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This is a highly selective index of features, articles and tablatures that have appeared in Newsletter Contents Index: Banjo Newsletter since its introduction in November 1973, up through October 2006. The bold type listings after the date indicate a Volumes I–XL; Nov. 1973–Oct. 2013 feature or lead article that was highlighted by a cover illustration. (But not always; sometimes Volume 1 18 April 1975 – Orpheum #2 Peg-Head Pattern; there was no matching illustration, and some 1 Nov. 1973 – Start-Up of Banjo NewsLetter; 5-String Rock-Type Lick; 5th String Capo (Re-visited); Pull The ?; First Five Frets Fretless?; TAB: Bristol Steam issues had no distinct feature.) Thus this index Plug Earl; TABS: Liberty; Irish Spring; Over The Wa- Convention terfall; Sunflower Dance; Shelby Rock; Roanoke; I’ll is selective and arbitrary, but hopefuly useful. 2 Dec. 1973 – Pickers & Their Identities; Richelieu Fly Away Columns that have appeared on a regular Mute; Banjo Picker’s Dream; TAB: Santa Claus 19 May 1975 – BILL EMERSON; Old Time Ban- basis (Back-Up, Scruggs Center, Beginner’s 3 Jan. 1974 – Zither Banjo; Neck Truss-Rod; Banjo jos; G Minor Down-Hill Progression; D Tuning Lick; Corner, Chorducopia, Old-Time, Melodic Sounds; Triplets; TAB: Arkansas Traveler , Development, 4 Feb. 1974— Banjo Information (Tom Mor- Bridge Experiments (plastic); Stutzman’s Place; Wey- Clinch Mountain Banjo, Reno Banjo, Shop gan – 1); Banjo Bridge Info; Dillard Style Runs; TAB: mann Peg-Head Pattern; TABS: Flop-Eared Mule; West Talk, etc.) are not always listed, but their Arab Bounce Fork Girls; Old Time Religion; Cuckoo’s Nest; 5 March 1974 – More Dillard Runs; Gibson Banjo column titles are usually listed. Columns 20 June 1975 – Discography; Gibson (Gui- Info (Tom Morgan – 2); Banjo Tips; How Do We Learn?; tar Shape c. 1947) Peg-Head Pattern; Old Time ; are sometimes abbreviated: Back Up = BU, Frets – Care & Maintenance; Stewart-MacDonald Banjo Beginner’s Corner = BC, etc. Down-Hill C Lick; D-Tuning Lick; Stew-MacDonald Kit; Upgrading A Japanese Banjo; TAB: Snow Deer Geared Fifth; TABS: Deputy Dalton; Uncle Pen; Shady Where there is a significant title for one 6 April 1974 – Introducing BNL Little Man Logo; Grove; Buck’s Snort; Foggy Mountain Special of those columns for that month, it is listed. Banjo Bridges; Gibson Banjo Info (Tom Morgan – 3); 21 July 1975 – Gariepy Banjos Catalog Reprint; Columns that no longer appear or that appear Flatted 3rds & 7this; Inlay Procedure; RB-100 Conver- Improvisations on Foggy Mt. Breakdown; Peghead sporadically are indicated; i.e. Keep On The sion; Tailpieces; Liberty Bear Claw Tailpiece; TABS: Procedures; Clawhammer Picker’s Nails; TABS: What Sonny Side; Munde’s Morsels, O’Banjo, On Chicken Reel; Bells Of St. Mary’s A Friend We Have In Jesus; The Route; Minuet In G 7 May 1974 – Gibson Banjo Info (Tom Morgan – 4); The Stelling Side, etc. Use this index as a quick (Bach); All-Brass Banjo; Frets & Re-Fretting; Installing A Geared guide for retrieving items of interest. 22 Aug. 1975 – Paul King; Stelling Banjo; Bb Runs; Fifth Peg; Bill Keith & The Tenor Banjo; TABS: Billy In Homespun Tapes; Bill Keith In Paris; Plastic Bridges The Low Ground; Gold Rush (Re-visited); TABS: Maple Leaf Rag; Boatin’ Up The 8 June 1974 – Tablature Hints; Where Have All Sandy; Gotta Quit Kickin’ My Dog Around; Goodbye The Hearts & Flowers Gone?; Instant Ebony; Flat Top Liza Jane The following column or subject abbre- Or Arch Top?; Danger Of Black Instrument Case; Your 23 Sept. 1975 – Clawhammer Banjo Set-Up; Dob- viations are (sometimes) used along with Banjo Dollar; TABS: Cross Country/Crazy Creek; The son Banjo Peghead Pattern; G Minor Tuning; Bill Keith Old Three Fingers Ain’t What They Used To Be column titles: Discography (2); Old Time – Bluegrass Banjo Duets; D 9 July 1974 – Drilling Position Dots; Practice Board; To G Lick; Shubb Capo Modification; Flexible/Adjust- Adams County Banjo (Tom Adams) – TA Old-Time Banjo; TABS: Bach Bouree II; Jason’s Reel; able Thumb Pick; TABS: Buffalo Gals; Rickett’s Horn- Arrangement Development – AD Bill Cheatum; Cripple Creek; Katy Daly pipe; Appalachian Rain; Doc Harris’ Hornpipe; Gaspe Back-Up (Janet Davis) – BU 10 Aug. 1974 – Banjo Picking & Good Taste; Eco- Reel nomics of Banjo Pickin; Weymann & Haynes Banjos; Banjo Workout (S. Nickerson) – BW 24 Oct. 1975 – Innovation In Bluegrass Banjo Styles; Shubb Fifth String Capo; Roger Sprung’s Six Tuning TABS: Fire On The Mountain; Farewell Blues; Ain’t Banjos on the Border – BOB Pegs; TABS: Boil ‘Em Cabbage Down; McCormick’s Got No Name; Tab Index—Volumes I & II Beginner’s Corner – BC Picnic VOL III Fleckology – BF 11 Sept. 1974 – Banjo Sound/Tailpieces; Scale Exer- 25 Nov. 1975 – JOHN HICKMAN; Scale/Chord cises; Sailor’s Hornpipe Lick; TABS: The Sting; Shady Classic Banjo – CB Progressions; Two Scale; TABS: Waggoner’s Grove; Bear Tracks Lad; Money Musk; Walkin’ In The Parlor; Banjolina Clinch Mt. Banjo (R. Stanley) – CMB 12 Oct. 1974 – Ludwig Tenor Conversion; Up-Hill 26 Dec. 1975 – Up-Grading A Banjo (1); Appalachian Concepts & Systems (J. Hatfield) – CS Dillard Licks; Tuning The 5th String; Choosing A Blue- Banjo Lesson; TABS: Follow The Leader; Marching grass Banjo; J.B. Schall Peg-Head Pattern; TABS: Bill Earl’s Way (R. Piekiel) – EW Through Georgia; Jordan’s Hornpipe; I’m Using My Cheatum; House Of The Rising Sun; Big Sandy Bible For A Roadmap; Blue Moon Of Kentucky; Lafay- Exploring the Fingerboard — ETF Volume II ette; Gilderoy; Crossing The Cumberlands Fiddlin’ With (Duets) – FH 13 Nov. 1974 – Ludwig Peg-Head Pattern; DM7 Chord; 27 Jan. 1976 – Upgrading A Banjo (2); Tailpieces; Gospel Banjo – GB Shipley Tone Ring; Tablature Basics; Tips For Wood Puma Paw Tailpiece; TABS: Grey Eagle; Flowers Of Laminators; TABS: Faded Love; John Henry; London In Response – IR Edinburg; Orange Blossom Special Hornpipe; Over The Waterfall; Salt Creek; Theme Time 28 Feb. 1976 – Shop Talk – Why Do It Yourself?; Banjo – JB 14 Dec. 1974 – Bacon & Day No. 6 Peg-Head Pattern; Vega Sonny Osborne Banjo; Gibson Peg-Head Pattern; Melodic Clawhammer (Perlman) – MC Banjo Amplification; Anchoring The Picking Hand; Tun- Equalization Of String Volume; TABS: Dill Pickle Rag; Minstrel Banjo – MB ing Problem?; TABS: Blue-Eyed Gal; Salt Creek; Jubi- Yellow Rose Of Texas; Crocked Stove Pipe; Clinch lee; Jingle Bells; Index— Volumes I & II Monroe for Banjo (Shrubsall)— MFB Mountain Backstep; Smoky Mountain Pipe; Little Mag- 15 Jan. 1975 – Peg-Head Pattern Epiphone Alhambra; gie Munde’s Morsels – AM Banjo Insurance; Fifth String Nut; TABS: Soldier’s Joy; 29 March 1976 – The 5-String Banjo In North Car- Alan O’Bryant (O’Banjo) – AO Fishing Creek; Dixie Hoedown olina; String Gauges; Making A Neck; Great Lakes 16 Feb. 1975 – Gibson TB-00 Peg-Head Pattern; 5th Off The Record () – OTR Presentation Banjo; Early Vega Peg-Head Pattern; String Capo Alternative; Banjo Tone; Cutting Abalone; TABS: Wind That Shakes The Barley; Banjo In The Old Time – OT GTR Banjo; Japanese Tone Rings (Bluebell & Tokai); Hollow; Black Mountain Rag; Lonesome Road Blues On The Road – MH (or CH) Shipley Tone Ring;TABS: White Oak Breakdown; 30 April 1976 – BEN ELDRIDGE; Fingerboard & – RGB Frosty Morn; Molly Bloom; Kitchen Girl Peg-Head Overlays; Intermountain & Banjo Co.; 17 March 1975 – Gibson (Scroll 1929-36) Peg-Head – RB TABS: Sugar Hill; Beaux Of Oak Hill Hornpipe; Sol- Pattern; Boogie-Lick; Inside Scales/Rolls; Position dier’s Joy; Jack Seen A Mermaid; White House Blues Scruggs Center – SC Scales; Banjo Strap; Circus Lick; Banjo Speed; Ty Piper 31 May 1976 – Customizing A Banjo Case; Shaping Stretching the Limits (D. Levenson) – STL Neck & 5th String Capo; TABS: Red Haired Boy; Jesu A Neck; C & A Scales; TABS: Lonesome Indian; Sally The Workshop (Jim Pankey) – TW Joy of Man’s Desiring; Black Diamond; Drowsie Mag- Goodin’; Rachelle In The Marshland/Spinning Straw; gie PAGE 2 CONTENTS INDEX 1974-2013

Whiskey Before Breakfast; O’Carolan’s Concerto; night; Old Lisa Jane Sinful Flirt; Norwegian Wood Blackberry Blossom; Bells Of St. Mary’s; Jack Seen A 45 July 1977 – J.B. Schall Banjo c. 1900; Two-Finger 54 April 1978 – Four Banjos (Imperial; Lane; Mermaid; Jerusalem Ridge; Style; Creating Counter ; Turning & Fitting A Nichols; Stelling); Keep On The Sonny Side; Using 32 June 1976 – Vintage Banjo Company; Banjo Wood Rim; Banjos & Humidity; Jimmy Arnold; Shubb The Thumb In Chromatic Style; 6-String Banjo Peg- Hardware; Inlaying Procedure; TABS: Downtown Blues; Compensated Bridge; Playing in F & Bb; Bacon Grand Head Patterns (Osborne & Crowe); TABS: Sandy River 5-String Stud; John Henry Blues; Peter Francisco; Lone- Concert c. 1900 Peg-Head Pattern; Gibson Scale Length?; Belle; Ducks On The Pond; Eight More Miles To Lou- some Road Blues; Making It Up TABS: Grey Eagle; There Was An Old Man And He Had isville; Long Black Veil; Columbus Stockade Blues; No 33 July 1976 – Raymond Fairchild; Bill Emerson; A Wooden Leg; Sweet Sunny South; Reuben’s Train; Mother Or Dad; Gavotte From 5th Cello Suite (Bach); Banjo Picker’s Dictionary; 67 Tunings For The 5-String Knoxville Girl; Leaving Town; Rose Tree Hornpipe; Blue Moon Of Kentucky; Over The Waterfall; Polly Put Banjo; Gibson All-American Peg-Head; TABS: Arab Charmaine; Tommy Jarrell; When You & I Were Young The Kettle On; Arkansas Traveler Bounce; Sea Of Heartbreak; Fred Wilson’s Hornpipe; Maggie; Beaumont Rag; Muskrat Ramble 55 May 1978 – JIM SMOAK; Tabbing From Re- Doing My Time; Sandy River Belle; Blueberry Blossom; 46 Aug. 1977 – Custom Banjo: Make Your Own; Key cords; Grading Your Teacher; Stewart 6-String Banjo c. Foggy Mountain Top of D Without a Capo; Fiddler’s Convention – Alabama 1890; Grinding Abalone Blanks; Keep On The Sonny 34 Aug. 1976 – Harry Lane Banjos; Pearl Cutting; 1934; Installing 5th String Capo Spikes; Dobson Style C Side; History Of Banjo Tunings; Single String Work; Tommy Thompson; Bill Emerson; Tales Of Two Fid- Peg-Head Pattern; Changing Chords With Passing Tones; Key of Eb; TABS: June Apple; Swallowtail Reel; Mill- dlers; TABS: Turkey Knob; Ducks On The Pond; Staten Bill Boyer Banjo; Gibson Banjo Neck Heel Contours; er’s Reel; Miss McLeod’s Reel; Wreck Of Old ‘97; Roll Island Hornpipe; Yesterday; Swing Low Sweet Chariot; TABS: Pig Town Fling; Ways Of The World; Cricket On Train Roll; Lost London; Spanish Fandango; Whiskey Money Musk Reel The Hearth; Whiskey Before Breakfast; Sally In The Gar- Before Breakfast; If I Should Wander Back Tonight; 35 Sept. 1976 – J.D. Crowe; Purchasing A Banjo; den; Bury Me Beneath The Willow; Devil’s Dream; Bye Don’t Say Goodbye If You Love Me; Miller’s Reel; TABS: You Don’t Know My Mind; Old Home Place; Bye Blues; Red River Valley; Wreck Of Old ‘97 Sally In The Garden; There Will Never Be Another You Red-Haired Boy; Green Willis; Miss McLeod’s Reel; 47 Sept. 1977 – Doug Dillard; Banjo Set-Up – Nylon 56 June 1978 – PAT CLOUD; Keep On The Sonny Cross-Eyed Gopher; Paddy On The Turnpike; Devil’s Strings; Setting Up A New Banjo; Bass Drone; TABS: Side; Resonator Carving; Standardizing John Burke’s Dream: Dear Old Dixie Black-Eyed Susie; Sinking Creek; Jimmy In The Swamp; Tablatures; Single String Work; More On Gut/Ny- 36 Oct. 1976 – Doug Unger; Tradition Banjos; Ben The Hollow Poplar; Hull’s Victory; Flop-Eared Mule; lon Strings; TABS: Billy In The Lowground; Virginia Eldridge; Coordinator Rods; Liberty Bringe Capo; NGM Hogeye; Pickalong; Foot Prints In The Snow; Fair & Hornpipe; Foggy Mountain Breakdown; Rye Straw; & Ryan Tone Rings; TABS: Old Joe Clark; Yarmouth Tender Ladies Chinkapin Pie; Black Cat In The Brier Patch; Salty Dog Reel; Ragtime Annie; Minstrel’s Fancy; Wheels; Picka- 48 Oct. 1977 – Garland Shuping; BU Guide Lines; Blues; Little Foxfire; East Virginia; Whoa Back Buck; way; Index: Volume III Doug Dillard (2); Hart Banjos c. 1960; Finishing Pro- The Old Gray Goose; Pig In A Pen; Dark Hollow; M.B. VOL IV cedures; Keep On The Sonny Side; TABS: The Whole Blues; Fisher’s Hornpipe; Red Rover March 37 Nov. 1976 – Don Reno; Black Star Custom Banjos; World Around; Lamplighter’s Hornpipe; Waltzing Over 57 July 1978 – LAMAR GRIER; Bill Keith Banjo Engraving; Luscomb Banjo (c. 1888) Peg-Head Pattern; The Waterfall; Mississippi Sawyer; Western Country; Workshop; Slow Songs; Changing Strings; Hughes Ban- TABS: Road Runner; Taylor’s Rag; In The Halls Of The Money Musk; Time’s A-Coming; Bugle Call jo Kit; Keep On The Sonny Side; TABS: Difficult Run, Mountain King; Ragtime Annie; Sleepy-Eyed John; Tom Rag; Counterblast Rag; Blue Bell; Done Gone; Index Part 2; Salt Lake Polka; Rustic Dance; Three String Gui- & Jerry; Maggie; Trumpet Hornpipe; Sinkin’ Creek – Volume IV tar; This Land Is Your Land; Roll In My Sweet Baby’s 38 Dec. 1976 – Dean Shultis Banjos; Timing; Engrav- VOL V Arms; Reuben; Farewell Blues; Old Jawbone; Five Foot ing; Osborne Licks & Sonic Shapes; National Banjo 49 Nov. 1977 – Geoff Stelling; Art Rosenbaum; Doug Two, Eyes Of Blue; Clapping Dance Method (Dobson c. 1886); TABS: Soldier’s Joy; Just Dillard (3); Refretting; The Banjo Wirligig; Paramount c. 58 Aug. 1978 – BOB BLACK; Eddie Shelton; Keep Because; Goin’ Down That Road Feeling Bad; Train On 1920 Peg-Head Pattern; TABS: Liberty; Black-Eyed Su- On The Sonny Side; Slow Songs; BU; The Swee- The Island; Weave And Way; Dill Pickle Rag; Essence Of sie; Doug’s Tune; If I Could Wander Back Tonight; Two ney Banjo; Playing In A Minor; TABS: Michael’s Horn- Sequatchie County Dollar Bill; Cotton-Eyed Joe; ; San An- pipe; Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms; Crying Holy; Blue 39 Jan. ‘77 – ; Syncopation; Tommy tonio Rose; Big Ben Ridge Express; So Afraid Of Losing You Again; Cabin Jarrell; Engraving; TABS: Down Down Down; John 50 Dec. 1977 – ; Banjo Buyer’s In Caroline; Is It Too Late Now; Somehow Tonight; Dim Brown’s Dream; Shaking Down The Acorns; Prince Guide; Bill Holden (1); Keep On The Sonny Side; TABS: Lights Thick Smoke; Camilla; Soldier’s Joy; Liverpool Albert’s Hornpipe; Little Rock Getaway; Scotland The The Old Home Town; Texas Blue Bonnet; Back Home Hornpipe; Greensleeves Brave; Flirtation Reel Again In Indiana; Leyenda; Bury Me Beneath The Wil- 59 Sept. 1978 – LARRY MCNEELY; Dominant 40 Feb. 1977 – Weymann Conversion; Weymann low; Way Down The Old Plank Road; Shortening Bread; Seventh Chords; Eddie Shelton (2); Keep On The Sonny Peg-Head & Inlay Patterns; Binding; TABS: Hop High Deck The Halls; Peter Street Reel; Star Of The County Side; TABS: Edison Breakaway; Battle Of New Or- Ladies; Walker Street Reel; I’ll Get Wedded In My Old Down leans; My Little Georgia Rose; Faded Love; Somewhere Claes: Gavotte (Bach); Breaking It Down; Grandfather’s 51 Jan. 1978 – SONNY OSBORNE; Tom Morgan; Over The Rainbow; I Don’t Know How To Love Him; Clock; Dark Hollow Bill Holden (2); Nylon/Gut Strings?; TABS: Blue Goose; Protect The Innocent; Shortnin’ Bread; Jesu, Joy Of 41 March 1977 – ALLEN SHELTON; Harry Lane; Cold Frosty Morning; Banks Of The Ohio; Somewhere Man’s Desiring; Foggy Mountain Special; Who Burnt Banjo Sound; TABS: I Wish You Knew; The Year Of Over The Rainbow; Slipped Disk; Banjo In The Hollow; The Beans; My Little Girl In ; Mississippi Jubilo; Sugar Babe; Old Joe Clark; Tennessee; Temper- Shortnin’ Bread; Speed The Plow; Hot Foot Ike Cake Sawyer; Barlow Knife; Gaspe Reel; When You And I ance Reel Walk; Wild Bill Jones; Pike County Breakdown Were Young Maggie 42 April 1977 – Syncopation; Melodic BU; Don Reno 52 Feb. 1978 – BUTCH ROBINS (1); Keep On The 60 Oct. 1978 – JIMMY ARNOLD; Slow Songs (Photos: My Three Sons); Allen Shelton; Peak Sound; Sonny Side; Peg-Head Patterns: Pre-War Kay & Gibson – Emerson & Crowe; Keep On The Sonny Side; How TABS: Drunken Sailor; Cluck Old Hen; Fisher’s Horn- TB-1 c. 1931; Vega Conversion; Leaving Eddie; Bind- To Build A Resonator; The Care Of Fingernails; TABS: pipe; Old Mother Flanagan; Nola; Boil Them Cabbage ing/Finish Preparation On A Resonator; Graph- Amazing Grace; Gary Owen; I’ll Break Out; Ramblin’ Down; Jack Be Nimble; The Unknown Reel ics; TABS: Grey Eagle; The Rakes Of Frismen; Sally Boy; Foggy Mountain Special; Huckleberry Hornpipe; 43 May 1977 – Customizing A Minalco Kit; Jimmy Ann; Dixie Breakdown; Ode To Joy; Hold The Woodpile Tarantella; Spider Dance Reel; All Night Reel; Monkey Arnold; Salstrom Banjo Co. (Catalog Reprint c 1965); Down; Gotta Travel On; Low And Lonely; Nashville In A Dog Cart; Spotted Pony; Liberty Off Of The Corn B Flat, Why Not?; Dobson Banjos c. 1866; Peak Sound Skyline Rag; Allegro; Dust Rag; Big Mon; Paddy Won’t Licker Still; Index – Volume V (2); Bobadilla Banjo Case; TABS: Doc Harris Hornpipe; You Drink Some Cider; Wild Hog In The Woods; Fish- VOL VI I Saw The Light; Susie’s Fiddle Tune; Richmond; Sally er’s Hornpipe 61 Nov. 1978 – ; Instrument Goodin’; Maggie Walker Blues; New Camptown Races; 53 March 1978 – DENIS LEPAGE; Butch Robins Care; Peter Wernick; Jimmy Arnold & Fred Geiger; Sweet Dixie; Whispering George; Valley Head” (2); Keep On The Sonny Side; Coloring Chords; Com- Keep On The Sonny Side; Slow Songs/Scruggs Style; 44 June 1977 – How To Read Tablature; Cranford mon Errors In Neck Dimensions; TABS: Doc’s Banjo Classic Banjo; TABS: Blue Light; Shady Grove; Wichi- Nix; Tempo Watch; Installing Frets With Epoxy; Jimmy Hornpipe; Blue Eyed Blues; Santa Anna’s Retreat; Dusty ta Lineman; Strictly Arnold; Liza; I’ll Stay Around; Sun- Arnold; Licks Using Chord Progressions; TABS: Chero- MIller; Whispering; Molly & Tenbrooks; Head Over ny Side Of The Mountain; Dim Lights Thick Smoke; kee Shuffle; The Keel Row; Cotton-Eyed Joe; Silver Heels In Love; An Autumn Idyll; Meadowlands; Train Some Old Day; I’ll Remember You In My Prayers; Love Bells; Cowboys & Indians; Panhandle Rag; Tenting To- 45; Hand Me Down My Walking Cane; Kickin’ Chicken; Come Home; Minuet In E Minor; Spanish Ballad; Tater CONTENTS INDEX Vol. I–XL PAGE 3

Patch; The Musical Priest Classic Banjo/The Tremolo; TABS: Ghost Riders In The Side; Learning To Play Fast; If Speed Is A Must; Get 62 Dec. ‘78 – KATE BRISLIN; Making A Tone Ring Sky; We’ll Meet Again Sweetheart; Coal Miner’s Blues; It Right First; Old-Time Banjo Speed; Speed & Physi- & Other Cast Parts; Eddie Adcock/Banjo Amplification; Will The Circle Be Unbroken; Ballad Of Jed Clampett; cal Anatomy; 35 Muscles In Each Hand; Transposing; Marc Maniscalco; Keep On The Sonny Side; Classic Buckin’ Mule; Blueridge Mountain Home; Sally Good- Working With Other People’s Tabs; Fiddle Tunes/ Key Banjo; Major 7th Chords; TABS: Turkey Buzzard; Fall in’; Ghost Dance; Pike County Breakdown; John Henry of C; Double Roll; TABS: Down In The Valley; John B. Of Richmond; Bunker Hill; Jolly Old St. Nicholas; I’ll Blues; Cripple Creek; Delaware Hornpipe; Home Sweet Sails; I Wonder Where You Are Tonight; Little Maggie; Never Love Another; Staten Island Hornpipe; Come Home Douglass’ Favorite; Shady Grove; Stone’s Rag; I Never Haste To The Wedding; Little Rabbit; Dancing River; 71 Sept. 1979 – ; Munde’s Mor- Get To Hold You In My Arms Anymore; Foot Prints In Bluegrass Breakdown; Carol sels; Shorthand For Chords; Another Good Finish; Keep The Snow; Workingman Blues 63 Jan. 1979 – Classic Banjo (The First Banjo Reso- On The Sonny Side; John Hickman (2); Diminished 79 May 1980 – Willard Spencer; Refretting With nator); Care Of Fingernails; Waltz Time; Keep On The Chords; BU In Any Key; (3); Classic Epoxy; Keep On The Sonny Side; Buying A Beginner Sonny Side; Ben Eldridge (1); Munde’s Morsels; Hand Banjo; TABS: Uncle Cloony Played The Banjo; Hot Banjo; Triple Pull-Offs; Starting To Roll; H.M. Marcum; Position; TABS: Steam Powered Aeroplane; I’ll Be All Corn Cold Corn; Angel Band; Turkey Knob; Tis Sweet TABS: Banjo In The Hollow; Sally Goodin’; Darling Smiles Tonight; Barlow Knife; Casablanca; A Hundred To Be Remembered; If I Should Wander Back Tonight; Nellie Gray; Charlotte Breakdown; Stone’s Rag; Fid- Years From Now; I’ve Lost You; Hello Mary Lou; Last Dusty Miller; Nine Pound Hammer; Johnson Boys; dle & Banjo; Rag; Fire Ball; Peeler Creek Train From Poor Valley (Intro); Breaking Up Christmas; Slipped Disk; The Bobolink; What Am I Doing Hanging Waltz; Irene Goodnight; Birth Of The Blues; Blue Jazz; Lamplighter Hornpipe; Black Nag Jig ‘Round Clinch Mountain Backstep 64 Feb. 1979 – Waltz Time Licks; Staining Hard- 72 Oct. 1979 – AUNT BERTHA ROBINSON; Alan 80 June 1980 – DON STOVER; Modulation; woods; Keep On The Sonny Side; Dissonance; Kicking Munde; Flatted Fifths; Circle Of Fifths (4); Transposition/ Dawg Music; Keep On The Sonny Side; Double Stops; Mule Banjo Material; Ben Eldridge (2); Fifth String Capo 7th Chords; The Quarter Note; Who Added The 5th Working Out Fiddle Tunes (3) Cox-Head Banjo Head; Concept; TABS: Bouquet In Heaven; Cousin Michael; String?; Ideas From Recent Banjo Workshops; Varia- Munde’s Morsels; Instrument Engraving; TABS: Get In Jimmie Brown; Fire On The Mountain; Bugle Call Rag; tions/Tunings; How To Make Coordinator Rods; Classic Line Brother; Jody’s Jump; Flop-Eared Mule; Opus 57; Remington Ride; Petronella; Cuckoo’s Nest; Fold Down Banjo; Keep On The Sonny Side; TABS: The Tracker; Plastic Banana; World Is Waiting For The Sunrise; Hard The Sheets; Kicking Mule; Flying Cloud Cotillion; Sally Why Don’t You Tell Me So; Your Love Is Like A Flower; Ain’t It Hard; You Are My Sunshine; Flowers Are Sleep- Ann; Appalachian Rain; Kentucky Home Sweet Home; Will The Circle Be Unbroken; Under ing; Blackberry Blossom; Arkansas Traveler; Sail Away 65 March 1979 – Closed Chord Approach; Frank The Double Eagle; ; Gigue; Foggy Mountain Ladies; Home On The Range; Song Of Giza; Lime Bradbury; Ben Eldridge (3); Banjo Wax; Keep On The Breakdown; Washington & Lee Swing; Index – Volume Rock Sonny Side; Munde’s Morsels; Classic Banjo; Neck VI 81 July 1980 – BILL KNOPF; Peter Wernick Work- Shapes; TABS: I’ll Build A Stairway To Paradise; Ballad VOL VII shops; Double Stops; Working Out Fiddle Tunes (4); Of Jed Clampett; Old Folks; Fox On The Run; Nine Hun- 73 Nov. 1979 – ; 5/4 Time; BU/Basic Classic Banjo; Engraving (2); Munde’s Morsels; How dred Miles; Rock Bottom; Pan American Intro); Jazzgrass Licks; Scruggs Chordal Extensions; Circle Of Fifths (5) To Learn A Tablature; TABS: Limehouse Blues; Stoney Waltz; The Colored Guards; Chicken Reel; Jump Jim – 7th Chords; Building A Rim; TABS: Texas Barbecue; Point; I’m Using My Bible For A Roadmap; Teddy Ma- Crow; Grey Eagle Devil & The Farmer’s Wife; Down Yonder; Take Five; lo’s Jig; I’ll Never Be Alone; Red Wing; Alabama Sand 66 April 1979 – New Ideas Through Structured Meth- Down The Road; Looking Out My Back Door; Flop- Dance; Lime Rock; Little Sadie; Mississippi Sawyer ods; Getting Rid Of A Buzz; Beginning Back Up; The Eared Mule; Your Love Is Like A Flower; Fireball Mail; 82 Aug. 1980 – DON RUSNAK (Vintage Instru- Library Of Congress; Classic Banjo; Keep On The Sonny Sugar Hill; Stymied; Mare’s Tails ments); Gary Price Banjos; Syncopation; Practice Board; Side; Sonny Osborne; Scruggs Chord Formations; TABS: 74 Dec. 1979 — Reharmonization; Using Con- Engraving; Doublestops; Developing Scales; Working Wildwood Flower; Chicken Pie Hoe Down; Bouree In cepts From Research (3); Flatted 7th Runs; Stringing Out Fiddle Tunes (4); TABS: Bunker Hill; How Can A Em (Bach); Cumberland Gap; Sandy River Belle; Rocky Licks Together; ; TABS: I Heard The Bells On Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live; Sailor’s Horn- Top; I’ll Never Shed Another Tear; Salty Dog Blues Christmas Day; Oh Susannah; Morpeth Rant; Turkey In pipe; Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down; Thinking About 67 May 1979 – Fitting The Neck To The Rim; Fiddle The Straw; Tom Dooley; Will You Be Loving Another You; Why Don’t You Tell Me So; Silver Threads Among & Banjo; A Look Into The Past For New Ideas; Sonny Man; Jingle Bells; Red Wing; Sunny Side Of The Moun- The Gold Blues; Cuckoo’s Nest Osborne (2); Triplet Licks; Keep On The Sonny Side; tain; Hava Naguela; Keep On The Sunny Side; Cabaret 83 Sept. ‘80 – JOHN McEUEN; Steve Senerchia; Altered Chords; The Slide; Munde’s Morsels; Don Reno; 75 Jan. 1980 – D.C. GRIFFITHS; Keep On The Son- Keep On The Sonny Side; Cleaning Your Banjo; Scale TABS: Leather Britches; Sonatas (Handel); How Long ny Side; Fundamental BU Licks; More Arpeggios; Flat- Degree Patterns; What Is Talent; TABS: Andante; My Does It Take (Intro); Faded Love/I’ll Break Out (Licks); ted 7th Runs (2); Classic Banjo; Chord Substitutes; Banjo Home’s Across The Smoky Mountains; Temperance Midnight Flyer; Jesse James; Cripple Creek; Ghost Riders Kits (Saga & Stewart MacDonald); TABS: Beer Barrel Reel; Eight More Miles To Louisville; Wreck Of Old In The Sky; Little Rabbit; Foggy Mountain Breakdown; Polka; Dear Old Dixie; Somehow Tonight; Lonesome Number Nine; Ring Ring The Banjo; Doin’ My Time; Cripple Creek; I Saw Your Face In The Moon; Chinese Road Blues; If I Should Wander Back Tonight; Down John Hardy Breakdown; Double File The Road; I Am A Pilgrim; Renaissance Lute Piece; John VOL VIII 68 June 1979 - Circle Of Fifths; Beginning Jazz Impro- Henry; Prelude; Tit Galop Pour Mamou; Bill Cheatham; 84 Oct. 1980 – MARTY CUTLER (1); Scruggs Re- visation; Installing Neck Binding/Position Dots; Voicing; Ruben’s Train vue; Keep On The Sonny Side; Banjo Upkeep; Melodic Rhythmic Embellishment; Using Concepts From Re- 76 Feb. 1980 – MIKE SEEGER; Allison Banjo; Clawhammer; Working Out Tunes In Scruggs Style (1); search On Learning (1); Munde’s Morsels; Keep On The Why A Teacher?; Dan Emmett; Variations of Scruggs 144 Little Chords; TABS: Bill Cheatham; My Cabin Sonny Side; Fretting The 5th String; TABS: Jordu; Polka BU; Classic Banjo; Harmonization; Classic Exercises; In Caroline; Sunstone; John Henry; Sweet Betsy From On The Banjo; Double Banjo Blues; Salty Dog; Chero- Keep On The Sonny Side; Fiberglass Resonators/Bridg- Pike; Thinking About You; B.G. Chase; Sailor’s Horn- kee Shuffle; Lake Arthur Stomp; How Mountain Girls es; Reading Music (1); TABS: Buck Dancer’s Choice; pipe; Honeysuckle Rose; Cotton-Eyed Joe; Index – Vol- Can Love; Richmond Cotillion; Huckleberry Hornpipe; Handsome Molly; Poor Ellen Smith; Precious Memories; ume VII Deputy Dalton; Banjo Signal Sunny Side of the Mountain; Sweet Georgia Brown; 85 Nov. 1980 – HOWIE BURSEN; Playing The 69 July 1979 – PETER WERNICK; Keep On The Bach Concerto; We Can’t Be Darlings Anymore; ; Fast Fret String Cleaner; Keep On The Sonny Sonny Side; Basic Scruggs BU; Circle Of Fifths; Sonny Emotions; Side; Up The Neck Licks; Marty Cutler (2); Moving Osborne (3); Ben Eldridge Banjo Workshop; Installing 77 March 1980 – PETER MIRANDO; Keep On The Up The Neck; Working Out Tunes In Scruggs Style (2); Resonator Rings; Synonomous Chords; TABS: Foot- Sonny Side; Tuning; Fiddle Tune BU; Peter Schwimmer; TABS: Robinson County; Pain In My Heart; Hot Corn prints In The Snow; Autumn Leaves; Somehow Tonight; More On Diatonics; Classic Banjo; Glues; Working Out Cold Corn; Take This Hammer; Footprints In The Snow; Sledd Ridin’; I’ll Be All Right Tomorrow; Delaware Fiddle Tunes (1); TABS: Shelby Rock; Snow Deer; Cali- Why Don’t You Tell Me So; Broken Hearted Lover; Hornpipe; Dill Pickle Rag; fornia Cottonfields; Blackberry Blossom; Sockeye; Leav- Hello Dolly; Ground Hog; Peek-A-Boo Waltz; Dark 70 Aug. ’79 – PAUL MORRISSEY (Liberty Banjo ing California; Crying Holy; Old Fashioned Preacher; Hollow; Marie Co.); Finishing Procedures; Fiberglass Resonators; Keep Cora Is Gone; Dig A Hole In The Meadow; Swimming 86 Dec. 1980 – Country Banjo (An Alternative); On The Sonny Side; Scott Morgan; Chord Substitutions; Song; #5; Ground Hog; Who Broke The Lock; Joshua Fit Keep On The Sonny Side; Doggy Music; A. Craig Hoff- Using The Forward Roll; Using Concepts From Research The Battle of Jericho; Rosin The Beau; Soldier’s Joy man; Using Standard D Licks To Fake A Song; Staining On Learning (2); Circle Of Fifths (2); John Hickman; 78 April 1980 – Banjo Speed; Keep On The Sonny With Aniline; TABS: Jolly Old St. Nicholas; This World PAGE 4 CONTENTS INDEX 1974-2013 Is Not My Home; Blue Christmas; Frosty The Snowman; Eight More Miles To Louisville; Blue Kentucky Girl; On+ Making Up Your Own Chord Runs (1); Melodic From The Manger To The Cross; Doggy On The Carpet; Chicken Reel; My Little Georgia Rose; Bellahaboy Fair; Improvisation; Curly Ray Cline; Reharmonization; Key Home Sweet Home; Birth Of The Blues; Maple On The Hills Of Ireland; Autumn Leaves of C/Up The Neck; Picks; Putting Scales To Use; Fak- Hill; Pain In My Heart; Pastures Of Plenty; Darling Nel- 95 Sept. 1981 – BOB CARLIN; Four Rules of Left- ing It/Standard D Licks; Banjo Nuts; TABS: Bummer’s lie Grey; I Wonder Where You Are Tonight; Dysentary Hand Technique; G Tags In Upper Positions; Transposing Reel; Cooley’s Reel; Lonesome Pine Breakdown; They Stomp; Deck The Halls Licks; Clyde Blaylock; D Tuning; Adcock Style BU; In- Cut Down The Old Pine Tree; Music Box Dancer; Rem- 87 Jan. 1981 – COURTNEY JOHNSON; Keep On lay Cutting; Pre-Scruggs Finger Style; TABS: The Falls ington Blues; Dark Hollow; San Antonio Rose; Elkhorn The Sonny Side; Munde’s Morsels; Improvisation; Ron- of Richmond; Down The Road; The Night They Drove Ridge; Bugle Call Rag; Why Did You Wander; Roll In nie Nichols; Melodic Turnarounds; Finish Polishing; Old Dixie Down; Bully Of The Town; Jeff Davis; Reu- My Sweet Baby’s Arms Working Out Tunes In Scruggs Style (3); Thinking On ben; Hamilton County Breakdown; Did She Mention My 104 June 1982 – RON ARANT: Instrument Maker; The Strings; TABS: Follow The Leader; Is It Too Late Name; Double Women Blues; I’m On My Way Back To Licks/Key of C; Making Up Your Own Chord Runs (2); Now; Take Me In A Life Boat; Powder Creek; Sonny The Old Home; Molly & Tenbrooks; Over The Waterfall Classic Banjo; Major Scales; Dawgma; TABS: Dark Mountain Chimes; Highway Of Regret; Shortnin’ Bread; 96 Oct. 1981 – HERB TROTMAN; II-V-I Progres- Hollow; Banjo ; Why Did You Wander; Sitting On Cindy; My Little Girl In Tennessee; You’re Gonna Miss sion; Flamenco Banjo?; Upper-Neck Left-Hand Fin- Top Of The World; Pretty Polly; The Barking Dog; Sun- Me When I’m Gone; Little Rock Getaway; Brown’s Fer- gering; Up The Neck BU; Inlaying; The New (1981) flower Dance; Bully Of The Town; Silver Bells; Lara’s ry Blues; I Saw The Light Bluegrass Directory; TABS: Someday We’ll Meet Again Theme 88 Feb. 1981 – GREG CAHILL; BU Pattern For Sweetheart; Chatanooga Choo-Choo; Honesuckle Rose; 105 July 1982 – Making Up Your Own Chord Runs (3); Waltzes; John Hickman; Making Up Exercises; Keep On Malaguena; The Girl I Left Behind Me; Dixie Home; Hearing; Classic Banjo; Django Reinhardt Tune; Major The Sonny Side; Ragtime Banjo; TABS: Cuckoo’s Nest; McKinley’s Gone; Eight More Miles To Louisville; Scales in G & F; TABS: Come Back Darling; Let’s Go Saro Jane; Till The End Of The World Rolls ‘Round; Sunny Side Of The Mountain; Love Please Come Home; To The Fair; Coosy; Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey; I’m Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open; Kentucky Waltz; Your Worries & Troubles Are Mine; Little Willie; Cluck When The Angels Carry Me Home; Old Joe Clark; Song Roanoke; Red-Haired Boy; Brown County Breakdown; Old Hen; Scotland the Brave; Tab Index – Volume VIII Of Autumn; Rattlesnake; 12 Bar Blues In C; Boys Of Shout Little Lulie; Wild Bill Jones; Maple On The Hill; Volume IX Wexford; Cold Frosty Morn Follow The Leader; Speed The Plow; Irish Washerwom- 97 Nov. 1981 – CARL JACKSON; Shop Safety; Ca- 106 Aug. 1982 – Some Brand New Earl; Double Stops; an; Jesse James; The Entertainer; Time In A Bottle poing The Banjo; Travis Style; More On II-V’s; Scruggs Classic Banjo; Making Up Your Own Chord Runs (4); 89 March 1981 – JOHN BURKE; Freeing The Licks; Style/Upper Neck (1); TABS: Song For Susan; New Winfield, KS Festival; Re-working Someone Else’s Re- Waltz BU; Earl of ‘63; First Quality Banjo Pot Assembly; Camptown Races; Blue Ridge Mountain Blues; Darling pair Job; More Django; TABS: You Put Me On My Feet; Working Out Tunes In Scruggs Style (4); TABS: Golden Nellie Gray; Kitchen Girl; Blue Ridge Mountain Home; I KNow You’re Married But I Love You Still; Dixie; Roll Slippers; Blue Moon Of Kentucky; Angel Band; Lost All Redskin Rag (Cincinnati Rag); Faded Love; Red River In My Sweet Baby’s Arms; HIgh On A Mountain; Rakes My Money; Yardbird Suite; Bells of St. Mary’s; If I Fell Valley; Old Time Religion; Panhandle Country Of Mallow; Bad Case Of The Blues; Little Glass Of 90 April 1981 – Gibson Ball Bearing Banjo; Keep On 98 Dec. 1981 – Pentatonic Scales; All Purpose Turn- Wine; Washington Post March; New Camptown Races; The Sonny Side; Building A Neck/Wood