Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Songs

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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.

classic country song recorded by Lefty Frizzell in 1959

FMCB

aDAde Learned, originally in G, from "Echoes of the Ozarks" On Volume III (https://www.discogs.com/release/5408109-Various-Echoes-Of-The-Ozarks-Volume-III)

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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.

Raw sound file for new album "Raging Seaward"

Dulcet To A Dying Fire

Smoke To The Stars

A Real Nice And Slow n' Easy Nebular Breeze

Totem

Cataraqui Woods Whimsy

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.

Hurricane Ridge