Dan Levenson has put together a handy tunebook for fans of old time fiddle and banjo music, published by Mel Bay.
Though titled Old-Time Favorites for Clawhammer Banjo, the book (with a pair of audio CDs) contains transcriptions of both banjo tab and fiddle melody for 62 popular and more obscure tunes.
In fact, each tune contains three musical examples: the basic fiddle melody, and both a basic and more advanced banjo arrangement. One of the accompanying CDs contains recordings of the fiddle versions, and the other the banjo tabs.
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- And the Cat Came Back
- Angelina Baker
- Arkansas Traveler
- Bitter Creek
- Black Hills Waltz
- Bob Tailed Mule
- Bonapart’s Retreat – Wm. H. Stepp version
- Booth Shot Lincoln
- Briar Picker Brown
- Cluck Old Hen
- Cold Frosty Morning – modal – Henry Reed
- Mel Durham version
- Cold Frosty Morning – major – Melvin Wine version
- The Cuckoo
- Cumberland Gap
- Doctor Doctor
- Duck River
- Ducks on the Millpond
- Ebenezer
- (Mr.) Fishar’s Hornpipe – 3 part version
- Folding Down the Sheets
- Forked Deer
- Fortune
- Great Big Taters in A Sandy Land
- Grey Eagle
- Johnson Boys
- Katy Hill
- Little Dutch Girl
- The Merry Blacksmith
- Mississippi Sawyer
- (Wooliver’s) Money Musk
- Needlecase
- Old Belle Cow
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- Over the Waterfall
- Policeman
- Polly Put the Kettle On
- Push the Pig’s Foot a Little Further Into the Fire
- The Rattlesnake
- Rock the Cradle Joe
- Sal’s Got Mud Between Her Toes
- Salt Creek – aka Salt River
- Salty River Reel
- Shady Grove – modal version
- (Doc Robert’s) Shortnin’ Bread
- Snowbird
- Soldier’s Joy
- Spotted Pony
- Step Around Johnny
- Sugar Hill
- Three Thin Dimes
- Three Way Hornpipe
- Waiting For the Federals – aka Seneca Square
- Dance
- Walk Along John to Kansas
- Walking in the Parlor
- West Fork Gals
- Whitesburg
- There is a) Wild Hog in the Woods
- Wild Horses at Stony Point
- Wooden Nickel
- The Year of Jubilo – aka Lincoln’s Gunboats
- Yellow Barber
- Y. Z. Hamilton’s Special Breakdown
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Soon to follow is a book with the same tunes arranged for fiddle and mandolin.
Old-Time Banjo Favorites for Clawhammer Banjo is available now from Mel Bay, Mel Bay dealers worldwide, or from Dan’s web site.
Dan Levenson has put together a handy tunebook for fans of old time fiddle and banjo music, published by Mel Bay.
