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Shawnee Town

Submitted by vrteach on Mon, 08/21/2006 - 18:30
Recording Date: 
Mon, August 21st, 2006

I listened to a version of "Who'll rock the cradle" by John McCutcheon which reminded me of this song, so I worked it out on my tackhead. I'm in the equivalent of Open G, but tuned down a ways. Shawnee Town is one of the early euro-american settlements in Illinois, located in the south-east area along the Ohio River. It was partially located there at a ferry crossing, but also was a source of salt from saline wells....Read more »

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Shenandoah

Submitted by vrteach on Mon, 02/19/2007 - 19:30
Recording Date: 
Mon, February 19th, 2007

The actual tuning is cGCEG, down a further step from the high base tuning, but still just standard G tuned down. There was a discussion of slow songs in clawhammer, and Shenandoah came up. I had this tuned very low for Muskrat, and I tried it and thought it interesting.

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Quaker Girl

Submitted by vrteach on Sun, 05/25/2008 - 18:30
Recording Date: 
Sun, May 25th, 2008

I learned this tune from Tony Ellis' delightful CD called Quaker Girl, on which he plays some of the prettiest waltzes ever played on banjo. This isn't one of those waltzes, but I've been captivated by it for a couple of months. I'm in two tunings here, high base on the tackhead (open G tuned down to D; dADF#A)  and double-d on the WL-250, and as usual I've drifted a bit from the true melody....Read more »

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