Banjo Hangout Top 100 Songs

For the old-time Tune of the Week, Green Willis is named for a fiddler from Willis, Virginia. It's also called The Raw Recruit. When it's played in slow jig time, it's called Chapel Hill March. Go back far enough to Scotland and it was called Da New Rigged Ship. Lots to think about here on this cheerful tune that reminds me of a new soldier marching enthusiastically.

J. J. Cale's classic blues song set in A minor

hillbilly music for lovers

R.E.M. alternative rock song

Grassabilly version of a Monroe sonf that transcends genre

jazz classic

Ric Hollander - My arrangement of Kitchen Girl. Played on the Romero with Nylgut strings. Arrangement: Copyright 2012 Ric Hollander - All Rights Reserved

CH take on a Trad jig. vega 2, G tuning.

Hope ya'll enjoy this ''Skeeter Davis'' country hit from 1962. ''Chet Atkins'' stamped his arranging polish on this one, as he did with so many other legends, back then. ... Thanks for tunin' in. ... Don. ... Key, Eb - tuning CGBD.

Another rearrangement of the handful of notes I know how to play. In Double C.

An old pop tune from McGuire and Andrews sisters and from Les Paul and Mary Ford. Travis picking.

Learned from the fiddling of well-known Missourian Lonnie Robertson (1908 - 1981). I'm just becoming familiar with some of his work and am impressed by his smooth, clear, fast playing.

A tune from Alan Munde's Banjo Sandwich album. Key of F.

Ok, heres a second take. I shorted the backing track to about 2:50 instead of the original 5 minutes (haha). I used a mute on the banjo this time, added some reveb and EQ'd to get more 'snap'.

Messing around with this English Ballad tonight.