by BarcaLast | Apr 26, 2024 | Banjo Tunes
Lovely haunting melody. There are a lot of versions of this – I guess it is the story of Romeo and...
by BarcaLast | Apr 26, 2024 | Banjo Tunes
An old-timey classic – the story is a recurrent theme in such songs as ‘Banks of the Ohio’. The song itself is a standard and there are as many versions as variations. This is another in gDGCD (mountain minor)...
by BarcaLast | Apr 26, 2024 | Banjo Tunes
This is one of the first old timey songs I learned when I discovered ‘mountain minor’ tuning – that’s really a modal tuning: I tune it gDGCD, but some folks also tune the fourth string down to C. This is loosely based upon the singing of...
by BarcaLast | Apr 26, 2024 | Banjo Tunes
This is just a fun old song. I got this version from an old ‘New Lost City Ramblers’...
by BarcaLast | Apr 25, 2024 | Banjo Tunes
Okay, this is a real early recording of mine of the great traditional tune ‘Wild Bill Jones’ … there have been many variants of this, I guess ‘Pretty Polly’ is the most famous, and may be more original, but I like this because of the...