Choice; Half around; Eddie Adcock/Travis Style; Setting Up A Factory Sweet Dixie; Nuages Measure D Licks; Waltz BU; Carl Jackson; Mike Elias Built Banjo; Country Western Banjo; Installing Frets; 107 Sept. 1982 – The Right Hand; Single String Tech- D Cam Tuners; TABS: Birth Of The Blues; Texas Gales; Weymann Style A; More Double Lead-Ins; Reno Scratch- nique; C Tuning Licks; Rank Amateur’s Corner; Trouble Nine Pound Hammer; Handsome Molly; John Hardy; ing Sound; Scruggs Style Upper Neck (2); TABS: Pallet Shooting Buzzing Strings; Applying Jazz Chord Runs; Kiss Me Waltz; Little Darling Pal Of MIne; Reuben On The Floor; Away In A Manger; Bonaparte Crossing Buying A Used Instrument Via Long Distance; TABS: (lick); Careless Love; Old Joe Clark The Rockies; Bonaparte’s Retreat; Crazy Arms; Well You Sally Goodin; Road Runner; Dig A Hole In The Mead- 91 May 1981 – BUTCH ROBINS; Chord Tones; 3/4 Needn’t; Ground Hog; Big Mon; At The Cafe; Just An- ow; Soldier’s Joy; Ain’t Nobody Gonna Miss Me; Big Time; BU Licks; Working Out Tunes In other Broken Heart; Six Months Ain’t Long; Ridgerun- Booger; Willow Weep For Me; Cutty Clay; East Neuk Scruggs Style (5); Neck Blanks; Stanley Brothers’ In- ner Of Fife; In The Gloryland; Skitsy; The Girl I Left Be- Print Discography; TABS: Rural Retreat; Shady Grove; 99 Jan. 1982 – FRANK DEDERA; Alan Munde; hind; Railroading On The Great Divide Down In The Valley; In The Pines; Shenandoah Waltz; I Picks; Dealing With The Plastic Banjo Head; The Key of 108 Oct. 1982 – Building The J.D. Crowe Gold Star Saw The Light; Long Journey Home; Wildwood Flower; C; Blues Scales; TABS: I’m Satisfied With You; Chokin’ Banjo; Accent Or Syncopation; Establishing Goals & Meltdown At Indian Point; I’ll Never Love Another; The Strings; Camptown Races; Abesnt Minded Woman; Practicing; Classic Banjo; C Tuning Fill-In Licks; C Har- Miller’s Reel Blueridge Mountain Home; Hindustan; John Lover’s monic ; TABS: Lonely Tombs; Old Time 92 June ‘81 – DOUG DILLARD; Fingerboard & Gone; Sweet Sunny South; It’s Mighty Dark To Travel; Pickin’; Quince Dillon’s High D Tune; I Saw The Light; Peghead Materials; Jimmy Martin 3/4 Time BU; Ralph I’m Going Back To Old Kentucky; Mastertone March I’ll Fly Away; Golden Slippers; The Whale’s Breakfast; Stanley Discography; Munde’s Morsels; H.H. & Har- 100 Feb. 1982 – MARC PRUETT; Analysis Of A Me- Eight More Miles To Louisville; Roll In My Sweet old Marcum; Chord Melody; Bacon & Day Reproduc- lodic Solo; The Key of C; Scruggs Style Upper Neck (3); Baby’s Arms; Farewell Blues; Caravan; Index – Volume tion; TABS: Hand Me Down My Walking Cane; Battle Less Is More; Classic Banjo; Binding; Munde’s Morsels; IX Hymn Of The Republic; Girl In The Blue Velvet Band; TABS: 12 Bar Blues In G; Toy Heart; Dark Hollow; Raw- Volume X I’m Going Back To Old Kentucky; This Heart Of Mine; hide; Keep Your Skillet Good & Greasy; Shady Grove; 109 Nov. 1982 – FRANK NEAT Stanleytone Banjo; Lonesome Fiddle Blues; 20-20 Vision; Little Birdie; Katy Old Time Religion; Bound To Ride; Stoney Creek; Rock Playing For The Audience; Rank Amateur’s Corner; C Daly; Sure Didn’t Take Him Long; Come Sunday; When The Cradle Joe; Done Gone; Blue Skies; Bluesette; Rag- Tuning vs G Tuning; Building Common Chords; Using You And I Were Young Maggie; Take Me In A Lifeboat time Annie; Polly Von Triplets To Ornament; Replacing A Fingerboard; Whole 93 July 1981 – RICK BENTLEY; Make Your Prac- 101 March 1982 – GOEFF HOHWALD; Banjonic Tone Scales; Improvising Around A Melody; TABS: tice Time Count; Classic Banjo; Scotch-Irish Melodic; Pedagogies; Exotic Chords; Old Radio Shows; Closed Hard Times; Stumbling; Bury Me Beneath The Wil- Double Lead-Ins; Melodic vs. Scruggs; Recording & Stu- Position Pentatonic/Blues Scales; Key Of C/Ben El- low; C Tuning vs. G Tuning; Footprints In The Snow; dio King Banjos; Building A Banjo; Jimmy Martin 3/4 dridge; TABS: Clinch Mountain Backstep; Bile ‘Em Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey; Coming ‘Round BU; Chord Melody & Substitutions; Working Out Tunes Cabbage Down; Pick ALong; The Tipsy Gypsy; Will The Mountain; Sean Ryan’s Polka; Eight More Miles To In Scruggs Style (4); TABS: Seeing Nellie Home; Share- You Be Loving Another Man; Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Louisville; Misty cropper’s Son; Love Me Darling Just Tonight; Minuet In Arms; Dark Side Of The Moon; My Red Dog; San Anto- 110 Dec. 1982 – ART ROSENBAUM; First Quality G (Bach); Hewlett; Loch Lomond; Ain’t Gonna Work nio Rose; Wave; This Masquerade; East Virginia; Darling Tone Ring Conversions; Breaks To Non-Instrumentals; Tomorrow; When The Saints Go Marching In; Shuckin’ Nellie Gray Eubie Blake Tune; Building Common Chords (2); Be- The Corn; Drink Up And Go Home; Tea For Two; Lime- 102 April 1982 – Anticipation; Key Of C/Up The Neck; yond Licks; Right Hemisphere Playing; Endings/Key of house Blues; Ida Red; Clear Away, Let The Banjo Ring The Neck; Stylistic Pointer; Classic Banjo; Eddie Adcock; C; Using Whole Tone Scales; TABS: Shoot The Buz- 94 Aug. 1981 – JEAN MARC ANDRES; Don Sto- Patterns; More Dawg Music; Scruggs zard; Shady Grove; Bugle Call Rag; Bringin’ In The ver (1); Shaping The Neck; Basic BU; How Should I Style Upper Neck (4); TABS: Remington Ride; Bull At Georgia Mail; Just A Phone Call Will Do; Memories Practice; Banjo Making & The Overhead Router; II-V-I The Wagon; Wreck Of Old ‘97; Live And Let Live; Think Of You; Hark The Herald Angels Sing; Sweetest Love; Sequence; TABS: New River Train; Old Reuben No. 1; Of What You’ve Done; I Hope You Have Learned; Fun Home Sweet Home; John Hardy Patty On The Turnpike; I’ll Fly Away; Lay My Burdens On The Wabash; Copper Kettle; Blue Eagle; Dawgma; 111 Jan. 1983 – What Is A Scrugg?; No Misanthrope, Down; Chicken; Mole In The Ground; Sally Goodin’; Peachbottom Creek; Blackberry Blossom; Gotta Travel He; Building Common Chords (3); Flat-Head Tone CONTENTS INDEX Vol. I–XL PAGE 5 Rings; Picking Tabs; Role Of The 5th String; Classic Santa Claus; Rickett’s Hornpipe; Excuse Me, I Think I’ve Banjo Diary; Disco Banjo?; Reno & Smiley Vocal Banjo (Artificial Harmonics); Swing Tune/Melodic Style; Got A Headache Numbers; Improvisation; Chord Substitution; G Noise/ TABS: Dear Old Dixie; Nine Pound Hammer; Little Mag- 120 Oct. 1983 – RAYMOND McLAIN; Other Fives; C Harmonic Expansion; Fire On The Mountain/Nashville gie; Oh My Little Darling; When The Saints Go Marching Chord BU; Diminished Exercises; TABS: Silver Creek; Network; Playing Tabs On Your Computer (2); Old- In; Blackberry Blossom; Satin Doll; New Orleans Banks Of The Ohio; Blackberry Blossom; Lonesome Time BU; Tune; Stretching Your Les- 112 Feb. 1983 – A Female Complaint About Those Blue- Without You; Tennessee Truck Driving Man; If I Should son Dollars; Vega Whyte Laydie No. 7 c. 1906; TABS: grass Lyrics; Photo – All Banjo Players In Czechoslova- Wander Back Tonight; Cripple Creek; Midnight In Mos- Kozar’s Dance; Girl From The North Country; Staying kia; Minor Chords; The Two-Rod Truss-Rod; Munde’s cow; Sally Ann; Index – Volume X Alive; Excuse Me I Think I’ve Got A Heartache; Long Morsels; Deering Deluxe Banjo; Building Common Volume XI Gone; Cluck Old Hen; Swinging A Nine Pound Ham- Chords (4); TABS: Cotton Mill Girls; Blue Ridge Ex- 121 Nov. 1983 – CLAY HEPBURN: Banjo Builder; mer; Man Of Constant Sorrow; Banjo Signal; Salty Dog; press; Poor Richard’s Blues; Lady Gardner’s Reel; Molly Minstrel Clawhammer & Crosspicking; Classic Banjo; Rocky Top (3/4); Irish Washerwoman (3/4); Ragtime & Tenbrooks; Lonesome Without You; Lulu’s Back In Banjo Duets; That Pre-War Sound; Locating & Devel- Annie; Take Me Back To Tulsa; John Henry Town; Cuckoo’s Nest; Little Rock Getaway; I’m Using oping The Motif; Banjo Diary; TABS: That’s All Right 129 July ‘84 – VINCE SADOVSKY; Editorial – The My Bible For A Roadmap Mama; Poor Rambler; Stop Dat Knockin’; Generic Reel; Tsumura Collection Book/Banjo Soundsheet; Marketing 113 March 1983 – More On Right Hemisphere Playing; Dill Pickle Rag; Little Cabin Home; Crum Valley Trestle Your Musical Talents; Taping Fire On The Mountain (2); Bridge Placement; Classic Banjo; Ragtime Clawhammer; Party; A Ragtime Episode; Sheik Of Araby; Columbus Why Substitute Chords Work; The Elusive Un-Capoed Building Common Chords (5); Licks Using Chord Pro- Stockade Blues; On The Banks Of The Old Tennessee; Key of A; Open C Tuning; Classic Banjo; Capoing The gressions; TABS: Django; John Henry; Red River Val- Sally Ann; Sail Away Ladies; Stoney Creek; Hazel Creek Fifth String; TABS: Before I Met You; Big Country; ley; Scott Joplin’s New Rag; Molly & Tenbrooks; Silver 122 Dec. 1983 – CATHY FINK; Reno Ragtime; G John Hardy; Bill Cheatham; Old Joe Clark; Turkey In Crown Schottische; Leavin’ Home; Old Rosin The Beau; Chord Licks; Learning From Records; TABS: Breaking The Straw; Butterfly Hornpipe; Holiday Pickin’; Wood- Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms Up Christmas; Deck The Halls; Good King Wenceslas; chopper’s Reel; The Star of County Down; Wreck Of 114 April 1983 – STEVE COOLEY; Only A Gibson Adeste Fideles; Frosty The Snowman; 12th Street Rag; Old Number Nine; Is Good Enough; Kit Reports; Working Out Tunes In Lonesome Road Blues; Jesse James; Raw Hide; Shout 130 Aug. ‘84 – RICHARD UNDERWOOD; You Scruggs/Melodic Style (2); Substitute Chords; TABS: Little Luly; Clinch Mountain Backstep; House Of The – The Promoter; Visit To The Old Home Place; BU Hydroslyde Breakdown; The Engineers Don’t Wave Rising Sun; Moonlight In Vermont Rhythm Patterns; Gospel Banjo; A Minor Conversion; From The Trains Anymore; Well May The World Go; 123 Jan. 1984 – ; Learning From Django Revisited; TABS: Banjo Signal; Lonesome Smoke Gets In Your Eyes; Weeping Willow Tree; Are Records (2); Computer Banjo (Tuning In G/D/C); G Traveler; Truck Driving Man; Old Spinning Wheel; You Washed In The Blood; Pike County Breakdown; Blue Chord Licks; Kleiner Electronic Tuner; Klezmer Klaw- Lady Of Spain; What A Friend We Have In Jesus; The Ridge Cabin Home; Bye Bye Blues hammer; The Compensated Banjo Bridge; TABS: Man Minorized Miller; Swing 42; Wild Goose Crossing The 115 May 1983 – TIM ELLIS; Choosing A Banjo Of Constant Sorrow; Four Strong Winds; Somehow To- Ocean; Under The Double Eagle Teacher; Custom Banjo (Ron Arant); Banjo Tone night; Happy Birthday Earl; Af Shabes In Vilna; Bay Of 131 Sept. 1984 – LITTLE ROY & LITTLE LEWIS (1); Clawhammer Crosspicking; Vega Banjo Catalog Fundy; Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen; Good PHILLIPS; Atlas To Stanley Country; Playing Tabs On (Scruggs Soloist) c. 1968; Munde’s Morsels; Don Cov- King Wenceslas Your Computer (3); Wrap-Up On Compensated Bridge; ers Earl; Rank Amateur’s Corner; Working Out Tunes In 124 Feb. ‘84 — MARK BARNETT; Proclamations: Classic Banjo; Substitute Chords; The MIT Ring The Scruggs/Melodic Style (3); Substitute Chords; TABS: North Carolina/; Travels Of An Irish Tune; Banjar Exhibit; Working With Binding; Larry McNeely; Devil Woman; Banjolina; Crying Holy; Maple Leaf Rag; Keeping Time; F Chord Licks; Buying A Flathead Gib- Minorization; Fretless Banjo Arrangement; TABS: Planxty Jack Daniels; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes; Ghost son; Munde’s Morsels; Ragtime Banjo; Crowe Style Midnight Ramble; Red River Valley; Blackberry Blos- Riders In The Sky; Earl’s Breakdown; New River Train; Banjo; The Key Of B; The Ninth Chord; The Pre-War som; Premiere Waltz; I’ll Fly Away; Fireball; Tequila Somebody Touched Me; I Am The Man Thomas; Devil’s Sound; TABS: Lonesome Road Blues; Twin Sisters; Mockingbird; Original Rags; I Can’t Get Started; Oct.; Dream; Your Love Is Like A Flower; Banjo Signal; Home Sweet Georgia Brown; I Saw The Light; Little Maggie; Monroe’s Hornpipe; Natural Bridge Blues Sweet Home Reno Ride; Forked Deer; Oh Daddy; Eighth Of Jan.; My 132 Oct. 1984 – Banjo Builder Economics; Mountain 116 June 1983 – REED MARTIN; Working Out Tunes Little Georgia Rose; I Saw The Light; Six More Miles; So Banjo Construction; The Future Of ; In Scruggs/Melodic Style (4); Fiddle Tune In Waltz Time; Rare; Gospel Banjo; Building A Banjo/Beginner’s Luck; Up Reno Ragtime; Right Hand Positioning; BU Overview; 125 March 1984 – Fleming Brown; Computer Banjo The Neck; Roll Patterns As BU; Rudiments Of Scruggs Price Straightline Tailpiece; Patterns; TABS: (2); Pre-War Sound (2); Musical Postmarks; Drive; Style; Using A Book To Individualize Instruction; TABS: Little Maggie; Midnight On The Water; Black & White Origin & Development Of Clawhammer; Munde’s Mor- Highway Of Regret; Maple On The Hill; The Great Rag; Roller Coaster; Sitting On Top Of The World; Low sels; The Key of C/No Capo; Putting Scales Into Your Speckled Bird; I Saw The Light; Please Remember That & Lonely; Molly & Tenbrooks; Red Haired Boy; Big- Memory Bank; E Licks; Classical Banjo; I Love You; Lady Of Spain; Molly & Tenbrooks; Will Eyed Rabbit G Minor Tuning; MIT Museum/Ring The Banjar; TABS: The Circle Be Unbroken; Limehouse Blues; Pananini 117 July 1983 – James McKinney (1982 National Ban- Sourwood Mountain; I’ll See You In My Dreams; Pretty Caprice XXIV; Tab Index – Volume XI jo Champion – Winfield, KS) – Three Hollow Flat-Head Polly; Farmer’s Girl; Keep On The Sunny Side; Fortune; Volume XII Tone Rings (First Quality, Deering, Price); Classic Banjo; Reuben’s Train; Pear Tree; Living The Good Life; Eatin’ 133 Nov. 1984 – Experiences of a Beginner; More Minstrel Clawhammer; Let’s Consider Allen Shelton; Out Of Your Hand; Green Dolphin Street; I Cried Again; On Penatonic Scales; & The Clawhammer Fill-In BU Licks; Klezmer Clawhammer; Major Scale Rocky Top; Allegretto; Paddy On The Turnpike Revival; Evaluating Skills of a New Student; Banjo Patterns; TABS: Shuckin’ The Corn; Silver Shoe Clog; 126 April ‘84 – ANDY BOARMAN; Substituting Builder’s Thoughts; Melvin Goins; Refretting; TABS: Mrs. McCloud’s Reel; Chicken Polka; Banjo Bounce; The E Minor Chord; Thoughts On BU; Fireball Wins Blackberry Blossom; Wolves Howling; The Scarateglen Blue Ridge Cabin Home; Bulgar; Tom & Jerry; Little The Granny; Melodic Style BU; Crowe On The Banjo; Polka; Breakin’ It Down; Blue Monk; Cumberland Gap; Rock Getaway; A New Kind Of Love Double C Tuning; Jazz Waltz; Formulas For Fret Scale Circus Jig; Charming Betsy; Careless Love; Bill Cheath- 118 Aug. 1983 – BILL KEITH; Bill Keith As A Teach- Lengths; TABS: Head Over Heels; Six White Horses; am er; Who Will Teach The Teachers; Roland TB-303 Bass My Lord Will Send A Moses; Blue Ridge Cabin Home; 134 Dec. 1984 – WADE MAINER; Refretting Pt. II; Line; Gary Price Banjo; Five Banjo Peg-Heads c. 1923- Did She Mention My Name; Spider Dance Reel; Please; Major Scale Patterns; Computer Tabs – Pt. IV; What 33; D Chord Fill-In Licks; Stanley Hicks (Mountain Ban- Buggy Ride; Gravy Waltz; Makes a Good Student; TABS: Blue Mountain Bells; jo Maker); Ragtime Banjo; TABS: Nine Pound Hammer; 127 May 1984 – BELA FLECK Revisited; The A Mi- Old Joe Clark; Angeline The Baker; I Have Found A I’ll Never Shed Another Tear; Planxty George Brabazon; nor Chord; Playing Tabs On Your Computer (1); Minstrel Way; Lord of the Dance; Banjo Special; Big Tilda; Di- Gold Rush; The Family Who Prays; Little Darlin’ Pal Of Banjo; Grain Masking; Festival Video Taping; TABS: nette; Molly Bloom; Old Home Place; John Henry Mine; Worried Blues; Green Mountain Hop; My Favorite Miss Julie; Tenting Tonight; Paddy On The Turnpike; 135 Jan. 1985 – STEVE LUTKE; Banjos of Southern Things; Pippin’ Rag Watermelon Hanging On The Vine; Foggy Mountain Appalachians (photos); Major Scale Patterns, Pr. II; In- 119 Sept. 1983 – STEPHEN WADE; Diminished Breakdown; Bluesette; Frieda Florentine; Bells Of St. tros & Lead-Ins; TABS: John Henry; Doggy Mountain Scales; Munde’s Morsels; Clawhammer Duets; C Chord Mary’s; Black Mountain Rag; Coon Hunt Walk Around; Breakdown; Pike County Breakdown; Flying Clouds; BU; Working Out Tunes in Scruggs/Melodic Style (7); From Out Of Nowhere Upper Lehigh; Silver Bells; Your Love Is Like a Flower; The Pre-War Sound?; Bluegrass Endings; TABS: Lone- 128 June 1984– ROGER BANNISTER; Peg-Heads Jump Into The Wagon; Oh Lady Be Good some Road Blues; My Lord Will Send A Moses; Please; From The Past ( 7 Paramounts); Seasoning Hardwoods; 136 Feb. 1985 – Setting Up Raised-Head Banjos; Tips PAGE 6 CONTENTS INDEX 1974-2013 On Technique; Stroke and Clawhammer Style; Stripped joisticus; Wreck Of Old Number Nine; Reuben; Wabash Orange Blossom Special; Theme Time; Room At The Threads in Pot Metal; Computer Tabs, Pt. V; TABS: Gary Cannonball Top Of The Stairs; Old Salty Dog; Liz Carrol’s Jig Owen; Your Love Is Like a Flower; Grandfather’s Clock; 147 Jan. 1986 – RICK SHUBB; More On Hand Posi- 158 Dec. 1986 – ALLEN SHELTON; Specifics of Good Hearted Woman; Do Mr. Boker Do; Hurrah For tioning; Bill Gokey, Pt II; Intro To Banjo setup; C7 For Banjo Heads; Casio VL-1; More On Military Bands; Hard Times; Darkey’s Dream; Greensleeves; Planxty De- Color; ; Building Bridges; Fm9 Tuning; Using Repeated Tones; Vega Peg-Heads, c.1920; Im- nis O’Conor; Hard Times; Take The A Train; Paddy On Banjo X-Word; TABS: Grandfather’s Clock; This Land provisation; TABS: Away In The Manger; Oh Come All The Handcar Is Your Land; Long Black Veil; Bugle Call Rag; Puff The Ye Faithful; Deck The Halls; Big Bend Gal; Ninth Regi- 137 March 1985 – FRED SOKOLOW; Appreciation Magic Dragon; Hey Porter; Tangerine; 5-String Rhap- ment Quickstep; Fly Me To The Moon; Sally Goodin’; of Don Reno; Classic Banjo Period; Working Out Banjo sody Sleigh Ride; Salty Dog Tunes; Recessing 5th String Spike; TABS: Old 148 Feb. ‘86 – JOHNNIE WHISNANT, Pt III; Ah 159 Jan. 1987 – ; Off-Beat Ham- Roll Blues; Ground Speed; Johnson Boys; Shamrock; Nuts! Or Cutting Your Own; Seventh Chords; Deering mer-Ons & Pull-Offs; Playing In Different Keys; Co- Skipping Over The Green; Put My Little Shoes Away; Banjos; Designing An Inlay Pattern; Beginner Jam Ses- ordinator Rod Adjustment; Peter Wernick Banjo Camp; Your Love Is Like A Flower; Djangology; Ole Sambo; sions; TABS: Claim Jumper; Blackberry Blossom; More On Chordal Playing; Contemporay Standard Bluegrass Stomp; This Land Is Your Land; Sweet Sunny Camptown Races; Traveling The Highway Home; Bugle ; Basics Of Tone Rings; TABS: Fort South; Swallowtail Reel; Santa Anna’s Retreat Call Rag; Everyday Dirt; Pick Along; John Henry; Short Smith Breakdown; Martha Campbell; Leather Britches; 138 April 1985 – Scruggs Model Mastertone; Computer Life Of Trouble; Little Girl In Tennessee Arkansas Traveler; Your Love Is Like A Flower; Colum- Tabs, Pt VI; Installing A Geared 5th String Peg; Working 149 March 1986 – RANDY LITTLEFIELD; Arpeg- bus Stockade Blues; Feast Here Tonight; Jeepers Creep- Out Tunes; Junior Blankenship; Group Lessons; Zither gio Revisited; Cases For Mountain Style Banjos; Buzzes ers; Cotton-Eyed Joe; Things To Come; Sally Goodin’; Banjo; TABS: Talk It Over With Your Maker; Ozark & Rattles; Ron Thomason; TABS: MacElmoyle; When Minstrel Medley; Colorado Turnaround Mountains; Sally In The Garden; Spanish Fandango; Mad You’re Smiling; Nelly Bly; Banjo Bounce; Swing Low 160 Feb. 1987 – Back Plate Carving; J.D. Crowe: Hatter’s Jig; Old Joe Clark; Sweet Sunny South; She Left Sweet Chariot; Little Rock Getaway; Mountain Dew; Master Scruggs Stylist; Playing Cross-Tuning; Getting Me Standing On The Mountain; Pauline’s Skates; I’ve Nardis The Right Sound; Teachin’ The Kid (1); 7-Note Lick Got A Mule To Ride; The Drunken Driver 150 April 1986 – BRAD LEFTWICH & LINDA for 3/4 Time; TABS: Cryin’ Holy; Grey (Gray) Eagle; 139 May 1985 – CURTIS MCPEAKE; The Oldest/ HIGGINBOTHAM; Diminished Chord; Jack Cooke; Darling Nellie Gray; Whiskey Before Breakfast; Gotta Newest Banjo; Finishes; Into The Studio; A New Music Theme Park Banjo; TABS: John Lover’s Gone; Old Travel On; I Am A Pilgrim; All The Good Times Are Is Born; The Tremolo; TABS: I Think It’s Going To Rain; Bunch Of Keys; Dear Old Dixie; Old Joe Clark; Act Nat- Past And Gone; Limehouse Blues I Can Tell You The Time; Talk Of The Town; Lonesome urally; Virginia Darlin’; Sometimes I Still Think About 161 March 1987 – DAN LINDNER; The Picking Fiddle Blues; Soldier’s Joy; De Boatman’s Dance; Jordan You Hand – Pt. 1; Scruggs’ Code of Behavior (FHF); Banjo Is A Hard Road To Travel; Rasputin’s Last Ride; Velvet 151 May 1986 – DARRELL SANDERS; Adventures Housekeeping; One Lick At A Time; Building A Block Dagger; Old Joe Clark Up The Neck; Augmented Chord; TABS: Ground Hog; Maple Rim; Single Jigs; Anglo-Irish Influence In Min- 140 June 1985 – Mandolin Brothers/Mike Nomad Scene Peek A Boo Waltz; The Roving Gambler; Cowboys & strel Tunes; TABS: Silver Eagle; World Is Waiting For Re-Creation; Charlie Sizemore; TABS: De’il Among The Indians; Geraldine Waltz; Love’s Flywheel; You Bake The Sunrise; Mary Lyon; Muleskinner Blues; Christmas Tailors; I Hear A Choo-Choo; She Left Me Standing On Right With Martha White; Dear Old Dixie Day In The Morning; Darkey Money Musk; Darkey The Mountain; Everyday Dirt; Home Sweet Home; Old 152 June 1986 – FRANK NECESSARY; Unorthodox Fisher’s Hornpipe; Annie’s Song Joe Clark; Grandfather’s Clock; Straight, No Chaser; & Hybrid Banjo Styles; How About A Hand For The 162 April 1987 – Hermitage Banjo c.1830-40; Teach- Blue Grass Ramble; My Little Georgia Rose; I’m On My Banjo Player; Summer Weather Banjo Care; Minstrel ing The Kid – Pt. II; Lacquering Metal Parts; BU In The Way To The Old Home Banjo; TABS: El Condor Pasa; Forked Deer; Dueling Style of Bela Fleck; Banjo Fret Scale Calculator; TABS: 141 July 1985 – DON WAYNE RENO; Picking Hand Banjos; My Walking Cane; Trail Of Sorrow; Spanish John Hardy; Walking In A Winter Wonderland; A Cre- Assignments; Repairing A Chipped Finish; Curly Ray Grass; Nobody’s Business; Ain’t She Sweet; Cumberland ole’s Dream; Twin Sisters; Dig A Hole In The Meadow; Cline; TABS: Stompin’ At The Savoy; The Teatotaller; Gap; Hard Times Jig; Hard Times Coal Miner’s Blues; Morpeth Rant; Suwannee River St. Anne’s Reel; Dixie Breakdown; Boar Hog; Cripple 153 July 1986 – RUAL YARBROUGH; Libby Banjo; Hoedown; O’Gallagher’s Hornpipe; Bluegrass Polka; Creek; Michelle This Matter of Size; Remembering What You’ve Learned; I’m Walkin’; The 28th of Jan. 142 Aug. 1985 – TONY ELLIS; Curly Ray Cline Pt. TABS: Don’t Think Twice; Roanoke; New Camptown 163 May 1987 – JOE BETHANCOURT; The Pick- II; TABS: Cotton-Eyed Joe; Jeff Davis; Cripple Creek; Races; Little Beggerman; True Blue Bill; Verdie Let Your ing Hand – Pt. II; Emphasizing The Important Notes; A Theme Time; Dark Hollow; St. Thomas; Who’s Gonna Bangs Hang Down; Fortune Feed Theme Song; Another Dulcimer Tuning; Baroque Improvisation; Teach Your Mow My Grass; Everyday Dirt; Jesus Pilot Me Day; Rye Straw Children Well; That Crowe Timing; TABS: Soldier’s 143 Sept. 1985 – The ; Banjo Gender; A 154 Aug. 1986 – MARK PLATIN (Wildwood Banjos); Joy; My Home’s Across The Blue Ridge Mountains; Visit To Japan; Chemical Hazards; Trading Up; Fm9 Jazz Richard Underwood; Mountain Banjo Neck Inlays; It’s Dear Old Dixie; Two Coats; Old Joe Clark; Opus 38; Tuning; Simon Electric Banjo; Feckless Fretless; TABS: Never Too Late To Learn; Joys of Fifth String Fretting; Sunnyside Of The Mountain Eureka Springs Schottiche; Hillswick Wedding March; Jam Session Guide Lines; TABS: Freight Train; How 164 June 1987 – ; Using Scales In Daybreak In Tokyo; In The Gloryland; Shuckin’ The High The Moon; Take Me Out To The Ballgame; Swing BU; Clawhammer Tune Books & Other Sources; A Day Corn; Ain’t Misbehavin’ Low Sweet Chariot; All Of Me; Loons On The Pond; of Banjo Teaching; Clawhammer For 3-Finger Pickers; 144 Oct. 1985 – Washburn Banjos c. 1897; Fm9 Jazz Eight More Miles To Louisville; TABS: Suwanee River Hoedown; When My Blue Moon Tuning; Computer Banjo, Pt VII; George Shuffler Pt. I; 155 Sept. 1986 – BELA FLECK (Revisited); Hobbies; Turns To Gold; Nobody’s Business; Chicken Reel; Col- Chord Substitutions; Exercise In Triplets; TABS: Faith- Blake Williams; Strings; Military Bands & Origin of Old- orado Turnaround Munde); Ballad Of Jed Clampett; less Love; How High The Moon; Raw Hide; Turkey In Time Sound; TABS: Tenderfoot; Philadelphia Lawyer; Bonaparte’s March; Road To Columbus The Straw; Jesus Savior, Pilot Me; On The Road Again; Bootleg John; Old Spinning Wheel; Roanoke; Hand Me 165 July 1987 – Busking; An Original Tune (Fleck); John Three Sisters; Dixie; Soldier’s Joy; Dixie Break- Down My Walking Cane; Steppin’ Lightly; Happy Birth- Bridge Alterations & Tone; A Most Unpleasant Subject down; Rocky Top; The Old Rugged Cross. Tab Index day, (Practice); A (Mountain) Reading List; Banjoizing Fid- – Volume XII 156 Oct. 1986 – TONY TRISCHKA (Revisited); The dle Tunes II; Reno Banjo; Resonator Construction; Pick- Volume XIII Skip Stroke; Key of D; Dealing With Chords; The Banjo ing Hand – Right Hand Speed Pt. 2; Teaching The Kid 145 Nov. ‘85– JOHNNIE WHISNANT Pt. I; S.S. Board; Improvisation; Notes On Picks; First Position III; Tone Is Everything; TABS: Somerset; Brennan On Stewart Common Sense Tail Piece, c 1896; S.S. Stewart Backup; Rebirth of Piccolo Banjo: TABS: Crossville The Moor; Clinch Mountain Backstep; O’Gallagher’s 6-String Banjo c. 1896; George Shuffler, Pt. II; TABS: Breakdown; Bonaparte Crossing The Delaware; Ten- Hornpipe; Double Banjo Blues; My Wandering Boy Bill Bailey; Lorena; Molly O’Hara; Gaspe Reel; White nessee Stud; Devil’s Dream; Used To Be; Home In The 166 Aug. 1987 – JIMMY COX; Original Tune (Mc- House Blues; Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down; Salty Dog; Mountains; Wild Indian; Waltz For Indira; Dickenson Neely); A Banjoist Is Born; How To Fret; Using Scales; Shenandoah Falls; Train 45; Scotland The Brave County Breakdown; Tab Index – Volume XIII Beginner’s Fundamentals; Jam Sessions & Pickin’ 146 Dec. 1985 – BILL GOKEY; Johnnie Whisnant, Volume XIV Parties; Clawhammer & Current UK Folk Scene; Dis- Pt II; Earl Joins Hall of Fame; Two D 157 Nov. 1986 – MICHAEL COONEY; Banjo Tab covering Bluegrass And Britain; A Weekend In Paris; Tunings; TABS: Black Mountain Rag; Lindsey; Care- Player (Commodore 64); Diverse World of Tablature; Clawhammer For 3-Finger Pickers; TABS: John Hardy; less Love; Lonesome Road Blues; Lonesome Moonlight Back Up With Imagination; Frank Neat; Liberty Banjo; Boil Them Cabbage Down; The Dashing White Ser- Waltz; Dixie Breakdown; Looking For The Stone; Ban- TABS: Shady Grove; Lord Is My Shepherd; Swanee Jig; geant; Tennessee Waltz; Red Wing; CONTENTS INDEX Vol. I–XL PAGE 7 167 Sept. 1987 – ELMER BIRD; Strathspeys; Pentatonic Me; Salt Creeek; I’m Gonna Settle Down; My Cabin In Footprints In The Snow; Canfield Hornpipe; O’Connor’s Scales; Teaching The Kid, Part IV; Banjoizing Fiddle Caroline; Old Joe Clark; Marquis Of Huntly; Dixie Favorite Tunes, Part III; TABS: The Laird O’Drumblaire; The 177 July 1988 — GREG JOWAISAS; Some Thoughts 185 March 1989 – TODD TAYLOR, Banjoist With Grey Ghost; Stack Of Barley Hornpipe; The 28th Of Jan.; About Bluegrass Banjo Design; Key Of F (Crowe Style); Taylor Twins; Scruggs Ointment; Changing Strings & Durang’s Hornpipe; Steel Guitar Rag Tennessee Banjo Institute Announcement; Today’s Tra- Installing A Banjo Head; Geiger 5-String Banjo Bridge 168 Oct. 1987 – ANDY BOARMAN; The Bb Scale; ditional BU; Percussive Clawhammer?; Fancy Arrange- (Evaluation); Banjos & Suzuki; Scottish Airs & Ameri- Bouncing Baby Bluegrass; Dynamics; Alternating M & ments For Somgs From Other Traditions; Tuning The can Waltzes; A Stitch In Time; Composing A Solo (Be- T Strokes On The Same String; 12 Long Tags; TABS: Banjo - Part I; Head, Strings & Bridges; TABS: Last Pay ginners) Pt III; TABS: Why Don’t You Tell Me So; I’ll Lonesome Road Blues; Dixie; Train 45; Road To Colum- Day At Coal Creek (Duet); Banks Of The Ohio; Little Stay Around; Rain Dancing; Neil Gow’s Lament For bus; Sourwood Mountain; Fort William Hornpipe; No- Maggie; Coosy; Hatikvah; Salty Dog His Second Wife; Hobo’s Meditation; Roll In My Sweet body Love Is Like Mine; Home Sweet Home; Cumula- 178 Aug. 1988 — Banjo Roots, The African Lute; Tun- Baby’s Arms tive Tab Index Volumes I – XIV; Tab Index Volume XIV ing - The Banjo Part II; Chord Melody; Which Wood 186 April 1989 – A Banjo Quest; Another Banjo VOL XV Would One Want?; Contemporary Sounds in BU; On Quest; Still Another Banjo Quest; Shelton Special; Get- 169 Nov. 1987 – Roots Of The Banjo; Are You Going To Banjo Contests; Scotch Measures; Something To Crowe ting The Tone You Want; Improvising Solos - Bluegrass Miss Me When I’m Gone? (Stolen Instruments); Teaching About; TABS: John Hardy; All The Things You Are; Style, Pt. III; Composing A Solo (Beginners) Pt IV; Have The Kid, Part IV; Sound Of The Major Scale; Alternating Never Ending Love For You; How Mountain Girls Can Your Own Style; Five String Breakdown - Far In The Strokes & Drop Thumbs On The Same String Love; Both SIdes Now; Longing For The Southland; The Mountain; Video Tape REVIEW: Me- Pair; Banjoizing Fiddle Tunes, Part IV; Building A Moun- White Cockade; She’s Gone, Gone, Gone morial Festival. TABS: Silver Bells; Star Of Bethleham; tain Banjo Neck; TABS: Little Cabin Home On The Hill; 179 Sept. 1988 — DAVE EVANS; Me & Bela; Piccolo Will The Circle Be Unbroken; Far In The Mountain; Blue Ridge Mountain Blues; Merriweather; Ashes Of Potshots; I Was There (Scruggs at Frontier Ranch); Shet- Elmer’s Tune Love; Dinah; Stack Of Barley Hornpipe; Augie’s Blues; land Tunes; How To Practice; Key of D (Crowe Style); 187 May 1989 – RALPH LITWIN, 3-Finger Stylist; 170 Dec. 1987 – GARRY BOGGS; Tenor Conversions BU: Emphasis; Highlights of Winterhawk; More Embar- St. Patrick, Béla & I, One Lick BU Series; Earl Scruggs? (Pro & Con); Blue Notes; Scottish Pipe Marches & Scot- rassing Moments; TABS: Highway 52; Willafjord; Dark Melodic Style?; Book REVIEW: Bluegrass Banjo Sim- tish Medleys; Accenting The Melody; TABS: Up The Hollow; Way Downtown; Baby Blue Eyes; Don’t Go Out plified by Wayne Erbsen; Hungarian Bagpipe Tunes; Blue Ridge; Don MacLean’s Farewell To Oban; Silent Tonight; Texas Blues; More On Hand Problems; Are You Out Of Tune? Prob- Night; Bound To Ride; Blackjack; How High The Moon; 180 Oct. 1988 — MIKE ALLEN (1986-87 National ably; J.D. Crowe Style. TABS: Poor Monroe; Birth Of Good Night Ladies; Yankee Doodle Dandy; Wildwood Bluegrass Banjo Picking Champion); Open Four Capo- The Blues; On And On; Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow; Flower ing; BNL Celebrates 15th Year; Dueling Bagpipes; More Rocky Top; Dudanota; Seneca Square Dance; Dutch 171 Jan. 1988 – Stype Brothers Banjo Shop; Contempo- Django; And What Did You Do On Your Summer Vaca- Girl; Glorietta Waltz; Nine Pound Hammer rary BU; Another Radio Gem; How To Learn; Swedish tion?; Good Banjo In (); 188 June 1989 – SNUFFY JENKINS: Pioneer 3-Fin- Fiddle Tunes; Peghead Ear Angle Error; TABS: Off To Product Evaluation: “Deering Delta Banjo Case”; Shel- ger Picker; Timing - Think What It’s All About; Back-up California; Fire Ball Mail; Little Girl In Tennessee; All ton Section; Improvising Solos; TABS: Whiskey Before - One Lick Series Continued; Bridge Placement; Scottish The Good Times Are Past Amd Gone; She’ll Be Coming Breakfast; K.C.’s Ride; Banjo Breakdown; Anouman; & Shetland Fiddle Tunes; Double-Stop Triplets; TABS: Around The Mountain; Jentland Tune Doolin’ Dalton; Sweetest Love; Lonesome Road Blues; Dear Old Dixie; Red River Valley; Love Gone Cold; 172 Feb. 1988 — Frogs & Banjos (Continued); Tarrant Shelton Special . Tab Index Volume XV Foggy Mountain Special; Jesse James; Lumberjack’s Bailey Jr. Tribute; Johnson Mountain Boys Break-up; Volume XVI Reel; Miss Susan Cooper; Crazy Arms; Don’t Wake Me Briggs Banjo Instructor; Clean Sound; Product Evalu- 181 Nov. 1988 — IBMA Report; Reno Banjo; Computer Up; Mack The Knife ation: “Beginning Banjo” Video by Michael J. Taylor; Music - What’s In It For Banjoists?; Old-Time Three- 189 July 1989 – RANDALL MORTON, A Picker With TABS: Mame; I’ll Never Shed Another Tear; Swanee Finger Quiche-Grass; Original Waltz in Cumberland Gap Class; Conversion Charts - G & C Tuning; Reader’s Be- River; Let’s Talk For A While; Bury Me Beneath The Tuning; A Typical Bluegrass Gig; Munde-ize Your BU; ginner ; Improvising; J.D. Crowe & Earl Willow; Dance, Boatman Dance; Old Zip Coon; Darkey Aug.a Heritage Arts Workshops 1988; Old-Time Banjo; Scruggs - Side By Side; Fabulous Finishes. TABS: Fisher’s Hornpipe Circulation Report 1987-88; Lick Of The Month; Classic Almost Home; Home Sweet Home; Will The Circle be 173 March 1988 — TONY FURTADO (National Blue- Banjo; TABS: Dill Pickle Rag; I’ll Remember You In My Unbroken; Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms; Nadja; Can’t grass Champion 1987-88); On The