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: "Green Corn Jig," or "Buckley's Jig" from Jas. Buckley's New Banjo Method of 1860, recorded 7 years ago. :jb:

peertube.social/videos/watch/6

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Banjos & Such · @mayor
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I've decided to go back through all the clips I've uploaded to youtube since ~2010, try to clean up the audio from some of the better ones a little bit, and release them as an album/EP on bandcamp.

The base sound quality is not going to be great, since most of them were recorded via iphone mic a few feet away, encoded straight to AAC and who knows what youtube has done to them.

For that reason part of me wants to call it something "the early banjo tapes" to communicate that they're a bit rough around the edges, but that seems silly/disingenuous given that none of them were ever recorded to tape. "the early banjo clips," maybe?

#earlybanjo

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Banjos & Such · @mayor
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Banjos & Such · @mayor
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Sneak preview of a track I'll be releasing to Bandcamp tomorrow! It's a funeral march from #1865, played on a fretted banjo in concert pitch with accompaniment.

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#mastomusicmonday #onthisday #banjo #earlybanjo #fretlessbanjo #musiciansofmastodon #mastomusic #frankconverse #acoustic #acousticmusic

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Banjos & Such · @mayor
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Welp, it has already been a year since I recorded this song from 1872, which means it's also been a year that I've been spinning my wheels on the EP recording project I learned it for. Trying to get that back on the front burner, it feels like a few things have been slowly coalescing over the last couple of months. peertube.social/videos/watch/d

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#mastomusicmonday #banjo #earlybanjo #mastomusic #nowplaying #tootradio #19thcentury

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Un peu de musique!!!!!
Land of Canaan

From Buckley's Banjo Guide of 1860.

@arcanebanjo

Land of Canaan

🔗 peertube.social/videos/watch/a
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From Buckley's Banjo Guide of 1860.

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Banjos & Such · @mayor
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I recorded a lot of clips in April 2014, apparently! Here's "Lynchburg Town" from Frank Converse's "Green book" of 1865. peertube.social/videos/watch/b

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#waybackwednesday #onthisday #mastomusic #musiciansofmastodon #banjo #earlybanjo #fretlessbanjo #fretless

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#onthisday #banjo #mastomusic #musiciansofmastodon #earlybanjo #fretless #fretlessbanjo #video #music

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Banjos & Such · @mayor
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(give or take a day) in 2014, I recorded this tune from Phil Rice's 1858 banjo tutor book: peertube.social/videos/watch/8

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Banjos & Such · @mayor
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to this tune from Phil Rice's 1858 instructor that I recorded 6 years ago, which has a lot of interesting rhythmic stuff going on. youtube.com/watch?v=GvyDbKKId1

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#mastomusicmonday #fretlessbanjo #parlorguitar #rhythmbones #bassdrum #mastomusic #tootradio #earlybanjo #multitrack #acapellaapp

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Banjos & Such · @mayor
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This week's is "Pea Nut Girl" by W.H. Gassner, from James Buckley's 1868 banjo guide. I gave it more of an treatment here with and :

youtu.be/Jga9f8cYWno

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Banjos & Such · @mayor
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With all the stuff I post here, One thing I haven't really addressed is its problematic legacy. It's interesting to learn, play and record instrumental songs published in banjo tutor books that were published from 1855-1900 or so, but they are interspersed with *virulently* racist popular tunes of the time period, when was the star instrument of blackface minstrelsy... 1/

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Banjos & Such · @mayor
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to this recording I did of an 1868 arrangement of an 1858 hit by Benjamin Hanley, "Darling Nelly Gray" youtube.com/watch?v=cpSydWK6MR

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Banjos & Such · @mayor
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Sneaking in late with last week's over at minstrelbanjo.ning.com, "The Modoc Reel" by Frank Converse, from 1886.

youtube.com/watch?v=gVXUtxVD2T

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Banjos & Such · @mayor
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More content: I recorded this James Buckley arrangement of Stephen Foster's "Nelly was a Lady" 3 years ago: youtube.com/watch?v=xJTw2PH2VU

#onthisday #banjo #earlybanjo #minstrelbanjo #fretlessbanjo #mastomusic

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Banjos & Such · @mayor
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youtube.com/watch?v=_qB6Myizma

to this 1858 James Buckley piece I recorded four years ago today

#waybackwednesday #banjo #earlybanjo

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