Banjo Hangout Top 100 Bluegrass (scruggs) Songs

Tom Berghan - Soprano Banjo, Laurence Diehl - Guitar

D-Tuners... etc

1st track off the record, "Lady Nora."

Thanks to Rock and Jim Reed for the inspiration to learn this tune. Both of their pre war banjos are to die for...especially in D tuning. Their playing abilities are to die for as well. Jim's recording on his cd sounds just like Sammy Shelor with his RB12.

Here's one I've been playing around with. This tune is a lot harder to play than I thought it would be.

a tune i recorded in 1998

Cool title eh?

I made an arrangement of Red Rocking Chair using licks from Earl's Nashville Blues. Here I play a little medley of the two songs. There's a tab for RRC on my tab page. Recorded with a Shure SM58 into a Saffire6 sound card. Processed with the free TesslaPro saturator and NastyVLC channel strip and some Reverb out of Ozone4. I hope you enjoy it!

My stab at this good ole fiddle tune.

Instrumental version of a classic tune. Pretty standard with some improve inthe middle. I come from clawhammer and 2 finger so my playing has an old timey feel i think. G-Tuning on my new Gibson

Here's my generic version....

After using wavepad sound editor to equalize

My attempt to play away my grief about Earl's passing....

Doodling around on my new banjo...

From The "Bluegrass Time" album I recorded with Cliff Waldron and the New Shades of Grass in 1978 Cliff=guitar, Bill Poffinberger=fiddle, Dave Auldridge=mandolin, Ed Ferris=Bass

This is an original tune that I have been messing around with for the last few weeks.

Johnny Fenlayson playing a traditional bluegrass tune John Hardy with Bill Wells & The Blue Ridge Mtn. Grass on SCETV Bluegrass Express show in Sumter, SC. 2002 Gibson Earl Scruggs ''Special''