Stelling Side #1; Prayers; Two Rivers; Blessed Assurance; The Prisoner’s Stop Now; John Hardy; Spanish Onion; Big John Mc- Advice About Advice; One Finger At A Time; Product Song; Georgia Railroad; Newton Grove; Mama Don’t Al- Neal; Nashville Blues; Love Gone Cold Evaluations: “Tab Playing Software” for Amiga 1000 by low; Daisy Jig; Daisy Polka 190 Aug. 1989 – NEV JACKSON, Music Therapist; Jeff deRienzo; “Moon Bridge” by Randy Stockwell; Play- 182 Dec. 1988 — Tennessee Banjo Institute (Photos & BU - Two Handy Licks; Banjos In Nashville; The CD ing in F; TABS: Overdrive; Sleigh Ride; Spanish Grass; Text); Old Time Banjo; Proper Left Hand Position; Play- Plague; The Capo; Playing In The Keys Of Eb & F; A She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain; Two Dollar Bill; ing in B Flat & Other Flat Keys (Clawhammer); Anatomy Hump In The Neck; End Of Bluegrass As We Know It Hello Dolly; Hull’s Victory’ Fisher’s Hornpipe; All Of Of A Bad Banjo Picker; Daisy Polka Correction; Playing Blues; The Arpeggio; Book-Tape REVIEW: Up The Me; This Land Is Your Land Behind The Dobro; A Majestic Christmas (Story of a Ban- Neck Back Up by Doc Logan. TABS: Home from The 174 April 1988 — ALAN MUNDE ( jo); IBMA - What’s In It For Me?; Western Tune; Shelton Forest; Coal Miner’s Daughter; Homestead On The Instructor - South Plains College); A Banjo Night In Jan.; Section; Duke On The Banjo; TABS: When Christ Was Farm; Keep A Memory; Fox On The Run; Lucky Can Klezmer Klawhammer Revisited; Dowel Stick Fit; Banjo Born; This Land Is Your Land; LeFort’s Jig; Panhandle Du Link Ony; Love Gone Cold; Funeral March Picking In Australia; Learning Procedures; Contempo- Rag; Rang Tang; Sleepy Rio Grande; Five Feet Two, Eyes 191 Sept. 1989 – STEPHEN WADE, Revisited; Watch- rary BU; Cape Breton Fiddle Tunes; TABS: Billy In The Of Blue; Take The A Train ing Earl; Letter from Japan; Book REVIEW: “Soldier’s Lowground; Der Broiges Tanz; If I Should Wander Back 183 Jan. 1989 — Learning & Practice Techniques; On Joy” by M.S. Bell; Dead Man Tuning; Gauging The Tonight; I’ll Answer The Call; Fireball Mail; I’ve Heard The Road - New Year’s Resolutions #4; BU - Keith Style, Gauges; In The Style Of Earl; Same Note Triplets; Letter These Words Before; Mr. John Campbell Of Watertown Key of D; Banjo Set-Up & Maintenance; Key of D - Reaction to “CD Plague.” TABS: Crazy Arms; Tokyo 175 May 1988 — FONZA SMITH (Allen Banjo Com- Crowe Style; East Kentucky Fiddle Tunes; Bridge Tips Express; Soldier’s Joy; Sweet Sunny South; Over The pany); Memorizing Phrases; Reader’s Letters (Hand For Classic Players; Old Time Workshop; Waterfall; Arkansas Traveler; The Eavesdropper; Wel- Problems); Cape Breton Medleys; Book REVIEW: Composing A Solo (Beginners) Pt I; Up The Creek With- come To Cork; Elmer’s Tune; Lookin’ Out My Back “Masters of the 5-String Banjo” by Wernick & Trischka; out A Paddle. TABS: Footprints In The Snow; Golden Door Model BU; Calypso Banjo; Don’t Fret About It; TABS: Eagle Schottische; How High The Moon; Reuben; La- 192 Oct. 1989 – VIC JORDAN - Back With Jim & I’ll Fly Away; Miss Johnson of Pittworth; All The Things dies On The Steamboat; Jenny Lynn Polka; Bully Of The Jesse; Earl’s Way - The Key of F; A Gem From Béla; You Are; My Cabin In Caroline; Whoa Mule; Jamaica Town Playing In The Key of C; “Sing Out”; Borrow From Earl Farewell 184 Feb. 1989 – Studio Etiquette (c. 1899); The Birrel To Play Béla; A Circular Tune; Kansas City Star - That’s 176 June 1988 — STEVE CUNNINGHAM & MIKE - Old Time; Banjo Set-Up & Maintenance, Pt II; Compos- What I Are; Unauthorized Repairwork TABS: Going MUNFORD (Baltimore Bluegrass); Done Reno & Red ing A Solo (Beginners) Pt II; Advanced BU Techniques; Across The Sea; Sally Ann; You Are My Sunshine; Fri- Smiley video (1958); Munde’s Morsels; Banjo Set-Up; Multi-Track Recording; Chronicle Of A Yankee Picker. day Night In America; The Cuckoo’s Nest; Flop Eared Modern Trends in Banjo BU; Improvising Solos; Com- TABS: Heavy Traffic Ahead; McNab;s Hornpipe; First Mule; The Sheik Of Araby; Golden Bell Waltz Tab Index bining Phrases; Sixteenth Note Groups; TABS: Release Of May; Sweet Georgia Brown; Nine Pound Hammer; - Volume XVI PAGE 8 CONTENTS INDEX 1974-2013 Volume XVII A Tune From Tony; Licks & Letters; Harmonic Over- 207 Jan. 1991 – DANNY MENZONE; Playing In Al- 193 Nov. 1989 - GREG RICH: Supervisor of Gibson tones (Chimes); Real Straight Ahead With J D Crowe; ternate Keys; A Jig That Isn’t; BU - Chromatic Modula- Banjo Division; You Should Have Been There; Earl’s Licks & Letters TABS: No Doubt About It; Dim Lights, tion; The “Three T Tour”; To Capo Or Not To Capo; Fun Way - All Choked Up; Clinch Mt. Banjo - One More Thick Smoke; The Atlantic Coastal Line; I Don’t Care & Games At TBI; Sample TBI Schedule; Some Early Time; Melodic Clawhammer - Brushes & Drones In Anymore; Gotta Travel On (Scruggs Fragments; Wolfe Banjo Artists & Compositions; Don Stover - “Things In Clawhammer; BU - “Fill” For Fun; Seasonal Changes; County; Banish Misfortune; Sally Goodin’; Bugle Call Life”; Tennessee Banjo Institute; Clinch Mt Banjo - A Licks & Letters; More Of The Eldridge Sound; Shelton Rag; Blackjack Brief Look Back; Something To Crowe About TABS: Special; Beginner’s Corner - Playing In The Key of C, 200 June 1990 - MARTY LANHAM: Banjo Builder; Shady Grove; Chorus Jig; Transition From Key of G to Part II TABS: Mama Blues; Hey Hey Hey; Strawberry Lick Of The Month; On The Road; Melodic Clawhammer Key of A; Pearl, Pearl, Pearl; The Duke Of Perth; Things Roan; North Shore; Friday Night In America; Mean - Multiple Hammers & Pull-offs; In Life; Rang Tang; Big Spike Hammer Mother Blues; Sourwood Mountain; Jingle Bells Days; BU - ; Earl’s Way - A Trade- 208 Feb. 1991 - MIKE SNIDER: A Banjo Champion 194 Dec. 1989 - MICHAEL J MILES: The Old Town mark Lick; Bluegrass Vernacular; Adjusting The Intona- Turns Entertainer; The Disadvantages of Owning A Pre- School of ; Earl’s Way - More “Mama”; tion TABS: Nine Pound Hammer; ; war Flathead Gibson Mastertone; BU - The Pivot Chord; A Happy Ending; Chorducopia; Gibson Banjo Insert; High Reel; Rawhide; Footprints In The Snow; Grandfa- A Different Opinion on ANchoring The Ring Finger; G Nuts & Frets; Beginner’s Corner - Playing In The Key ther’s Clock Minor Tuning - Continued; Upgrading Your Banjo; Mur- of C, Part III; Arrangement Development; Down Picker’s 201 July 1990 - BANJO BOB COX; Licks & Letters; phy’s Monday Night Misfits; A Great Tune From The Blues; BU - Using Different Chords For BU; Old Time BU - In Unusual Keys; Beginner’s Corner - Buying A Revue; Southern Clawhammer; Melodic Clawhammer - & 3-Finger; Melodic Clawhammer - Adding Drive Notes Banjo, Part I; Melodic Clawhammer - Some Ideas On BU Revisited TABS: Kentucky Mandolin; Broad River; To “Melodic” Tabs TABS: Shady Grove; Whiskey Be- Song ; Arrangement Development; Shel- Fortune; The Black Mill; Faded Love fore Breakfast; Mama Blues - Part II; Stars Fell On Ala- ton Special; Earl’s Way - More Tab, Less Talk; Something 209 March 1991 – ; Jerry Garcia’s bama; Angels We Have Heard On High; Soldier’s Joy; To Crowe About; Clinch Mt. Banjo - A Happy Correction; Banjo Style; BU - False Modulation; Fingerboard Cat’s In The Cradle; It Came Upon The Midnight Clear; Thoughts From Dave’s Prefabricated Concrete Garage - Maintenance; In This Old Book Of Mine; Sunny In Away In The Manger; Nine Points of Roguery; Away In Veneers Crack, Wood Shrinks TABS: Roberto’s Dream; The East; Beginner’s Corner; Licks & Letters; Melodic The Manger When Johnny Comes Marching Home; Sioux City Sue; Clawhammer - A Musical Expedition; Earl’s Way - Way 195 Jan. 1990 - : A Fireball Feminiz- Leroy Brown; Birth Of The Blues; Lay Me Down In Di- Down Town But Up To Date; Arrangement Develop- es The 5-String; The Dillards—A Night In The Ozarks; xie; Hard Hearted; Way Down Deep ment TABS: Pig In A Pen; Song For Life; Holiday Pick- BU—Breaking New Ground; For “Scruggs” Only (FHF); 202 Aug. 1990 - JEFF MURRAY - Banjo Picker With in’; Reuben; Train 45; Heather On The Hill; Way Down Worth Crowing About; You All Remember Jethroe? The Boys From Indiana; Ben Eldridge Tab; Banjo Boo- Town; Tie A Yellow Ribbon Bridging The Gap & Getting A-head For The 90’s; The gie; On The Road - Bits & Pieces; BU - Frailing 3-Finger 210 April 1991—TOM NECHVILLE: The Helimount Joy Of Picking With Others (MC); Playing Up The Neck, Style; Earl’s Way - More Chokes & A 3rd String Trick; Banjo; Southern Clawhammer - Playing In The Key of Part I (BC); Clinch Mt. Banjo—Basic Training; Arrange- Melodic Clawhammer - Changing Tunings On The Fly; A; BU - Key of D Without Retuning; Making A Video ment Development; Licks & Letters TABS: Breaking Arrangement Development; Some Hot Advice; Thoughts - What Really Happens; A Standard; Mas- New Ground; Freeborn Man; Jethroe’s A Powerful Man; From Dave’s Prefabricated Garage - Flange Fangling; sage Your Hard-Working Hands; Calypso Clawhammer; Scollay’s Reel; Cumberland Gap; Molly & Tenbrooks; Licks & Letters TABS: Georgia Rose; Boogie Woogie Playing In C Tuning; Arrangement Development; Shel- Moonglow; Boatin’ Up Sandy Blues; Plant Your Fields; Don’t Give Your Heart To A ton Special TABS: Sugar In The Gourd; Chalk Up An- 196 Feb. 1990 - What On Earth Makes You Build Ban- Rambler; The Judge; The Gray Days Of Autumn; Take other One; Homestead On The Farm; Jamaica Farewell; jos?; Earl’s Way—Another TV Tune; Chorducopia; This Hammer Farewell Blues; South; Don’t Love Nobody Playing Up The Neck, Part II (BC); Arrangement Devel- 203 Sept. 1990 - Civilians & The Banjo (Kleinke); BU 211 May 1991 –- SILVIO FERRETTI Melodic opment; Modal Tunes (BU); Excerpt from “Banjo Les- - Keeping It Simple; Clinch Mt. Banjo - News Update; Clawhammer - Being At Home Below The Range; BU - sons,” by J.D. Kleinke; Use Your Mistakes!; Melodic Earl’s Way - A Final Look At A New Lick; Arrangement Key of D Without Retuning; BU For The Beginner; Vari- Clawhammer—Guitar & Lute Pieces TABS: Green Development; Melodic Clawhammer - Prince Edward Is- eties of BU; Product Evaluation: Digital Slo-Mo; Clinch Acres; Daahoud; Sally Goodin’; Greensleeves; Pretty land Fiddling; On The Road - You Can Go Home Again; Mt. Banjo - The Way His Mama Taught Him; A Slave Polly; La Roque; Spanish Fandango Beginner’s Corner - Buying A Banjo, Part II; Richard Banjo; Southern Clawhammer - A Tune in A Tuning 197 March 1990 - MIKE SCOTT: All-American Banjo Underwood’s Approach TABS: Railway To Heaven; Two TABS: Miss Lisle; Settin’ Me Up; Wabash Cannonball; Picker; Review of Mini-Flex Microphone; Chorducopia; Flowers Blooming; Don’t This Road Look Rough And Bill Cheatham; Cripple Creek; John Brown’s Dream Shelton Special; Clinch Mt. Banjo - Farm & Fun Time Rocky; Poison Love; Sheehan’s Reel; Granite Reel 212 June 1991 – ALAN MUNDE; Arrangement Devel- From ‘47; Earl’s Way - Playing High Breaks In Keys 204 Oct. 1990—Tennessee Fall Homecoming (John opment; On The Road (Women In Bluegrass); BU (Key Other Than G; Success Secret; Beginner’s Corner - Play- Rice Irwin); For The First Time; Melodic Clawhammer of D Without Retuning); Melodic Clawhammer (Con- ing Up The Neck, Part III; Melodic Clawhammer - Open - The Importance Of Phrasing; Clawhammer For Con- struction Of Fiddle Tunes); Festival Adjustments; Earl’s D Tuning; Random Sightings (Kleinke); TABS: Alabama tradances; Beginner’s Corner; On The Road - We Are Way (Quick Chord Changes); Southern Clawhammer; Jubilee; A Foggy Day; Bye Bye Blues; White House Jamming!; Earl’s Way - A Request Tune; Classic Banjo; Beginner’s Corner (Muted Vamping); Licks & Letters Blues; Little Joe; Theme Time; Grasshopper Sittin’ On A Arrangement Development; And The Winner Is…TABS: (Dave Guard). TABS: Keep On Pushing; Lullaby Of Sweet Potato Vine; Lost Indian Mahoney’s Mumble; The Tarbolton; Cuckoo’s Nest; Buf- Birdland; Everything I Used To Do (2); Quindaro Horn- 198 April 1990 - BOBBY LUNDY: His Roots Are Deep; falo Gals; Oh, Susannah; Love & Wealth; Fred Wilson’s pipe; Blackberry Blossom; Rachael; I Saw The Light Product REVIEW: Clip-On Pickups For Electronic Tun- Clog; Wheel Hoss; Tab Index - Volume XVII 213 July 1991 – CAPTAIN BILLY SCHOOL OF ers - Perfect Tune Model II, Walters Crystal Pick-Up, Volume XVIII 5-STRING BANJO (Ernie Guterjahn); Clinch Mt ISO-CLIP; BU - Sally Goodin’ or Sally Goodwin, Which 205 Nov. 1990 - PETER WERNICK Revisited: Camp- Banjo (Old Wine In A New Bottle); Earl’s Way (Simple Chords Should You Play?; On The Road - He Quit Me?; ing With Dr. Banjo; More On Rapid Retuning; Earl’s Is Not Always Simple); BU (Key Of D - Reno Style); D-Tuners; Earl In 3/4; Melodic Clawhammer - Reaching Way - Close To Clinch; Banjos In Children’s Literature; On The Road (You Played The Melody & You Didn’t Out To “Traditional” Pickers; Beginner’s Corner - The BU - Useful Licks; Classic Banjo Duet; What To Adjust Mess Up The Song); Beginner’s Corner (Upbeat Vamp- Choke; Arrangement Development; Classic Banjo; Abdou & When To Adjust It TABS: Valley Forge; Come Give ing); REVIEWS: PlayPerfect (Don Miller); Traditional Mangara’s Gambare and Origins of the Banjo; Munde’s Me Your Hand; Spanish Steps; Loafer’s Glory; Banjo Workshop (Ron Block); Melodic Clawhammer Morsels - 3-Finger Old-Timey Style TABS: Sally Good- Blues; Gilbert’s Polka; Miner’s Night Out (Nail Wars); Southern Clawhammer (Some Interesting win; Over The Hills To The Poorhouse; King William’s 206 Dec. 1990 – Tennessee Banjo Institute 1990; TBI Techniques); So I Bought Myself A Banjo; TABS: Go- March; Lonesome Road Blues; Georgia Cracker; Tiger Meltdown Program Notes; TBI Reports From Some ing To Georgia; Nothin’ To It; Talk Of The Town; Jesse Jig; Little Rabbit Members; TBI Sponsors; TBI Panoramic Photo; Ow- James; Indian Nation; 14 Days In Georgia 199 May 1990 - Earl’s Way - A Bunch Of One Liners; ensboro IBMA 1990; BU: Changing Keys; Innovative 214 Aug. 1991 – JACK BAKER; Banjo Is Boring And Warranty Problems; Clinch Mt. Banjo - Another Win- Clawhammer Doesn’t Have To Be “Hard”; Earl’s Way Other Myths; BU (Traditional Forms); On The Road ter, Another Record; On The Road - On Kids & Dolls; - A Christmas Tune; Anchoring The Ring Finger TABS: (Tidbits); Beginner’s Corner (Split-Bar Vamping); Earl’s Melodic Clawhammer—Sully’s G-Banjo 2 Book; BU Hark The Herald Angels Sing; Jingle Bells; Dona Nobis Way (A Tune To Pause Over); Melodic Clawhammer - Modal BU; The 1989 Bluegrass Supercruise; A Banjo- Pacem; Ragupati Ragava Rajah Ram; Joy Bells; Hark (Up The Neck Revisited); Southern Clawhamer (Bob man For All Seasons (Kleinke); Building A Better Banjo; The Herald Angels Sing; Road To Columbus Flesher); Classic Banjo; How To Read Tablature In Ban- CONTENTS INDEX Vol. I–XL PAGE 9 jo NewsLetter; TABS: Wild Indian; June Apple; Hello Classic; Southern Clawhammer - Banjo Roots; Licks & 227 Sept. 1992 – RICK DALE; Arrangement Devel- Trouble (BU) Cripple Creek (BC); Bang You’re Alive Letters - Janet Davis Instructional Material - Storage Of opment; Back-up - History & Development of BU - I; (SC); Shenandoah Falls (OT); The Cackling Hen (OT); Capo. TABS: Old Torn Petticoat; Staten Island Hornpipe; Banjovia - Banjo Set-Up - A Balancing Act; Beginner’s Carnival Of Venice (CB) Chords Of G Scale; Exercises: Foggy Mt. Roll; Lord Corner - Playing With Others - I; Clinch Mountain Banjo 215 Sept. 1991 – TOM MCKINNEY; Old Time Banjo MacDonald’s Reel; Devil’s Dream; When The Saints Go - Appalachian Patterns; Earl’s Way - An Overlooked In- (A Tune Popular With Contra Dancers); Clinch Mountain Marching In; Spaghetti Rag; This Land Is Your Land; strument; Southern Clawhammer - Summer Doldrums; Banjo (Present At The Creation [Perhaps]); Arrangement Sally Johnson On The Road - Have Ukulele, Will Travel; A Universal Development; When Finger Tips Meet COld, Hard Steel; 221 March 1992 – ALLEN HENDRICKS: Banjo Tailpiece; Lick Of The Month - Ben Eldridge; Mini In- Earl’s Way (A Nifty Break & Unusual Back-up); Licks & Picker & Builder; Magic Picks; Book REVIEW: “Sound dex; Licks & Letters TABS: Red Ledge Ramble; How Letters; Five String Walkin’ The Dawg Music; A Down Around” Directory; BU - Swing; Clinch Mt. Banjo - Far To Little Rock; Pickalong; Grandma’s Feather Bed; Home Kind Of Place (Blue Ridge Pickin Parlor); Span- Airway To Heaven; Beginner’s Corner - Melodic Banjo Little Janie; Grandfather’s Clock; Down Yonder. ish Luthier (Some Very Interesting 5-String Variants); A For Beginners - Part V; Earl’s Way - Earl In E Minor; 228 Oct. 1992 – DON WAYNE RENO. Back-up Fast Train Ride To A Great Right Hand; Monte Hendricks Southern Clawhammer - Picking Hand Angle; Melodic - History & Development of BU - II; Beginner’s Cor- - Banjo Builder; Beginner’s Corner; TABS: Opera Reel Clawhammer - Adventures In Aussie Land; Carroll Best ner - Playing With Others - II; Contra Clawhammer - A (OT); Don’t Ask Me Why (CMB); I Won’t Be Hanging Revisited; A Piccolo Banjo; A Banjo Love Story; TABS: Couple Of Polkas; Earl’s Way; Southern Clawhammer Around (SC); Opus 38; Train 45 (BC) I’m Satisfied With You; Just Because; Bill Cheatham; - Almost Heaven; On The Road - V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N; 216 Oct. 1991 – DAVID HOLT; Hard Travelling With Where The Lillies Bloom; YOung Guns & Miners; Old Melodic Clawhammer - Keeping The Music Alive; Lick Murphy Henry; Southern Clawhammer (Odds & Ends) Man And The Old WOman; Golden Eagle Hornpipe Of The Month - Short & Sweet - Some Classic Crowe; Western Swing Scruggs’ Style; BU Dynamics; Melodic 222 April 1992 – DAVE GARRETT and Virginia Grass; REVIEWS: Play Bluegrass Banjo By Ear (Bill Keith) Clawhammer (Greetings From Prince Edward Island); BU – A Spirited Roll; Melodic Clawhammer – The & Banjo Picking Styles (Bela Fleck); TABS: Crooked Licks & Letters (Women In Bluegrass; Stelling South Readers Take Over; Video Review – How To Play The Stovepipe; Green Mountain Petronella; Excelsior Horn- Plains College Adv; Accent Marks In Tab; Hand Place- 5-String Banjo By Pete Seeger; On The Road - Murphy pipe; Trafalger Hornpipe; De Boatmen’s Dance; Pea ment); Product Evaluation (Ellington Silver Picks); Method Goes Cajun; Beginner’s Corner – Melodic Style Patch Jig; Old Shoes & Stockings; Blue Moon of Ken- TABS: Devil In The Straw Sack; Take Me Back To Tul- For Beginners - VI; Banjovia – Coordinator Rods; Ar- tucky; Pipe Major Christie of Wick; I’m Gonna Settle sa; Ain’t Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone; Sally rangement Development – Coffee House Banjo; Southern Down. BNL Tablature Index (Vol XIX: Nov. ’91-Oct. Gardens; Take Me Out To The Ballgame; Cripple Creek Clawhammer – Right Shoulder, Other Finger; Earl’s Way ‘92) In E Flat; Tab Index: Volume XVIII – Fiddle & Banjo - Two Keys; Aug.a Revisited; TABS: Vol XX Volume XIX Little Rock Getaway; Smolanach; Snowbird On The Ash- 229 Nov. 1992 – CLARKE BUEHLING; Arrangement 217 Nov. 1991 – CHRIS SANDS: Classic Banjoist; bank; Girl I Left Behind Me; Blackberry Blossom; Gentle Development; Back-up - Through the Civil War Era; Post Office Circulation Report: 1990-91; Product Evalu- On My Mind; Maggie Jo; Flop Eared Mule; Red Haired Beginner’s Corner - Playing With Others - III; Clinch ation: The Scruggs Tape By Ross Nickerson; Earl’s Way Boy Mountain Banjo - We Are Pleased To Announce; South- (Fretting The Fifth String); Book REVIEW: That Half 223 May 1992 – JOE DRUMRIGHT; Arrangement De- ern Clawhammer - Look Out Lebanon; On The Road Barbaric Twang By Karen Linn; BU (A Plan Of Action); velopment; BU Guidelines; Beginner’s Corner - Locating - Owensboro!; Lick Of The Month - Ben Eldridge Tag; Murphy Henry (Shorts/One Long About BU); Clinch Mt A Banjo Teacher I; Earl’s Way - Scruggs In Waltz Time; Physics of Banjo Sound, Notes & Letters TABS: Camp- Banjo (Dave Evans Revisited); Southern Clawhammer Little Moments & Hot Stuff; Southern Clawhammer town Races; Louisiana Belle; That Old Home; Wabash (Songs Deer To My Heart); Beginner’s Corner (Melodic - Chucking; On The Road - Are You Playing Notes Or Cannonball (Back Up); Old MacDonald (Lead); I Saw Banjo For Beginners); Melodic Clawhammer (Piling On Music?; Book REVIEW: “How To Make A Band Work” The Light (Back Up); Ben Eldridge Tag Lick; Louie, The Bois Sec). TABS: No Expectations; Open Road; By Peter Wernick; Clinch Mt Banjo - A Fifth String Capo Louie; Look Out Lebanon. Honey In The Rock; Doctor, Doctor; Forked Deer; Crip- & A Brand New Instrument; TABS: Thunderhead; Sally 230 Dec. 1992 – JOHN CARLINI; Back-up - A Christ- ple Creek; Dragger’s Reel. Anne; The Hills Of My Home; Shortnin’ Bread; Po’ Reb- mas Duet; Beginner’s Corner - Playing With Others 218 Dec. 1991 - MIKE KROPP: Banjoist With Northern el Soldier; Drive The Divills Out; Brand New Tennessee - IV; Earl’s Way - Wait For The Sunshine; Southern Lights; Southern Clawhammer (Banjo Ties); BU (Up The Waltz Clawhammer - Definitely Wild; On The Road -Fiddle Neck Style); Licks & Letters (Bela Fleck - Soundtrack On 224 June 1992 – ALAN O’BRYANT; BU - Back-up One, Murphy?; Melodic Clawhammer - Prince Edward Northern Exposure); Murphy Henry - The Day The Music is Like Baseball; Beginner’s Corner - Choosing A Banjo Island - Old Time Southern Connection; Previews Of Died (Gamble Rogers’ Death); Beginner’s Corner (Me- Teacher; Earl’s Way - I’m In The Mood To Roll; Me- New Pete Seeger Book; Special Feature: Tennessee lodic Style - II); Arrangement Development (christmas lodic Clawhammer - Happy Go Lucky Jigs; Southern Banjo Institute III (Pictorial) TABS: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Tab); Earl’s Way (A Gospel Tune); REVIEWS: Rhythm Clawhammer - Discography Project; On The Road - Bits Desiring; Dixie/ Yankee Doodle Duet; The Old Willow Trax & Tunes (Hatfield) & Bluegrass Video (Trischka); & Pieces; Building Speed On The Banjo; A Glossary of Tree; Greasy Coat; Wait For The Sunshine. Melodic Clawhammer (Banjo Mania); TABS: April Terms for Beginning Banjo Pickers TABS: No One But 231 Jan. 1993 – JOHN HARTFORD; Arrangement Snow; Snake River Reel; I’m Using My Bible For A Road My Darlin’; Tea Garden Jig; My Home’s Across The Blu- Development - Banjo Newsletter; Back-up - The Classi- Map; Turkey In The Straw; It Came Upon A Midnight eridge Mountains; Pig In A Pen; We’ll Meet Again Sweet- cal Era; Beginner’s Corner - Roll Backup For Beginners; Clear; God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign; The Chaisson heart; Three Ponies; Six Practice Rolls (Ross Nickerson). Clinch Mountain Banjo - A Beautiful Life; Earl’s Way Reel Mini Index Volume XVIII. 225 July 1992 – TOM HANWAY; Arrangement Devel- - Ring Of Fire; Southern Clawhammer - Aftermath; Me- 219 Jan. 1992 – Letter Re The Blue Banjo Tavern (Gore); opment; BU - Fiddle & Banjo; Banjovia; Beginner’s Cor- lodic Clawhammer - TBI 1992; A Banjo Pool; A Tribute Report From Japan (Mike Allen); BU (Key Of E – The ner - Evaluating A Banjo Teacher -III; Clinch Mountain For Hub Nitchie TABS: Old Black Joe; Stompin’ At The Easy Way); On The Road (Murphy’s Misfits & The Banjo - An Ounce Of Prevention; Earl’s Way - Another Savoy (JB); Ring Of Fire (SC); Julie Ann Johnson (OT). Mountain Mamas); Melodic Clawhammer (another Call Foggy One; Melodic Clawhammer - Fast Dance Tunes 232 Feb. 1993 – GREG CAHILL; Beginner’s Corner For Volunteers); Clinch Mt Banjo (Steady As He Goes); That Aren’t Reels; Southern Clawhammer - Chucking - Backup Rolls; Clinch Mountain Banjo - Dueling Banjo Earl’s Way (Answering A Request); Beginner’s Corner Revisited; On The Road - Again; TABS: Turkey In The Companies; Contra Clawhammer; Earl’s Way - Handling (Melodic Style For Beginners III); The Coin-Operated Straw (Two Parts); Cindy; Foggy Mountain Rock; God’s D Chords; Southern Clawhammer - Little Billy Wilson; Banjo; Southern Clawhammer (Right Hand Position); Great Chariot; Yellow Rose Of Texas; Satin Doll (JB); Record Reviews by Cathy Fink & Wynn Osborne; 1990 The Alexander Technique; TABS: Sakura (Cherry Blos- Crooked Stovepipe. TBI by Richard Sparks; Taking Care Of Your Banjo by som); All In My Love For You; The Twin Sisters; Cali- 226 Aug. 1992 – DENNIS CYPORYN; Beginner’s G. Stelling TABS: Ross’s Reel; Prisoner’s Song; When fornia; Handsome Molly; Cotton-Eyed Joe; Backside Of Corner - Evaluating A Banjo Teacher -IV; Earl’s Way - You & I Were Young, Maggie; Big Cow In Carlisle; Buncombe Appropriate Neck Area For Breaks; Lick Of The Month; Little Billy Wilson; New River Train. 220 Feb. 1992 – CARROLL BEST: Pioneer 3-Fin- Melodic Clawhammer - The Readers Take Over Again; 233 March 1993 – DOUG MATTOCKS of Banjo- ger Fiddle Style Picker; On The Road - Banjo Lessons Southern Clawhammer - Mount Airy Madness; On The mania. Arrangement Development; Beginner’s Corner - The First Four Months; What To Do After Foggy Mt. Road - Welcome To The Club;Banjo of A Lifetime (Fran - Roll Backup For Beginners; Earl’s Way - Bleaker St. Breakdown; Melodic Clawhammer - Some Thoughts On Larkin); A Banjo Strap That Relieves Backstrain TABS: Rag; Southern Clawhammer; On The Road; Record Fiddle Tunes; Beginner’s Corner - Melodic Style For Be- The Krypton Polka; Been To The East, Been To The West; Reviews by Fred Gieger (Reno & Adcock; Bill Keith); ginners - IV; Arrangement Development; Helpful Hints Shackles & Chains; Mack The Knife (JB); Arthur Berry; Banjomania; Akira Tsumara’s Banjo Museum; Melodic - Shipping Your Banjo; Earl’s Way - A Crawdad Song; Greensleeves. Clawhammer - An Intriguing Fiddler TABS: Under The PAGE 10 CONTENTS INDEX 1974-2013 Double Eagle; Bleaker St. Rag (SC); Walking In The Par- 241 Nov. 1993 – WILL KEYS Two Finger Specialist. 1993 Winfield Champ Eric Welty; Playing In C Without lor (OT); Under The Willow Tree; Sidney’s Breakdown Bryan England, Inlay Artist; On The Road (Owensboro); A Capo (OR); Left Hand Fingering (MC); Arrangement (MC); Miss the Mississippi and You (JB). Thompson Vocal Eliminator (Review); O’Banjo (Little Development; E Minor Tunes (CC); Earl’s Way; Old 234 April 1993 – CLARKE PROUTY and his Banjo Maggie #2); BU: Old Time 3-Finger Picking (Snuffy Time Reviews (SC); Number System Part 2 (CS); Mov- Reproduction for Mike Seeger; Review of Mike Seeger Jenkins); Melodic Clawhammer (Whiskey Before Break- ing Up; Practicing: Musical vs Physical (BC). Travis Concert; Beginner’s Corner; Clinch Mountain Banjo; fast); Southern Clawhammer; Contra Clawhammer Style Advantage. TABS: Lullaby For LuAnn (Perkins), Earl’s Way - Sun’s Gonna Shine; Southern Clawhammer; (French Canadian); Beginner’s Corner (Up the Neck in S’Wonderful (JB), Lass O’Gowrie (MC), Planxity Irwin On The Road - My Daughter, Banjo Player; Record 3/4); Up the Neck. TABS: Little Maggie #2 (OB); Lone- (AD), Old Grey Cat & Pride of Petrivore (CC), Paul & Reviews by Wynn Osborne & Bubba Hutch; Melodic some Road Blues (BU); Whiskey Before Breakfast, Larry Silas (EW), Hard Traveling (MU), Salty Dog, Cannon- Clawhammer, Munde’s Morsel’s (Dr. Stanley); Letters O’Gaff & Fiddlin’ Phil (MC); Spotted Pony (OT); Set de ball Rag. (Leroy Troy) TABS: Sun’s Gonna Shine (SC); Mussel- la Baie & Reel des Jeunes Maries (CC); All The Good 248 June 1994 – CALVIN LEPORT. The Deering fork Creek (OT); Camp Town Races; Everything She Times Are Past & GOne & Amazing Grace (BC); Faded Banjo Co.; Double Thumbing (MC); Counterpoint Ban- Wants; Reel du Cordonnier (MC); Make Me A Pallet; Love (UTN). jo; Playing The Blues (BU); O’Banjo; Licks & Letters; Little Mollie, Clinch Mountain Backstep (AM). 242 Dec. 1993 – DAN LEVENSON of the Boiled Buz- More Foggy Mountain Back Up; Endings (BC); The 235 May 1993 – JOHN BULLARD The Classical Banjo. zards. Reviews (Fleck & Trischka, Perkins, Wernick); Number System-Part 3 (CS). TABS: Hekyl & Jekyll Interview by Tony Trischka. Banjo For Kids (Cathy Fink); Traveling The High Way Home (Review of John Wright (Leport), Spoodis Skerry (MC), Shady Grove (CB), I’m Drooling Banjos by Mickey Maguire; Earls Way; Clinch book); Banjo Tone Enhancer (Review); Earl’s Way; Blue & I’m Lonesome (Baucom-BU), Blue Night (AO), Mountain Banjo (Stanley Video); Arrangement Develop- Clinch Mountain Banjo; On The Road (The Misfits); Me- Home Sweet Home (EW), Buffalo Gals (BC) ment; On The Road (Boredom); Contra Clawhammer; lodic Clawhammer (Backup-Coming Full Circle); Back 249 July 1994 – RICK ABRAMS: Old -Timey With Melodic Clawhammer (Waltzes & Fiddling); Beginner’s Up (Arranging Christmas Carols); Arrangement Devel- A Spark. Steve Louvat by Bill Keith; String Height Corner (3/4 Time); Back Up (Two Finger Picking); Tab opment (Fiddle Times); Beginner’s Corner (3/4 time part (Stelling); Drop Thumbing & the Left Hand (MC); Tips Books for Downpickers; Palmyra BLuegrass Camp; 7); Tab of the Month TABS: Young Guns & Miners (OT); To Avoid Jam-Busting (BU); Capos & The Number Sys- Southern Clawhammer. TABS: Sun’s Gonna Shine In No Hiding Place Down Here (SC); Traveling The High tem (CS); Hard Core Bluegrass (AD); Remembering My Back Door Someday (SC); Sweet Baby James (AD); Way Home (CMB); The Dismissal (MC); Winter Won- Odell Thompson. TABS: Soap In The Washpan (OT), Nail That Catfish To A Tree (OT); Westphalia Waltz derland (BU); Blackberry Blossom & Arkansas Traveler Willow Creek, Live Oak (MC), Sugar In The Gourd (MC); The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee; Folding Down (AD); Ode To Joy (Seeger); More Pretty Girls Than One (BU), Bluegrass Ramble (AD) The Sheets (OT); Goodnight, Irene. (BC). TAB Index Volume XX: Nov. 1992-Oct. 1993. 250 Aug. 1994 – RIK BARON: Odd Sock. Old Banjos 236 June 1993 – DAVE DICK You Gotta Innovate! 243 Jan. 1994 – JANET DAVIS by Wayne Shrubsall. & Wives; CD Reviews (Osborne); “Way Up North In Earl’s Way (New Earl); On The Road; Tab Of The Masters of the Banjo (On The Road); Munde’s Morsels Dixie;” Interview with Harold Streeter; Tabs—Or Not Month: Star Of The County Down; Banjo In The Hollow; (Tony Ellis); Earl’s Way, O’Banjo; Southern Clawhammer (OR); Extended Chords (BU); Slides on Fretted Banjos O’Banjo (O’Bryant); Southern Clawhammer; Beginner’s (Herrman & Powell); The Briggs Banjo Instructor (Min- (MC); O’Banjo; Earl’s Way; World Banjo (Celtic 3-Fin- Corner (3/4 time part 2); Melodic Clawhammer (March- strel); The Right Hand (Melodic Clawhammer); Hatfield ger); Boiled Buzzards (SC); A System For Learning The es). TABS: ; Carolina Highway (SC); Star Farewell (Beginner’s). TABS: Whispering (JB), Ace Fingerboard (CS); Roll Inversions (BC). TABS: The of the County Down; The New Democracy (OB); Fox of Spades (AM), I’m Troubled (EW), No Hiding Place Ballad of Jed Clampet (BU), Waitin’ For The Federals In The Henhouse (OT); Amazing Grace (BC); George’s (AO), Meeting of the Waters (OT), Richmond Cotillion (MC), Old Daingerfield (AO), Summertime Is Past & Army March (MC). (MC), More Pretty Girls Than One (BC). Gone (EW), Star of Munster and Alexander’s Reel (CE), 237 July 1993 – DALE VANDERPOOL by Marty 244 Feb. 1994 – of Traditional Grass, The Old Woman & Old Man’s Quarrel (OT), John Hardy Godbey. On The Stelling Side (Replating); Earl’s Way by Marty Godbey. Herman The Hermit; Single Ply Rims; (BC). (Scruggs Revue fans); On The Road: Banjo Ears; Me- Counterpoint Banjo By Michael Miles; Single String; Ta- 251 Sept. 1994 – . “On Stagefright” lodic Clawhammer (Backup Revisited); Clinch Mountain bRite Software (SC); Ashokan Farrewell (AD); Playing By ; CD Reviews (Osborne & Gitlin); Banjo (Stephen Wade, Stanley); Southern Clawhammer; In D (Eddie Collins); Review of Jack Hatfield’s Bluegrass Sonny Osborne Intros; The Key of C Without Retun- Pete Seeger’s Allaluya; Beginner’s Corner (3/4 time part Banjo, Book 1. TABS: The Blues Are Still The Blues ing (BU); New Earl! (EW); Single String Béla; TABrite 3); Tab of the Month (Ralph Litwin). TABS: Love Is Just (Mullins), Soldier’s Joy (CB), Boil Them Cabbage Down (SC); Women In Bluegrass (BU); Dotted Quarter Notes A Four Letter Word (SC); Whalen’s Breakdown (MC); (SS), Rocky Mountains (OT), Ashokan Farewell (AD), (MC); Learning The Fingerboard Beyond the 12th Fret Henry Hill (CMB); Katy Hill (OT); Allaluya; All The Eighth of Jan. (in D). (CS); Remembering Ralph Rinzler. TABS: I’ll Take The Good Times Are Past and Gone (BC); Buckdance. 