(Here's one I posted on Youtube a few days ago but forgot to share here. From now on I intend to share everything here with yall first.)
I first heard this song from George R. Gibson of Knott County, KY. It goes by many titles including "Reubin's T...
2018-10-11 23:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostGeorge R. Gibson of Knott County, Kentucky plays the banjo, sings and shares oral history at the 2015 Celebration of Traditional Music at Berea College....
2018-10-11 13:54:31 +0000 UTC View Post
I try not to flood this space with every scrap of interesting material that comes my way, but could not resist sharing this clip.
"One Morning in May" is a song that Kinman and I both learned from master banjoist George R. Gibson of Knott County, K...
2018-10-10 23:16:02 +0000 UTC View Post
fB♭FB♭C (relative gCGCD aka "Hook & Line Tuning," "One-Finger C" and "Double C").
In this video I'll demonstrate a simplified, slowed-down version of Black Bottom blues, first using down-picking technique and then two-finger pic...
2018-10-10 16:24:13 +0000 UTC View Post
(The audio's a little rough at first but gets better!)
"Excerpts from the radio show 'Banjos & Blues' recorded live 28 September 2018 on WUOG 90.5 FM in Athens, GA. Sam Fisher (UGA student) hosts Art Rosenbaum, Bo Wilkey and Clifto...
2018-10-10 04:55:39 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my first long-neck build as well as my first attempt at a "minstrel" banjo. The shape of the peg head was inspired by an original by the famous 19th-century banjo maker William Boucher out of Baltimore, Maryland. The neck, nut, bridge and tai...
2018-10-08 19:29:11 +0000 UTC View Post
gCGCD, relative (aka Double C, One-Finger C or Hook & Line tuning).
I learned this song from George R. Gibson of Knott County, KY when I was very young. He sang both "Black Bottom" and "Stagolee" for me to this same tune. Much later in life whe...
2018-10-04 06:01:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Many thanks to Bo Wilkey (guitarist, banjoist, high school teacher and occasional rail-riding hobo) for putting up my two dogs and I last weekend during the folk festival outside Athens, Georgia.
Sharing a few photos below from live interview...
2018-10-02 02:53:01 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.northgeorgiafolkfestival.org/
I will be lurking around Athens, GA all weekend for this event. Will bring the camera with me and try to capture something c...
2018-09-27 13:48:08 +0000 UTC View Post
My first attempt at a "minstrel" banjo inspired by an example from the Banjo Database 2018-09-25 22:34:21 +0000 UTC View Post
gCGCD, relative (aka Hook & Line tuning, Double C or One-Finger C). Learned from master banjoists George Gibson and John Haywood of southeast Kentucky with verses borrowed from Bessie Smith and Nick Bate of the Steel City Jugslammers. ...
2018-09-25 00:52:36 +0000 UTC View Post
13" maple rim (cut from a drum shell) and an extra-long cherry neck. Peg head inspired by a circa 1850 Boucher design.
2018-09-23 15:54:41 +0000 UTC
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Robb Torgler, proprietor of ClawJam "Handcrafted Finger & Thumb Picks" https://clawjam.com was kind enough to send me his full line of USA-made picks. In this video I demonstrat...
2018-09-21 21:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Anton, Jane, Patrick and others have asked me to explain how we make our black walnut banjo stain. Since it's now walnut season here in north Georgia/east Tennessee let's get started on a new batch!
Also, Michael and Timothy have a few questions ab...
2018-09-17 10:04:35 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.northgeorgiafolkfestival.org/
I'll be on the main stage at 6:15pm!
"The 34th Annual North Georgia Folk Festival will be held on Saturday, Se...
2018-09-14 23:12:58 +0000 UTC View Post
"Hey Clifton, recently I've been working on my singing and to do so I've been learning some acapella songs. I wondered if you sing any songs unaccompanied, and how you find it?" - Daniel
Daniel Hester's channel 2018-09-14 15:16:59 +0000 UTC View Post
fB♭FB♭C (relative gCGCD aka "Hook & Line Tuning" or "One Finger C")
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2018-09-05 20:58:35 +0000 UTC View Post
fB♭FB♭C (relative gCGCD aka "Hook & Line Tuning" or "One Finger C") 2018-09-05 17:30:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I decided to upload a current performance as I've probably changed considerably since those older videos were taken. Discussion and Close-Up to follow!
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This tune is played by traditio...
2018-09-05 15:38:44 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I will describe in detail how to string and tune a regular six-string guitar or guitar-banjo like master Kentucky folk artists Roscoe Holcomb and George Gibson.
My understanding of how this music was and is played comes from man...
2018-09-03 19:40:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the link to another video of this same piece: https://youtu.be/JhQ4Ciq2daU
Justin requested that I go over this song for our next "lesson" (which I prefer to call "discussi...
2018-09-03 01:56:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Rob has a three-part question about right hand positions for two-finger picking, Jeremy asks why Frank Proffitt didn't use chords and Katharina in Germany wants to know what she can do to lower the action on her 1890s Luscomb banjo.
Intro mus...
2018-08-30 01:07:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, the long-awaited release of BANJO ROOTS AND BRANCHES!
This book was about ten years in the making and brings together cutting-edge banjo history research from a diverse group of leading academics, musicians and collectors. The late Shlomo ...
2018-08-24 20:38:47 +0000 UTC View Post
(fDFADJimmy Dalton's Tuning)
"Stuart Jamieson started a listing of banjo tunes that he intended to eventually publish, however, he never got around to d...
2018-08-23 00:25:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Brand new clip of one of my favorite banjoists, John Haywood, filmed by Dan Torigoe at Whitesburg, Kentucky.
I first met Haywood on the music festival circuit about 2008. In those days he was just getting back into tattooing after a several year hi...
2018-08-18 12:16:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan Torigoe is one of the hardest-working and hardest-travelling field recorders that I know. A few weeks ago He and his assistant visited my place, filmed, photographed and recorded a bunch of songs.
Apparently, his recordings of John Haywoo...
2018-08-17 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
gCGCD
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2018-08-16 13:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Joe asked me to do do a quick show-and-tell on the tackhead banjo that I recently made. I decided to do him one better and share a double show-and-tell with yall.
Filmed at Gibson's home in Knott County, Kentucky (2012). George discusses his early life, local history, music, drug addiction, politics and the devastating environmental impacts of strip mining, fracking and mountaintop removal.
He plays and sing...
2018-08-13 16:24:27 +0000 UTC View Post
