo is tuned D,with the strings tuned aDADE (starting with the fifth string).
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Banjo Tune
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| Pretty Polly (song) - Tom Joad
Traditional US old time banjo tune and song.
Keywords: Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune
Downloads: 987
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| Frosty Morning - Tom Joad
Traditional US old time barn dance tune. Recorded in 2000.
Keywords: Banjo Tune; Old-Time Appalachian
Downloads: 1,995
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| Golden Slippers - Tom Joad
Traditional American old time folk tune. Recorded in 2000.
Keywords: Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune
Downloads: 1,650
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| Old Joe Clark - Tom Joad
Traditional American old time folk tune. Recorded in 2000.
Keywords: Banjo Tune; Old-Time Appalachian
Downloads: 2,061
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| Sandy River Belle F-Tuning Solo Banjo - Tom Joad
Traditional American old time banjo tune. Recorded in 2000.
Keywords: Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune
Downloads: 1,256
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| Sandy River Belle G-Tuning - Tom Joad
Traditional American old time banjo tune. Recorded in 2000.
Keywords: Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune
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| Eucci - Catalog Life [rive047] - Eucci
Scenes from a life that inspired a summer catalog collection. Jeff Shell's Eucci brings banjo, rhodes, aggressive leads, and more and runs it through the minimalist musique concrete tape machine, bringing a cut up and softly distorted sound to faintly recognizable objects and a touch of bluegrass. Percussion, pops, and dusty instruments swarm around your ears like summer dreams in urban parks. Banjo by Kate Cheuffer Remastered and re-encoded by Sunhil, November 2009
Keywords: Banjo Tune; Minimalism; Broken Beats; Tape Collage; Bluegrass; Musique concrete
Downloads: 628
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| Clarence Ashley-The House Carpenter - Clarence Ashley
Recorded on April 14, 1930 in Atlanta, Georgia. This ballad was collected by Child as "The Daemon Lover" (Child No. 243), of which there are several variants. Harry Smith noted that the original version in the British Isles had a "supernatural theme" which didn't make it to North America.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 5,953
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| Bascom Lamar Lunsford-I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Recorded in April 1928 in Ashland, Kentucky. Another banjo tune with lyrics that could be from any one of a number of tunes, and which have no apparent logical relationship with each other. This particular tune, which became a folkie staple during the Great Folk Scare, is related to tunes known as "Tempie," "Darling Where Have You Been So Long," "Sammie, Where Have You Been So Long," and "I Don't Like No Railroad Man." In "When We Were Good: The Folk Revival" Robert Cantwell says: "Listen to 'I ...
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 6,562
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| Samantha Bumgarner-The Worried Blues - Samantha Bumgarner
Recorded on April 23, 1924 in New York City. This tune is from her first recording session, which made her the first recorded female country performer. "The Worried Blues" is a variant of "Going Down The Road Feeling Bad."
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
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| Bascom Lamar Lunsford-Dry Bones - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Recorded in February 1928 in Ashland, Kentucky. A rare example of the banjo used in a religious tune. This tune contains references to Enoch (Gen 5:21-24), Paul (Acts 16:25-26), Moses (Exo 3:2) and a strange account out of Ezekiel about walking bones (Ezek 37:1-10), not to mention Eve and "Satan a-tempting me."
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Christian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 6,638
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| Buell Kazee-The Butcher's Boy (The Railroad Boy) - Buell Kazee
Recorded on January 16, 1928 in New York City. This is another mountain ballad that appears to be the product of British ballads that were combined after they reached America. A variation on the "murdered girlfriend" theme in that here the girlfriend takes her own life. Kazee was a baptist minister who sang with a "recital" voice, rather than the raw singing style that is more prevalent in recordings of this type.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 7,403
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| Clarence Ashley-Coo Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley
Recorded on October 23, 1929 in Johnson City, Tennessee. Greil Marcus describes this tunes as a "folk-lyric" tune "made up of verbal fragments that had no direct or logical relationship to each other." Ashley's banjo is tuned to G-modal, also referred to as Sawmill tuning. Some folklorists note that the cuckoo is an ancient symbol for the coming of summer.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 7,692
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| Dock Boggs-Country Blues - Dock Boggs
Recorded in 1927 in New York City. Jon Pankake wrote "[t]he haunted dissonance of Boggs' banjo playing and the harsh, overpowering emotion of his singing together with the bleakness of the vision expressed in his songs caused me to rethink my notion of 'folk music,' which hitherto I had associated with Pete Seeger's optimism and cheerful, bouncing banjo." This tune belongs to the same family of so-called blues ballads as "Hustling Gamblers" and "Darling Cory."
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Blues; Old-Time Appalachian; Acoustic Country Blues; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 11,526
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| Dock Boggs-Danville Girl - Dock Boggs
Recorded in 1927 in New York City. This tune is part of a group of tunes that includes "Wild And Reckless Hobo." There is something obsessive about this tune: a married man lusts after a girl he sees on the train platform.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Blues; Old-Time Appalachian; Acoustic Country Blues; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 5,300
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| Tribe-Dinah - Tribe
Recorded on September 11, 2003 in Toledo, Ohio. Banjo is tuned to D. Based on tablature by Dwight Diller.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Banjo Tune; Folktunes for Learning; Instrument; Banjo (Five-string); Key; Clawhammer Banjo; aCACE
Downloads: 1,016
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| Bascom Lamar Lunsford-Little Turtle Dove - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Recorded in 1928 most likely in Ashland, Kentucky. Lunsford was known as "The Minstrel of the Appalachians." In addition ot banjo player and collector of mountain tunes, Lunsford was also a country lawyer. This particular tune is a composite of various tunes, many of which have no relation one to the other. Some of the lines of this tune may be from "The Storms Are On The Ocean" and "Fare You Well, My Own True Love."
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 4,163
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| Buell Kazee-The Dying Soldier - Buell Kazee
Recorded on January 18, 1928 in New York City.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 7,491
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| Bascom Lamar Lunsford-Lost John Dean - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Recorded in February 1928 in Ashland, Kentucky. It is claimed that this tune is based on an event involving a black trusty incarcerated in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It appears that he was to be the guinea pig in a test concerning the smelling reliability of a new pack of bloodhounds. The trusty, however, used a barrell to outwit the hounds and escaped to parts unknown.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 3,430
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| Dock Boggs-Pretty Polly - Dock Boggs
Recorded in 1927 in New York City. Compare this arrangement to B. F. Shelton's version.
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Blues; Old-Time Appalachian; Acoustic Country Blues; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 9,579
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| B. F. Shelton-Pretty Polly - B. F. Shelton
Recorded on July 29 1927 at Bristol, Tennessee during the famous Bristol Sessions where Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family made their first recordings. This version of "Pretty Polly" is just one of the many turns on the "murdered girlfriend" ballad. Banjo players who play these sordid little tunes tend to tune their instrument to a modal tuning. Some researchers have held the belief that "Pretty Polly" is a shortened variation of another ballad called "The Gosport Tragedy."
Keywords: Music; Acoustic; Ballad; Country; Old-Time Appalachian; Banjo Tune; 78rpm
Downloads: 10,620
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