245 MARCH 1994 – DANIEL KOULECK: Progressive Blame (Shelor), Windy City & Making Plans (Sonny’s 238 Aug. 1993 – BOB FLESHER (Minstrel); TONY Clawhammer. What The Heck Is Midi?; Makin’ Whoopie Intros), Black Diamond (BU), Summertime Is Past & TRISCHKA & BELA FLECK. Back Up (Frailing & (Tab of Month); Banjovia; Pull-Offs and Hammer-Ons Gone (1994-EW), Flipper, Rock The Cradle, Joe (OT), Clawhammer); Earl’s Way; Southern Clawhammer; Ar- (Melodic Clawhammer); Irish Dance Tunes for 5-String; Sally In The Garden (MC). rangement Development (Folk Songs USA); Moving Up; Celtic Clawhammer, World Banjo by Tom hanway; Back 252 Oct. 1994 – RON CODY. Tribute to Tony Trischka On The Road (Why Me, Ron?). TABS: Old Rattler, Little Up Dynamics; The Red Hots (Southern Clawhammer); by Tony Furtado; Melodic vs Scruggs (BU); The Hicks Maggie & Tennessee Jubilee (BU); Big Black Train (SC); Beginner’s Corner; Concepts & Systems (Jack Hatfield); Sisters Record (BU); Old-Banjo Styles Video! (SC); Wilson Clog (OT); Can’t Help Wondering Where I’m Didlake’s Banzas. TABS: Bakan The Car (OT), Joshua’s Odell Thompson by Bob Carlin; Playing The Melody Bound (AD); Gold Watch & Chain. Tune (OT), Makin’ Whoopie (JB), Tripping Up The Stairs (Ian Perry-BC); Arrangement Development. Review- 239 Sept. 1993 – TOM ADAMS of Johnson Mountain (MC), Drunken Tinker (CE), Coleman’s Cross & Patsy “Celtic 5-String” by Tony Trischka TABS: Kerri’s Reel Boys, by Bill Evans. Winfield Championships by Ira Geary (OT), Fisher’s Hornpipe (CE), Carolina Blue (BU), (CE), The Templehouse (CE), Ralph Trischka, Twinkle Gitlin; Beginner’s Corner (3/4 time part 4); On The Road Cider Mill (OT), Cumberland Gap (BC). Little Star (Vestal-BU), Hangman’s Reel (OT), Auld (Alaska); Melodic Clawhammer. TABS: Adams County 246 April 1994 – LUBOS MALINA: Check Out The Lang Syne (BC), Ashes of Love (AD). TAB INDEX Breakdown; Rosewood & Pearl; Paradise (BC); Over The Czechs. Wynn Osborne by Fred Geiger; Béla’s “Drive” Volume XXI: Nov. 1993-Oct. 1994. Briny Ocean (MC). Tabs; Off-String Hammer’s and Pull-Off’s (MC); P. Volume XXII 240 Oct. 1993 – BILL KEITH Interview by R Piekiel; Seeger REVIEW: “Where Have All The Flowers Gone” 253 Nov. 1994 – LEROY TROY: Uncle Dave Would Richard Kulesh, Tone Ring Alchemist; O’Banjo (Little (AD); Licks & Letters; O’Banjo; Murphy’s “Misfits”; Be Proud. 1989 Jimmy Arnold Interview with Bobby Maggie); Beginner’s Corner (3/4 Time Part 5); BU (Snuffy Telling A Story With Back Up; Gellert & Leftwich (SC); Cherry. Owensboro ‘94 (ONR); Playing the Melody Jenkins); On The Stelling Side (Refretting); Earl’s Way The Number System (CS); Foggy Mountain Back Up (BC); Earl’s Way; Moving Up; REVIEWS: Hatfield’s (John Hardy); Arrangement Development (John Hart- (EW); “Saturday Night & Sunday Morning” (CMB) Bluegrass Banjo Vol. 2 & You Are Your Instrument; ford); Clinch Mountain Banjo (Fiddle & Banjo), Souther TABS: Yesterday, Big Mon, Highway 31, Paddy On Melodic Lead & Scruggs BU (BU); Music of Maritimes Clawhammer (Clifftop & Galax); Tab of the Month (Dale The Turnpike (MC), Where Have All The Flowers Gone (MC); Southern Clawhammer; Learning the Finger- Vanderpool). TABS: Bay State Bounce; Little Maggie (AD), Monroebillia (AO), Will You Be Leaving (BU), board, Part 3: The Sequential Chord Form Formula (CS). #1; More Pretty Girls Than One (BC); John Hardy (SC); Acorn Stomp (OT), Cumberland Gap (EW), Buckwheat TABS: Auld Lang Syne (BC), Steamboat Whistle Blues Sweet Sunny South; Bunch Of Old Keys (OT); Stokes (CMB), Lights Of Home (EW), Bluebirds Calling (MU), Redwing (BU), Darlin’ Run (Vanderpool). 247 May 1994 – LARRY PERKINS: A Touch Of The Nelly Grey (MC), Yellow Barber (OT) Volume XXI Past. Sally Goodwin: Where’s The Beat? by Bill Knopf; 254 Dec. 1994 – ROB MAIRS: Scottish Classic Banjo. CONTENTS INDEX Vol. I–XL PAGE 11 Banjo In The Hollow (OTR); Banjo Solos (BU); Playing Flat pick, Tab Books of Sammy Shelor, Tom Hanway, ny Osborne; Finding the Right Chord (BU); Southern The Melody, Part 3 (BC); The Fingerboard, Part 4 (CS); Bill Knopf, Larry Vanek & John Bullard; The Nechville Clawhammer; Playing in F (EW); Christmas Tabs. REVIEWS: Geiger Chord Pro, Masters of the 5-String Nuvo by Marc Horowitz. TABS: Trouble Keeps Hanging TABS: Deck the Halls (2 versions–Tony Trischka), CD; O’Banjo; Learning By Ear (MC); The Rhythm Rats Around Your Door & Now There’s You (Mills), The Little Fraidlin’ (Schatz–OT), Movin’ Out (Schatz), New Years (SC); Kaiser Roll or Forward Roll; The Workshop by Jim White Church (Mills-BU), Sitting On Top Of The World Song (Schatz), Raining in L.A. (Dilling), I’ll Fly Away Pankey. TABS: Teddy Bears Picnic (CB), O Holy Night (Shelor), Gavotte by Bach, The Flying Cloud Cotillion (Osborne), O Little Town of (BU), Barlow (BU), Greensleeves, White Christmas, Kansas City Rail- (MC), I’ll Be On That Good Road Someday (OB), Kitty’s Knife (OT), Silent Night, Thank God I’m On My Way road Blues (OB), Auld Lang Syne (BC), St. Anne’s Reel Wedding (CB), Darcy Farrow (MU). (EW). (SS), Sweet Sixteen (OT), Plaza Polka (MC). 261 July ‘95 — MARK JOHNSON: Clawgrass! In- 267 Jan. 1996 — RON BLOCK by Ira Gitlin. Ron 255 Jan. 1995 – ALISON BROWN. BNL Editor’s terview by Wynn Osborne. Mark, My Word! (SC); 1994 Block (BU); Review by Bob Piekiel: Bill Evans’ “Na- Choices for 1994, BNL ‘94 Survey comments. Earl & Winfield Banjo Champ Jonathon Jones; Bill Knopf Tab; tive & Fine” and “Ronnie & Rob McCoury.” Home- Randy Scruggs; Earl’s Way; Taking Care of your Hands; Changing Keys in Gospel (BU); Potpourri, Pt 1 (BC); made Fretless Banjo: From a Can of Roasted Nuts; Palying The Melody Part 4 (BC); Counterpoint Banjo Earl Instrumentals (EW); REVIEWS: Banjo Play-Along Sonny Osborne (OFTR); REVIEW: Sonny Osborne (Clawhammer—M Miles); Blues Banjo (Furtado); Chords Tapes by Steve Kaufman & Ross Nickerson; Short RE- Video (Homespun); Improvising (BC); Old-Time & Progressions (CS); Childish Love by Sandy Rothman VIEWS: Robins, Carlin, Hartford, Chris Sands, Rounder Clawhammer; Waltzes; (MU), Chord Functions, Part 5 & Herb Pederson; Winterizing your banjo (Stelling); End- Banjo, Bass Mt. Boys; Banjo on the Internet; Locating (CS); MC; Editor’s Choice for ‘95. TABS: Grass Valley ings; Playing In C w/out capo. REVIEWS: Dix Bruce’s the Bridge Using an Electronic Tuner; Melodic Duets. (Rob McCoury), It Won’t Work This Time (R. Block–2 Backup Trax for 5-string; TABS: American Made World TABS: Blackberry Blossom, North Carolina Breakdown versions), Beautiful Bouquet (Block), Every Time You Played (SC), Leaving Cottondale (Alison Brown), Auld (OT); Never Going Back Again (Bill Knopf), Colored Say Goodbye (Block), Sunny Side of the Mountain (Os- Lang Syne (BC), Planxty Denis O’Conor & Andante by Aristocracy (OT), Flowers of Edinburgh (Melodic duets- borne), Marmaduke’s Hornpipe (OT), I’ll Be All Smiles Vivaldi (lead & harmony), Down Greasy Creek (Furtado), FH), I’ll Fly Away (EW), Katie Hill, Rock of Ages (BU). Tonight, Bridge Cottage (MC). Childish Love (2 versions), Bile Them Cabbage Down, 262 Aug. ‘95 — of the Bad Liv- 268 Feb. 1996 — LYNN MORRIS. Interview by Bill Back Up & Push (in C). ers. Barnes’ Picking Style (Eddie Collins); Barnes BU; Evans. Amplification; Profile: Peter Schwimmer; Re- 256 Feb. 1995 — ROB McCOURY. Letters, BNL Sur- Profile: Walt Koken (Clawhammer); Beginner’s Corner view of Schwimmer by Janet Davis; Gordon Stone; vey Results. Allen Banjo; Banjo Physics– Holograph- Potpourri Pt. 2; Reviewing the Earl Scruggs Revue; A Re- Mailbag (MC); Percussive Back-up: John McEuen (BU); ics (Piekiel), On The Road, Fiddle Tunes, Southern vue Tab (EW); New from AcuTab: Emerson & Baucom Young Fogies, Kevin Enoch, Camp Meeting: Southern Clawhammer, Fleckology; Chords & Progressions Part books; Chord Functions Pt. 1 (CS); New Alan Munde Clawhammer; To Speak of Many Things (OTR); Case 2–Seventh Chords (CS), Moving Up; Helpful Hints–To Tab; Clawhammer in U.K. & Europe (MC); Women In Study: Little No-Name Factory Reject; Improvising Part Upgrade or Not; MC; 2 JD Crowe tabs. REVIEWS: Price Bluegrass (OTR) TABS: Stevejames (Barnes), Blue 2 (BC); Chord Inversions (CS). TABS: Groundspeed Straightline Tailpiece, Mel Bay’s Clawhammer Book; Ridge Express (Barnes), Candy Man (OT), Whiskey Be- Intro & Outro (Schwimmer), BEAD Bridge Breakdown TABS: Cheaters In The Soup (McCoury), Swinging On fore Breakfast (OT), Traveling Prayer (EW), Cold Sheets (Schwimmer), You Ain’t Going Nowhere (EW), Danc- A Gate (Melodic), Texas (OT), Tell It To The Gov’nor of Rain (Baucom), True Blue (Emerson), Amarillo High- ing In The Hog Trough (Morris), Old Rip (Morris:OT), (Fleck), Love Please Come Home (MU), Beaumont Rag way (Munde), Dinah (OT/MC). Far From Home (MC), Nashville Blues (lead & BU: (MC), Cheyenne (JDC), Runaround (JDC). 263 Sept. ‘95— DENNIS CAPLINGER of Bluegrass McEuen), Buckdancer’s Choice (OT). 257 March 1995 — BOB CARLIN. Minstrel Banjo Etc. Hands (MC); Profile: Julie Elkins of New Vintage; 269 March 96— DON STOVER by Hank Edenborn. (Tony Trischka tab); Fiddle Tune (Over The Waterfall), Basics of Scruggs Style (BC); Old Joe Clark in E? (TW); Don Stover’s Back Up; BNL- SPBGMA Banjo Work- The Bounce Part 1 (BC); More Single String; O’Banjo; 21 Fill-In Licks (BU); Winterhawk: On The Stelling Side; shop ‘95; Wanderings (OTR); REVIEW: Bill Em- Rare Earl; Basic Syncopation (MC); Endings (BU); New Don Wayne Reno’s Instructional Video; Chord Functions erson; Butch Robins (OFTR), Fleckology; MC; Irish England Clawhammer; Earl’s Back-up (EW); SPBGMA Pt 2 (CS); Playing On Stage (OTR); Earl’s Way TABS: Pub Tunes; Old-Time Tunings; Moving Up; EW, Jazz ‘95 (OTR). REVIEWS: Minstrel Banjo Styles CD & Os- Blues In Grey (Caplinger), Durang’s Hornpipe (Caplin.), Banjo: Chords derived from Major Scale; Irish & Celtic borne Bros. Video; TABS: Git Up In De Mornin’ (Min- Old Country Waltz (MC/OT), Trevor Travis (Elkins), No Tunes. TABS: East Tennessee Blues (Robins), Shenan- strel), Over The Waterfall, Grandfather’s Clock (BC), Mother Or Dad (BC), Old Joe Clark, 5 x 8 (Don Reno), doah Breakdown (Stover: 3-finger & clawhammer), Open Faced Reel (SS), Miles To Go (AO’B), Gonna Blue Goose (OT), Chicken In The Snowbank (OT) TAB Rockwood Deer Chase (D. Stover–BU), Blu-Bop (BF), Have Myself A Ball (EW), Buffalo Gals (OT/MC), Come INDEX Volume XXII: Nov. 1994 - Sept. 1995. Snouts & Ears of America (MC), Little Stack of Barley, Dance & Sing (OT), Prince William (OT), Little Darlin’ 264 Oct. 1995 — SCOTT VESTAL Interview by Dan Chilly Winds (OT), Bonaparte’s Retreat (MU), Down Pal Of Mine (EW-BU). Mazer. Rhythmic Emphasis (Vestal–BU); MC; Fleckol- Yonder (EW), Sally Gardens. 258 April 1995— J D CROWE. Part 1–Interview by ogy; Blue Banjo (Furtado); Scruggs Revue (EW); RE- 270 April 96— DOUG DILLARD by Lee Grant. Marty Godbey. Doug Hutchens & Roy’s Own Picks. 26 VIEWS: Wynn Osborne and Bill Keith; Chord Functions REVIEW: “Everybody On The Truck! Dillard Story”; JD Crowe-style endings (BU); The Bounce, Part 2 (BC); Part 3: Minor Chords (CS); Pick-up Bands (MH); Mov- SPBGMA (Stelling Side); Finger Pick Round Up by Tabs of Craig Smith; Q & A (CS); Triplets ing Up in G & D; REVIEW: Pete Wernick’s “Branching Bill Keith; Jack Baker on Doug Dillard; Trading Lead (MC); Lynn Morris Clawhammer (OTR); Minstrel Styles Out On Bluegrass Banjo” Instructional Video; Old-Time and BU (Dillard–BU); REVIEW: Travel Banjo; EW; & Walt Koken (SC). REVIEWS: Play Back Up Video Clawhammer; Midi Banjo; TABS: Benny Hill, In Pursuit Ten Years Ago (MH); Chord Substitutions (CS); Folk by Janet Davis & Playing In C by Eddie Collins. TABS: of Happiness(Vestal), Love, Please Come Home (Vestal), Alliance (MC); Improvising Part 3 (BC); Pete Seeger; Hold Whatcha Got & You Can Have Her (JD Crowe), Maple Sugar (MC), Monkey See (BF), Down Greasy Bruce Molsky & Bob Flesher (Southern Clawhammer). Baby Had A Banjo (EW), Someday When You’re Lonely Creek, Part 2 (Furtado), Keep On The Sunnyside (EW), TABS: Bile Them Cabbage Down (EW), Doug’s Tune & When You & I Were Young Maggie (Craig Smith), Pallet On The Floor (MU), Country Estate (OT), Bach’s (Dillard), Banjo In The Hollow (Dillard), The Old Home Sean Ryan’s Polka (MC), Beasties In The Sugar (SC), Minuet in G minor. BNL Vol. XXII (1995) INDEX Place (Dillard), Loch Levan Castle (MC), Old Bell Cow TurnaroundS In C, 26 JD Crowe-style endings Volume XXIII (OT), Coal Creek March (Seeger). 259 May 1995 – BELA FLECK Interview By Ali- 265 Nov. 1995 — KEN SEAMAN by Wayne Shrubsall. 271 May ‘96 — GORDON STONE. Joe Drumright son Brown. Part 2 of JD Crowe Interview. Fleckol- IBMA highlights, Owensboro ‘95 (OTR); Major Scales ‘29–96: Tab by Tony Trischka. REVIEW: George ogy; Béla’s Bluegrass Back-up (BU); The Diminished (JB); Tab of the Month (J. D. Crowe); Practicing (BC); Pegram; Golden Age Earl (EW); Reverse Rolls; RE- 7th Chord (CS); On The Road; Melodic Clawhammer, Family & Friends (EW); Melodic Duets ; Celtic Dance VIEW: Gordon Stone’s “Touch & Go”; Pentatonic Clinch Mountain Banjo, Good Tone (Stelling), Earl’s Tunes–Single String; O’Banjo; Miking (MC); Blue Ban- Color: Ted Luberecki (BU); Scott Vestal (OFTR); Jazz Way. TABS: Waiting For You (Crowe), Sinister Minis- jo. TAB: Crossing the Big Sandy (Seaman), Major Scales, Banjo; Fretting the Fifth String (MC); REVIEW: Bay- ter (Fleck), Fireball Mail (Fleck-BU), A Little At A Time Bear Tracks (Crowe), Little Dutch Girl (OT), East Vir- cuphone Pickup; Watching Scotty Grow (OTR); Chord (CMB), Deep Elum Blues (MC) ginia Blues (EW), Red-Haired Boy, Will Clancy’s Reel, Substitutions Part 2 (CS); Improvising Part 4 (BC); Two 260 June 1995 – JIM MILLS Interview by Marty Godbey. Big River (AO), Flowers of Edinburgh (MC), Blues in Fiddle Tunes (OT). TABS: Dusty Miller (Drumright), Remembering Carroll Best. Jim Mills tabs by Silvio Fer- A (Knopf). I’ve Lost You (EW), Banjo Signal, Monkey Wrench retti; A Gospel Tune (BU); Troubleshooting Tabs (BC); 266 Dec. ‘95 — MARK SCHATZ: Brand New Old (Stone), Pachysandra (Stone), Banjer Machine (BU), Tuning Your Banjo (MC); O’Banjo; Irish & Celtic Banjo: Tyme. By Doug Fulmer. Steve Dilling of IIIrd Tyme Paddy On The Turnpike (Vestal), All The Things You Tom Hanway; The Augmented 5th Chord (CS); More of Out; Putting On the Style (OTR); Concepts & Systems: Are (JB), Night Star (MC), Shoo Fly (OT), Robinson the Misfits (MH); Moving Up.REVIEWS: The Thumm- Chord Functions, Part 4 (sevenths); Jack Baker on Son- County (OT). PAGE 12 CONTENTS INDEX 1974-2013 272 June ‘96— DWIGHT DILLER Consummate Girl (OT), Salt Creek (B. Keith). 283 May 1997 — KEN PERLMAN Interview by Ed Clawhammer. Aug.a Heritage Center: Total Banjo; 278 Dec. ‘96 — SPECIAL BILL MONROE ISSUE. Britt and Jeff Davis. REVIEWS: “J.D.Crowe Tran- Profile: Abe and Mickie Mandel; Helpful Hints (Geoff In Memorium (Don Wayne Reno); A Players Apprecia- scriptions, Vol. 1,” Review by John Carlini; “Ray Hes- Stelling); Fiddlin’ With Harmony; REVIEW: Blazing tion (Ira Gitlin); Early Earl (EW); Melodic Clawhammer; son,” “Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island” by Ken Bluegrass Video by Greg Cahill; 3/4 time (OTR); The V Giants on Earth (OTR); Old Time Monroe; Jack Hicks Perlman. Correction: Banjo Workout (April); Earl’s Way, Chord (CS); Alternate Tunings (BC); O’Banjo. TABS: (OTR); Bob Black (BU); Scruggs-Style Part 4 (C&S). Monroe For Banjo (W. Shrubsall); Copenhagen: Drive Blue Monk (2 versions: Jazz), Cold Frosty Morn (FWH), TABS: Jerusalem Ridge (A minor), Big Sandy (Scott the Congregation Wild! (MH); Listening to Records Mendelsson’s Wedding March, Sandy Boys (Diller), Lost Vestal), Santa Claus (Bill Keith), Kentucky Waltz (D. (BC); Moving Up; Alan O’Bryant; Irish & Celtic Tunes; Girl (Diller), Jenny Put The Kettle On (OT), Cemetary Barnes), I’m Going Back To Old Kentucky, Monroe’s Ron Block (OTR); Playing in F (TW); Clawhammer Road (OT), Pretty Boy Floyd (EW), Iola (G. Cahill), Hornpipe (MC), Big Mon (), Sugar-coated with A Twist (Dan Levenson. TABS: Slide Mountain Little White-washed Chimney (A. O’Bryant). Love (Rudy Lyle), Jenny Lynn (OT), Jerulsam Ridge (Correction for April, TW), You Are What I Am (J.D. 273 July ‘96 — BILL EVANS: From Cloud Valley to (OT), Come Hither to Go Yonder (Butch Robins), Wheel Crowe), Rosewood Casket, Money Creek (Greg Ca- Dry Branch. Interview by Ira Gitlin. Courtney Johnson Hoss (Bela Fleck), Evening Prayer Blues (J. Carlini), hill), Upper Denton Hornpipe (MC, MP3), Major Bogey 1939–1996. New Tony Trischka; Playing in D: Bill Evans Scotland (Greg Cahill), Walls of Time (Jack Hicks), Mon- March (Theme to Bridge Over River Kwai), Monroe’s (BU); Tab of Month: Joe Mullins; Banjo Workout: Single roe’s Blues (Bob Black), Blue Moon of Kentucky. Hornpipe (MFB), I Got A Date (AO), Far From Home String; Jigs (MC); EW; Knockin’ Down Minstrel Style 279 Jan. 1997 — RANDY LUCAS Interview by Pat (Celtic), A Stone That Builder’s Refused (EW), Little (Bob Flesher); The V CHord, Chord Substitutions Part 4 Ahrens. REVIEW: Stelling Banjo Pick-up; Tommy Liza Jane (OTR), Beaumont Rag (TW), The Flying In- (CS); The Capo (BC); Silvio Ferretti on Jason Burleson. Thompson: An Appreciation; In Memorium: Don Stover; dian (OT– in G & D). TABS: Native and Fine (notes by B. Evans), Choking the The Maryland Banjo Academy; Changing Your Banjo’s 284 June 1997— JASON BURLESON. Interview by Strings (Evans–BU), I’ll Take Back My Wedding Rings Sound (Bob Flesher); Warm-up Exercises (BW); Fleck- Eddie Collins. REVIEWS: Jack Hatfield’s “Learning to (Mullins), Salt Creek, John Dan MacPherson’s Jig (MC), ology; REVIEW: Basic Clawhammer Banjo by Ken Play Banjo by Ear,” and Rick Barron’s “Heel & Toe.” Legend of the Johnson Boys (EW), What A Great Doctor Perlman; REVIEW: Hickman & Berline; Ralph Stanley Jason Burleson’s Picking Style & Set-up; Fleckology; Granny Is (EW), Kick Up De Debble on a Holiday (Min- (BU); Craig Smith (OTR); Tony Trischka (MH); Scruggs The Maryland Banjo Academy, by D. Nitchie; Banjo Ac- strel), Lonesome Pine (Burleson). Style Part 5: Choosing Note Location, Keys and Tunings companiment; MBA (MC); Bill Emerson (MH); Billy 274 Aug. ‘96 — STEVE HUBER. REVIEW: Huber’s (C&S). TABS: When The Angels Carry Me Home (Don Faiere’s Ragtime (BU); Bill Evans (OTR); Rolls (C&S); “Pullin’ Time” by Bob Piekiel; REVIEW: “African Ban- Stover), Red-Eyed Bennyhen (Lucas), Raccoon Dance Old-Time Clawhammer; Old-Time Three-Finger: Uncle jo Echoes in ”; Arranging (MC); The Work- (MB), Seven By Seven (BF), Liverpool Hornpipe (MC), Dave Macon; Monroe For Banjo. TABS: It’s A Long, shop; Fleckology: Intros; Mothers & Daughters (OTR); Funky Chicken (J. Hickman), Let’s Part the Best of Long Road (J. Burleson), Sunset Road (BF), America Scruggs-style (CS); REVIEW: John McEuen; Irish Friends (R. Stanley), Bootleg John (C. Smith). the Beautiful (P. Seeger), Frank Collins Reel (MC), Clawhammer; Bill Evans on Courtney Johnson, Silvio 280 Feb. 1997 — NED LUBERECKI Interview by Ja- Bright Angel Rag (BU), Goodbye Liza Jane (OTR), The Ferretti on Rob McCoury. TABS:Waltzing Matilda (MC), net Davis. BNL 1996 CD Round Up; REVIEWS: Deer- Old Blue Tick (OT), Five Miles to Town (OT), Down the Sweet Georgia Brown (JB), Dancing in the Boat (Huber), ing’s GoodTime Banjo, Ned Luberecki’s “New Strings,” Old Plank Road (Uncle Dave Macon), Brown County Five in the Morning (Huber), Sea Brazil (Fleck-Intro), and David Crisler’s “An Introduction to Jazz Improvisa- Breakdown (MFB). Cheeseballs in Cowtown (Fleck), Turki Innastra (OT- tion for the 5-String Banjo; J.D. Crowe (OTR); Fiddlin’ 285 July 1997— SNUFFY SMITH Interview by McEuen), I Still Miss Someone (EW), Sh’Beg Sh’More Around; Clinch Mountain Banjo; Changing Your Banjo’s Alan Munde. REVIEW: “Don Reno Revival Video.” (OT), True Love Never Dies (McCoury), When the Storm Sound (Part 2, B. Flesher); Dwight Diller (MC); Rolls, Backup in D out of G (EW); Memorizing Tunes (IR); is Over (Johnson). Part 2 (BC); Scruggs-Style, Part 6; Jazz Banjo. TABS: Soloing at Slow Tempos (C&S); Jazz Phrase of Month, 275 Sept. ‘96 — PETE WERNICK by Bill McKay. Trousdale Ferry Rag (EW), Salt River (Luberecki), Sally #1; Sammy Shelor (BU); The Maryland Banjo Acad- Introducing The Maryland Banjo Academy; REVIEW: Goodin’ (OTR), Pig Ankle Rag, Farther Along (CMB), emy by Casey Henry; Tom Adams (OT); Clawhammer AcuTab’s Pete Wernick Transcriptions. Bill Evans on Hide Ye In The Blood (CMB), The Brass Spittoon (MB), Jazz; Old-Time Three Finger; Rudy Lyle (MFB); Drop- Vic Jordan (OTR); Less is More—Bill Keith (BU); The Yew Pine Mountains (MC), Scrapple From The Apple Thumb Banjo; Listening To Records Part 2 (BC); Banjo Capo, Part 2 (BC); Maddox & Reno (MH); Jazz Banjo; (JB). Samba. TABS: I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome Scruggs Style Part 2 (CS); Learning From Fiddlers (MC); 281 March 1997— RON LYNAM Interview by Wayne (EW), Whitewater (BF), ‘Tis Sweet To Be Remembered, Moving Up; 1995 Don Reno Revival; EW; Missouri Shrubsall. REVIEWS: Tennessee 20-Hole Tone Ring Crazy River, Lady of Spain (OTR), Oh Death, Rawhide Clawhammer (OT); TABS: Gold Rush (Jordan), Drop (Rev. by Janet Davis), “Under The Influence” by Chris (MFB), Bangum & The Bear (OT), All Young (OT), in the Bucket (Keith), Coal Loading Johnnie (EW), Sky Grotewohl, and “Mel Bay Presents Classical Banjo” by One Note Samba. Rider (Wernick), Ruthie (Wernick), Wreck of the Old 97 Larry Vanek; Celtic Banjo; Creating the Merle Watson 286 Aug. 1997— JANNE VIKSTEN; Finland’s Me- (MU), All The Things You Are, Part 2 (JB), Granny Will Banjo Contest by Pete Wernick; Old-Time, More on lodic Specialist By Niles Hokkanen. REVIEWS: Your Dog Bite (OT), Leeds Hornpipe (MC). Song-Melody Arrangements (MC); On The Road, Ned Sammy Shelor, Calypso Banjo, “Before The Blues”, 276 Oct. ‘96 — CLYDE DAVENPORT Interview by Luberecki (BU); Earl’s Way; Fiddlin’ Around; Richard Joe Ayers. Licks & Letters: Remo’s Fiberskyn Head; Ken Perlman. REVIEW: Ridgerunner’s Slo-Mo. 1995 Bailey; Rolls, Part 3 (BC); Scruggs-style Part 7: Alternate Jazz Phrase of Month, #2; Soloing at Slow Tempos, Gibson Top Tensions; Knockin’ Down (Bob Flesher); Tunings (C&S). TABS: Devany’s Goat (CT), False Sum- Part 2 (C&S); Crawdad Song (EW); Sentimental Jour- Bill Keith Traditional (BU); REVIEW: Alison Brown’s mit (R. Lynam), Julia (R. Lynam), The Golden Vanity ney (MH); Clawhammer Klezmer (MC); Stretching the “Quartet”; Scruggs Style Part 3 (CS); Instrumentals with (MC), Emergency Pull-Off (N. Luberecki), Honey Just Limits (Dan Levenson); Inside Rolls (BW); Interview Words (BC); Alan O’Bryant (AO); EW; Dear Pete Seeger Allow Me One More Chance (EW), Boys From Bluehill with Scott Vestal (BC); Melodic Banjo, Slides (TW). (OTR); BNL Volume 23 Tablature Index. TABS: Cack- (FWH), Claire de Lune, I Want To Be Loved (R. Bailey), TABS: Feta Cheese and Meaballs (J. Viksten, MP3), lin’ Hen (OT), Little Old Log Cabin (Keith), G-Bop (A. Cripple Creek (C&S). Ravit Kapylassa (J., Viksten), Get Away—The Crawdad Brown), No Mother or Dad, Puncheon Camps (Daven- 282 April 1997 — MIKE RAMSEY And Chanterelle Song (EW), Romanian Bulgarish (MC), Foggy Moun- port–OT), Sugar in my Coffee-O (Davenport), Old Joe Workshop. Interview by Fred Huffman. LeRoy Troy Flip tain Chimes (EW), Nail That Catfish To A Tree (OT), Clark (BC), Last Time On The Road (AO), Chicken Reel Book! REVIEWS: “Island Boy” by Ken Perlman, Tim Goodbye Liza Jane (TW), Red-haired Boy. (EW). Lake, Leftover Salmon,” Mountain ,” 287 Sept. 1997— By Lydon Stam- VOLUME XXIV and Special Consensus. Fretless Notes by Mike Ramsey; bler. REVIEW: Laurel Canyon Ramblers. Foggy Moun- 277 Nov. ‘96 — EDDIE ADCOCK Interview by Dan I’ll Be Somewhere Listening (MH); Playing Tunes that tain Chimes. Béla and Tony’s Excellent Adventures, by Mazer. Adcock Tablature by Alan Munde and Steve Gar- Change Keys (MC); Jason Burleson (OTR); Rolls, Part Russ Shade. Sammy Shelor (OTR); Soloing At Slow ner. Winfield ‘96; 1996 National Banjo Champion Gary 4 (BC); Playing in A Minor; Scruggs Style, Part 8: Al- Tempos, Part 3 (C&S); Phrasing (BC); Aug.a Heritage Davis; Owensboro ‘96 (OTR); Blue Rose: Clawhammer ternate Tunings (C&S); Klezmer Banjo; Minstrel Banjo Center (OTR); Building With Licks (BU—Robbie Mc- and Chinese Dulcimer (Ken Perlman); Tony Trsichka (Buehling); Reno Banjo; Earl’s Way, Slides (BW). TABS: Coury); Tuning (MC); Drop-Thumb Banjo. TABS: Jazz (OFTR); Rolls (BC); REVIEW: Freight Hoppers (OT); Boatman’s Dance (OT), Judique (MC), Horseshoe Bend Phrase of the Month #3, Rambler’s Blues (H. Pedersen), Bill Keith: Uncluttered Back up (BU). TABS: Alabama (OTR), Deputy Dalton (BC), Wayfaring Stranger, Shady Yellowhead (Pedersen), Ernest T. Grass (OTR-Shelor), Jubilee (DAVIS), Sing Banjo Sing (Two breaks–Ad- Grove (C&S), Für Elise, Fiselekh, Fiselekh (Klezmer), Some Old Day (2-note chords), John Hardy (BC), Sorrel cock), Thunder on a Dry Day (Chinese OT), Garlic and Old Virginny Jig (MB), I’ve Found A New Baby, It’s Mare (OT), Thanks A Lot (BU), Billy Wilson (MC). Sapphires (Trischka), Cotton Eyed Joe (OT), Pretty Little Mighty Dark To Travel (EW). 288 Oct. 1997—KRISTIN SCOTT By Chris Ci- CONTENTS INDEX Vol. I–XL PAGE 13 offi. Remembering Elmer Bird, By John Hartford. RE- Stephen Wade, Rhythm Rats, Lick Cards, Sammy She- for 5-String,” tab book by Iain Maclachlan. Helpful VIEWS: “Kristin Scott”. Jazz Phrase #4; On The Stelling lor AcuTab Transcriptions Vol. II, Arnie Naiman & Chris Hints on Compensation by Geoff Stelling; Celtic Polkas Side (Scheduling A Band-Not!); Playing Slow Songs, Pt. Coole. Four New Clawhammer CDs (MC); Listening (Drop Thumb); Maryland Banjo Academy #2; O’Banjo; 4–Triplets (C&S); On The Road; Back-up and Learning (MH; Dock Boggs (OTR); Playing in C – Craig Smith Jim Mills (OTR); Beginning Clawhammer by Dan Backwards (BC), Old Time in the Northwest (MC); Mon- (BU); Fleckology; Single String Tremolo, Slow Songs Levenson; Sammy Shelor (BU); Why Drop Thumb? roe–Scruggs & Melodic Styles (MFB); Classic Banjo; Part 10. TABS: Jazz Blues, San Antonio Rose, Indian Ate (MC); Beginner’s Corner; Old Time Finger Style; I’ve Finishing Licks (In Response); Volume XXIV (24) Tab the Woodchuck, Pretty Little Girl, Two Pathways, Pretty Been Everywhere (MH); The Visual Learning Method Index. TABS: Jazz Phrase #4, With Love to Laban (K. Polly, Country Blues, Prosperity Special, Metric Lips, (CS); TABS: Garian Ghniomh go Leith (OT); Dog Re- Scott), Charmaine (JB-K. Scott), Some Old Day (C&S), Winfield’s Folly (OT), Don Valley Ramble (OT), Unfaith- members Bacon (OB), Rebecca (J. Mills), Longing for Jaybird (MC), Roanoke (MFB), Cigarette Polka (CB), ful One (Part 1). the Old Days (Shelor), Ducks on the Pond (MC), In & Black Mountain Rag (OT), Bill Cheatham. 295 May 1998: BOBBY THOMPSON Interview by Out of Nashville, Pretty Polly, Shandon Bells (Ce;ltic VOLUME XXV Tony Trischka. REVIEWS: Sampson Banjo Bridges, Banjo). 289 Nov. 1997: ART ROSENBAUM Interview by Ken Dan Levenson. Musical Form (BU); Maryland Banjo Volume XVII Perlman. The Traveling Banjoist by Danny Barnes; Jazz Academy #2; Tribute to Bobby Thompson by Buddy 301 Nov. 1998: STEPHEN WADE By Geoffrey Phrase of the Month (#5); Installing a Skin Head; Fleck- Blackmon; Drop Thumb Banjo; Stretching the Limits: Himes. REVIEWS: David Crisler’s “Bopjo” and logy; Playing Slow Songs, Part 6 (C&S); Joe Mullins Singing & Clawhammer; Earl’s Way; Banjolin Revisited “Banjo Spirits” video; Are We Having Fun Yet?; (MH); (OTR); Rare Earl (EW); That Shining Path: On The Road; (MC); Needs More Water (MH); Eddie Adcock (OTR); Beginner’s Corner: The Key of C Revisited; Off The Don Wayne Reno and Scott Vestal (BU); Licks & Letters. Tremolo, Playing Slow Songs #11 (C&S); J.D. Crowe Record: Don Wayne Reno; C&S: Systems of Learn- TABS: Shady Grove (2 versions, A. Rosenbaum), Fire on Interview conclusion (BC). TABS: Banjo Buster, Sugar- ing, Part 4: The Aural Method; Southern Clawhammer: the Mountain, Spanish Fandango, Virginny Dance, Coun- foot Rag, Lady Madonna, Columbus Stockade Blues, Hee Frank Lee; Back Up:Béla and Tony; Monroe For Banjo; ty Clare (BF), Greensleeves, Brighter Mansion, Wake Up Haw Closing Licks (all by Bobby Thompson), Roseville Drop Thumb Banjo: Bill Driver; Capturing The Melody. Show, Charlotte Breakdown. Fair, Lonesome and a Long Way From Home, Tine’s TABS: Four (JB) Reckless Rufus (OT), Footprints in 290 Dec. 1997: MICHAEL J. MILES. Tale Of The Scottische (MC), Silver Bell, Lara’s Theme, Unfaithful the Snow (BC-Part 1), Remington Ride, Logan County Headless Banjo—Gord Acri Interview; Jazz Phrase Of One (Part 2) Blues (OT), Old Kentucky Whiskey (OT), Whiskey The Month #6; The Road To Louisville– IBMA 1997 296 June 1998: GEOFF STELLING Interview by Mike Before Breakfast, Green Willis (back-up & lead), Foot- (BU); REVIEW: “American BACH” by M. Miles; Reed Ramsey. REVIEWS: Stelling Glyde-Cote Finish, Home- prints in the Snow, Fire on the Mountain, Bill Driver’s Martin (MC); Marc Pruett Rules! (OTR); REVIEW: Alan spun Tapes “Getting Started on 5-String Banjo” by Da- Tune (OT). BANJO NEWSLETTER TAB INDEX, Vol. Munde (AcuTab Vol. 1) By Wayne Shrubsall; Fiddling’ vid Holt, Dave Bing, Larry Wallace. Drop Thumb Banjo; XXV (Nov. ’97–Oct. ’98) Around By Merle Harrison; Yet (BC); Bill Keith. TABS: Bobby Thompson (Conclusion of Interview); Don Reno 302 Dec. 1998: WAYNE SHRUBSALL by Janet Bach’s Cello Suite III in C Major–Gigue; Suite For The (OTR); Joe Morley (Classic Banjo); Combining Scruggs, Davis; Xmas tabs; Stretching the Limits by Dan Americas, Gigue and Dorian movements (all by Michael Reno & Melodic into Celtic Fingerstyle, by Tom Hanway; Levenson: The Folk Police, REVIEW: Deering’s Good- Miles), Fifty Dollars, Little Maggie, Panhandle Country, Right-hand Exercises (MC); Andy Boarman (OTR); Music time Banjo; IBMA 98 (MH); EW; The Maryland Banjo Blue Ridge Cabin Home, Last Chance, Little Billy Wil- Theory (BC); Tremolo, Playing Slow Songs #12 (C&S). Academy; MC: Minstrel Banjo; BC: The Key of C Re- son, Color Tones, Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies TABS: Sally in the Garden Sifting Sand (OT), Four and visited, Part 2; C&S: Questionnaire Results; BU; Greg 291 Jan. 1998: BARRY ABARNATHY Profile: Jimmy Twenty Blackbirds Dancing on a Fawnskin (OT), Bunch Cahill (OTR) TABS: Coventry Carol, Jingle Bells (OT), Costa; Jazz Phrase of the Month #7; 1997—A Personal of Keys (OT), Tallahassee, Casey Jones, Dixie Hoedown, Santa Claus is Coming to Town (JB), Deck the Halls View of the Year in Music by Bill Evans; Barry Aberna- Banjo Special, Thumbs Up(CB), Soldier’s Joy, Lost Wild (OT), Stinson’s #2 (OT), When the Angel’s Carry Me thy (BU); The Skip-Stroke Revisited (MC); Keith Little Indian (OT), Reel St. Jean, Abide With Me. Home (EW), Hall’s Blueribbon March (CB), Turnpike (OTR); REVIEWS: Pat Cloud, Larry Perkins, The New 297 July 1998: BRUCE MOLSKY, Interview by Ken Side (MC), Footprints in the Snow (BC), Rudolph the Primitives, Hubie King and Diane Jones; Celtic 3-Finger; Perlman. REVIEWS: Bruce Molsky; Nechvillle’s En- Red-nosed Reindeer, Strawberry Point (G. Cahill). Sam McGee (Old Time 3-Finger); Classical Banjo; Earl’s terprise bridge, Alison Brown. Fretless Banjo; Reno 303 Jan. 1999: THE MARYLAND BANJO ACAD- Way, Drop Thumb Banjo; “It, Son of Yet” (BC); Play- Banjo; Sending Tabs by Email; Steve Dilling (OTR); EW; EMY ’98. Also: ROSS NICKERSON. Old Time Re- ing Slow Songs, Part 7 (C&S). TABS: Glory-Land Way, Stretching the Limits (D. Levenson); Playing in C (BC); cordings of 1998; Make a Joyful Noise: MBA (MH), Sweet Rosie Jones, Back in My Babies Arms Again (all Ron Block (BC). TABS: Gun Street Girl (OT), Elzic’s MC; Knockin’ Down: Minstrel Revival; REVIEW: by B. Abernathy), Big Jim River (MC), Rights of Man, Farewell (both clawhammer & 3-finger), Road to Corro- Nechville’s Nexstar Banjo; BC: A New Year’s Resolu- Needlecase, Sonata in C Major by Mozart, The Train that sol (A. Brown), Little Rabbit (S. Dilling), Bringing in the tion; C&S: Systems of Learning, Questionnaire Results Carried my Girl from Town (EW), The Battle of Waterloo Georgia Mail (EW), Worried Man Blues, High Lonesome #6; BU: Alan Munde; OTR: Sonny Osborne; EW; In- (OT), Greensleeves. Sound (R. Block). terview: Wayne Shrubsall (Part 2); Tony Trischka tab. 292 Feb. 1998: AKIRA SATAKE INTERVIEW BY 298 Aug. 1998: BELA FLECK Interview by Bill Ev- TABS: Eric Montbel’s Schottische (MC), Jim Crowe TONY TRISCHKA. REVIEWS: A. Satake, The MBA ans. Bobby Thompson Discography; Sonny Osborne; Jig (KD), El Cumbanchero (MP3), Jingle Bells (BC), VIDEO. Jazz Phrase # 8: Rhythm Changes; Licks (EW); Earl in Ohio (EW); Fleckology; Mirror Images Fleck I Don’t Love Nobody (A. Munde), I’ll Just Pretend (S. Profile: Reed Martin; Installing a Skin Head Part 2, by Bob Style (BU); Wade Ward (OT); Systems of Learning, Intro Osborne), Losederojosp III Breakdown (EW), Puff Ad- Flesher; Monroe for Banjo by Wayne Shrubsall; On the (CS); Derek Dilling; Playing in C Part 2 (BC); Warm-up der Step Dance & Waiting for Nancy (OT), Sleepy Hol- Road; Earl, J.D., & R. McCoury (OTR); O’Banjo; Playing Exercises for Left Hand (MC); OTR. TABS: Bluegrass low Reel (T. Trischka) Slow Slongs Part 8 (C&S); Stretching the Limits by Dan Music’s Really Gone to Town, Me and My Old Banjo 304 Feb. 1999: CRAIG SMITH by Marty and Frank Levenson; Basic Licks (BC). TABS: All Else Pales, Mis- (S. Osborne), Up and Running (BF), UFO-TOFU, A & B Godbey. The 1998 National Banjo Champion: Sonny sissippi Sawyer, Heel & Toe Polka, Shuckin’ The Corn, (BF), Peach Bottom Creek (OT), Polly Put the Kettle On Smith, by Eddie Collins; Fleckology; REVIEW: Reed Dog House Blues, Faded Love, Hangman’s Reel in C. (OT), Dilly’s Breakdown, Levantine’s Barrel (MC), Fling Martin’s “Old Time Banjo”; Metronomes...