Banjo Hangout Top 100 Songs

From the fiddling of Bruce Greene who learned it from Uncle George Nicholson (born in Laurel Co., KY in 1854). This tune reminds me of another I've heard before. For some reason the tune gives me a deep sense of deja vu when Bruce plays it. It's on his solo fiddle CD Five Miles of Ellum Wood.

"Meg Gray" from the fiddle playing of George Hawkins. Played by Bob Lanham on a Vega Tubaphone banjo.

Clawhammer take on a Reel from the Shetland Islands written by Ian Burns. G tuning but way low.

Played on a Nechville Phantom. Yup.. tonering, resonator...

D-Tuners... etc

A tune collected by Tom Sauber & recorded on the Banjo Gathering album produced by Steve Baughman as a fundraiser for the Swannanoa Gathering. Tom learned it from Peter Tomlinson Bell, who learned it from his father during the Civil War. It's a version of 'Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine.' I play it here out of A modal. Thanks to my wife Lucy for backing me up on guitar.

Original tune on cigar box banjo and guitar

another with some fine players

a tune i played a few years back

Original tune on cigar box banjo and guitar

Original tune on cigar box banjo

This year I have recorded a simple version of Frosty the Snowman. It was written for Gene Autry in 1950 by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson. It became a hit for many others as well and also became the centerpiece of a television special. One of my favorite uses of the song is as the ironic background that it provides in the "Don’t Buy Anything” scene (R rated) in Goodfellas. That version was sung by the Ronettes. This song has no mention of any holidays, so please accept my holiday wishes for kindness, compassion, and generosity in this season and for the new year.

Tradesman fretless~

My stab at this good ole fiddle tune.

This is the arrangement from my new Mel Bay book "The Best of Jack Hatfield"

Just holding the banjo and fooling around, sometimes you come up with a sound you like.

A happy song, fun to play, with images of little Appaloosas kicking up their heels. Mine was named Cookie. When I sold her, I was able to buy my Bart Reiter Whyte Laydie, so my banjo is named Cookie, too. Honestly.

Probably another one of the very first tunes I learned from John Corzine in So. Cal. My friend and I still can't resist the affectionate name "Sally in the Garbage."

Me and Ivan Rosenberg (Dobro)...from our album Farewell Trion