(MH); C&S: 293 March 1998: TOM PALEY Interview by Stephen Ding (R. Stanley). Systems of Learning, Questionnaire Results #7; BC: Wade. REVIEW: Bach on the Banjo by John Bullard. 299 Sept. 1998: STEVE HUBER Interview by Bill Ev- Back to Basics; J.D. Crowe; BU: Combining Backup Jazz Phrase #9; Profile: Reed Martin (Conclusion); Celtic ans. BELA FLECK interview, Part 2, by Bill Evans. Back- Licks; EW; MC: Waltzes; OB; The Workshop. TABS: 3-Finger; Returning to Oz (MC); Improvising (OTR); Bill up: Sagami Rorrim; North-South Banjo Camp (MC); Rose of Alabama (C. Smith), Shuckin’ the Corn, Christ- Emerson (OTR); Tony Trischka & Altered Tunings (BU); Building a Bigger Corral (BC); EW; Civil War Banjo mas at Tony’s (JB), Bigfoot (BF), Ducks on the Millpond Interview with J.D. Crowe (BC); Tremolo – Playing Slow (MB); REVIEWS: Homespun’s “Old Time Clawhammer (OT), Careless Love (J.D. Crowe), Railroad to Heaven, Songs Part 9. TABS: Polonaise by J.S. Bach, Old Molly Banjo, taught by Frank Lee,” Video; The Vintage Flathead Good Morning Sundown (EW), Black Velvet Waltz Hare (OT), Ducks on the Millpond (OT), Colored Aris- Tonering. Aug.a’98 (OTR); The Demonstrative Learning (MC), Boll Weevil, Darby’s Castle tocracy, Carolan’s Ramble to Cashel, Trip to Duro, Open- Method (CS), Alan Munde (OTR). TABS: Shaving a 305 March 1999: SNUFFY JENKINS by Tony ing Day, Man in the Middle, Unfaithful One, Amazing Dead Man (OT), Big Country (BF), UFO TOFU (Parts C Trischka. Craig Smith: Part 2 of Interview by Ira Grace. & D, BF), Sandy Boys (MC), The Old Home Place (EW), Gitlin. Licks & Letters; Original Banjo Answerman; Tab 294 April 1998: : In Memory. Tom Rose of Alabama (MB), Jenny’s Desire (AM). Of The Month by Wayne Shrubsall; EW; BC; Licks & Paley (Conclusion). Jazz Phrase #10; Profile: Banjo 300 Oct. 1998: Country Current’s KEITH ARNESON Chords; Two Sides of the Coin (MH); BU: Playing in C; Builder Kevin Enoch; REVIEWS: Ross Nickerson, Interview by Dave Wells. REVIEWS: “Ceilidh Tunes OTR; C&S: Systems of Learning, Questionnaire Results PAGE 14 CONTENTS INDEX 1974-2013 #8; Drop Thumb; Beginning Clawhammer #2: Tuning Livin’ The Blues, Signs Following, Here I Am In Love do Chord Scales, Part 5 (C&S); Major Chords in Back- and Chords. TABS: Tin Wedding Hornpipe (OT) Sandy Again (EW), Back to Freetown (J. Viksten), Touch and up (BU); Rediscovered Flatt and Scruggs (EW). TABS: River Belle (C. Smith), Craig Smith Licks, Dear Old Di- Go (J. Viksten), The Sailor’s Wife, Arkansas Traveller Little Betty Ann (M. Seeger), Georgia Pig (T. Trischka), xie, Sally Goodin, Sally Johnson, Bound to Ride (EW), (BC). Rollin’ and Tumblin’ Blues (M. Seeger, MP3); Ain’t Gotta Travel On, Clarinet Polka (B. Evans), Old Mother 311 Sept. 1999: BOB THORNBURG Interview by Gonna Work Tomorrow (TA, MP3), Silver Bells, Pony Logo (OT). Pat Cloud. Feature: Bob Haydon, By Gerald Jones. Let- Express, I’ve Heard the Wind Blow Before. 306 April 1999: RON MULLENNEX by Bates Little- ters, REVIEWS: The New Kulesh “Big TEN” Tone 317 March 2000: CHUCK OGSBURY and Ome hales. REVIEWS: Vince Farsetta, Scott Vestal, Paul Ring by Janet Davis. Bob Haydon’s “Collage” by Ed- Banjos, By Wayne Shrubsall. MIKE SEEGER, Part Hawthorne, Chris Sands, Jack Hatfield, Mark Barnett; die Collins. Drop Thumb Banjo: Lilt and Timing; Tabs 2. The Original Banjo Answerman. REVIEW: Tom BC: Licks & Chords; EW; Classic Banjo by Chris Of The Month: Yoshihiro Arita, Michael J. Miles; C&S: Hanway’s “Complete Book of Irish and Celtic 5-String Sands; Compensated Bridges & Nuts—Friends or Foes? Chord Scales, Part 1; On The Road: Aug.a 1999; BU: Banjo,” by Bill Keith. Mentoring at MBA. TA; EW; Ben (Part 1) By Randy Stockwell: MBA Rides Again; (MH); —Fiddle and Banjo for All Levels; Knockin’ Eldridge (OTR); MC; Holding a Joint Session (MH); Systems of Learning #9, Student Aptitude Test; (C&S); Down: First Banjo Contest; BC: Counting; EW; OTR: A The Right Hand (BC); Drop Thumb; Primary Chords: MC; BU: J.D. Crowe—Triplets; REVIEW: Scott Ves- 3/4 Time Primer; A Tune by Chris Thile. TABS: Little A and E Major (BU); Chord Scales, Song Examples, tal’s Stealth Banjo. TABS: Evermore (OT, MP3), Jesse Girl Blues (B. Haydon), Once I Had A Fortune (OT), Part 5 (C&S). TABS: The Rights of Man (CE), Stand- James (S. Vestal), Theme from Exodus (E. Adcock), Samois (Y. Arita), Come In To My Kitchen (M. Miles), ing in the Need of Prayer (TA, MP3), Sing a Little Baby Two Heads Are Better Than One (CB, MP3), The Sandy Ready To Go, Backup & Lead (BF), The Modoc Reel to Sleep (EW), Panhandle Country (B. Eldridge), Maple Boys (OT), Sugar in my Coffee (OT), When I Left East (MB), Ellen Smith (EW), 3/4 Time Backup Licks, Hop Sugar (MC), Dry and Dusty (OT), Blackberry Blossom, Virginia (EW), Road to California (MC), I’m So Afraid The Fence (MP3) Alabama Jubilee. of Losing You (J.D. Crowe). 312 Oct. 1999: TERRY BAUCOM Interview by Ira 318 April 2000: CATHY BARTON PARA, Interview 307 May 1999: TONY FURTADO by Eddie Collins. Gitlin. REVIEW: Sammy Shelor’s fingerpicks. Andy by Dan Levenson. CHUCK OGSBURY, Part 2. Feature: Licks & Letters, REVIEWS: “How To Set Up the Best Boarman (MH). BNL Volume XXVI Tab Index (Nov. 98 Scott Walker, by Ray Hesson. REVIEWS: Murphy Sounding Banjo” by Roger Siminoff, Gordon Stone, - Oct. 99). 15 Ways to Tag a Solo (IR); Chord Scales, Part Henry’s “And There You Have It!”, and Black Tie Banjo. Tony Trischka’s “Steam,” Walt Koken’s “Finger Lakes 2 (C&S); Square and Contra Dancing (MC); Baucom TA; Nashville Sessons (EW); Bill Keith (BC); Winter- Ramble”; O’Banjo; OTR; C&S: Systems of Learning (BU); REVIEWS: Tune Dogs and Hart & Blech (STL); grass (MH); MC; Ed Shelton by Alan Munde; Chord #10, To The Teacher; Compensation, Part 2 by Randy Counting, Part 2 (BC); Backup (EW); Baucom (OTR). Scales, Part 6: Jazz Example; Lubos Malina (OTR); Stockwell; MC; BC: Over the Hump; EW; Drop Thumb; TABS: Lower on the Hog (T. Baucom), I’m Leaving Drop Thumb. TABS: You’ve Got To Hide Your Love BU: Tony Furtado; Old Time Up-Picking: Uncle Dave; Detroit (TB), The Old Grey Coat, Sally Goodin (TB), Away (TA, MP3), Jake Gillie (OT, MP3), Five Alive Two Old Standards by Jack Baker. TABS: Steam, Forks Buffalo Gals (OT), The Wreck of the Old ‘97 (EW), (EW), Gemstone Reel (MC), Sweet Georgia Brown (E. of Sandy (OT, MP3), Sunday Driver (Gordon Stone, Shoot the Moon (TB, MP3). Shelton, MP3), Little Rock Getaway, In The Not So High MP3), Bolinas (T. Furtado, MP3), Holiday Pickin’, VOLUME XXVII Mountains (L. Malina, MP3), Jim Wren (OT), Miniature Earl’s Jig (MC), Take Me Home Country Roads (EW), 313 Nov. 1999: REBIRTH OF THE VEGA: Greg No. II (CB, MP3). Jesse James (OT), Man of Constant Sorrow (T. Furtado), and Janet Deering. Maryland Banjo Academy preview. 319 May 2000: LEON HUNT. In Defense of Archtop In and Around Nashville, John Hardy, Soldier’s Joy. Winfield report. The World’s Biggest Banjo. Sammy Banjos, by Jamie Miller. Banjos 2000 Concert. RE- 308 June 1999: CHRIS JOSLIN. Licks & Letters; Shelor (BC); Pam Gadd (Interview by Raymond Mc- VIEW: Homespun’s “The Banjo of Eddie Adcock” The First Lesson by Danny Barnes; REVIEWS: “The Clain); Eggs and M & Ms (MH); Balkan Banjo; RE- video. The Mystique of the Fretless. Quarter Notes (BC); Big Scoop..” By Daily Planet; Andy Cushing’s “10 Hot VIEW: Klezmer Banjo; Picking Up Unfamiliar Melo- With Hazel and Alice (MH); Beginning Clawhammer Licks.” C&S: Systems of Learning #11, Expectations dies (MC); Chord Scales with Internal Movement, Part Part 2; Traditional—or Is It? (MC); EW; TA; Jody King of the Bluegrass Banjo Student; Avram Seigel (OTR); 3 (C&S); Bob Black (OTR); Drop Thumb; EW. TABS: (OTR); Following the Circle (BU). TABS: Eddie’s Compensation: Part 3 (conclusion) by Randy Stock- Big Buck (P. Gadd, MP3), Kopanitsa (MP3), Ma Yofus Bounce (E. Adcock, MP3), Cooely’s Reel (L. Hunt, well; BU: Scott Vestal; MC; Improvising; (MH); BCB: (Klezmer), Off to California (MC), With Love for Some- MP3), Clear Water (L. Hunt, MP3), Where the Soul of 4th String Slide; EW; Knockin’ Down. TABS: Morn- one, The Mountains of Merrimac (B. Black), The Last of Man Never Dies (BC), Spotted Pony (OT), Ashokan ing Would (L. Hunt, MP3), Whiskey Before Breakfast, Callahan (OT), The Lover of the Town (EW). Farewell (MC), Dead Dog on the Side of the Road (EW), Climbing a Mountain, Tommorrow’s Breakdown, Lone- 314 Dec. 1999: DIRK POWELL. Interview by Glenn Blue Grass Twist (TA, MP3), Carpal Tunnel Breakdown some Road Blues (S. Vestal), Honeymoon Polka (MC), Godsey. Sammy Shelor, Pt .2 (BC); 12 Great “D” Licks (J. King, MP3), Salty Dog (in G and A). Hear The Wind Blow (EW), (OT) (OTR); IBMA World of Bluegrass 1999 (MH); EW; TA; 320 June 2000: JENS KRUGER, Interview by Bill 309 July 1999: BILL EMERSON Interview by David Tab of Month: Xmas Tabs; The Workshop (Goin’ Back Evans. Feature: Svata Kotas. and Me. RE- Wells. Letters; Tab Of The Month: Philippe Bourgeois; To Dixie), Back Up, C&S. TABS: Advent Rain (OT), VIEWS: Mel Bay’s “Round Peak Style Clawhammer,” REVIEW: Super Banjo Strap; OTR: ; Gospel Ship (EW) Foggy Mountain Special (BU), Bring by Brad Leftwich (review by Glenn Godsey), and “Banjo C&S: Systems of Learning #12, Responses from Read- A Torch, Annette Isabella, Blanchard’s Hornpipe (OT), Bash in Buckeystown” Video (MBA II, 1998). A Pretty ers; Fleckology; BU: Bill Emerson; MC; Stretching Dixie Breakdown, Sweet Georgia Brown (OT), Jitterbug Good Mountain Fretless, by E. Lowell Jacobs. Syncopa- The Limits by Dan Levenson; BC: Single-String; EW. Waltz (JB, MP3), Jesus Loves The Little Children (TA, tion (BC); Bart Smith (STL); EW; Relative Minor (BU); TABS: Punkey Red Mulet (P. Bourgeois), Little Bessie MP3) TA; MBA 2000 (MC); Exercises for 3-Finger, Part 1: (Emerson), Emerson Gems, Big Spike Hammer (Intro- 315 Jan. 2000: STEVE DILLING. REVIEW: “Amer- Intro (C&S); Key of D without capo (IR). TABS: Poor Emerson), Cabin on the Hill (Backup-Emerson), Wel- ica’s Instrument: The Banjo in the 19th Century” by Jim Ellen Smith (OT, MP3), Balls in the Corner (S. Kota, come to New York (Emerson), Scraps From Your Table Bollman (review by Bill Evans). The Banjo in 1999 by MP3), Bear Hug (J. Kruger, MP3), By The Millpond (R. Stewart. MP3), Oddity (BF), Home Run Man (Em- Bill Evans. The Six String Banjo by Harvey Reid. TA (J. Kruger, MP3), High on a Mountaintop (OT, MP3), erson), Just A Stone’s Throw Away (Emerson), President by Tom Adams. New Millennum (MC); Hank Schwartz Act Naturally (EW), Foggy Mountain Breakdown (BU), Garfield’s Hornpipe (MC), Lulu Likes ‘Em Young (OT), (STL); Minstrel Banjo; EW; Celtic Banjo; Daily Practice Drowned in the Deep Blue Sea (TA, MP3), Wreck of the Philadelphia Lawyer (EW). (BC); Fleckology; Jake Jenkins (OTR). TABS: I Could Edmund Fitzgerald (TA, MP3), The Heather’s in Bloom 310 Aug. 1999: FRANK LEE, Interview by Glenn Change My Mind (TA, MP3), The Lonely Side of Town (MC), Whiskey Before Breakfast. Godsey. Letters; I Should Have Been Practicing Banjo... (S. Dilling), John and Mary (S. Dilling), Maid Behind 321 July 2000: EMILY ROBISON of the Dixie (MH); A Weekend Among Giants: AcuTab’s Banjo the Bar (MC), Big John Henry (OT, MP3), Butler’s Jig Chicks, Interview by Ira Gitlin. REVIEW: “Beginning Seminar, with J.D. Crowe, Sonny Osborne, Steve Huber (MB), Little Birdie (EW), Humours of Glendart, Sweet Bluegrass Banjo” videos by Greg Cahill. Use Your Ears! and Bill Evans, By Eddie Collins; Tab Of The Month: Biddy Daly, The Tenpenny Bit (CB), Blue Mountan Hop Playing Little Satchel by Dirk Powell. Drop Thumb; Don Reno; Oldies Banjo; REVIEW: Janne Viksten, (BF), Walkin’ in the Big County (J. Jenkins). EW; Gospel Banjo by Harold Streeter; Memorization “Cold Harbor”, EW: Sharp & Scruggs; O’Banjo; Old 316 Feb. 2000: TONY TRISCHKA. Interview by Ian and Changing Old Habits (BC); Doubletime Reissue Time Two Finger: Clark Buehling; Banjo Workout by Perry. FEATURE: Mike Seeger, by Murphy Henry. Re- (BF); Ron Rigsby (OTR); Exercises for 3-Finger, Basic Ross Nickerson: Chokes; MC: Fiddle Songs Festival; membering Eddie Shelton, by Eddie Collins and Danny Rolls (C&S); TA. TABS: Sin Wagon, Round the Horn BC: Single-String, Part 2. TABS: Tennessee Stomp Barnes. REVIEW: Dwight Diller’s “Just Banjo.” The (OT), Hear the Wind Blow (EW), Just a Closer Walk (D. Reno), Walk Don’t Run, Mississippi Breakdown (F. Acri-Caplinger Banjo Bender. Mike Seeger (MC); With Thee (GB, MP3), Mr. Memory, Possum Trot (OT, Lee), Dark Hollow Blues (F. Lee), Greencorn, All Alone, Down in Florida (MH); TA; Back-up Basics (BC); Pseu- MP3), Another Morning (BF, MP3), Banjo On The Run, CONTENTS INDEX Vol. I–XL PAGE 15 (R. Rigsby, MP3), Unwanted Love (TA, MP3). Gone Trottin’ Down the Road (OT, MP3), High Noon ard’s Path (CB), Man of Constant Sorrow (OffRecord), 322 Aug. 2000: SCOTT VESTAL, Interview by John (Jeff Scroggins, MP3), Lord of the Dance (BU), Back to String Bender (EW), Which Way to Turn (TA, MP3). Lawless. Brier P. Beethoven by Fretless Josh Shaw. Georgia (TA, MP3), On A Cold Winter’s Night (I. Perry, 333 July 2001: JACK HATFIELD, interviewed by REVIEWS: Mel Bay’s “Banjo 2000” and “Winfield MP3), Could You Love Me One More Time (EW). Eddie Collins. Remembering John Hartford, by Rob- Banjo Winners” Tab/CDs. E-Banjo Auctions. TA; Minor 328 Feb. 01: KARL LAUBER by Bob Piekiel. RE- ert Piekiel. Profile: Rex McGee (with review). Banjo Chords (BU); Earl, Earl, Earl (MH); What Tab Leaves VIEWS: Mel Bay’s “Buzzard Banjo Clawhammer Camp North 2001 (MC), What is Practice Part 2? (BC), Out (BC); MC; Stretching the Limits; Exercises for 3-fin- Style” by Dan Levenson, and Musician’s Workshop’s Gospel Banjo, Diminished Chords and John Hartford ger: The Left Hand (C&S); Munde’s Morsels. TABS: “Formula of Music“ video. Banjo Mechanics: Bridges (BU), Pete Wernick (OffRecord), Fretboard Mainte- Midnight at Black Mountain (OT, MP3). Jalapeno Flash- by Scott Zimmerman, Just Do It! Getting Organized, nance (Banjo Mechanics), Munde’s Morsels, TA, Mel- back (MP3), By Stealth (MP3), Au Privave(MP3), As Part 3 (BC), A Little Road Music: Arnie Naiman and Durham (OT). TABS: Gentle On My Mind (EW), Star the Crowe Flies, The Hobo Song (TA, MP3), Haunting Chris Coole; Emerson & Crowe (Off Record), Bear Spangled Banner, Creation #4 in C minor (R. McGee), Hounds (MC), Half Past Four (OT), Blue Skies (AM, Family & First Night (OTR), Melodic Style (C&S), Tab Dancer (J. Hatfield), Shootin’ Creek (MC), Christ Be MP3), Yankee Doodle Dandy (AM). Of The Month: Tom Ivey, MC, TA, Fleckology. TABS: Beside Me (Morning Has Broken (GB, MP3), Steam 323 Sept. 2000: PETE SEEGER, Part 1, Interview by Black Widow’s Romp (OT, MP3), Arkansas Traveler Powered Aeroplane (BU), I’ve Endured (P. Wernick), Ken Perlman. Overuse Syndrome: Carpal Tunnel, by Dr. (OT, MP3), Wild River (K. Lauber), Becky the Beader Cindy (AM), Long Journey Home (TA, MP3) Over the John Kelley. REVIEW: Matthew Whiteman’s “Echo’s (OT, MP3), Heron’s Wing (OT, MP3), The Last Days Mountain (OT). of America” film. Dan Levenson’s Meet the Banjo! The of Autumn (OT), First Morning (OT, MP3), Little Birdy 334 Aug. 01. BILL KEITH’S D-TUNERS: Their His- Wunder Banjo Company, by Mark Ward. Alison Brown (Emerson), Little Cabin Home on the Hill (Crowe), tory and Development By Bob Kerr, Introduction by (OTR); Aug.a (MH); Speed (BC); Adams County; Exer- Gold Rush (T. Ivey, MP3), Peekaboo Waltz (MC), Love Tony Trischka. Interview: Ryan Cavanaugh. REVIEW: cises for 3-Finger, Slides (C&S); Reno Banjo; EW; Jarda Grown Cold (TA, MP3), Zona Mona (BF). “Back From Earth.” REVIEW: “Sammy Shelor: Blue- Jahoda; Drop Thumb; Minor Chords (BU). TABS: Ode 329 March 01: GEORGE GROVE, Part 1 By James grass Banjo,” Acutab video, by Bill Evans. REVIEW: to Joy (Seeger), Poe’s Pickin’ Party (A. Brown, MP3), C. Koshmider. REVIEW: Pete Wernick’s “Get Rolling: “Mel Bay’s Classic Banjo” by Chris Sands (Tab/CD), Blue Yodel #1 -- T for Texas (TA, MP3), Black Moun- An Ultra-Easy, No-Fail Intro to Bluegrass Banjo,” from review by Wayne Shrubsall. UK Tour/ Food for Thought tain Blues (TA, MP3), Dear Old Dixie (RB), Pedal to the Homespun Videos. Tab Of The Month: Rob McCoury. (MC), What Is Practice? Part 3 (BC), Basic Scales, Se- Metal (EW), In The Nettles (J. Jahoda, MP3)), Wolves Feature: Doug Unger by Mark Ward. Melodic Style, quences (C&S), What Is Tradition? Part 1 (A Little Road A-Howling (OT), El Cumbanchero (BU, MP3). St. Paddy’s Day (OT), Melodic vs. “Traditional,” Part Music), TAB OF THE MONTH: Mary Z. Cox, Water- 324 Oct. 2000: RON STEWART, Interview by Ian 1 (MC), Tom Adams, Earl’s Unusual Licks, Part 1, Gos- melon and Kauffman Camp (OTR), Diminished Chords Perry. PETE SEEGER, Part 2. The Banjo in Appala- pel Banjo, Nashville Skyline Rat (OTR), Minor Scales, (BU). TABS: Angeline the Baker (S. Shelor, MP3), Sally chia, by George R. Gibson. Banjo Mechanics: Tuning Keys & Chords (BU), 3-Finger Exercises—Single String Ann (OT, MP3), Intro (R. Cavanaugh), Nola (CB, MP3), the Head, by Scott Zimmerman, Tab of the Month: Greg (C&S). TABS: Look What the Dog Brought Home (R. Quince Dillion’s High D (MC), Georgia Shuffle (EW), Cahill. Exercises: Hammer-ons (C&S); On The Road; McCoury, MP3), Humours of Tullycreen (OT), Harvest Alabama (TA), Staten Island Hornpipe (OT), Little Dar- TA; Attitude (BC); Mac Benford’s Kentucky Favorites Home Hornpipe (MC), Five Speed, 3 breaks (TA, MP3), lin’ Pal of Mine (BU). (MC); EW; Minor Chords Revisited (BU); Drop Thumb. Earl’s Unusual Licks (EW), Old Irish Blessing (GB, 335 Sept. 01: JAROSLAV PRUCHA by Slavik Han- TABS: Lone Star (Greg Cahill, MP3), Listen to the Mu- MP3), Lady’s Fancy (BU). zlik. REVIEWS: The New Old Time Way—Dave sic (TA, MP3), Glory in the Meetinghouse (M. Benford, 330 April 2001: BÉLA FLECK (Part 1) by Ian Perry. Douglas, Carl Baron. REVIEW: Kelly Emerson’s MP3), 9 to 5 (EW), Jerusalem Ridge (BU, MP3), Forked George Grove (part 2). REVIEW: Homespun’s “South- Powerbridge. Interview: Ben Freed. Tabs Of Month: Deer (OT, MP3). ern Banjo Styles“ video by Mike Seeger. A Conversa- Braden Frieder, Butch Robins. What Is Practice? Part 4 VOLUME XXVIII tion with Mike Seeger By Bill Kropf. 2000 Winfield (BC), What Is Tradition? Part 2 (ALRM), Profile: Ryan 325 Nov. 2000: Gold Tone’s WAYNE ROGERS, by Champion Matthew Menefee. Tab Of The Month: Steve Holladay, Review of Bob Flesher’s “Banjo Heads” CD Geoff Hohwald. 1999-2000 Tab Index. Feature: Don- Garner. Style Comparison (C&S), O Brother Where (Drop Thumb), Aug.a Moments (OTR), EW, Integrating nie Bryant, East Coast Legend, by Wayne Shrubsall. Art Thou? (OTR), Introduction to Melodic Style, Part Chords and Scales (C&S), TA. TABS: Speed of Sound Dynamics (BC), Pull-offs (C&S), A Feast of Pull-offs 2 (BC), Casey Henry (Off Records), Earl’s Way: Licks (B. Freed, MP3), Cry of the Whippoorwill (TA), MP3, (OffRecord), Tony and Allen (OTR), A Little Traveling & Tricks Part 2. TABS: In My Life, Here Comes Peter La Bastringue (OT), Jamboree (B. Robins), Meadows Music, Gospel Banjo, Chord Structure for Songs (BU), Cottontail, Battle of the Horseshoe (M. Seeger, MP3), Of Dan (B. Evans), Fortune (OT), I Want To Play the Reels (MC), Earl’s Way, TA, Dr. Banjo Goes to Jam Fest. Bigfoot (BF), Charlie and the MTA (G. Grove, MP3), Banjo (EW), Buffalo Road (B. Flesher), Sequences TABS: Sandy River Belle (in G and A–OT), In the Gar- Twisted Teen (BF, MP3), The Girl I Left Behind (EW), 76–80 (CS). den (GB, MP3), Sweet Georgia Brown (in G and C, BU, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Frost (C. Henry, MP3), 336 Oct. 2001: TOM ADAMS by Ian Perry. RE- MP3), Cuckoo’s Nest (MC), Man of Constant Sorrow The Mason’s Apron (MC), Billy in the Low Ground VIEW: “TA.” Banjo Maintenance: Bridges. Tab Of The (EW), Georgia Stomp (TA, MP3). (OT, MP3). Month: Wilbur Whitten. REVIEW: “Southern Banjo 326 Dec 2000: MARK VANN, interview by Dan Ma- 331 May 2001: Master Builder JIMMY COX. Bill Styles, Vol. 2” by” Mike Seeger, Homespun Vid- zer. TA, IBMA 2000 (OTR), Getting Organized (BC), Stokes and his “Old Wood” Pot. REVIEW: Homespun’s eos. Fooling with the Fiddle (OTR), Lead-in Licks (BC), Exercises for 3-Finger Banjo, Part 1: Pull-Offs (C&S), “Solo Banjo Works” tab book (Fleck and Trischka). Bela Fretless Banjo: A Slideable Tune. Diminished Seventh Ned Luberecki (Off Record), A Little Traveling Music, Fleck interview, part 2. Am I Still a scrugg (OTR), Chords (BU), Earl’s Way, TA. Steve Huber (Off Re- Chord Structure for Songs (BU), MC, EW, Jazz Banjo, What is Practice? (BC), Basic Scales (C&S), Jazz-style cord), Munde’s Morsels: Eddie Adcock, Authentic Ver- Pat Cloud. TABS: Joy To The World (TA), MP3, My Chords (BC), Creating Your Own Arrangements (BC), sions of Southern Tunes (MC), Rhythm and Emphasis Ship Will Sail (EW), Over the Waterfall (MC), Sweet Drop Thumb Banjo, TA, Brad Leftwich, REVIEW: (CS). TABS: Sailor’s Hornpipe (2 versions), The Last Georgia Brown (in G and C), Rocky Pallet (OT, MP3), Wayne Erbsen’s “An Old Fashioned Wing Ding” CD. of Callahan (M. Seeger), Skillet Good and Greasy (OT), Nedscape Navigator (MP3), In The Bleak Midwinter (B. TABS: Fort Monroe (T. Trischka), Five on Five (J. Cox), Thinking About You (S. Huber, MP3), Will The Circle Evans, MP3), Dominant Eighth Note Study, 5 Alive (M. Scotch and Soda (BU), John Hardy (2 versions, IR, Be Unbroken (TA), Edn Hammons’ Sandy Boys (MC), Vann) MP3), Hangin’ Round the Kitchen (OT), Turn the Page Pretty Little Miss (EW), The Tune I Wrote For You 327 Jan. 01: DEBBY McCLATCHY, by A.V. Shirk. (TA), They Say That It’s Sinful to Flirt (OT), Chinquipin (AM), Sequences 81–86 (CS). OVERUSE SYNDROME: Trigger Finger by Dr. John Road (OT, MP3). 337 Nov. 2001: WAYNE ERBSEN. REVIEWS: Wit- Kelley, REVIEWS: C. Grotwohl’s “Horse of a Differ- 332 June 2001: DICK KIMMEL, by Dan Levenson. tman Mini-tuner by Ross Nickerson, Dan Knowles by ent Color” CD, D. Caplinger’s “Gospel Banjo” tab REVIEW: “Fishin’ Creek Blues” CD. Craig Smith. Do Dan Levenson. “Log Cabin Stories”. BNL Tab Index, book, Getting Organized Part 2 (BC), Licks & Letters, Banjo Players Need Music Theory? Dr. Banjo’s Begin- Vol. XXVIII, COLUMNS: EARL’S WAY; ADAMS Tab Of The Month, Terry Baucom (OffRecord), Editor’s ner’s Cure. Teaching Beginning Banjo Students, By Pete COUNTY BANJO; CONCEPTS and SYSTEMS: Choice: Angel Ruiz, Mary Z. Cox and Jeff Scroggins, Wernick. MBA 2001 (OTR), Old-Time Discography 3-Finger Exercises: Rhythm and Emphasis; CELTIC Common & Substitute Chords (BU), Banjo Road Test: (MC), Celtic Banjo by Ron Cody, Sequences (C&S), BANJO: Jonathan Toman; ON THE ROAD: IBMA Four Open Backs: Deering, Goldtone, Ramsey, Reiter, Ron Block (OffRecord), Diminished Chords (BU), 2001; IN RESPONSE: Country Banjo; MELODIC MC, EW, TA. TABS: Trimotor Reel (CB, MP3), Glen Earl’s Way, TA. TABS: Annie Laurie (C. Smith, MP3), CLAWHAMMER: Northumbrian Piping Tunes; PRO- Coe March (MC), Knee Deep in Bluegrass (T. Baucum, Ian Charles (Kimmel, OT, MP3), Pretty Little Dog FILE: Eric Royer; BEGINNER’S CORNER: Tag MP3), Crossville Breakdown (MP3), Little Black Dog (Kimmel, OT, MP3), Five to Four (MC), The Drunk- Licks; FLECKOLOGY. TABS: Prelude to Bach Cello PAGE 16 CONTENTS INDEX 1974-2013 Suite #1, Holmes’ Fancy (MC), Coal Tattoo (TA), Don’t in the Valley 2 by Tony Trischka; TEST DRIVE: Remo’s Renaissance Put Her Down, You Helped Put Her There (TA), Bela’s 342 April 2002 WALK KOKEN: REVIEW: The Head; REVIEW: Ross Nickerson’s “Blazing the West: Breakfast (CB), Mom and Dad’s Waltz, Uncle Pen (EW), Banjo: The People and the Sound of America’s Folk In- Tab Book” (for the CD); BC: The Pinch; C&S: Right Gator’s Stampede (OT), Cuttin’ Melons (Scott Anderson), strument. REVIEW: Gary Susabee’s Bridges By Kyle Hand Exercises, continued; TA; Drop Thumb: Reed Lost Jug in the Woodpile (OT) Smith, “Drop Thumb” by R.D. Lunceford, “Killer Tone” Martin; Tab Of The Month By Ian Perry; Bluegrass 338 Dec 2001: MURPHY HENRY. The Golden Age by Steve Huber (AcuTab Video); ON THE ROAD: Clawhammer; Right Hand Clawhammer Ornaments: of the Banjo by Ben Freed. CD REVIEWS: Acoustic Grammys, Wintergrass; EW; JMB; MC: Overtones; MMT, by Ken Miner. TABS: The Reel (OT), Syndicate’s “Crazy Little Life”; George Gibson’s “Last BLUEGRASS CLAWHAMMERBEGINNER’S COR- Home Sweet Home (OT), The Old Stillhouse (OT), Why Possum Up The Tree”; Mike and Patty Ramsey’s Banjo NER: Right Hand; CONCEPTS and SYSTEMS: Ex- Don’t You Go Back to the Woods, Jesse James, Boil ‘Em Building Workshop; PROFILE: Bill Sullivan and First ercises for 3-Finger Banjo, Part 2: Physical Exercises; Cabbage Down (Trischka), Shuckin’ The Corn (BU), Quality Musical Supplies; EVALUATION: The Sul- ADAMS COUNTY BANJO; TRISCHKA’S PICKS: Milwaukee Here I Come (Warner) livan Greenbriar 5-string, by Janet Davis, Concepts And Bobby Thompson By Tony Trischka. TABS: Stony 347 Sept. 2002. DAVID TALBOT (Part 1) by Marty Systems: 3-Finger Exercises: Emphasis in Melodic Style; Creek (B. Thompson), Fire on the Banjo (B. Thompson), Godbey. REVIEW: Mike Seeger’s “Southern Banjo BACK UP: Working Out BU; TA; Melodic Clawhammer: Big Sciota, Boston Shootout (Ot), Old Christmas Morn- Styles Vol. 3.”; Riley Baugus’s “Life of Riley”; Summit Ibma; A Little Traveling Music: Ron Mullinnex and ing (OT), Sophranie (JMB), Jingle Bells (EW), Washing- Guitar’s Gig Bag, By Tom Adams; Tab Of The Month Gandydancer; Beginner’s Corner; Earl’s Way: Stella Par- ton’s March (MC), Shenandoah Breakdown (OT), Dance by John McEuen; On The Road: Aug. 2002; BC: Tony ton. TABS: Lover’s Dream (EW), Jingle Bells, The Biting Around Molly (TA), Trischka, Part 1; MC; REVIEW: Ken Perlman’s “North- Sow (TA), Roscoe’s Gone (MC), Jullianne Johnson (OT), 343 May 2002 EDDIE COLLINS by Julie Koehler. ern Banjo” CD By Michael J. Miles; Back Up: Repeat- Devil’s Dream (C&S), Jingle Bell Rock, Ding Dong Mer- First Lessons on Banjo by Jack Hatfield. Eddie’s Picking ing Backup Patterns; EW; JMB: Chris Warner; Jazz rily on High , Muddy Roads (clawhammer and 3-finger) Style—A Self-Analysis. BACK UP: Traditional Haunt- Banjo: By Pat Cloud; TA; C&S: Ex- by Tony Trischka, ing Sounds by Janet Davis Tab: On The Road: Ping Pong ercises, Left Hand—Position Changing. TABS: Bright 339 Jan. 2002: JIMMY MARTIN By Pete Kelly. Anyone?; Fleckology; Off The Record; MC: Knowing Sunny South (ot), The Honeymoon (Ot), Shuckin’ The FRETLESS BANJO: The Basic Bad And Guitar Play- The “Traditional”; Earl’s Way; BC: Right Hand Part 2; Corn (3 versions), Cider (OT), Benny’s Revenge (TA), ers; REVIEWS: “Bill Evans Plays Banjo” review by Concepts And Systems: Exercises For 3-finger Banjo, Part Arab Bounce (JBM), Black Diamond Strings, Long Tom Adams. “Bela Fleck’s Banjo Picking Styles,” from 2: Physical Health; TA; REVIEW: “Sweet Nell: New Cold Winter, Togary Mountain (McEuen), In Walked Homespun, CDs. Superscope’s PSD 230 variable speed Old Time Tunes” by Tom Adler and Company. TABS: Bud (JB), Borrowed Love (EW) CD player. JIMMY MARTIN BANJO; BACK UP: Re- Second Breakfast (OT), True Love Never Dies (EW), 348 Oct. 02. JAKE JENKINS by Bob Piekiel. Inter- solving Diminished Chords; OTR: A Perfect Weekend; Bring Back my Blue-Eyed Boy (B. Evans), Chromium view: DAVID TALBOT (Part 2) by Marty Godbey. OFF THE RECORD: Ron Stewart; TONY’S PICKS Palinate (BF), The Musical Priest (MC), The Boy Who FRETLESS BANJO: De Pandae Natura, or, Hannibal’s OF THE MONTH: Dock Boggs; ADAMS COUNTY Wouldn’t Hoe Corn (BU), Kickin’ Grass (TA), Ramblin’ Revenge By Fretless Josh Shaw; BNL Tab Index, Vol- BANJO; MC: Howie Bursen; A LITTLE TRAVELING Fever (E. Collins), Baby I’m Gone (by Lynwood Lunc- ume XXIX, Nov. 2001 through Oct. 2002. BC: Interview MUSIC: Leroy Troy’s “The Old Grey Mare”; BC: Tak- eford), Slappin’ Schubmehl with Tony Trischka, Part 2. MC: Crooked Tunes; OFF ing Care of Your Hands; SYNCOPATION: 4 Examples 344 June 2002: MARK WALLACE. PROFILE: Andy THE RECORD: Kristin Scott Benson; ON THE ROAD: By Ben Freed. TABS: Dawg’s Due (BF), Sunny Side of Glandt (REVIEW: “Playing in D Tuning” book by Ian Casey at Home; REVIEW: Mary Z. Cox. By Dan the Mountain (JMB), Grandfather’s Clock (BU), Black Perry). POEM: The Grain of Sound by Robert Morgan; Levenson; TA; The 5th String Thumb Check Choker by and Tan (R. STEWART), THREE BY DOC BOGGS: Tender Little Murder Ballad 1114 by Fretless Josh Shaw; Bob Flesher; PLAYING IN D W/OUT A CAPO: Part 3; Sugar Baby, Coke Oven March, Schottische Time; Ginny GOSPEL BANJO: How Great Thou Art; Mozart So- BLUEGRASS CLAWHAMMER. TABS: Jakebrakes Whitt’s (TA), Star Trek Theme, Slow Down! (MC), Ma- nata in A, by Bob Piekiel; ON THE ROAD: This Magic (Jenkins), Big Mon (OT), I Hung My Head (TA), Foggy ya’s Bounce (MC), Leroy Troy’s Rabbit Dog (OT) Moment; BANJO MAINTENANCE: Intonation; RE- Mountain Rock (Benson), The Hunt (Benson), Greasy 340 Feb. 2002. JOSH McMURRAY by Bob Piekiel. VIEW: Andy Glandt’s “Playing in D Tuning” book; THE String (MC), Hunchback Liza (OT), Squirrel Heads and REVIEW: “Banjo–The Old Time Way” by Jimmy Mc- BARD’S BANJO: English Country Clawhammer by Ste- Gravy (OT), Buckner’s Breakdown (Talbot), That’s Why Cown. Review By Reed Martin. LEARNING TO PLAY ven Harvey; JMB; BC: Right Hand Part 3; C&S: Practice They Call ‘em the Blues Talbot), David Talbot’s Original BANJO: Then and Now by George R. Gibson; TABS OF Time; TA; A LITTLE TRAVELING MUSIC: Bob Carlin Licks, Boil, Cumberland Gap (Trischka) THE MONTH: by Ned Luberecki and Harold Streeter; and the Hamilton Ironworks; REVIEW: “Clawhammer Volume XXX JMB; BACK-SAVING BANJO STRAP; BANJO SET- from Scratch” video by Dan Levenson. KNOCKIN’ 349 Nov. 2002, ROLF SEIKER by Ken Seaman. UP FOR BEGINNERS; BC: Extended Tag Licks; TA: DOWN: Wood Tone Rings by Bob Flesher. MC: MBA. FRETLESS BANJO: Tab Versus Musical Notation; ; EW; C&S: Rhythm And Emphasis, Conclu- TABS: En Flandres (MC), Snowdrop (OT), Eminence BC: Tony Trischka, Part 3. Profile: Laura Boosinger sion; ON THE ROAD: Spotlight on Joe Page; IN RE- Breakdown (OT), Woodchoppers Breakdown (OT), John By Steve Harvey; MC: Clawhammer Banjo in Europe, SPONSE: Backup In 3/4 Time; A LITTLE TRAVELING Henry (TA), Don’t You Call My Name (TA), Cleared for 2002; C&S: Left Hand, Continued. Tab Exercises: MUSIC: Sandy Boys Redux—The Continuing Tradition; Takeoff, Between 7 and 8, Grimstock (OT), Heartsease 111—114; BU: Linking with Passing Tones; ON THE MC: Using the Thumb. By Ken Perlman. TABS: Smash (OT), Kemp’s Jig (OT), Red Rooster (JMB) ROAD: Not Another Fiddle Column...; TAB OF the Windows! (MC), Prayer Bell of Heaven (JMB), Blue 345 July 2002. HENRY “HANK” SAPOZNIK by THE MONTH: Tom Adams; IN RESPONSE: Playing Moon of Kentucky, Blue Ridge Mountain Blues (EW), Mark Rubin. Introduction by Ken Perlman. How to Fix Waltzes; EW; TA; BLUEGRASS CLAWHAMMER. Timbertree Branch (J. McMurray), Leavin’ (TA), I’ll Get a Bullet Hole in a Banjo by Fretless Josh Shaw; OFF TABS: The Gold Rush (OT), Kentucky Waltz, A Taste By (TA), Sandy Boys (OT), No Mother or Dad, Ride The THE RECORD: Haskell McCormick; PROFILE: Tyne of Honey, Fairchild’s Passage, True Love Never Dies Wild Turkey, America the Beautiful Replogle; REVIEW: The Huber Banjo; PLAYING IN D (EW), Rebecca (TA), Newcastle, or Texas (MC), Josie 341 March 2002: BILL EVANS by Marty Cutler. WITHOUT A CAPO by Tony Trischka. BLUEGRASS Girl (OT), Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss (OT) Maryland Banjo Academy IV by Nancy Nitchie. RE- CLAWHAMMER; JMB; BC: A Few Things to Avoid; 350 Dec. 2002: MARK PLATIN OF WILDWOOD VIEW: Introduction to Celtic Tunes for 5-String by Alan C&S: Right Hand Exercises; TA; BU: Playing the Lead BANJOS, interview by Roger Deitz. BC: Tony Trischka, Johnson. NASHCAMP’S FALL BANJO RETREAT by as Back-up—; MC: Banjo Camp North; part 4. On The Road: IBMA 2002. A Little Traveling Pete Wernick; JMB; DEERING’S “OLD TIME” BANJO EW. TABS: Ring of Fire (EW), McCormick’s String Music: Adam Hurt (and review of “Intrigue”); C&S: Us- by Bubba Hutch; Bluegrass Clawhammer; TRISCHKA’S Picnic, Moon Dance, Five Miles of Ellum Wood (OT), ing Both Hands, Ex. 115-116; Tab of the Month: Ned PICKS; C and S: Rhythm And Emphasis, Conclusion Shortenin’ Bread (Trischka), Boil ‘Em Cabbage Down Luberecki; JMB: Chris Warner; Review of Mark John- (continued); ON THE ROAD: There Was An Auction; (Trischka), Hit Parade of Love (JMB), Bull Run (TA), son’s “Acoustic Campaign”; BU: Chords and Christmas TA; A LITTLE TRAVELING MUSIC: Sandy Boys Shuckin’ The Corn (BU), Fine Times at Our House (MC), Carols; BF; Trischka’s Picks: John Hartford; TA. TABS: Redux—Part 2. BACK UP: Augmented Chords; DROP Blackberry Blossom (OT) Washington County (TA), John Henry (Hartford), Don’t THUMB BANJO: St. Paddy’s Day By R.D. Lunceford. 346 Aug. 2002. CHRIS WARNER by Pete Kelly. Fly- Ever Take Your Eyes Off The Game, Babe (Hartford), TABS: The Star of Munster (OT), Tennessee (JMB), ing With a Banjo by Ned Luberecki. REVIEW: Ralph Hoe Down (BF), O’ Come, O’ Come Emmanuel (BU), Ashokan Farewell (TA), Big Scioty (T. Trischka), Clinch White’s “Trash Fish” by Danny Barnes. Profile: Lewis Mosby’s Rangers (Johnson), Freeborn Man (JMB), Mountain Backstep (OT), The Old Home Town (C&S), Brandt by Ron Messina; ON THE ROAD: I’m a Banjo Those Were the Days (Luberecki), Cumberland Gap Burl Hammons’ Sandy Boys (OT), Petersburg Gal (Bill Player. What’s Your Excuse?;B U: Using Connecting (OT), Childgrove (OT). Evans), Navvy on the Line (CB), Kesh Jig (CB), Spring Tones (Chord Tones); Playing in D Without a Capo, Part 351 Jan. 2003. MAC BENFORD. BC: The Quick CONTENTS INDEX Vol. I–XL PAGE 17 Thumb; Banjo Maintenance: Block Rims By Scott Zim- TAB OF THE MONTH: Ben Freed; Fretless Josh Shaw: Round The Ocean; Melodic Clawhammer: Syncopation, merman; TA; Earl’s Way; Profile: Terry McGill; MC: Management Of The M-16 Assault Banjo; Two-finger French-canadian Style; TA; Earl’s Way; A Little Trav- Backup Part 1; C&S: Using a Metronome, Exercises: Banjo; Tech Talk: Restoring Force And Rigid Tailpieces; eling Music. TABS: John Brown’s Dream (OT), Tem- 117–119; Trischka’s Picks: Jerry Garcia; Off The Record: Profile: Scott Didlake; Beginner’s Corner: Left-hand Tim- perance Reel (B. Evans), Down The Road (OT), Old Sammy Shelor; Clawhammer Bluegrass; The Roanoke ing, Part 2; Melodic Clawhammer: Strums; TA; Off The Ebenezer Dangerfield (Butch Robins), Old Joe Clark (3 Bluegrass Weekend: Dare to Be A Good Player; JMB. Record: Jens Kruger’s Modes; On The Road: Twenty versions, Trischka), Yew Piney Mountains (OT), Reel de TABS: My Rose of Old Kentucky (JMB), Wheel Hoss, Years Ago; JMB: J.d. Crowe; Fleckology; Old-time From Timer (MC), Classical Gas (TA), Gallatin Road (EW) Rose of the Mountain (OT), Blue Suede Shoes (TA), The The Ozarks. TABS: Going Across the Sea (OT), The Volume XXXI Girl in the Blue Velvet Band (EW), Straight Drive (Mc- Sweet Spot (Freed), The Dead March (2-finger), Pompey 361 Nov. 2003: RAY ALDEN By Dan Levenson. RE- Gill), Runaround (McGill), Barlow Knife (MC), Jerry’s Ran Away (minstrel), La Cardeuse (MC), Linus and Lucy VIEW: Kelly Emerson’s new maple “Sweet Power” Breakdown (Garcia), Weary Day (Shelor), Down the Line (TA), Seven Modes (Kruger), Cumberland Gap (Min- banjo bridge; TA; From Mylar to Goatskin By Fred (Shelor), Salty Dog Blues (OT) strel), Rock Hearts (JMB), Magic Fingers (BF) Sokolow; On The Road: IBMA 2003: Something About 352 FEB. 2003: STEVE MARTIN by Ira Gitlin. RE- 357 July 2003: CORDELL KEMP: Local Legend, Na- Banjos; Concepts and Systems: Graduated Arrangement VIEW: Wildwood Troubador By Roger Dietz; Drop tional Treasure By Casey Henry. REVIEWS: Goldtone’s Studies, Part 1: Vocal Melodies; BC: Forward Rolls; Thumb Banjo: Keith Arneson; Bc: Be Specific!; Tech Graphite Necks By Bob Piekiel; “Banjo Special” By Arnie Butch Robins: Part 2 By Tom Warlick. BACK UP: The Talk: How A Banjo Works By Roger Siminoff; Profile: Naiman, Chris Coole, Chris Quinn And Brian Teheney. By “F” () Chord Shape; Old-time From The Ozarks; Wade Mainer By Tom Warlick; TA; MC: Clawhammer William E. Montague; PROFILE: Martin Stehlik. Profile: A New Approach To Banjo, Part 2; JMB: J.D. Crowe. Backup Part 2; Tab Of The Month By Richard Sparks; Jeff Blankenship; Tab Of The Month By Bill Evans; Blue- TABS: Whose Shoulder Should I Cry On? (JD Crowe), JMB; C&S: Using A Metronome, Cont. Exercises: 120- grass Clawhammer By Wayne Shrubsall; Earl’s Way; TA; What’ll We Do With The Baby? (OT), Roll On Blues 123; On The Road: Party On, Dude! TABS: Terry’s BC: Interview With Ned Luberecki Part 1; JMB; A Little (TA), Our Last Goodbye (TA), Shady Grove (C&S); Get Tune (OT), Pitkin County Turnaround (S. Martin), Blue Road Music: Finale Guitar—new Tab Software By Dan In Line Brother (BC), Are You From Dixie? (B. Robins), Diamond Mines (TA), Barlow Knife (MC), It’s All Over Levenson. TABS: Logan County Blues (OT), Pro Malou Blackberry Blossom (BU), Willott’s Hornpipe variations Now. he Last Song (JMB) Pinceznu & Pod Rozkvetlou Tresni (Stehlik), Bluegrass (OT), Little Dutch Girl (OT). 353 MARCH 2003: WALTER HENSLEY by Mickey Funk 101 (Blankenship), Fisher’s Hornpipe, Footprints 362 Dec. 2003: DAVE JOHNSTON, Interview by Jake Maguire. Celtic Tabs Of The Month By Alan John- in the Snow (OT), When the Clock Strikes Twice (EW), Schepps. Ray Alden Interview: Part 2. REVIEW: Gold- son. Banjo Maintenance: The Potter Tailpiece By Scott Cold Tea (OT), Heartache (OT), Teardrops Fell Like tone’s Mini-Bluegrass Banjo; TA; Tech Talk: Tuning The Zimmerman; TA; BC: Breaking It Down; Melodic Raindrops (TA), The Future Remains (TA), Crowe on the Sound Chamber; On The Road: Monroe’s Maxim; BC: Clawhammer: Old-time Endings; Trischka’s Picks: Old Banjo (JMB). Periods Of Frustration; In Response: Arranging Country Earl By Tony Trischka. TABS: Drop Thumb Banjo; Blue- 358 Aug. 2003: JOHANNES BONEFAAS of JB Ban- Songs; Banjos Without Borders: Lorraine Hammond; grass Clawhammer; Back Up: Expression And Dynamics; jos. PROFILE: Rick Sampson. REVIEW: Saga’s New Melodic Clawhammer; Bluegrass Clawhammer; JMB: On The Road: What Would J.D. Do? TABS: For the Sake Rover Banjo By Ben Freed. Tabs Of The Month: By Greg J.D. and Bill Emerson. TABS: Little Maggie (JMB); of Old Decency (CB), The Blarney Pilgrim (CB), The Cahill And By Ian Perry; Techtalk: String Break Angle; Twelve Days of Christmas; Theme From The Monkees Drunken Landlady (CB), Living Without You (Hensley), TA; Beginner’s Corner: Interview With Ned Luberecki, (TA), Let It Snow, Let It Snow..., Alone and Blue, Pride Rocket Man (TA), Eight More Miles to Louisville (BC), Pt. 2; Melodic Clawhammer: High D; Backup: Jim Mills of Alabama, Faded Love (IR), Young But Daily Grow- Ebenezer (MC), Cripple Creek (Earl), Shuckin’ the Corn (Vocal Backup For G, C And D Chords); Bluegrass ing (OT), Edn Hammons’s Greasy Coat (MC), Heel and (Earl), The Wind that Shakes The Barley (OT), Roll in Clawhammer; On The Road: A Baby Shower, Nashville- Toe Polka (OT) My Sweet Baby’s Arms (OT), Tread Softly on this Heart style By Casey Henry; Earl’s Way; Banjos On The Border 363 Jan. 2004: GERLD JONES Interview: Best Banjo of Mine (BU) By Steve Harvey. TABSs: Cold Frosty Morning (OT), Player You’ve Never Heard Of by Joe Carr. Tom Adams’ 354 APRIL 2003: JOHN McEUEN: Looking Back, Cold Frosty Evening (OT), Reuben (OT), Folsom Prison Crossword puzzle; REVIEWS: Two-hand Tapping Looking Ahead By Julie Koehler. “So Many Instruments, Blues (EW), Tragic Romance (BU), Take Me Home, Technique by Howard Yates; Team Flathead: The Huber Only 2 Hands” and “Why I Don’t Write Love Songs” by Country Roads (TA), Frog at the Mill (Ian Perry), Presi- Sessions; Nechville’s new Eclipse banjo with the Cyclo- John McEuen. BLUEGRASS CLAWHAMMER; TECH dent Garfield’s Hornpipe (Cahill), Pompey Ran Away tronic Tone Ring. COLUMNS: TA; Off The Record: TALK; BEGINNER’S CORNER: Pick Noise; PRO- (Minstrel), Henry Reed’s Rocky Mt. Goat (MC), Barrel Team Flathead; Banjos In Belgium; Back Up: The “D” FILE: KELLY EMERSON By Ray Hesson; MELODIC Poppin’ (Sampson) Chord Shape; BC: Periods Of Frustration #2; A New CLAWHAMMER: Choking; JIMMY MARTIN BANJO: 359 Sept. 2003: BILLY WHEELER By Donald Nitchie. Approach To 5-string, Part 3; A Little Traveling Music; J.D. Crowe; ON THE ROAD: Life Is Short...; CON- PROFILE: Kevin Nealon. By Lyndon Stambler. Tony Old Time From The Ozarks; Fleckology; Earl’s Way. CEPTS and SYSTEMS: Using a Metronome, conclusion; Pass’s New ThinSkirt Rim By Donald Nitchie; TAB OF TABS: Lonely Old Town (TA), Planes and Trains and EARL’S WAY; DROP THUMB BANJO; BACK UP: THE MONTH By Ben Freed; REVIEW: Homespun’s Cars (EW), Next (BF), Sally Went A-Hunting (OT), Old Choosing Notes for Effects; ADAMS COUNTY BANJO; “Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos” by Tony Trischka, Dvd; Molly Hare (OT), Cotton-Eyed Joe (OFT), Sourwood OFF THE RECORD. TABS: Dakota (Bill Evans), Molly Ome’s New Line Of Banjos By Ken Perlman; Banjo Mt. (OFT), Wave (Jones), Blackberry Blossom (BU) and Tenbrooks (OT), Duncan and Brady (TA), Hear That Maintenance: Frets; TA Tabs; JMB: Fill-in Licks By Pete 364 Feb. 2004: BARRY CRABTREE Interview Whistle Blow 100 Miles (EW), Buzz Saw (Kelly Emer- Kelly. Tab Examples; A New Approach To Banjo, Part 1 by Greg Cahill. REVIEWS: John Dowling’s “Hand son), Return to Dismal Swamp (McEuen), Breakdown in By Jeff Kimble; On The Road: Aug.a 2003; BC: Interview Rolled” CD; Dwight Diller’s Just Rhythm video/DVD.; A (MC), Coon Dog (OT), We’ll Meet Again Sweetheart Overview; Melodic Clawhammer; Old-time From The Power Pickin’ Vol. 1: Up-the-neck Back-up featur- (JMB), Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine (BU), Blowin’ Ozarks; Gospel Banjo By Harold Streeter; A Little Travel- ing Bill Evans, video; Old Friends: Duets by Wayne In The Wind (C&S), Doin’ My Time (C&S), ing Music. TABS: John Brown’s Dream (OT), Willett’s Shrubsall and Alan Munde, CD. The Sullivan Festival 355 MAY 2003: MOLLY TENENBAUM. REVIEW: Hornpipe (OT), Sally Anne Johnson (MC), Wayfaring Banjo. COLUMNS: Bluegrass Clawhammer; Techtalk: “Instead of a Pony” By Dan Levenson. EARL’S WAY; Stranger (GB), Casey Jones (Bobby Thompson/ Tony Bridges; The Kentucky Museum of Music’s Banjo His- PROFILE: Winfield-winner John Dowling; Banjo Main- Trischka), Nine Below (Freed), It Don’t Bring You Back tory Exhibit; The Anatomy of Alan Munde’s Molly tenance: Electric Banjos; BC: Pick Noise; REVIEW: Bill To Me (TA), There Goes My Love (TA), The Legend (B. Bloom: Melodic Masterpiece By Joe Carr; Profile of Keith’s New Tuners; Two-finger Banjo; On The Road: Wheeler) Ryan Cavanaugh; BC: Adult Beginners; TA; JMB; Pertaining To Banjos.. ; In Response: Are We There Yet?; 360 Oct. 2003: BUTCH ROBINS: A Banjo Icon Practic- On The Road; Banjo On The Borders: Art Rosenbaum; Back Up: Playing Harmony; Celtic Banjo: A Flying Irish ing the Art of Living By Tom Warlick. Tap-Tuning Your Melodic Clawhammer; Off The Record: Alan Munde. Reel; JMB: J.D. Crowe; Bluegrass Clawhammer. TABS: Banjo—Not! OFF THE RECORD; REVIEW: “Little TABS: The Old Grey Mare (OT), Canceled Ticket Lonesome Road Blues (OT), Chariots of Fire (EW), FOD Worlds” by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, 3-CD set; (Ruiz), Love Will Make You Blind (Crabtree), I Don’t (Dowling), Cotton Eye Joe (OT), Rose Division (MC), TECHTALK: Tuning the Head By Roger Siminoff; BC: Know You(Crabtree), Molly Bloom, The Redhaired Wearing of the Green (2-finger), Long Texas Highways Taking The Next Step; Bluegrass Clawhammer; Concepts Boy, Down To The River To Pray (TA), I’m Coming (E. Collins), Foggy Mountain Breakdown (BU), Toss the And Systems: Graduated Arrangement Studies, Intro; Home (JMB), How Come This Blood On Your Shirt Feathers, Part 1 (CB), Big Country (JMB) Trischka’s Picks; Banjos At The Border: The Art Of Lis- Sleeve? (Rosenbaum, OT), The Rochester Schottische 356 June 2003: BELA FLECK: his new Mahogany tening: Diane Jones And The Essence Of Mountain Mu- 1 & 2 (MC), Old Joe Clark (AM). Banjo by MAX. PROFILE: Robin Smith by MAX. Inter- sic; REVIEW: “Goin’ Back” By The Reed Island Round- 365 Mar. 2004: TAJ MAHAL, Interview by Tony view with Gourd banjo maker Pete Ross By David Hyatt. ers; Back Up: The Boom-chick; On The Road: Sailing Trischka. REVIEW: Deering’s GoodTimes Special PAGE 18 CONTENTS INDEX 1974-2013 (with Resonator). COLUMNS: The Holistic Banjo Tab Of The Month: Studebaker (as played By Sammy Wig. Ken Perlman’s “All You Ever Wanted To Know Workshop By John Taylor; Off The Record: Chris Pan- Shelor); Set-up: Saga’s Rover Banjo; Techtalk: Finding About Clawhammer” COLUMNS: Banjos In Cyber- dolfi (Interview By Ben Freed); Excerpts From Sule The Right Tailpiece, Part 3; Australian Banjo; Profile: space; BC: Retiring To The Banjo; Stroke-style Banjo; Greg Wilson’s 1995 Interview With Taj Mahal; A Little Keith Reed; TA; On The Road: Kauffman Kamp; Tunes Profile: Bruce Stockwell. How A Banjo Works: Strings Traveling Music: Banjos And More Banjos; On The From Tug Hollow; BC: Slithering Slides; MC: Taking And Things; JMB: J.D.; Back Up: Substituting BU Road: Musings...; BC: Wrapping It Up; EW; TA; C&S; Care Of The Picking Nail; C&S: Vocal Melodies, con- Patterns; ETF; EW: Single-string Licks; TA; Off The OT From The Ozarks. TABS: The Red Haired Boy, tinued; Ask Banjo Dr. Will; EW. TABS: Sofala Cuckoo, Record: Sonny Osborne. TABS: Mole In The Ground Whiskey Field (OTR), City of New Orleans, Colored George Booker (OT), Cheyenne Mt. Breakdown (Reed), (OT), Cold Frosty Morning (OT), Keemo Kimo (MB), Aristocracy (Taj-OT), Candy Man (Taj-OT), Benton’s Man of Constant Sorrow (TA), Troubles Up and Down Skye (Stockwell); I’m Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Dream (OT), Ballad of Jed Clampet (EW), Don’t Come the Road (TA), Road to California, Mountain Dew (BC), Eyes (Crowe), I’m Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes Out of the Hole (TA), Fireball Mail (C&S: 6 versions) Rattling Clog (Kropp), Farewell Auld Fiddler (MC), The (BU), Haulin’ The Logs (Tauri Oksala), : The Mathema- 366 Apr. 2004: DAVID HOFFMAN: An interview Eighth of Jan. (C&S), Bummin’ On An Old Freight Train tician (ETF), Lovesick And Sorrow (TA), Old Swinging with the Filmmaker by John de Forest. Tony Trischka (EW). Bridge (TA), Siempre (Sonny Osborne) on Composing for Progressive Bluegrass Banjo. RE- 371 Sept. 2004: KENNY INGRAM, interview by Jim 376 Feb. 2005: A Day At NECHVILLE MUSICAL VIEWS: Chord Wizard, Gold Edition; Mel Bay Presents Rollins. REVIEW: Mac Benford’s “Half Past Four” PRODUCTS by Eric Magnuson. REVIEW: Stelling’s Tarrant Bailey Jr. Banjo Solos, book/CD; Goldtone’s by Ken Perlman. COLUMNS: Blue Fescue by Har- New Crusader (Interview With Geoff Stelling). Roger Dojo. COLUMNS: TA; EW; On The Road: The Essen- old Streeter; The Tony Pass “Timeless Timbre” Rim Buckmaster’s Open-backs. COLUMNS: TA; Earl’s tial Earl Scruggs; BOB: David Brose; Techtalk: Tailpiec- Road Test by Bob Carlin; ETF; On The Road: Aug. Way; Concepts And Systems: Arrangement Develop- es; BC: Knowing How You Learn; MC: Smooth Play- a 2004; Stroke-style Banjo; EW: Grey Fox; Interview: ment; Profile: Matt Menefee; Tech Talk: Tuning The ing Secrets; JMB; BU: Picking Patterns; Gospel Banjo. Don Wayne Reno; OT From The Ozarks; BC: Taking Head; Beginner’s Corner: Now That’s Stretching It!; TABS: Foggy Mt. Breakdown (claw), Purchase Grover The Easy Way Out; BOB: Mary Z. Cox; JMB: Kenny Banjos On The Border: The Sandy River Belle Tun- (Trischka), Feelin’ Stronger Every Day (TA), Santa Claus Ingram; BU: Measure Patterns; Rockygrass 2004; TA. ing; Melodic Clawhammer: Developing A “Live” Right is Coming... (EW), The Big Scioty (OT), West Virginia TABS: You Don’t Know My Mind (Ingram), Kentucky Hand; On The Road: This Magic Moment; Classic Gals (MC), Truck Driving Man (JMB), Blue Ridge Cabin Waltz (ETF), Fairy Dance (MB), Ashes of Love (EW), Fingerstyle Banjo: Introduction To Banjo Chromat- Home (BU), Ash Grove (GB) Half Past Four (OT), Dry and Dusty (OT), Cumberland ics by Chris Sands; Profile: Cia Cherryholmes. TABS: 367 May 2004: JOHN LAWLESS, Interview By Bill Gap (BC), Banjos and Gourds (BC), Swanannoa Tunnel Tuesday Afternoon; (TA), By Bob Piekiel Tab: Some Evan. REVIEWS: Essential Practice Techniques for (OT), Fly Me to Frisco (JMB), Blueridge Cabin Home Of Shelly’s Blues (EW), By Jack Hatfield TABS: Salty Bluegrass Banjo, DVD, By Tony Trischka, from Home- (BU), Wabash Cannonball (BU), Two O’Clock in the Dog Blues (C&S), Memory Like Mine, Tijuana Tango spun. Banjo Frolic (film). Mike Smith’s Kat Eyz bridg- Morning (TA) (Meneffee), Highland Rim (Ian Perry), Piano Roll Blues, es. COLUMNS: TA; Tabs by John Carlini; Bluegrass 372 Oct. 2004: DAVE SCHENKMAN of Turtle Hill Old Joe Clark (OT), Sandy River Belle (OT), The High Clawhammer; EW; On The Road: We’re Still Jamming!; Banjo Co., interview by Ira Gitlin. Tab Index, Volume Road To Linton (MC), Please Don’t Say It (Cherryhol- OT From The Ozarks; A New Approach, Part 4; BC: To XXX1. COLUMNS: On The Road: Never Too Late; mes). Tab or Not To Tab; A Little Taveling Music; ETF TABS: Tech Talk: Finding The Right Bridge Location; BC: 377 March 2005: TODD TAYLOR By Janet Davis. Lonesome Hearted Blues (TA), Cemetery Ridge (Law- Playing In 3/4 Time; Profile: Gene Parsons; How The Clarke Buehling, Banjo Raconteur. REVIEWS: Banjo less), How ‘R Ya Waltz Lawless), Sycamores Along the Old-timers played clawhammer by Charlie Faurot; Tab Arrangements Of , Homespun DVD; Brandywine (Koken, OT), Backroom at the Gallery (Car- Of The Month: Mike Munford; MC: The 2nd Octave In Folk Banjo, (book). COLUMNS: On The Road: The lini), Riceolian (Carlini), Opera Inspired (Carlini), Scot- Double-C; BOB: Gut Check; TA; Tunes From Tug Hol- Two-Stringers; TA; Stroke-style Banjo; JMB: J.D.; land (OT), Petticoat Junction (EW), The low; BU: Color, Tension And Texture. TABS: Banjo Beginner’s Corner: Anchors Away; A Little Traveling March (OT), Ballad of Jed Clampett (Kimble), Benton’s Dog (Parsons), Coleman’s March (MC), Little Liza Jane Music; How A Banjo Works:Frequency Content; Old- Dream (OT-basic), Tennessee Waltz (ETF) (OT), Mr. Bojangles (TA), Chiming Bells (CB), Salty Dog time From The Ozarks; ETF; Listen Up! Bill Keith. 368 Jun. 2004: KIPPER STITT, interview by Bobbi (lead & BU), Line Drive. TABS: Danny Boy (Pat Cloud), Banjos We Have Heard Geyer. REVIEWS: Clawhammer From Scratch, CD/ Volume XXXII On High, Send The Angels (TA), Old Dan Tucker (MC), DVD by Dan Levenson; Saga’s New Gold Star GF-85, 373 Nov. 2004: STEVE COOLEY, interview by Greg The Race Is One, Fire Bell Galop (CB), Jimmy Brown By Mike Kropp; Fred Pribac’s Bob In The Wash House Cahill. Earl Scruggs at the Country Music Hall of Fame The Newsboy (JMB), Three Jolly Coachmen, By Dan By Bob Carlin. COLUMNS: JMB; Merlefest 2004; by Casey Henry. REVIEWS: Fielding-Cutler Banjo Levenson Tab: Big John Mcneil (OT), Wagoner One- TA; Tech Talk: Finding The Right Tailpiece, Part II; BC: Mute; Jayme Stone And Tricycle. COLUMNS: How A step (OT), Music Box Dancer, Sunday’s Hornpipe (Bill And The Winner is...; MC: Solving The “A” Problem. Banjo Works By Jim Rae And Tom Rossing; Banjos And Keith) C&S: Vocal Melodies, continued; On The Road: Roll Bluegrass Down Under By Jack Hatfield; BC: 3/4 Time; 378 April 2005: CRAIG KORTH by Ian Perry. The On Buddy; BOB: OT From Transylvania; BU: Basic ‘Up ETF; OT From The Ozarks; A Little Traveling Music: Old Time Way #2: Profile: Will Fielding’s Open-back The Neck’ Back-up Lick. TABS: Home Run Man (JMB), Texas Banjo—Chuck Lee; TA; Stroke-style Banjo; JMB; Banjos. REVIEWS: Dan Gellert’s CD. “Keep Your Born With A Hammer (TA), All The Hay’s in The Barn EW. TABS: Instrumental In D Minor (EW), Rock Ledge Skillet Good And Greasy,” Uncle Dave Macon Bear (Stitt), Henry Reed’s Favorite (MC), Mama Don’t Allow (Cooley), She’ll Be Coming Round the Mt., Banjo Signal Family Box. Steve Huber’s Jim Mills Banjo by Larry (C&S: six arrangements), Two Brides (OT), Blue Ridge (Pat Cloud), Murmur (J. Stone), Red Haired Boy (ETF), Perkins. COLUMNS: TA; C&S: Arrangement Devel- Cabin Home (BU) Wink The Other Eye (OT), Yellow Rose Of Texas (OT), opment; BC: Brief History Of Bluegrass Banjo; On The 369 Jul. 2004: NOAM PIKELNY, interview by Jake My Heart Skips A Beat (TA), The Boatman’s Dance Road: Stelling Recording and “Banjo Noise”; Tech Talk: Schepps. Eddie Peabody: Plectrum Populizer and Espio- (MB), Theme Time (JMB) Tuning The Head, continued. TABS: Red Line To Shady nage Spy. REVIEWS: Ome’s Deluxe Plum Jubilee by 374 Dec. 2004: An Interview with ALAN MUNDE By Grove (TA), Over The Ridge (Korth), Don Reno’s Home Wayne Shrubsall; Banjo Encyclopedia; Basics of Blue- Janet Davis. Cedar Mountain Banjos—The Lo Gordon Sweet Home, Over The Waterfall (3-finger), Old Town grass Banjo; COLUMNS: Gospel Banjo; Stroke-style Story. REVIEW: Deering’s New Tenbrooks–Legacy. Ceili (Greg Chill), Pullin’ Time (Huber), Streets Of Banjo; Quick And Dirty Banjo Stuff for Cheap; Two-fin- COLUMNS: Banjos Down Under—concl.: Australian Laredo (C&S), Rooster Crow (Macon), In And Around ger Banjo; EW; Mason Williams’s Them Banjo Pickers Banjos And Banjo Makers. Tech Talk: Transferring En- Nashville (Macon). Policeman (OT) poem; BC: Promoting Quality Banjo Instruction; OT ergy; Beginner’s Corner: Holiday Pickin’; MC: Using 379 May 2005: JOHN HERRMANN by Dirk Powell. From The Ozarks; ETF; BF; TA. TABS: Andrew Jack- Hammers And Pull-offs For Melody; BOB: Gatherin’ With An Excerpt From Ken Perlman’s Interview From son, Go Back Home (OT), Blue Night, Hard Times (OT), Around Fiddler J.P Fraley; On The Road: Tis The Sea- 2002. Earl Scruggs: The Person And The Legacy by The Old Rugged Cross (GB), Sycamore Shoals (OT), Joe son; TA; BF. TABS: Poindexter (BF), Jingle Bells (BC), Casey Henry. Winter Namm Report: Resonator Banjos. Sweeney’s Jig (MB), Feast Here Tonight (EW), Overland The First Noel (BC), Magpie (MC), Margaret’s Waltz Banjo Cookbook: Phil Fontaine’s Banjos. REVIEWS: (Pikelny), For Pete’s Sake (Pikelny), Big Country (BF), (OT), Maysville (OT), Grandma Got Run Over By A Charlie Poole Box Set; Michael J. Miles’s New CD. Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine (OT), Ashokan Farewell Reindeer (TA), God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Christmas COLUMNS: TA; JMB: Forward Motion; OT From (ETF), Hotel California (TA) Time Is Here, The Ozarks; Tunes From Tug Hollow; Listen Up; BC: 370 Aug. 2004: BERTRAM LEVY, interview by Dan 375 Jan. 2005: THE OLD TIME WAY Volume 1, Co- Forward Motion; On The Road: Chris Warner; ETF. Levenson. REVIEWS: “Eclectic Clawhammer” by edited By Bob Carlin And Dan Levenson. Open-back TABS: Ohio (TA), Whitesburg (OT), Turning Blue Steve Harvey; Raejusters by Bob Piekiel. COLUMNS: Buyer’s Guide by Bob Carlin. REVIEWS: Christian (Bruce Stockwell), Limerock (ETF), Run Boy Run CONTENTS INDEX Vol. I–XL PAGE 19

(JMB), Goodbye My Honey I’m Gone (OT), Salt River Last Ride, Darlin’ Nellie Grey (OT), The Old Hen (Jim night on the Water (BOB) (Kropp), Stoney Creek, By Eddie Collins Tab: This Land Mills), Little Maggie (C&S), TABS: Git Up In De Morn- 389 Mar. 2006: CHARLIE CUSHMAN, by MaryE Is Your Land (BC), Opus 822 (Miles) ing (MB), Foster’s Jig (MB), Mcintyre Heads South Yeomans. REVIEW: The Banjo: From Africa to Amer- 380 Jun. 2005: JAYME STONE By Jake Schepps. (Brown), Popcorn (TA), Never Ending Song Of Love ica, exhibit; REVIEW: Turtle Hill Bluegrass Woody The Johnny Keenan Banjo Festival By Donald Nitchie. (Scruggs) Banjo; Cushman Tab notes by Bill Evans; BU: Classic Profile: Russell Sawler. Profile: Charles Butler. RE- Volume XXXIII Back-up Lick; REVIEW: John Balch; FEATURE: Matt VIEWS: Alison Brown’s New CD. Steve Harvey’s 385 Nov. 2005: HOBART SMITH: by Dick Spott- Flinner Interview by Jake Schepps; ON THE ROAD: Bound For Shady Grove. ’s New CD. swood (Interview with Stephen Wade). PROFILE: Chord Changes By Murphy Henry; JMB; TA; BOB John Lawless’s “5 & Dime”. Banjo Capo Round-up Abigail Washburn. REVIEWS: Earl Scruggs and “Three Forks of Ivy”; OLD TIME from the OZARKS; By Ben Freed. Morgan Monroe’s Foggy Mt. Banjo Se- The 5-String Banjo: Revised (book); Finger An- ETF: Blackberry Blossom (Part B); BC: More 2-Finger ries. COLUMNS: EW; C&S; Tech Talk: Tuning The chor and Pickin’ 101 By Bobbi Geyer. MC: Ragtime Rolls. TABS: Chainsaw, Lutke; Uptown Blues (S. Cush- Air Chamber; BOB: Backporch Banjo; On The Road: Clawhammer Revisited; JB: Chord Arrangements By man); Cedar Grove (Cushman); Big Ice (Matt Fliner) My 10 Lb. Banjo; MC: The “Forward Roll”; BC: More Pat Cloud; PROFILE: Leon Hunt By Petra Jones; ON Love and Wealth (BU); Wesley (OT-Balch); Sassafras Forward Motion; TA. TABS: Pastures Of Plenty (EW), THE ROAD: Keenan Festival; TRISCHKA’S PICKS: (OT, Balch); Firefly (OT, Balch); Chattanooga Dog Whoa Mule, Whoa (C&S), For Joy In Three Parts Live Earl; TA; BOB; BANJOS on the WEB: Part 1 By (JMB); The Lonesome River (TA); Quince Dillon (OT, (Stone), Radio Bean (Butler), Pretty Saro (OT), Bache- William Stringer; ETF; BC: Melodic Style. TABS: Wa- BOB); Echoes of the Ozarks (OT); Cruel Willie (OT); lor’s Hall (OT), Rosine, Daddy’s Rabbit (Lawless), Tony bash Blues (Hobart Smith), I Wonder Where You Are Blackberry Blossom (Part B, ETF); Coming Round the Ellis’s Stephen (MC), Do Lord (BC), Chicken On The Tonight (Scruggs), Maiden’s Prayer (TA), Coleman’s Mountain (BC); Banjo (TA), Crowe’s One Tear (Crowe) March (OT), My Darling Asleep (ETF), Dixie (BC), Pig 390 Apr. 2006: ROBBY BOONE, by Greg Cahill. 381 July 2005: Beyond The Louzee Banjo: Interview Ankle Rag (MC), You Don’t Know Me (JB-Cloud), Miles REVIEW: Gibson’s J.D. Crowe signature Blackjack With PAUL AND DAVID HOPKINS by Bobbi Geyer. Apart (Leon Hunt), Windy and Warm (Adcock) banjo. Review by Mike Kropp; OFF THE RECORD: Black Banjo Gathering: Then And Now by Bob Carlin. 386 Dec. 2005: FRANK NEAT By Marty Godbey; J.D. Crowe’s Backup. OLD TIME WAY #6: Review of Profile: Jean-Marie Redon. REVIEWS: Appalachian PROFILE: Leonard Podolak By Michael J. Miles. BNL Jimmy McCombs new CD; Diane Jones’s new instruc- Uprising CD by Steve Lutke. Goldtone’s Banjola By Reader’s Survey; BANJOS on the WEB: Part 2, Inter- tional DVD, Rebekah Weiler interview, by Bob Carlin.; Pat Cloud. The Hopkins Banjo: An Informal Review by view with Eric Schlange. REVIEW: “In Sacred Trust” Review and profile of the Field Recorders’ Collective, David Schenkman. THE OLD TIME WAY #3. Clifftop By Tom Paley. BU: Major 7ths and Xmas Tunes. OT by Bob Carlin; EW; TA; ON THE ROAD: The Banjo By Paul Gartner; Kyle Creed And His Banjos by Bob from the OZARKS. ON THE ROAD: IBMA 2005; Cruise; TECH TALK: Neck Woods; C&S: Compos- Carlin; A Competitor’s Tale By Adam Hurt; REVIEW: TECH TALK: Rims continued; BC; TA; MC: Guitar ing on the 5-string, introduction (part 2); BC: Dueling County‘s Clawhammer Banjo Cd Set. COLUMNS: Back-up; EW; TRANSITIONING To the Next Level Banjos phrases. TABS: Inigosh Jig (Celtic); Your Love ETF; BC: Beyond The Measure Line; JMB; TA. TABS: By Ben Freed; OFF THE RECORD: Target Tones; RE- is Like a Flower (JD Back-up); Sally in the Garden (OT, Passage De L’ouest; West Virginia Highway (Gartner), VIEWS: Bill Keith, Jim Mills DVD. C&S. TABS: A Weiler); Twin Sisters (OT); Reuben’s Train (OT); Love’s Chinese Breakdown (Ian Hurt), Mississippi Sawyer, Lost Holly Jolly Christmas; Blue Christmas (BU); The First Gonna Live Here (R. Boone); Uncloudy Day (Boone); Indian (OT), June Apple (OT), When You’re Smiling; Noel (BC);Deck the Halls (BC); Free Bird (TA); John Cure, The (EW); Dream of a Miner’s Child (TA); Duel- What Was I Supposed To Do (Hopkins), Mountain Creek, Brown’s March (MC); Pike County Breakdown (EW); ing Banjo (BC, #1) Country Roads (BC), By Pete Kelly Tab: Sweet Dixie Long Journey Home (Off The Record); Away in a Man- 391 May 2006: RON BLOCK by Petra Jones. RE- (JMB), Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (TA) ger (C&S); Missouri Mud (OT); Melinda (OT) VIEWS: Learn to Play Bluegrass Banjo!, DVD. Cigar- 382 Aug. 2005: DICK SMITH By Ian Perry. Winnie 387 Jan. 2006: DAVID TALBOT Interview by Marci box Banjo Review. Ultimate Banjo Songbook. BOB: Winston by Pete Wernick. Profile: Janet Beazley. RE- Shore. An Interview with By Rik Palieri; Cathy Fink’s DVD; Andy Pond’s The Pugilist; C&S: VIEWS: “Southern Summits” CD By Ken Perlman PUTTING MY MASTERTONE on a DIET By Joe Tim- Composing on 5-String: Technical Aspects; TA: Reg- and Alan Jabbour. COLUMNS: Trischka’s Picks: Joe ko; The Earl Scruggs BANJO MAN EXHIBIT; THE gae; BC: Ending the Dueling; JMB; FEATURE: Eugene Thompson; On The Road: Banjo Camps; Chicken On OLD-TIME WAY #5: Intro by Dan Levenson; Old-Time Chadbourne Introduction by Tony Trischka.; ETF: Har- The Banjo; Tech Talk: Tuning The Air Chamber; BOB: Banjo in the Northwest; Goldtone’s Bob Carlin open- mony Banjo; MC: Close Harmony; OLD-TIME from The Banjo Lutby; Middle-aged Newbie by Angie back; Review of Jeanie Murphy’s CD; TA; JMB: J.D. the OZARKS; ON THE ROAD: Listening Deeper; RE- Sumptor; C&S; MC: Fiddle-banjo Duets; BU: Playing Crowe; BC: Melodic Style; ETF. REVIEWS: Stelling VIEW: Ray Hesson’s “Sunrise.” TABS: The Pugilist Note-for-note; Tab Of The Month: Jim Mills; BC: Au and Huber CDs, Ron Stewart’s DVD, Clawhammer for (Andy Pond); Cluck Old Hen (Ron Block); Bright Sunny Natural; TA; Digital Technology Meets the Banjo, Part the Complete Ignoramous by Wayne Erbsen. book. Re- South (intro, R. Block); Get Up, Stand Up (TA); Duel- 1 TABS: Corn Liquor (3-finger and Claw.), Night Ridin’ views by Pete Kelly, Dave Schenkman and Fred Huff- ing Banjos (chorus, BC); All the Good Times (JMB); (Smith), Un Canadien Errant (OT), Believe Me... (OT), man; Charlie Parker’s Confirmation; TUNES from TUG Rebecca (ETF); Old Joe Clark (MC); Peacock Rag (OT, Whoa Mule, Whoa (C&S), Billy In The Low Lands (MC), HOLLOW By Mike Kropp: TABS: Flowers on a Hill Ozarks); Horse and Buggy-O(OT, Ozarks); Bye Bye Blackberry Blossom (BU), It’s Raining Here This Morn- (Erik Darling); Monkey on a Dogcart (OT); 5 New Cents Love (Janet Davis); Dixie House Rag (Ray Hesson) ing (Mills), 5 South (Beazley), Oh, Susanna (TA) (OT, Murphy); John Lover’s Gone (OT, Murphy); John 392 June 2006: PAUL BROWN By Alan Friend. TABS 383 Sept. 2005: DANNY BARNES by Tony Trischka. Henry (JMB); Devil’s Dream (BC); Blackberry Blossom of the MONTH: Dave Brubeck’s Blue Rondo; Scott Ves- Profiles: Lluis Gomez, Larry Good. REVIEW: Sam (ETF); Margarita Breakdown (G. Cahill); Apple Blos- tal’s Last Night’s Fun; 2006 BNL Reader’s Survey Re- Ferris’s Tranjo. Grey Cat On A Tennessee Farm CD. som (Munde); Blue Fiddler (R. Stewart); Confirmation sults; TA; TECH TALK: Neck Woods, cont, FEATURE: COLUMNS: BF; On The Road: Old Friends; ETF; (JB); April Snow (Odessa), Kropp; Ben Krakauer Interview by Jake Schepps; BC: Basic OT From The Ozarks; BC; Listen Up!: Butch Robins; 388 Feb. 2006: STEVE ARKIN Interview by Jody Back-up, Playing with Others; REVIEW: Cotton Blos- TA; JMB. TABS: Perpetual Motion (BF), Irish Wash- Stecher. FEATURE: Aaron Youngberg, REVIEW: som CD/Tab Review by John Salmon; ON THE ROAD: erwoman (ETF), Barnes’s Warm Up, James (Gomez), Dan Levenson’s “Traveling Home” CD; BC: 2-Finger First 3-Chord Song; MC: Close Harmony, Part 2: Fiddle Uncle Billy’s Breakdown (Good), Fiddler’s Shuffle (OT), Rolls?; ON THE ROAD: All About Licks; TA; TABS Tunes; FEATURE: Michael Hurley Interview by Donald Kennedy Rag (OT), Golden Wings (BC), Jerusalem OF THE MONTH: arrangements by Alan Munde and Nitchie; EARL’S WAY. TABS: Blue Rondo (JB); Last Ridge (B. Robins), Grey Cat, Rabbit In The Pea Patch, Dennis Caplinger; LISTEN UP!; EW: Backwards Mask- Night’s Fun (Vestal); Buckeroo (TA); Shortenin’ Break Doin’ My Time (JMB), Ragtime Annie (TA) ing; MC: Thumb-Lead; BOB: Two-Finger picker Chip (OT, Paul Brown); Dawg Patch (Krakauer); Lookee 384 Oct. 2005: ALISON BROWN by Casey Henry. Arnold; TECH TALK: Rims to Woods; C&S: Compos- Here (Krakauer); Boil ‘Em Cabbage (BC); There Was The Old-time Way #4: Skinning A Banjo by Dan ing By Jack Hatfield. TABS: Durang’s Hornpipe (OT, An Old Soldier (OT); Fisher’s Hornpipe (MC); Yo Mona Levenson; Minstrel & Gourd Banjo Makers by Bob Levenson); Possum Up A ‘Simmon Tree (OT, Arkin); (Michael Hurley); Randy Lynn Rag (EW) Carlin; REVIEWS: Early Minstrel Styles by Joe Ayers; Midnight on the Stormy Deep (OT, Arking); Yankee 393 July 2006: JENS KRUGER By Petra Jones. 2006 Interview with Joe Weidlich by Mike Ramsey; Nancy Doodle (BC); Devil’s Dream (BC); The Pink Panher Reader’s Survey Revisited; Suggested Bluegrass Banjo Sluys Review by Bob Carlin. COLUMNS: On The (TA); Joy To The World (Piekiel); The Eighth of Feb. Reading; THE OLD-TIME WAY #7: Remembering Road: Bob Black; Off The Record: Jim Mills; C&S; BC: (Munde); Any Day Woman (Aaron Youngberg); Flyin’ in Ailene Adams; REVIEW: Fred Cockerham CD; Re- Funny?; Tech Talk: Banjo Rims; Listen Up! Lesson 4; the Wind (Aaron Youngberg); Buttons and Bows (Listen membering Fred Cockerham By Ray Alden; REVIEW: TA; Trischka’s Picks: Earl TABS: Billy Richardson’s Up); Pretty Polly (EW); Home Sweet Home (MC); Mid- North Carolina Banjo Players DVD by Bob Carlin; PAGE 20 CONTENTS INDEX 1974-2013

REVIEW: Jericho Road by Dwight Diller Review. 399, Jan. 2007: TONY TRISCHKA, interviewed by Hornpipe (OT), Grover Jones Waltz (MC), Mountain TA; BU: The Krugers; C&S: Composing: Technical Tom Adams. The Old-Time Way: John Bowlin and (BF) Aspects; ETF; REVIEW: Bill Evans’s Power Pickin’ 3: his 19654 Fretless; CD Reviews by Dan Levenson 404 June 2007: GREG LISZT. Bela Fleck, Part 2. Bluegrass Backup DVD Review by Eddie Collins; BC: and Bob Carlin of Allen Hart and Riley Baugus REVIEWS: “The Utmost” by Jayme Stone. TA; Back- Stagefright. TABS: New Country (TA); Round Town and Paul Brown. TA, ETF; C&S: Composing; Let’s up: Bela; Fleckology; C&S: Scale-based Compositions; Girls (OT, Cockerham); Sugar Hill (OT, Cockerham); Roll by Pete Wernick; BC: New Year’s Resolutions; Let’s Roll: End Thwonging Forever, and new Flexigrass Callaway (Diller, OT); Sarah (Kruger); Cumberland Take a Break; REVIEWS: Trischka’s Double Banjo CD; EW: New F&S DVDs!; ETF; MC: Teaching Gap (BU, Kruger); Feudin’ Krugers (Kruger, BU); Bluegrass Spectacular, and Beyond the Basics of Beginners; Bob’s Tunes: Mark Simos; BC: Bill Monroe’ Somewhere Over the Rainbow (ETF); All the Good Bluegrass Banjo by Ira Gitlin. TABS: Another Place Tech Talk: Tuning Banjo Heads. TABS: Skunk Ate the Times (Bill Evans BU); El Choclo (tango banjo); Another Time (Keith Arneson), Red Wing, What a Mothballs (Rosenberg, OT), Sister (Stone), Here Comes 394 Aug. 2006: GENE PARKER By John Lewis. Wonderful World (TA), Bon Aqua (Trischka), Doggy the Sun (TA), Four Wheel Drive (BF), Twilight (BF), TAB OF THE MONTH Bob Piekiel’s Secret Tune; Salt (Trischka), Charleston Girls (OT), Gold Tone Black Squirrel Falls (C&S), Ain’t No Grave (Liszt), FESTIVAL JAMMING; ON THE ROAD: Improvis- Blues (OT, Carlin), Turkey Trot (Hatfield), Five Traveling Home (Wernick), Foggy Mt Special (EW), ing! Harvest Time. Comments by Greg Cahill; BOB Hundred Miles (BC), God’s Own Singer (vocal Soldier’s Joy (ETF), Rose in the Garden (MC), Because JMB: Paul Craft; BU: Billy Ray Latham; BF; BC; MC: melody) It’s There (Carlin, OT), Molly and Tenbrooks (BC) “Priming” on the Banjo; OT from the OZARKS; TA; 400 Feb. 2007: AARON McDARIS, interviewed by 405 July 2007: SONNY OSBORNE, Part 1, by Bill TECH TALK: Neck Wood continued; Wayne Roger’s Greg Cahill. REVIEWS: Aaron McDaris’s “First Time Evans. The Old Time Way: Andy Rubin and Klez- Banjo Suite. TABS: Secret Tune (Bob Piekiel); Harvest Around” CD; The Banjo Technique of Jens Kruger” hammer; Eastern Ohio Spring Jam; Playing in John Time (Gene Parker); I Am a Pilgrim (BOB, OT); Ain’t DVD. ON The Road; TA; Feature: Brian Anderson, Hartford’s Band; REVIEW: Mark Schatz. BC: Bill Nobody’s Gonna Miss Me (JMB); Clinch Mt. Backstep 2005 Winfield Winner; Bob’s Tunes: Making “Fiddle Monroe, Part 2; On The Road: Clean, Dirty and Shiny; (Billy Ray Latham); Whistle Tune, the (BF); Indian Na- Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo”; MC: PEI Fiddling; Munde’s Morsels; Banjo Camp, Part 1; Let’s Roll: The tion (MC); Red Wing (OT, Ozarks); Little Dog Trottin EW: Beverly ; Let’s Roll: Prucha’s Elban, and Year of Melody; TA; Feature: Bishline Builds Barnes’s Down the River (OT, Ozarks); Last Date (TA); Banjo Electric Banjos; Old Time Ozarks: Strings; BC: Banjo Banjos by Danny Barnes. TABS: Bluegrass Stomp (BC), Suite (Wayne Roges); Campers; Tech Talk: How a Banjo Works. TABS: King Jerusalem Ridge (BC), Wheel Hoss (BC), Roanoke (BC), 395, Sept. 06: BILL CHAPMAN, interviewed by Greg of the Road (TA), North Pointe (McDaris), Scottsboro Homestead on the Farm (Osborne), Hamilton County Cahill. Feature: Paul Presopino. One More Banjo Leg- (McDaris), Mozambique Rag (Anderson), Big Scioty Breakdown (Munde), Burns Breakdown (Cahill), end; How the Banjo Got to Australia by Bob Carlin. (OT, Carlin), Gaudet’s [Goody’s] Reel (MC), She’ll Odessa Bulgar (OT), Dem Triscker Rebn’s Khosid (OT), ETF; BACK-UP: Bill Chapman; LISTEN UP!; C&S Be Coming Round the Mt. (EW), Spotted Pony (OT), Pretty Polly (OT), Wild Hog in the Red Brush (OT), Rig Composing on the Banjo; BC: Earl’s Top 10; TA;OT Johnny, Don’t Come Home Drunk (OT), Shower (Jens Root (Schatz, OT), Falling Waters of Arden (OT), The from the OZARKS ON THE ROAD: Just Call Me Back. Kruger) Lucky One (TA) REVIEW: Mary Z. Cox’s new CD. TABS: Crazy Heart 401 March 2007: An Introduction to the Akonting. 406 Aug. 2007: DANIEL GRINDSTAFF—April’s (TA), St. Ann’s Reel (ETF), Dinah (OT), Hot Corn, Cold NAMM reports; ETF; On The Road: SPBGMA report; Fool. SONNY OSBORNE, Part 2. Bob Carlin’s Corn; Mudgee Waltz, Waltzing Matilda, The Old Man in Remembering Jimmy Arnold; Let’s Roll: New Back-up interview with Joel Walker Sweeney. REVIEWS: the Shanty (Chapman, BU), I , Roundeye DVD, best Tone Ring and the Prewar Sound; Feature: ‘The Birth of the Banjo” by Bob Carlin; “The 5-String (Steve Sparkman), Cotton Blossoms (OT), America the Greg Davis; Back-up: Syncopation and Emphasis; SCrapbook” by Bob Piekiel; ETF:Melodic Runs; BC: Beautiful MC: Building Stregth and Indepedence for the Fretting Kaufman Camp; On The Road: Kaufman Camp; OTR: 396, Oct 06: EARL SCRUGGS, Interviewed by Tony Fingers; Banj on the Boders: Up-the-neck Clawhammer; Earl on DVD; MC: Teaching Beginners Part 2; OT from Trischka and Bela Fleck. On The Road: Earl’s Book; BC: Workshops; TA; REVIEW: “Old-Time Festival the Ozarks; TA; Tech Talk: Tuning the Air Chamber. EW; The Old-Time Way: Old-Time in Ohio; Inter- Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo” by Dan Levenson; Tabs TABS: When I’m 64, God’s Own Singer (Graper, view wth Curt Bouterse; Review of the Basic Backyard of the Month. TABS: Eliza Ross’s Reel (CE), Teeland Melodic Runs (ETF), Shortening Break (Scruggs), Banjo kit. BC: Earl’s Top Ten; BU: Scruggs’ patterns; Highland (CD), God’s Own Singer (Pruett), Saradora April’s Fool (Grindstaff), Water Bound (MC), Seamus REVIEW; The Three Pickers; TA. TABS: John Henry (Sieker), Arkansas Traveler (ETF), Akonting Tunes by O’Brien (OT), Florida Blues (OT), Briggs’ Breakdown (EW); Foggy Mt. Top (Scruggs); Soldier’s Joy (OT, Remi, Faded Love (Arnold), Big Timber (Davis), Foggy (MB), You Are My Flower (TA) Wig); Liza Jane (OT); Foggy Mt. Breakdown (BC); Nine Mt Breakdown (BU), Down Yonder (MC), Bill Cheatham 407 Sept. 2007: BILL EVANS. Thanks You, Chief: Pound Hammer (BU); Katy Hill (BU); In The Gloryland (OT), Carolina In My Mind (TA), Sarah Armstrong’s A Sonny Osborne Appreciation; REVIEW: Tony (TA, Scruggs) Tune (OT) Furtado’s Tab Book; Telluride Bluegrass Highlights; 402 April 2007: DAVID HOLT. Interview by Dan Back-up: Slow Songs, Sonny-Style; Let’s Roll: Sound Volume XXXIV Levenson. The Old Time Way: Doc’s Banjos, Adam Bites; EW: From the new DVDs; Bob’s Tunes: Early 397, Nov 06: JIM HALE, interview by Bob Carlin. Hurt’s Intrigue CD; Dwight Diller’s “Yew Piney Mt” Minstrelsy; BC: ; OT from the Ozarks: EARL SCRUGGS, Part 2, interviewed by Tony Book/CD. On The Road: Back-up; Thursday Night Another Good C Tune; Feature: P.T. Grover; TA; the Trischka and Bela Fleck. Nova Scotia Banjo Camp; Pickin’ Party by Joe Bonsall; EW; Tech Talk: Banjo Secrets of Banjo Recording. TABS: Pathways of OTR: IBMA 2006; TA; C&S: Composing; Banjos on Heads; C&S: Composing Instrumentals; BC: Pull-Offs; Teardrops (Osrobne), Renos’ Rag, Blue Ridge Mt. Home the Border; MC: Keith-picking, clawhammer style; BC: TA; REVIEW: Todd Taylor’s “3-Five-In”. TABS: (Osborne), Have You Come to Say Goodbye (EW), John Earl, simplified; Profile: Bob Fults and his tailpiece; Promised Land (Sieker), Spirit of God (Anderson), Diamond Walk Around (MB), Big Eyed Rabbit (MB), I’m ETF; Back-Up: D Tuning and Reuben; Tech Talk: More Mama You’ve Been On My Mind (EW), Kitchen Girl So Lonesome I Could Cry (BC), Greg Eagle in C (OT), about Mass. TABS: Johnson Mt. Chimes, Rambling (OT), Temperence Reel (OT), Greasy String (OT), Kitty Lost Girl (OT), Hartford (Fortuado), Whose Shoulder Hobo (OT), Mrs. McLeod’s Reel (MC), Big John Henry Snyder (OT), Stagger Lee (OT), Laurelwood Waltz Will You Cry On (TA). (OT), Jealous Hearted Lover (OT), Ballad of Jed Clam- (C&S), Maple on the Hill (BC), Roll on Buddy (TA), 408 Oct. 2007: NICK HORNBUCKLE, interview pett (BC), Hardwood Ridge (Ian Perry), I’ll Love No- Banjo Picking Girl (TA) by Pete Wernick. The Old Time Way: Interview with body But You, Breton Ride (Leon Hunt), Reuben (BU) 403, May 2007: BELA FLECK—Riding the Crest of Bill Whelan; Charlie Waldman’s Banjos; REVIEW: 398, Dec. 06: KENNY CANTRELL, interview the Wave, by Ian Perry, Part 1. REVIEWS: Tony Ellis “Scratching and Clawing” by Chuck Levy. TA; Let’s by Greg Cahill. Earl’s Way; On The Road 2.0; The Tab Book; Hearthsong’s Children’s banjo. TA; Tab of Roll: Teachers, Help your Students with DVDs; On The Debt We Owe Earl by Jim Mills; TA; REVIEWS: the Month: Steve Martin’s The Crow; BC: Cabbage; Road: Story of a Band; Tech Talk: Tuning; BC: Whatr’s Cedar Hill; Homespun Slow Jam by Pete Wernick; On The Road; Feature: Ivan Rosenberg; Bob’s Tunes: the Hurry?; ETF: Melodic Runs in D. REVIEWS: Recording King Banjos, review by Dave Schenkman; John Hartford’s “Wild Hog in the Woods”; OT from the Banjopolis by Ben Freed; the Sullivan Historic-Growth BC; Interview with Bob Carlin; The Banjo in Spain; Ozarks; MC: Waltzs; Backup: Vamping with Rhythm Rim, by Bob Piekiel. TABS: St. Anne’s Reel (OT), Old-Time from the Ozarks; Back-up; Tech Talk: and Syncopation (Charlie Cushman). TABS: Wings House Carpenter (TA), Waves on the Water (TA), Earl Resonators. TABS: The Old Cross Road (EW), of Angels (TA), Wicked Path of Sin (TA), The Crow, and Josh (Freed), Monrobro, Cleo Belle (Hornbuckle), Ricestrow (TA), McKenna’s Howdown (Cantrell), Tennessee Cut-up Breakdown (Cushman), Ed’s Cabbage Betsy Likens (OT), Johnny Don’t Get Drunk (OT), Honky Silent Night, Black-Eyed Daisy (Carlin), Buckhorn (BC), Hamish’s Morphine Pill (OT), Flannery’s Dream Tonkin (BC), Melodic Runs in D. (John Balch), God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Spain, (Carlin, OT), Old Spinning Wheeel (OT), Gypsy Volume XXXV Got A Little Home to Go To (OT), O Holy Night CONTENTS INDEX Vol. I–XL PAGE 21

409: Nov. 2007: CATHY FINK, interview by the World (Gomez), The Blind Leaving the Blind (2 (OT), From Mali to America (OT), Connaughtmann’s Bob Carlin. NICK HORNBUCKLE, Part 2. Sections, Pikelny), Rock That Cradle, Lucy (OT), Big Rambles (MC), Panda & Critter (W. Corbett), 30 Min. COLUMNS: TA; On The Road: IBMA 07; REVIEW: Sciote (BC), The Seagull (Schepps), Gotta Travel On (W. Corbett), Maggie’s Farm (EW), Devil’s Dream (BU, Pete Wernick’s “What The?”; Reno-style Workshop: (BC), Beautiful Brown Eyes (TA). Nat Minor), Old Dan Tucker (OT). Intro; C&S: Composing, Part 3: Chord-progression 414: April 08: SAMMY SHELOR, interview by Ian 419: Sept. 08: NED LUBERECKI, interview by Ian Themes; MC: Round Peak & the Galax Lick; Back- Perry. COLUMNS: Trischka’s Picks: I’m A Loser; OTR: Perry. COLUMNS: Just Pickin’: My Reuben Rut; up: Bill Emerson; BC: Jamming; Bob’s Tunes: Old- The Banjo & the Superbowl; EW; Let’s Roll: Joining OTR: Kaufman Kamp; TA; MC: Using Different Chords Time Recording. TABS: I Heard it Through the Groups; ETF; BC; TA; Teach Talk: Tone Chambers to Change Atmosphere; C&S: Interview with Bela Fleck Grapevine (TA), I Feel Fine (Tony Trischka), Waiting cont. REVIEW: “Bluegrass Banjo Backup, Basic” (conclusion); BF; EW; Bob’s Tunes: Fred Cockerham’s for Daylight (Wernick), Bob and Carolee (Fink, DVD by Pete Wernick. The OLD-TIME WAY: Pete ‘Roustabout’; Reno-Style: Part 5—Roadmap; BC: OT), Coleman’s March (FInk, OT), Theme Time and Vigour interview; Feature: SCott Phillips; Review: The Have Banjo, Will Travel; OT from Ozarrs: Latest Rage; variation, Fortune (MC), The Grey Ghost with BU Morgantown Rounders. TABS: Swing That Hammer Lety’s Roll: Finding a Jam. REVIEW: “Banjo Camp” (BU), Salty Dog (BC). (Shelor), I’m A Loser (Trischka), Down Down Down by Senyak, review by Tom Adams. TABS: Light at 410: Dec. 2007: Bob Black, interview by Jody (EW), John Lover’s Gone (OT), Firefly (OT), Big Scioty the River (TA), Last Chance (Luberecki, 3-finger), And Stecher. COLUMNS: ACB; Tech Talk: Timber’s (OT, Phillips), Won’t Be Over You (Shelor), Lonesome Take Your Brother With You (Luberecki), Lost Girl Timbre; Earl’s Way; Old-Time from the Ozarks; Fiddle Blues (ETF), Happy Birthday (BC), Lord Mayo (MC), Spain (BF), Gotta Travel On (EW), Roustabout Feature: Rod Davis of the Quarreymen; MC: Practicing (March-Gavotte), TA. (Cockerham, OT), South Missouri (OT), Walkin’ (Lluis Stratedies; OTR; C&S: Chord- Progresion themes; 415: May 08: BLAKE WILLIAMS, interview by Greg Gomez) BC; Let’s Roll: Jamming Fundamentals. REVIEWS: Cahill. Profile: CHRIS QUINN. COLUMNS: Banjos 420: Oct. 08: CHRIS PANDOLFI, interview by Jake Banjo For Dummies by Bill Evans (Review by Tom at Music Messe; Practice Techniques: The Trianle Schepps. A “Pre-War” Symposium. COLUMNS: Adams); Elements of Clawhammer DVD by Chris Method; MC: The Banjo’s African Roots; Let’s Roll: Let’s Roll: Getting Away from Memorizatiaon, and Coole; Huss and Dalton’s Owens Mills banjo. TABS: Banjo Claus; BU: Playing in D, E and F; Old Time from Creating Solos; EW; Tech Talk: “Pre-War” SOund; Imagine (TA), Til the End of the World Comes Around the Ozarks; Trischka’s Picks: Big Sciota; BC: Chimes; BC: What Makes a Good ?; ETF: Scruggs-Style (EW), God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Carlini), Oh TA; Bob’s Tunes: Lee Hammons; Banjo Diva: Listen to in D; OTR: Thomas Point; TA; Just Pickin’: The Cow, Come All Ye Faithful; Joy to the World, Scotland Earl? REVIEWS: “Great Banjo Lessons” DVD; “Old The Horesman & the Sophomore. REVIEWS: Johnny (Black), Chuck in the Bush (OT), Coming up The Pike Bones” by Alan Munde; Recording King’s RK-R50 Butten’s “Solo”; “Modern 5-String Method” by Alan (OT), Half Past Four (MC), Shady Grove (OT), Little banjo. TABS: Cherry Creek (B. Williams), Greenfield Munde. The OLD-TIME WAY: Workshops, Lesson and Rock Getaway (C&S), Pony Express (C&S), We Wish Cotillion (MC), Prize Pig (C. Quinn), Wasting My Time Camps, A Guide by Dan Levenson; Florida’s Old-Time You a Merry Christmas (BC), Solfeggiotto (ETF). (BU, Shelor), Stompin’ in the Flatlands (Munde), Old Calendar; Reviews: Kevin Fore’s “Round Peak”; Gold 411: Jan. 08: BOBBY LUNDY, interview by Greg Judge Parker (OT), Big Sciota (3-Finger, Trischka), Tone’s CED-6. TABS: Jason’s Run (Butten), All The Cahill. COLUMNS: EW; BC: Reno-style Workshop, Taps, Bugle Call Rag (BC), Walking in the Parlor (OT, Good Times are... (EW), C Tuning (Pandolfi), Moon Man Part 2; Let’s Roll: Breaking Out of Intermediate Hammons), Dead Mouse (TA). (Pandolfi), Cripple Creek (Fore, OT), Sally Ann (Fore, Rut, and playing in D. REVIEWS: Tim Carter’s 416: June 08: BILLY FAIER. COLUMNS: OTR: OT), Ireland’s Green Shore (6-string, OT), Worried Man “Bang Bang; Banjo Improvisation DVD by Jayme Tour; ETF; Bob’s Tunes: Stella Kimble; (Munde), Sail Away Ladies (BC), I Saw the Light, in D Stone; Geiger Tone Enhancer; Stage Mate Banjo EW: Teach Talk: The Restoring Force; C&S: Composing (ETF), The Munster’s Theme (TA). Stand. OLD-TIME WAY: R.D. Lunceford interview. with Harmony; TA; OT from the Ozarks: BC: Moveable Volume XXXVI REVIEWS: Pretty Little Dog by Laura Schulman; Chord Shapes, #1; Reno-Style: Brush Technique. 421, Nov. 08: BANJO NEWSLETTER; Remarks by Clawhammer Duets by Wayne Chrusball; Meet Me REVIWS: “It’s About Time” by Mac Benford; Mike’s Tony Trischka, Roger Siminoff, Ray Hesson and Mar- in the Music by Erynn Marshall and Chris Coole. Mute; Otis Taylor’s “Recapturing the Banjo”. TABS: tha and Eddie Adcock. The Return of the Flint Hill TABS: Scotland (Bob Black), Tammy’s Song, Banjo Drive Mother Home (Stockwell), The Hangman’s Reel Flash! 35 Years Ago Today. Back-Up: Hub Nitchie; Boy Chimes (Lundy), Jim Along Josey (OT), Pretty (ETF), Fiddle Tune (Faier), Zzyzx (Faier), Going Down On The Road: Looking Back by Murphy Henry, BC: Little Dog (OT), Mrs. McLeod’s Reel (OT), Black- to Raleigh (OT), Guinea Pig in a Pen (Hatfield, C&S), #35 and Counting; MC: Nancy Nitchie and MBA. eyed Susie (OT), Copper Run (OT), Dogpatch (Tim I Though I Heard You Calling my Name (TA), Hell Up Along with our usual columns: Munde’s Morsels, Carter), Little Maggie (BC), Evening Shade Falling Mud Creek (OT), Mississippi Snag (OT), Your Love is Chorducopia, Let’s Roll, Bob’s Tunes, Adams County (Bob Black). Like a Flower (BC), Gone Indian (Benford, OT). Banjo, EW. TABS: South 14 (OT), Shakin’ Off the 412: Feb. 08: JASON DAVIS, interview by Greg 417: July 08: JAKE SCHEPPS, interview by Jayme Acorns (Ferretti), Cast Your Fate to the Wind (AD), Cahill. Profile: , by John Salmon. Stone. COLUMNS: Let’s Roll: Ten Repertoires; TA; Brown County Breakdown (Munde), Black Mountain COLUMNS: ETF; EW; OTR: All Hail the FLint Hill BU: Harmonic Minor; C&S: Composing w/harmony Rag (BU), Blue Ridge Cabin Home (BC), Ship in Flash; BU: Scales Tones & Bob Black; C&S; MC; cont.; BC: Moveable Chord Spapes, #2; Feature: the Clouds (OT, Carlin), Hot Corn Cold Corn (EW), BC: Rolls; Just Pickin’ with the BanjoDiva, Tech Talk: Philippe Revel’s Banjos; Just Pickin: Banjos & Catfish.... Bristol Steam Convention Blues (Hub Nitchie), Sweet Fitting Tone Chambers. REVIEWS: Tom Adams tab REVIEWS: The BanjoMate Tone Enhancer. THE OLD Lorraine (JB), Little Donald in the Pigpen (MC), Dar- book for “Trains Are the Only Way to Fly; Jason Davis’s TIME WAY: Interview with Evie Ladin; Here’s The lin’ Nellie Across the Sea (TA). “Steppin’ Out”; “American Banjo, 3-Finger & Scruggs Scoop by Bob Carlin; Reviews: “Get Off Your Money” Style” tab book; Ed Dick’s 6-string Banjo. TABS: Big by Stairwell Sisters; Chuck Lee’s Prairieville banjo. 422, Dec. 08: Feature: ERIC WEISSBERG, Part Ears (OT), Black Diamond in D (ETF), Found Indian TABS: Lonesome Weary Heart (Evan Ward), Butter 1, interview by Mike Kropp. 5-String Update: Ben (OT), Lonesome Banjo, In The Gravel Yard, Wildwood on the Biscuit and Jelly on the Side (K. Stitt), Origami Eldridge. Michael J. Miles and his Banjos in the Flower Blues (TA), Open Road (Jason Davis), Lonesome (Schepps), The Rise (Schepps), The Prisoner’s Song Classroom. A Banjo Players IBMA. REVIEWS: Road Bues (EW), Red Wing (BU), John Henry (Snuffy (TA), Meet Me By the Moonlight (TA), Devil’s Dream Tony Trischka’s “Hill County” reissue; Modern Banjo Jenkins), 40 West (Hatfield), Nashville Skyline Rag (BU, minor), Sleep When You’re Dead (OT), Charleston ideas by Jake Schepps; “Jingle All the Way” by the (C&S), Jake’s Got a Bellyache (MC) #1 (OT), Temperance Reel (OT), Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Flecktones; “Evergreen” By Alison Brown, Goldtone 413: March 08: NOAM PEKELNY, interview by Arms (C&S), Blackberry Blossom (BC). Cello Banjos. And our usual columns: Just Pickin’; Jake Schepps. COLUMNS: Builder’s Forum: Tony 418: Aug. 08: ABIGAIL WASHBURN, interview by Adams County Banjo; ETF; Bob’s Tunes (Ora Lee); Pass: Why Block?; Let’s Roll: Advice to a Young Player, David Brooks. Profile: WES CORBETT. Builder’s BC; Let’s Roll (Back to Basics. TABS: In The Jail- and Changing Chords Faster; Old-time from the Ozarks; Forum: JIM BURLILE. COLUMNS: Let’s Roll: house Now (TA), Sleigh Ride (BF), New York Chimes OTR: MC: Holding the Banjo, and Frailing Scoops; Hearing Chord Changes; ETF; TA; OT from the Ozarks; (Trischka), O’Carolan’s Concerto (Alison Brown), Reno-Style Workshop: Single String; BC: Vacation; MC: Accompanying Jigs; EW; BUL Natural Minor; Tech ETF Blues (ETF), Grandpa Get Your Guitar (El- TA; Just Pickin: Motivation, Provrastination and Instant Talk: More on Restoring Force, and Tuning; BC: Great dridge), Fair Weather (Alison Brown), Johnny Bring Gratification. REVIEWS: “Quartet” by Lluis Gomez; Players; OTR: Banjo Camp North. REVIEWS: The the Jug Around the Hill (Ozarks OT), Greasy Coat “Ten Thousand Leavers” by Jake Schepps; Price Banjo Sparrow Quartet; From Mali to America. TABS: Dixie (OT, Cox), Auld Lange Syne (BC). Case. TABS: Music for a Found Harmonium; You Can’t Hoedown (ETF), California Dreamin’ (TA), Great Big 423: Jan. 09: GENA BRITT, interview by Greg Ca- Stop Me From Dreaming, Clear the Palate (OT), Stop Waltz of China (Washburn), Bear Creek Sally Goodin’ hill, and the second part of the Eric Weissberg inter- PAGE 22 CONTENTS INDEX 1974-2013 view by Mike Kropp. The Old-Time Way quarterly, Jayme Stone’s From Africa to Appalachia; Mark John- COLUMNS: Bob’s Tunes: Mike Seeger; On The with a review of Jim Griffith’s CD, a profile of Jeff son Teachers Clawgrass Banjo DVD; Tony Trischka’s Road: IBMA 2009; Adams County Banjo; Melodic Menzies, and the Open Back Buyer’s Guide. And our Master Collection of Fiddle Tunes book/CD. Along Clawhammer: The Octave Problem Revisited; Let’s usual columns: OTR, Let’s Roll (Good Tone), Tech with our usual columns: Adams County, BC, Let’s Roll: for Public Consumption; Performing Talk (Pre-War Sound part 2), BU (Natural Minor), Roll, Just Pickin’, OT from the Ozarks, ETF, On The Bluegrass with Others, Part 3 by David Jakubiak; BC. TABS: Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss (OT, Road, Bob’s Tunes, MC, Tech Talk, Back-Up. TABS: Tech Talk: More About Bridges; Old-Time from the Levenson), Samson (OT, Griffith), Weary Lonesome Manzanita (Luberecki), Dakar (Stone), John Henry Ozarks; Chorducopia: Cherokee (Part 2: the bridge); Blues (TA), No Title Yet Blues (Weissberg), Jerusalem (OT, Jarrell), Smith’s Reel (MC), Little Sadie (TA), tab of the Month: O’Rourke’s Reel by Tim Jumper; Ridge (BU), Nine Pound Hammer (BU), Carolina Green Corn (OT, Strawn), Soldier’s Joy, (OT, Strawn), Reno Workshop: Reno Roots; Beginner’s Corner: P, Cookout (Britt). Cherokee Shuffle (Mark Johnson), Ducks on the Pond P & M. TABS: Flaxyhaired Girl, Goin’ Bluegrass, 424: Feb. 09: DAVID WEST. Profiles of Charles (Tony Trischka, 3-finger), Forked Deer (ETF), El Fire on the Mountain (by Kevin Fore, OT), The Old Wood and John Hickman, a Tribute: to Peter Smak- Cumbanchero (BU), Cripple Creek Variations (BC), Cat Died (pull-offs), Too Late to Walk the Floor (TA), ula, and a review of the Bill Sullivan Tribute banjo. . Under the (Five) Wire (Alison Brown), Obama’s March to the White House (MC), Church The Flint Hill Crossword Puzzle, and our usual col- 429, July 09: JIM MILLS, and the second part of St. Blues (P. Wernick), Sourwood Mountain (OT umns: Trischka’s Picks: Down the Neck; Let’s Roll: the June interview with Bela Fleck. An Approach from Ozarks), Maloney Creek (Keenan), Bug Tussle Year of Good Tone; OTR; Old-Time Ozarks; Bob’s to Playing Bach on the Banjo by Jake Schepps; Re- (Keenan), O’Rourke’s Reel (OT), Golden Slippers Tunes, ETF; MC (bluegrass clawhammer); BC; Re- views of Sidecar by Mark Delaney, and of Bela (RB), Bolin Creek (Andy Thorn), Marvelous Toy, Puff no-Style Workshop #6, and Then and Now by John Fleck’s Throw Down Your Heart CD and DVD by the Magic Dragon Wright. TABS: Lonesome Road (Trischka), I Know Bob Carlin. Our quarterly Old-Time Way section, 434, Dec. 09: TIM CARTER, interview by Tom You Rider (D West), No Woman No Cry (D West), To- featuring Big Jim Griffith, the Old-Time Jam Ses- Adams. Profiles: KENNY INGRAM; WILL gether Again (TA), Five Falls (Chas. Wood), Stump sion, Part 2, and Nate Calkins’s banjo. And our usual WILLIAMS. REVIEWS: Make Up Your Own Banjo Tail Hen (OT), Angeline the Baker (OT, Carlin), Gold columns: Let’s Roll (Banjo Goes Mass Media); OTR; Solos, DVD by Pete Wernick. COLUMNS: On The Rush (ETF), Red Bluff (Hickman), Laurelwood Waltz Adams County; Tech Talk (Strings), BC, Chorduco- Road, Old-Time from the Ozarks: ETF; Back Up: (MC), All the Way to Reno (Reno Banjo), Love me pia. TABS: Hide Head Blues (Jim Mills), Blowing In “G” Licks leading to “C”; Melodic Clawhammer: Tender (BC) The Wind (TA), Soldier’s Joy (OT), Sandy River Belle Some Basic Music Theory; Bob’s Tunes: The Beatles; 425: Mar. 09: BEN FREED. Flint Hill Crossword (OT), Angelina Baker (OT, Levenson), If I Had You Let’s Roll: Get Out of the Rut!; Adams County Banjo; Puzzles results.; a profile of Ron Cody, and Building (JB), Boilin’ Variations (BC), Candlewood (M Del- Fleckology; Earl’s Way; BC: TABS: Cracks in the the Nechville Way by Tom Nechville. A review of Ron aney), Allegro for Lute in Eb (JS Bach) Floor (T. Carter), Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Block’s instructional DVD. And our usual columns: 430, Aug. 09: . A Profile on Jens Angels We Have Heard On High, Bach’s Gavotte, Trischka’s Picks (Earl Today); Just Pickin’; Adams Kruger; the second part of Playing Bluegrass With Auld Lang Syne, Hog House Rag (OT), Daly’s Reel County; let’s Roll: Steve Martin; Bob’s Tunes, EW, Others (Developing a Bluegrass Repertoire), and (ETF), Black Diamond (BU: Don Stover), Ed Haley’s BC, Tech Talk (What’s that Twang?); MC (Syncopa- Maintaining Strings and Picks, by Ben Freed. Along “Indian Squaw” (MC), Things We Said Today tion); OTR. TABS: Paddy on the Turnpike (Cody), with our usual columns: Adams County, BC, Let’s (OT), The Chipmunk Song (TA), Melody of Rhythm, Cape Breton Fiddler’s Welcome (Cody), Clearwater Roll, Melodic Clawhammer, OT from the Ozarks, On Movement 1 (BF), We Three Kings (BC), When The (Freed), Taylor Kimble’s Breaking Up Christmas The Road, Earl’s Way, Back-Up. TABS: Gwendolyn Angels Carry Me Home (EW) (MC), Streamlined Cannonball (EW), Uncle Bud (OT, McGrath (Stecher), St. Louis Tickle (CB, Stecher), 435, Jan. 2010: MARC HOROWITZ, interview Koken), Miss McLeod’s Reel (TA), C-H-I-C-K-E-N Fisher’s Hornpipe (ETF), Beautiful nothing (Kruger), by Marty Cutler. Profiles: Bruce Alkire. Building (OT, Carlin), Every Time you Say Goodbye (Block), The Distance Between Two Points (with C Part, by B. Pete Seeger’s Legendary Bridge. Remembering Oh Susanna (BC), Salty Dog (Trischka-Earl) Evans), Little Juniata (Bill Emerson), CrippleD Creed Allen Shelton by Mike Scott. REVIEW: Tab Book 426: Apr. 09: KRISTIN SCOTT BENSON, inter- (BC), Wolves A Howlin’ (OT), Keep on the Sunnyside for Steve Martin’s “The Crow.” The OLD TIME view by Casey Henry. Profiles:Brandon Greene, and (EW), Christmas Morning (MC), Whispering Waters WAY: Kyle Creed’s Fingerpicks; Reviews of Kyle Tony Trischka. Our quarterly Old-Time Way, with (TA) Creed’s Back-Porch CD, and BanjoMate Thinline Today’s Old-Time Jam Session by Dan Levenson; 431: Sept. 09: BILL EMERSON, interviewed by Armrest. COLUMNS: Back-Up: Allen Shelton-Style; Reviews of Curt Bouterse’s and Brett Ratliff’s new Janet Davis. Also, Remembering Mike Seeger, and Chorducopia; Tech-Talk: String Break Angle; Adams Cds, and a review of the new Goldtone OT-800 banjo. profiles on Warren Yates, Chris Coole and Jaro- County Banjo; BC: Fiddle Tunes 1; EW; Let’s Roll: Along with our usual columns: OTR: Easy Songs; TA; slav Prucha. Along with our usual columns: Adams Key of D. TABS: Bending the Strings (A. Shelton), BC: Trying to Start; ETF, and BU (melodic minor), and County, BC, Let’s Roll, Chorducopia, On The Road, The Road to Spencer (Jim Mills), Softly As In a review’s of Steve Martin’s The Crow (by Tom Adams) Bob’s Tunes, MC, Tech Talk, Back-Up. TABS: Camp Morning Sunrise (JB), Pretty Little Girl (OT), Spotted and Tony Trischka’s Territory. TABS: Don’t Tread on Meeting on the 4th of July (Coole), Sittin’ on Top of Pony (OT), Carphunters (OT, Alkire), Shenandoah Me (Benson), Freedom Park (Benson), Waiting for the World, Sugar Hill (Kyle Creed), One More River Breakdown (TA), The Old-Fashioned Preacher (EW), Nancy (OT), Cripple Creek (in C) (BC), Greensleeves to Cross (MC), Darling Corey, Let Me Rest at the End Bluesy Licks (Wernick), Bill Arkansas Cheatham (BU), Ducks on the Mill Pond (OT), Policeman (OT), of My Journey (TA), Dear Old Dixie (BF), Sweet Dixie (BC) High on a Mountaintop (OT, Ratliff), 9 Miles out of (Emerson ), Persian Rug (JB) 436, Feb. 2010: JASON BURLESON, interview Louisville (OT, Ratliff), The Road to Spencer (ETF), 432, Oct. 09: MARK DELANEY. Also, our quarter- by Tom Adams. Profiles: CIA CHERRYHOLMES Fox Chase (Trischka), Velocity (Greene) ly Old Time Way section, with a profile ofBruce Mol- and WES CORBETT. “Banjo Fever!” and “How 427: May 09: EDDIE ADCOCK: Bluegrass’s Bion- sky by Rafe Stefanini, a review of the Haints new CD, to Be A Better Banjo Student” by Terry Ransom. ic Banjo Picker. Also, Danny Barnes interviews Tim and Clifftop Notes. Along with our columns BU (Del- REVIEWS: Adam Hurt’s “Perspective,” and O’Brien. Performing Bluegrass With Others, Part 1. aney), Chorducopia, Bob’s Tunes, Adams County, On Deering’s Baucom Model. COLUMNS: Back-Up: Banjos at the 2009 Folk Alliance. Profile: Daniel Kou- The Road, Exploring the Fingerboard, and Let’s Roll. Jason Burleson; ETF; BC: Fiddle Tunes 2; On The leck, by Cathy Fink. Along with our usual columns: TABS: Last Night When My Willie Came Home (Mike Road: Learning from Touring; MC Minor and Modal EW, Adams County, Tech-Talk (Restoring the Force); Seeger), Black Diamond (Delaney), Bird Bath (Del- Chords; Old-Time Ozarks; EW; Chorducopia; Adams BC (BNL’s FAQ); OTR; Chorducopia; Reno-Style. aney), Wandering Boy (OT, Molsky), Cherokee (JB, County; Clawhammer Songs & Tunes. TABS: Little TABS: Red Dog in the Morning (O’Brien, OT), Old Part 1), Devil’s Dream (OT, Romero), Baptist Shout Sadie; Jason Burleson tunes: (The North Cove, Country Road (EW), And the Cat Came Back (OT), (OT, Romero), The Hearts of Scotland (TA), Banjo in Through the Window of a Train, Lonesome Pine, Arkansas Traveler (OT, Strawn), The Lion’s Den (OT, the Latin Hollow (BC) Marbletown, Midnight Storm, Three-Finger Jack), Kouleck), Gold Rush (Reno), The Distance Between Volume XXXVII: Daniel (W. Corbett), John Hardy (as played by Bela Fleck), Ship in the Clouds (MC), Lady of the Lake Two Points (no C Part; Bill Evans), Sasparilla (Gold- 433, Nov. 09: RUDIGER HELBIG. PROFILES: (OT), Bricklayer’s Hornpipe (OT), Five ‘n’ Chimes ing), Secret Love (JB), Blue Skies and Teardrops (TA), Andy Thorn; David Keenan; Remembering (Cherryholmes), Somewhere Over the Rainbow Calliope House (Celtic) Ray Alden by Mac Benford & Hank Sapoznik. (ETF), Salt Creek (BC), Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To 428, June 09: BELA FLECK, interview by Scott An- REVIEWS: Three Banjo Collections by Wayne You (JB), Before I Met You (EW), The Golden West derson, and a feature on Alison Brown. REVIEWS: Shrubsall. Tony Trischka’s School of Banjo. (Hurt, OT), Flowers of Edinburgh (OT, Hurt), Molly CONTENTS INDEX Vol. I–XL PAGE 23

Put the Kettle On (Hurt, OT), Tallahassee (TA). “Banjo Picking: A Complete Method.” COLUMNS: Tonight (TA), Christmas Time is Coming (BC), Salt 437 (says “435”), March 2010: DICK BROWN, EW; Back-Up: Crowe-style; Your Brain on Banjo, Creek (BU), Back of Town Two-Step, Honey, You interview by Greg Cahill. 5-String Update: Richard #2; Chorducopia; Adams County; BC: Gospel Don’t Know My Mind (Crowe) Underwood by Tom Adams. COLUMNS: Let’s Roll: Banjo 2; Tech Talk: More String Break Angles; On 446: Dec. 2010. PAT CLOUD, interviewed by Ian Beginner Advice, and Good Tone; Back-Up: While The Road: Beyond Vamping—Fancy Back-up. The Perry. Al Osteen; Dr. Elmo; Rhythmic Clawhammer, Singing (Dick Brown); Melodic Clawhammer: Head OLD TIME WAY: Profile: Jason Burns. Reviews: Part 3. Reviews: Pat Cloud, Make Up Your Own Tension, Tone, and OT Banjo; On The Road: Right Coapman Armrest; Stringband Favorites tabbook; Banjo Solos. Columns: LR: Hot Rize; TA; MC: Fiddle hand Woes, or, Alternate Approaches to Picking; Audio Technica mic. Dan Levenson’s Search for the Tune Arrangements; BU; BC: Tips for Getting Better; Your Brain on Banjo: Lessons in Neuroplasticity— Ultimate Banjo. TABS: Daisy Mae (EW), J’s Tune ETF; OZRS; On The Road with Tom Nechville; CG. An Introduction; Bob’s Tunes: Craig Johnson; Tech (JD Crowe), Walking In My Sleep (OT), Greasy Coat TABS: Kansas City Reel (Pat Cloud), Autumn Leaves Talk: String Tension; Beginner’s Corner: Fiddle Tune (OT), Policeman (OT), My Hometown (TA), Gospel study, Henry Reed’s Sandy River Belle (MC), 8 More Solos; Chorducopia; Clawhammer Songs and Tunes: Plow (BC), Let The Church Roll On (BC), Movin’ Miles to Louisville (Osteen), Indecision (TA), One Reverend Gary Davis; Adams County Banjo; Bridges On (Deming), Sweet Sue (JB), We Can’t Be Darlings Way Ticket To The Blues (TA), I’ll Be Home for for Open Back Banjos by Bob Carlin. TABS: Little Anymore (BU: Crowe). Christmas (BU), Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Jolly Annie (D. Smith), Dunluce Castle (D. Smith), The 442, Aug. 2010: GREG CAHILL, interview by Scott Mason’s Apron (Celtic), Handsome Molly (D. Brown), Anderson. Profile:JOE DEAN. REVIEWS: Guardian Robinson County (MC), Old Liza Jane (Underwood), banjo case; “Farewell Trion by Chris Coole and Ivan The Last Old Shovel (Underwood), Let’s Hunt the Rosenberg. COLUMNS: Adams County; Back-Up: Banjo Newsletter Horses (OT), The Fishin’ Hole (TA), Pennies from For Vocals, Crowe-Style; Classical Banjo; Reno-Style: Heaven (JB), There’s A Table Sittin’ in Heaven (Gary Roots #3; MC: Visualizing; Ozarks OT; Chorducopia; now sells individual tabs; there are se- Davis, clawhammer) Let’s Roll: The Pro Sound; On The Road: Kaufman; lected tabs for sale on our website, for 438 (says “436”), April 2010: RICHARD BAILEY, EW: Earl’s Clawhammer Lick; BC: Kid’s Tunes; 99 cents each. If the tab is not online interview by Greg Cahill. Young Guns of Bluegrass: ETF. TABS: Everything I Own (TA), Carolina in the Jessie Baker, Jason Davis, Cory Walker, Trent Pines (Cahill), Danny’s Dance (Cahill), We Can’t Be that you’re interested in obtaining, Callicutt, Zane Petty, and Zach Gilmer. The Old-Time Darlings Anymore (BU vocals), Bourree No. 2, Part they may be ordered by purchasing Way: Tom Sauber, Jason Romero, Reviews of Peter 1 (Bach), Bluegrass Stomp (Reno), Old Gray Eagle the complete issue they appeared in. Seigel and Eli Smith, and Evie Landin. COLUMNS: (OT), Jump Jim Crow (MC), Don’t Get Around Much Adams County; ETF; BC: Frequent Picker Awards; Anymore (JB), Grey Eagle (EW) Let’s Roll: Tune It or Die!; On The Road; Reno-Style: 443, Sept. 2010: CHARLIE CUSHMAN. Wayne Many of the tabs in the past 15 years Reno Roots; EW. TABS: Walkin’ The Dog (TA), Cold Rogers of Gold Tone. RockyGrass Report. REVIEWS: have had accompanying soundfiles. Frosty Morning (ETF), Heaven Sent (R. Bailey), Chuck Levy; Mark Johnson. COLUMNS: Let’s Roll: Go to www.banjonews.com to see if Midnight Train to Memphis (R. Bailey), Drinkin’ Dark Jam Class Teacher Network; Tab/Rote Learning; the tab you want to hear has one. Whiskey (R. Bailey), Eadle Alley (OT), Soldier’s Joy On The Road: JD Crowe!; Adams County; Your (OT), Float Downstream (OT), Mountain Dew (EW), Brain on Banjo: #3; Tech Talk: Head Tuning; Back- Long Journey Home (3-BC), Little Rock Getaway Up: John Hartford; Chorducopia: Gershwin; MC: BNL started publishing in (Reno). Following Your Star; BC: Technology and Learning; November 1973, and has been 439 (says “437”), May 2010: STEVE MARTIN, Clawhammer Tunes 7 Songs; Classical Banjo. TABS: continually appearing ever since. interview by Tony Trischka. Wildwood: A Orange Blossom Special (TA), Katy Hill (Cushman), Appreciation by Art Rosenbaum; Feature: Howard Sugar in my Coffee-O (Cushman), Pretty Girl Goin’ Caine. REVIEW: Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer To Milk a Cow (Cushman), You Don’t Notice Me All back copies of BNL by Bob Carlin. COLUMNS: Adams County; Back- Ignoring You (BU, Hartford), It Ain’t Necessarily So are now available for $6 per issue. Up: Steve Martin; MC: A Pull-Off Primer; Tech (JB), The Peacock Feather (MC), Boats Up The River Talk: String Tension; Let’s Roll: Spend the Least (OT), Bach Up and Push (OT), Bourree No 2, Part Additional Postage Required Amount of Time Practicing; On The Road: First Trip; 2 (Bach) Chorducopia; Your Brain on Banjo: Part 1; BC: How 444, Oct. 2010: MIKE SCOTT, Interview by Tim for Canadian and Overseas to Make Friends; Old Time from the Ozarks. TABS: Carter. Feature: BILL HAYES. Missed Opportunities Orders - Please contact office@ Lickity Split (T), Ignition (Steve Martin), Saga of the by Duncan Fremlin. What the Flash Told the Old West (S. Martin), Pretty Flowers (S. Martin), Bob Phantom. COLUMNS: Tabs of the Month: Lluis banjonews.com Carlin’s Dream (OT), June Apple variation (MC), Gomez, Jim Mills. ETF; EW; BC: Double Stops; Dinah (JB), Wabash Foxtrot (OT), Flop-Eared Mule, On The Road: England; Classical Banjo; Let’s Roll: To order the BNL Tablature Index Hogan’s Heros March. Hot Rize, Bulletproofing Solos, Rhythm Machines (1973-2013) send $4 to address below, 440, June 2010: SCOTT VESTAL, interview by vs Metronomes; Adams County. THE OLD-TIME Scott Anderson. Rhythmic Clawhammer Part 1 by WAY: Whitt Mead; Reviews: Providence; Open Back or visit our Web Page. Tim Jumper. REVIEWS: Chris Pandolfi’s “Looking pick-up; Charlie Poole. TABS: Watauga Miner; Half Glass”; Dan Walsh’s “Tomorrow’s Still to Come”; Past Four (L. Gomez, 3-finger), Connemara (J. Mills), Do you have your BNL binders? Jens Kruger’s Beginner’s DVD; Nechville Atlas Bourree II, No. 3 (Bach, both voices together), You Holds 12 issues of BNL, yet will not open-back. COLUMNS: Scruggs Corner by the Flint Are My Sunshine (BC), Whiskey Before Breakfast Hill Flash; Let’s Roll: Secrets: Hearing the Tune in (ETF, in D), Salt Creek (OT), Milwaukee Blues (OT), harm your issues—$16.00 each. Tab, and Secret Sauce; On the Road: In Africa by Ira Indian Eat the Woodchuck (OT, Mead), Somebody Gitlin; Classical Banjo; ETF; BC: Gospel Banjo; Bob’s Touched Me (EW), Julia Delaney. Banjo NewsLetter, PO Box 3418 Tunes; Back-Up: Breaking the Rules with Scott Vestal; VOLUME XXXVIII: Annapolis, MD 21403 Adams County Banjo. TABS: Big Bend (Pandolfi), 445, Nov, 2010: CORY WALKER. Review: Ome Blue Mountain (Vestal), Goin’ To The Dance (Vestal), Banjos at 50. Columns: CHR; Rhythmic Clawhammer To order back-copies call: Calgary (Vestal), Wired (Vestal), Cousin Sally Brown Part 2; OZKS; MC: The Tao of Slow; TA; BC: Tips for (OT), I’m Going Over the Mountain (OT, Carlin), Getting Better; TECH: Tuning the Air Chamber; BU: (800) 759-7425 Lease of Life (D. Walsh), Hammer and Nails (D. Right Chords for Salt Creek; LR: Finding the Melody; Walsh), South Nampa Blues (Alkire), Brahm’s Lullaby, On The Road: 2010 IBMA. TABS: Hullarious, I’m Mastercard, Visa and Pay Pal Jesus Loves You (BC), Jacob’s Ladder (BC), Virginia Getting Sentimental Over You (CHR), Absence Darling (TA), Loch Lomand (ETF), Swanee River Makes the Heart Grow Fonder, Booth Shot Lincoln Email: [email protected] (Kruger). (OT), Pick a Bale of Cotton (OT), Camp Meeting Web: www.banjonews.com 441, July 2010: J.D. CROWE, interview by Ian Perry. on the Fourth of July (MC), Love Me Darling Just Profile: ZACK DEMING. REVIEW: Pete Pardee’s PAGE 24 CONTENTS INDEX 1974-2013

Old Saint Nick, Angels We Have Heard On High, Roll Murphy Method Camp; ETF; ACB; HELPFUL 455: Oct 2011. MARC PRUETT. THE OLD-TIME In My Sweet Baby’s Arms, I Hung My Jawbone on HINTS: Fret Worries by Geoff Stelling. TABS: In A WAY: Feature: Brooks Masten. Reviews: Unfortunate the Fence (OT), Washington’s March (OT), Carol of Groove (Baucom), Blue Ridge Cabin Home (BU), Blue Puppy DVD; Galax Field Recordings; Kkelzmer CD; the Bagpipers (CB) Ridge Cabin Home (ASC), Your Love is Like a Flower Wade Mainer book. Columns: Let’s Roll: Jonny (ASC), Clinch Mt. Backstep (BC), Take Five (claw), Mizzone; Back-up: Finding any Chord Quickly; On 447: Jan. 2011. LYNWOOD LUNSFORD. The Old Sleepers, Awake! (claw), The Route (MC), Sally Anne The Road: The Open Road; Adams County Banjo; Time Way. Reviews: “Earth Tones” by Adam Hurt; (OT Creed, version 2), Chinquapin Hunting (ETF), Chorducopia; BC: Artistic License; Tab of the Month: Ome’s Wizard openback. Columns: BC: Blessing/ Twist (TA), Becky Ann’s Bluegrass Rag Robert Long; Tech Talk: Intonation. TABS: Flight of Surse; BU: Back-up Quiz; ASC: Forwawrd Rolls; On 451: June 2011. TOM BOYD, Interview by Greg the Bumblebee, Georgia Railroad (OT), Lonesome The Road; TECH: Air Chamber Tuning; Your Brain Cahill. Profiles: Alison Brown; Tony Pass ‘s Almost John (OT), Sally Ann (OT), Dem Tsadik’s Zemerl, on Banjo; TA. TABS: (Wernick), Flathead Rim. Reviews: Katz Eyz Banjos; Jayme Marching Home (Pruett), Green Rolling Hills of Rendezvous, Top Hat Ramble, On the Sunny Side of Stone’s Room of Wonders; The Milliner-Koken West Virginia, Fredology (JB), Are You Washed in the the Street (JB), John Riley the Shephard (OT-Hurt), Collection; Kyle Creed book/CD. Columns: On The Blood? (BC), 12th of April. Brushy Fork of John’s Creek (OT-Hurt), Rock the Road: Lynn Morris Comeback; MC: Advanced P’s and VOLUME XXXIX: Cradle Joe (OT), Home Sweet Home (TA), Worried H’s Warm-ups; Adams County Banjo: Hazel Dickins; 456: Nov. 2011. LEARNING TO PLAY BANJO Man Blues (TA), Gotta Travel On (TA), Do Lord LET’S ROLL: Jam Skills, Flag Day, Remembering IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM. Practice Strategies (TA), Long Journey Home (TA) Carlton Haney; TECH TALK: Right Bridge Location; for Adult Learners by Bill Evans; YOUR BRAIN 447: Feb. 2011. KEITH LITTLE. Bluegrass Banjo BC: Twin Banjos; BACK UP: Up The Neck, Crowe- ON BANJO: The Talent Myth; LET ‘S ROLL: Resources on the Internet. Columns: TR: Advice to a style; ECLECTIC CLAWHAMMER; OLD-TIME Recommendations from a Lifetime of Banjo Non-Singing Banjo Player; Banjo After Hours; BU: from the OZARKS; TABS: Love of the Mountains Teaching; How to Teach Back-up By Janet Davis; Right Chords for Farewell Blues; RENO: Rebi dies (kick-off—Boyd), Ways of the World (Boyd), Lonesome BC: Pros and Cons of Teaching Methods; Interactive Fkatt & Scruggs; ASC: Forward Rolls, part 2; EW: Pine Special (TA), Nelia’s Dance (ETF), Jesse (BC), Banjo Sites: Interview with Tony Trischka; Lluis BC; OZRKS; CHRD; TA; ETF; On The Road: Just Coast to Coast (Bill Emerson), Abe’s Retreat (MC), Gomez’s “Manga el Banjo”; Private Clawhammer Because You Can Do It Doesn’t Make It Easy; MC: Blue Ridge Cabin Home (BU, up the neck); Cluck Old Lessons; Teaching Yourself; One-on-One with the 5: Making a tune Banjoistic. TABS: Turn the Other Hen (10 versions), Quail is a Pretty Bird (OT), The Lessons By Greg Cahill; ON THE ROAD: Learning Cheek (Keith Little), Black Eyed Suzie (Little), Mar Clean Plate Club (Alison Brown). from DVDs; EARL’S WAY: Learning Earl First; West, Farewell Blues (BU), Blue Ridge Mountain 452: July 2011. TONY ELLIS, Interview by MELODIC CLAWHAMMER: What Makes a Good Home (ASC), Pike County Breakdown (EW), In The Steve Martin. THE OLD-TIME WAY: Feature: Joe Old-Time Teacher; Ned Luberecki on Camps and Pines (BC), Banjo Triplet Boogie (CS), Ode to Joy Newberry. Reviews: “Grasshopper...” by Jim Pankey Workshops; Learning Clawhammer at Banjo Camp (BC), Newhouse (OT), There Will Never Be Another & Bobby Burns; Huss & Dalton’s Singletree banjo; By Mac Benford. You (CHRD), Some Day (TA), Ali Baba Breakdown, Fishman’s Loudbox Mini amp & Goldtone’s ABS; 457: Dec. 2011. Janet Beazley; FEATURE: Rob Call Your Dogs and Let’s Go Hunting (OT, Stearns); Larry Perkins; The Tone Ring Mate. Columns: TAB of Bishline. REVIEWS: “Melodic Bluegrass Banjo” Better Off Red (OT), Sail Away Ladies (J. Arnold), the MONTH: Dan Menzone and Lee Marcus; LET’S by Janet Davis. Review by Wayne Shrubsall; “Last Railroading Through the Rockies (MC) ROLL: Jam Etiquette; Adams County Banjo; BC: Chance” by Russ Carson. Review by Ira Gitlin TAB: 448: March 2011. ROGER SPRUNG. Feature: Jens Triple Banjos; CRD: Bach; BU: Fill-in Licks, Crowe- Sullivan County; COLUMNS: ON THE ROAD Koch. Review: Peterson StroboClip Tuner. Columns: stye; ETF; YOUR BRAIN on BANJO: Distractions. by Casey Henry: Fiddle Back-up; CHORD; TECH BACK UP: Adding the Blues; LET’S ROLL: Groove, TABS: Roustabout (OT), Bonapart Crossing the TALK: More on Intonation; ETF: TAB: Salt Creek; Jam, Skin Heads; OZRKS; EW; ADAMS COUNTY Rhine (OT), Davy Davy (OT), Gone Beserk (Marcus), HF; ASC: Down-the-neck Back-up in the Key of D; BANJO; ON THE ROAD: Improvising; ETF; MC: Battle Cry of Freedom (TA), : Bourrée (Bach), Train BEGINNER’S CORNER: So You Make a Living Creating Banjostic Arrangements; TECH TALK: 45 (BC), Some of These Days Are Going To Be Playing the Banjo??; The Banjo & The Birth of the Tailpiece Affects Tuning?; BC: More Triplets; TABS: Sad, Blue Ridge Cabin Home (BU), Nelia’s Dance Blues; EW; BU: The Key of C; BOB ‘S TUNES: Greensleeves, Breton Tune (OT), Farewell Blues (BU), variations (BU), Boodles (Ellis), Playing Waltzes, Part 2; OLD TIME from the Last Train Home (OT), Little Maggie (EW), The Craic 453: Aug 2011. RYAN CAVANAUGH, interview by OZARKS; Bluegrass Pickers Can Learn Clawhammer Was Ninety in the Isle of Man (OT), Slowly (TW), Ali Ned Luberecki. Feature: Tom Mirisola. Banjo Camp by Bob Flesher; TABS: The Christmas Song, Salt Baba Breakdown Part 2 (ETF), Over There (MC), North: A Participant’s View. Josh Turknett’s Old-Time Creek, Boil That Cabbage Down, Exercises, Man of Malguena, Norwegian Wood, Irish Washerwoman Jam Website. Columns: LET’S ROLL: Bill Monroe Constant Sorrow, Going to Brownsville (OT), Jingle 449: April 2011. ERIC GIBSON, interviewed by Centennial; EW; BC; RENO-STYLE WORKSHOP; Bells (EW), Joy To The World (BU), Royal Box Waltz Greg Cahill. THE OLD-TIME WAY. Feature: Eric ON THE ROAD: Banjo Camp North; ASC: Soldier’s (OT, back-up), Sullivan County (Carson), Here Schlange and The Banjo Hangout. 2011 NAMM Joy in D; MC: An Irish Session Survival Kit, Part Rattler Here (OT) Report. REVIEWS: Rare Bird Alert by Steve Martin; 1; TECH TALK: Bridge Location, cont.; OZARKS. 459 - January 2012: BILL SCHMIDT Interview Mile Maker by The Freight Hoppers; American Idle TABS: No Capo for Andy (Cavanaugh), Roll On by Cathy Fink; FEATURE: Eddie Adcock’s “Many by Ben Freed; Deering Eagle II. Columns: ASC; BU: Muddy River (TA), Blue-Eyed Boston Boy (TA), Darcy A Mile”, Review by Bob Peelstrom; FEATURE: Important Chord Progressions; ON THE ROAD: Farrow (TA), Daddy Played the Banjo (EW), Gold Jake Schepps Interview. THE OLD-TIME WAY. Fast Jam DVD; CRD: Django; EW; BC: The Banjo, Rush (BC), Dill Pickle Rag (Reno), Soldier’s Joy (in REVIEWS: “An Evening in the Village” by Jake Philosophically Speaking; Adams County Banjo; D), Jackie Coleman’s Reel (MC), Cotton Down South Schepps; “Banjo Without Tears” Review by Bob Banjo After Dark. TABS: Walkin’ West to Memphis (OT), Buckingham; Bernunzio Whyte Laydie Review; (Gibson), Blue Ridge Cabin Home (BU), Forward 454: Sept 2011. MIKE MUNFORD, interview by “A Traveler’s Sketches” Review. COLUMNS: Rolls in Down-the-Neck Back-up, Slides (ASC), Ira Gitlin. From Bonnaroo to Telluride. Getting the PROFILE: Old-Time@Heart by Andrew Haught; Douce Ambiance (JB), North Carolina Breakdown, Most out of a Banjola. Reviews: Spann’s Guide to WAYNE SHRUBSALL’S Banjo Circus; MUNDE’S Part 1 (EW), Seneca Square Dance (OT), Hound Gibson; Goldtone’s clip-on tuner. Columns: Adams MORSELS; HF: Two-Finger Chords; LET’S ROLL: Chase (OT), Been To the East, Been To the West County Banjo; Tab of the Month: Todd Taylor; Let’s Wernick Method Progress; BC: Top 10 Lists; BU: (OT), I’ll Fly Away (TA), J’ai Passé Devant Ta Porte Roll: Bill Monroe and the Banjo; BC: Dream Banjo; Eddie Adcock Style; EW: Forward Rolls. TABS: (Cajun), American Idle Hornpipe. Chorducopia; Intermediate Banjo; ETF: Celtic; On Nightwalk, Cousin Sally Brown, Shootin’ Creek, 450: May 2011. TERRY BAUCOM, Interview by The Road: Kaufman Kamp; AST: Down-the-Neck Lonesome John, Polly Put the Kettle On, Durang’s Greg Cahill. FEATURE: Bob Altschuler. Profile: Back-up Part 6; Breton Banjo; Bob’s Tunes: Waltz Hornpipe, Peaches & Cream, Reunido, I Am A New 5-String Capo. Review: Col•lage by Michael J. Time; Ozarks; Back-Up: Connect C, D & G Chords. Pilgrim, Two Little Boys. Miles. Columns: BACK UP: J.D. Crowe-style; LET’S TABS: Foggy Mountain Rock, TA, Tarred and 460: February 2012: ROBIN SMITH, Master ROLL: Drum Machine Report; ALL STRINGS Feathered (Munford), Waterfall (Todd Taylor), Sweet Luthier; REVIEWS: Kat Eyzs Capos and CONSIDERED: Forward Rolls in Down-the-Neck Sunny South, Edelweiss, Watch What Happens (JB), Bridges; “Dapple Patti” by Alan Munde and Back-up, Part 4: Using Target Tones; BC: Bluesy Fog Rolling Over the Glen, Whiskey Before Breakfast Adam Granger; “Girl with the Banjo Tattoo” by Stanley Sound; MC: Understanding Modal Tunes; Back-up, Schottische du Stockfish (OT), As Time Mary Cox. COLUMNS: MUNDE’S MORSELS; BOB’S TUNES: Kyle Creed; ON THE ROAD: Draws Near (Carlin–OT), Shoe Cobblers Blues (OT). CONTENTS INDEX Vol. I–XL PAGE 25

CRD: Duke Ellington; ETF: Angeline the Baker; Kropp. Useful Jamming Licks By Ian Perry. Forming 468 - October 2012: BEN ELDRIDGE. Interview INTERMEDIATE BANJO: Chord Progressions a “Jam Workshop” in Yuma By Dan Levenson. . by Greg Cahill. THE OLD-TIME WAY, FEATURE: 1—Endings; HF: Lesson 3—All Hail The Six Note; COLUMNS: ON THE ROAD: Slow Jams. BACK Frank Lee. REVIEWS: Tony Spadaro and his ‘Rocket MELODIC CLAWHAMMER: Surviving Irish UP: Jam Chords. MELODIC CLAWHAMMER: Science Banjo’; “Sittin’ in the Cat Bird’s Seat” by Walt Sessions Part 2; BACK UP: Grandma’s Tattoos; TECH Jamming at Banjo Camp. LET’S ROLL: Ask Dr. Koken. TIP of the MONTH: Bridges. COLUMNS: TALK: Does Neck Wood Matter?; OTR: Beginner Banjo—It’s All About Jamming. HIGH FIVE: Two ETF: Crazy Creek; BC: Most Influential Bluegrass Banjo Camp; OLD TIME from the OZARKS; LET’S Banjos In A Jam. BEGINNER’S CORNER: Basics Banjo Players. ON THE ROAD: Doug Dillard’s “The ROLL: Why Teachers Should Teach Jam Classes; of Good Jamming? Keep It Basic. INTERMEDIATE Banjo Album”. RENO-WORKSHOP. HIGH FIVE: BC: Your Musical Legacy. TABS: Dapple Patti, In A BANJO: Figuring Out Chord Progressions OLD Runners on 1st and 3rd. BACK UP: Wildwood Flower Sentimental Mood, Angeline the Baker, Hot Corn Cold TIME from the OZARKS: Old-Time Jamming. in “C”. REVIEWS: Pickin’ Pal; Ome’s Northstar Corn, Don’t Be Teasing, Grandma’s Tattoos, Sweet BOB’S TUNES: Old-Time Fiddle Jams; Jam Tune banjo. TABS: Heartsville Pike, Crazy Creek, Sharp’s Bama, Goodbye Girls I’m Going to Boston, The Old Lists at American Banjo Camp . TABS: Rocker Hornpipe, Shaking Down the Acorns, Possum on Stillhouse is All Burnt Down. Shuffle / Lady Madonna, My Cabin in Caroline (lead); a Rail, That Gal with the Run Down Shoe, Dixie 461: March 2012: NOAM PIKELNY. REVIEWS: My Little Girl in Tennessee (lead), Lucy Farr’s Barn Breakdown standard and variations, Home Sweet “Rare Bird Alert” Tab Book. COLUMNS: RENO- Dance, Old Home Place (up the neck break), Whiskey Home, Wildwood Flower in C, & Backup STYLE WORKSHOP by Jason Skinner; TABS of the Before Breakfast—Basic; Intermediate, Boil Them VOLUME XL: MONTH: Before I Met You, by Earl Scruggs; She Cabbage Down (chords only), The Old Stillhouse, 469, Nov. 2012: GRAHAM SHARP: Interview Left Me Standing on the Mountain, by Allen Shelton; Snowbird, Walk Along John to Kansas: by Ned Luberecki. Introduction by Steve Martin. Music Box Dancer. COLUMNS: BU: Noam Pikelny 465 - July 2012: Little Roy Lewis. Interview by Marc FEATURES: Transcription of Eric Weissberg’s & Slow Songs; MC: 6/8 Time; ON THE ROAD: Back Pruett. Remembering Doug Dillard. THE OLD- Dueling Banjos. By Ross Nickerson. Arthur Hatfield. to Teaching; HIGH FIVE: Your Cheatin’ Heart; OLD- TIME WAY: Carl Pagter, Interview. REVIEWS: Old- REVIEWS: Zero Glide Nut System; “Foggy TIME from the OZARKS; BOB’S TUNES: Wade Time Stringband Workshop by Jane Keefer; “Otter Mountain Special: A Tribute to Earl Scruggs”, Ward book; BC: Why Scales? TABS: Traveling Down Creek” by Ken and Brad Kolodner; “Going to Town” CD. COLUMNS: TIP of the MONTH: Tuning?; This Lonesome Road, Before I Met You, Standing on by the Orpheus Supertones. COLUMNS: NEW INTERMEDIATE BANJO: Common Chord the Mountain, Music Box Dancer, Fish and Bird, Pop DIRECTIONS in JAM STANDARDS; CRD; BC: Progressions; BEGINNER’S CORNER: Jam Gems; Goes the Weasel Jim Thompson’s Horse, The Great Creating Basic Arrangements. REVIEWS: “In Good TAB OF THE MONTH: Nine Pound Hammer; Remember, Your Cheatin’ Heart, Gilsaw, Half Shaved, Company” by Bill Evans. The Making of “In Good Autumn Leaves: A Study in Harmony, II; ECLECTIC Applying Bach to bluegrass banjo. Company” By John Lawless. TABS: Keep on the CLAWHAMMER; MC: The Real Purpose of Music 462: April 2012: ROSS NICKERSON. Feature: Firing Line, Boston Boy, Hasse A’s, The Tuning Tune, Instruction; EW: In The Pines; LET’S ROLL: Kermit the Frog! REVIEWS: North American Banjo Rosetta, Big Chief Sonny (Tab notes by Bill Evans), Advanced Banjo Campers, More NY Notables, Tab Builders, Vol. 1, DVD; Long-Time Piedmont Pals. Lorena. (book), Review by Dan Levenson, Rocky Policy; OT from the OZARKS: Cajun; HIGH FIVE: THE OLD-TIME WAY: FEATURE: Riley Baugus. Mountain Goat, Otter Creek, Wabash Cannonball, Circle of 4ths; BACK UP: Wildwood Flower in “C”. Educating the Frailin’ Elderly. COLUMNS: NEW Dixie Breakdown, Hickory Hollow TABS: Big Sciota (4 versions), Dueling Banjos, Knob DIRECTIONS in JAM STANDARDS ; BACK 466 - August 2012: THOM MOORE, Interview Creek (Graham Sharp), Nine Pound Hammer, Autumn UP: Kermit & ; EXPLORING the by Alan Munde. Head Tightening by Ben Leaves, chord melody, Possum Up A ‘Simmon Tree, FINGERBOARD; BEGINNER’S CORNER: Licks by Freed. COLUMNS: EW; EXPLORING the Shawneetown (OT), In The Pines (EW), Eddie Collins. HIGH FIVE: Blues to the 7th; EARL’S FINGERBOARD; OTR: Banjo Camp North; BOB’S (OT from Ozarks), Skip To My Lou (TA), Wildwood WAY; TECH TALK: Longitudinal Energy; ON THE TUNES: Wade Ward, II; BACK UP: Preparing for Flower in “C” (BU). ROAD: Can’t Go Home Again; LET’S ROLL: Ask Jams and Improv. OLD-TIME from the OZARKS; 470, Dec. 2012: Stephen Wade, Interview by Greg Dr. Banjo. Family Busking, Advising Beginners By YOUR BRAIN ON BANJO: Neuroanatomy of Adams. FEATURE: Fonza Smith & Allen Banjo. Pete Wernick; ECLECTIC CLAWHAMMER. TABS: a Banjo Jam; TECH TALK: Composition of the REVIEWS: Stephen Wade’s “Banjo Diary”; Black’s Fork, Roundhouse, Duet vs. Kermit, Rainbow Banjo’s Tone; HF: Up-The-Neck Kick-Offs; LET’S Sterner Banjo Tailpieces and 5th String Conversion Connection, Flatt Does Banjo, Sally Ann, Ground ROLL: Remembering . BC: Embellishing Kit. COLUMNS: HIGH FIVE: Playing in the Key Hog, Silly Bill, Swimming Song, Planxty Pete Seeger. a Basic Arrangement. REVIEWS: “The Women of D; TAB OF THE MONTH: Fanfare/Rondeau 463: May 2012: REMEMBERING EARL Wear No Clothes At All” (CD), by The Old 78’s; (Masterpiece Theatre Theme); LET’S ROLL: NY SCRUGGS. Earl Scruggs Interview (2006) by Tony “The Best of Jack Hatfield”, “Douce Ambience” Banjo Summit Tour; CHORDUCOPIA: Django; Trischka and Béla Fleck. How I Knew Earl by Bob w/Pat Cloud; Artistworks Academy of Bluegrass, TECH TALK: That “Pre-War Sound”; ETF: Dawg Piekiel. Under the Influence of Earl by Jim Mills. School of Banjo, updated; Fergusan’s Perfect Pitch Banjo; MELODIC CLAWHAMMER: Instruction in Farewell Blues by Jack Hatfield. Earl Scruggs and Capo. TABS: The Merrywang Heart (For Tony Ellis), the Digital Age; TAB OF THE MONTH: Run For 3-Finger Banjo Style by Bob Carlin. Everybody’s New River Train, Life of a Poor Boy, Little Carey’s Cover By Dave Russell; BU: Christmas Carols in “C”; Friend by John McEuen. Picker’s Paradise: The Gallop, The Raccoon’s Picnic, Redwing, My Little BC: Notes; OTR: I’ve Got A New Band!; OT from the Legendary Parties of Earl and Louise. Earl’s Influence Girl in Tennessee, Ozark Moon, Every Day, Wabash Ozarks: TABS: New River Train, Fanfare/Rondeau on Old-Time Banjo by Ken Perlman. Entire Foggy Cannonball, You Are My Sunshine (OT), Rocky Hill (OT, Stephen Wade), Arcade Blues Mountain Breakdown tab. Memories of Earl by 467 - September 2012: RON CODY. Interview (Stephen Wade), Banging Breakdown (Stephen Wade), Casey Henry. The Earl Constant by Tom Adams. by Tony Trischka. THE JAZZ BANJO ISSUE: Are You In The Mood (JB), Grisman’s EMD (ETF), Remembering Earl by Pete Wernick. Béla on Earl. FEATURE: Banjo at Berklee by Ian Perry. “Autumn Pike’s Peak (MC), Run For Cover (Dave Russell), Earl, As I Knew Him by Roger Siminoff. COLUMNS: Leaves”–A Study in Harmony. REVIEWS: “Crossing Angels from the Realms of Glory (BU), Up On The TAB of the MONTH: John Henry. BACK UP: the Imaginary Divide” (CD), by Béla Fleck and the Housetop (BC), Old Charlie Deckard (OT), Sawing Scruggs-Style Patterns BC: The “Boogie”. TABS: Marcus Roberts Trio, “Beyond Bluegrass Banjo”, on the Strings (EW). Foggy Clawhammer, Foggy Mt. Special (back-up), by Dave Hollender (book). COLUMNS: BACK 471, Jan. 2013: Jeff Scroggins, Interview by Greg Hey Jude, by Eddie Collins, My Cabin in Caroline, UP: Connecting Chords in “C”; CRD: Cheek to Cahill. THE OLD-TIME WAY: Michael Holmes. Foggy Mt. Special, The Man That Wrote Home Cheek; LET’S ROLL: The New York Banjo Story; AUTUMN LEAVES: A Study in Harmony, Part 3. Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man, Foggy BOB’S TUNES: Ed Haley by Bob Carlin; MC: The REVIEWS: The Ash Leaf openback; “Black Bear on Mt. Breakdown, Walt’s Breakdown, North Carolina Advantages of Learning Both Melodic and Round the Mt.” (CD); “Up In The Clouds” (CD), “I’ve Got Breakdown, Part 2. Peak; HF: Melody on the 2nd String; OLD-TIME from A Bulldog” CD; Sean Ray’s “Session Book”; Mark 464: June 2012: THE JAMMING ISSUE. Feature: the OZARKS. TIP of the MONTH: Head Tightening. Raborn’s “Fit of Clarity”. COLUMNS: HIGH FIVE: John Dowling, Interview by Leon Hunt. Jam Survival REVIEW: custom Huber banjo. BC: Cheese Pizza. Sounds To Be Discovered; BACK UP: “C” Without Checklist by Bill Evans. Jam Preparation by Mike TABS: It’s Only A Paper Moon, Cheek to Cheek, Retuning; BEGINNER’S CORNER: A Resolution; Munford. Jams That Work by Alan Munde. EARL’S Autumn leaves, Boatman, Old Chattanooga, Carroll EW. TABS: Woodland Arch (Jeff Scroggins), The WAY: Common Jamming Back-up Rolls. Jamming by County Blues, Leaning On The Everlasting Arms, The Boundary Hunter (Jeff Scroggins), Shady Grove Ian Perry. The Rules of the Road by Ira Gitlin. Jamming Girl I Left Behind, You Are My Sunshine, Goodbye (OT), Woliver’s Money Musk (OT), Single Girl (OT), Notes by Greg Cahill. Jam Observances by Mike Liza Jane, I’ll Fly Away Bonapart Crossing the Rhine (OT), Shout Lulu (OT), PAGE 26 CONTENTS INDEX 1974-2013

Fit of Clarity (Mark Raborn), The Old Spinning Dealing with Prodigies, All-Europe Jam Camp; BC: Good; “Old-Time Music Party”, CD by Brian Wheel (BU), Walking the Floor. Favorite Song; HIGH FIVE: While You’re In D Vollmer; “Milestones: Legends of the Doc Watson 472, Feb. 2013: Ron Stewart: Interview by Scott Tuning…; OT from Ozarks; ETF; CHORDUCOPIA: Clan” CDs and book. COLUMNS: YOUR BRAIN Anderson. FEATURE: Tim Twiss. REVIEWS: Debussy; EW, MC: The Banjo Comes of Age In ON BANJO: Using Your Ears, Part 2; EW: Another “Wade Ward: Banjo Master”. COLUMNS: ETF: Ireland. TABS: When You And I Were Young Maggie Live Jam Tape; OTR: Back at Augusta; BC: Backing Learning the Fingerboard, Part 2; Old Time from (BC), Recapturing Trail Ridge, I’m So Glad by Fred Up; BARCELONA BANJO NEWS: Learning New the Ozarks; BACK-UP: 7th Chords in “C”; TECH Sokolow, Jerry’s Breakdown, Castle Kelly (Anton Tunes by Lluis Gomez; HIGH FIVE; ETF: Hidden TALK: “Pre-War” Sound, Part 2; BC: Top Ten Emery), Cumberland Gap (TA), Natchez Under the Melodic-Style Runs; LET’S ROLL: Pete Seeger at Licks You Should Know; HIGH FIVE: Read Tab, Hill (in D & A: OT), Silver Spire (ETF), Reverie 94. TABS: Sugarfoot Rag (live version), Last Train to Right? Write!; MC: Reinventing the Wheel; ON (Debussy), Rain & Snow, Red River (EW), Fermoy Rajastahn (OT: Richie Stearns), Step-Around Johnnie THE ROAD: Reno & Adcock; EW; LET’S ROLL: Lasses (MC), Cascade (OT, Dan Levenson), Rambling Hobo (OT: Doc Reviews & Resolutions; TIP of the MONTH: Forked 477, July 2013: Chris Hill Interview by Greg Watson), The Squirrel Hunters (3-finger), Lonesome Deer. TABS: Crawford County (Ron Stewart), Stoney Cahill. FEATURES: Arranging Techniques. THE Road Blues (3, BC), Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (TA), Point (OT), America the Beautiful (BU), Cripple OLD-TIME WAY: Charles Faurot Interview by Tom The Gold Rush (Marty Cutler), Milwaukee Blues. Creek (Wade Ward), Reel St. Antoine (MC), Walking Mylet. Ross Nickerson’s Banjo Safari. COLUMNS: the Floor (2nd break: EW), Lor Bres de Ladies (Tim TIPS of the MONTH: Bridge String Slots; BC; Twiss), Napoleon D. Gould’s Polka (Tim Twiss), HIGH FIVE; YOUR BRAIN on BANJO: Lessons Forked Deer. in Neuroplasticity—Using Your Ears By Dr. Josh 473, March 2013: Mark Johnson, Interview by Turknett. REVIEWS: Smokin’ Hot Banjo Licks by Chuck Levy. FEATURES: Banjo Calisthenics. Eddie Collins (book, CD); Sweet Nostalgia by Oh My SPBGMA Banjo Workshop. Bob Shank. COLUMNS: Darling (CD). TABS: Take Me Out to the Ball Game EW: Never Enough Earl!; CHORDUCOPIA; MC: (BC), Is That Footsteps That I Hear (Chris Hill), I Playing in D from G Tuning; HIGH FIVE: Getting Get The Blues When It Rains (Chris Hill), Road to from D to G; BU: Soldier’s Joy in “C” Tuning; NEW Columbus (Kyle Tuttle), Roustabout (OT: as played DIRECTIONS IN JAM STANDARDS: Playing in by Kyle Creed), Harlan’s Cave (OT: Janet Burton), Odd Meters; OT from the OZARKS (Cajun); BC: Wes Muir’s Tune (OT), Needlecase (OT), Mr. Bottle Cash for Banjo. TABS: Your Crazy Heart (EW), (Reno), Beaumont Rag (Jack Baker), Lady Be Good Marching Through Georgia (OT: Mark Johnson), (JB: Ross Nickerson), St. Anne’s Reel (Bill Evans), Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (JB), Soldier’s Joy Rock Around the Clock (TA). (MC), Soldier’s Joy (BU), Whiskey Before Breakfast 487, August 2013: Bennett Sullivan, Intro by Marty (in 7), Blackberry Blossom (in 5), T’en As Eu, T’en Cutler. FEATURES: Cutch Tuttle. REVIEWS: Aura Plus (Step It Fast:OT), Waltz For Earl, I Walk George Banjos; “Classic Banjo” from Smithsonian/ the Line (EW), Three-Wheel Hannah (Bob Shank), Folkways (CD). “Bluegrass Banjo From All Sides” CRS (Bob Shank). by Rich Stillman (Book/CD); “The Librarian and 474, April 2013: Ron Block, Interview by Scott the Banjo” DVD, Review by Wayne Shrubsall. Anderson. FEATURES: Deering Banjo Today. COLUMNS: TIP of the MONTH: Making Learning THE OLD-TIME WAY: John Cohen, Interview by Easier for Adults; MC: Antici-pay-yay-tion; BC: Wayne Shrubsall. The Loss of Diversity By Charles Wipe Out!; ETF: More Left-Hand Positions; HIGH Faurot. REVIEWS: “Banjo Classics”. COLUMNS: FIVE; LET’S ROLL: How Not to Freak Out at the ETF: Improv based on Fireball Mail; BC: Smokin’ Jam; Clear Pull-Offs; BU: Comparing Lead to Back- Hot Licks; OTR: “Shelton Special”; TRISCHKA’S up ; OTR: Bluegrass/Old-Time Crossover at Midwest LICKS: The 3–0–2; HIGH FIVE: Variations on a Banjo Camp; EW; OT from the OZARKS. TABS: Scruggs Lick; TIP of the MONTH: Same Finger. Honey Butter (Bennett Sullivan), On The Davidson TABS: My Love Follows You Where You Go (Ron (Bennett Sullivan), You Are My Sunshine (Beginners), Block), Choctaw Hayride (Ron Block), Take Me Red Fox (MC), Sleep Walk (Fred Sokolow), On The For Longing (Ron Block), Cumberland Gap (OT: Sunny Side of the Mountain (Scruggs), Wipe Out! John Cohen), Buck Creek Girls (OT: John Cohen), (BC), Old Tymeosaurus Rex (OT: Cutch Tuttle), Mississippi Sawyer (2, OT, Kyle Creed and Wade Elizabeth Cotten’s Georgia Buck, Bury Me Beneath Ward), Black Mountain Rag (Tony Trischka). the Weeping Willow (TA), June Apple (A Part, 2 475, May 20123: Tim Weed, Interview by Mike versions), Old Gray Mare (EW), Old St. Joe (OT from Kropp. FEATURES: J.S. Bach on Clawhammer Ozarks), True Love to Last (BU). Banjo By Michael J. Miles. The American Banjo 478, September 20123: Elmer Burchett, Jr., Camp. REVIEWS: KatEyz New Generation Bridges interview by Greg Cahill. FEATURES: Short by Bob Piekiel; Epiphone Banjos; Old-Time Fiddle Cuts and Lost Highways. David Keenan. Summer Tunes for 5-String, Tab, by Nick Hornbuckle, NAMM Banjos. Luthier Ronnie Bales. COLUMNS: Review by Tom Adams. COLUMNS: OT from the CHORDUCOPIA; BC: Backing Up; HIGH FIVE: OZARKS; TABS of the MONTH: Noam Pikelny’s, F Shape 7th Chord Shape; EW; ECLECTIC The Beatles; BACK UP: The Americans: One Roll CLAWHAMMER; OT from the OZARKS; LET’S BU; MC: Playing in F from Double-C, MUNDE’S ROLL: The “Groove”, and Warming up for Fast Ones; MORSELS; BEGINNER’S CORNER: Endings; EW: MC: What You Can Learn About Finger Balance from ...and Hylo Brown. TABS: Morro Glenn (Tim Weed), Driving a Stick Shift. TABS: Whistle Pig (Elmer Cornwallis’s Surrender (OT from Ozarks), O Santo Burchett), Road to Dawson (David Keenan), Georgia de Polvoro (Noam Pikelny), Across the Universe, On My Mind (Chord), Back Up Examples (BC), I Sweet and Low (BU), Falls of Richmond (2-finger), Wonder Where You Are Back-up (TA), Sugarfoot Rag Flying Cloud (MC), Cotton Patch Rag (Alan Munde), (EW), Maui No Ka Oi (Eclectic Clawhammer), Shove Endings Examples (BC), The Prisoner’s Song (EW). the Pig’s Foot A Little Farther From the Fire Eclectic 476, June 2013: Dick Weissman. FEATURES: Clawhammer), Lost Indian (OT). Merlefest’s Bluegrass Banjo Contest. Rich Stillman. 479, October 2013: Richie Stearns. FEATURES: Clawhammer for Ignoramus Turns 40. REVIEW: The OLD-TIME WAY. Rick Good. THE ECLECTIC Dynamics of Banjo Sound by Tom Nechville (book). 5-STRING: Gold Rush Variations part 1 By Marty COLUMNS: TIPS of the MONTH: Beginning Cutler. REVIEWS: “Tractor Beam” CD by Richie Banjo Set-up; Protecting the Thumb; LET’S ROLL: Stearns; “The Human Banjo Player” CD by Rick