BNL Contents Index
Nov. 2004 to Oct. 2005
Volume XXXII
373 Nov. 2004: TABS
OF THE MONTH: Rock Ledge by Steve Cooley
Banjo Signal by Pat Cloud ; She’ll Be Coming Round the Mt.
by Ira Gitlin;
Earl Scruggs at the Country Music Hall of Fame by Casey Henry;
LICKS and LETTERS; HOW A BANJO WORKS By Jim Rae and Tom Rossing;
An Interview with STEVE COOLEY By Greg Cahill; REVIEW: Fielding-Cutler
Banjo Mute By Richard Sparks; Banjos And Bluegrass Down Under
By Jack Hatfield; REVIEW: Jayme Stone and Tricycle By Jake Schepps.
TAB: Murmur; BEGINNER’S CORNER: 3/4 Time By Eddie Collins;
EXPLORING the FINGERBOARD By Ian Perry. TAB: Red Haired Boy;
OLD-TIME from the OZARKS By Hugh Strawn TAB: Wink The Other Eye;
A LITTLE TRAVELING MUSIC: Texas Banjo—Chuck Lee By Dan Levenson.
TAB: Yellow Rose of Texas;
ADAMS COUNTY BANJO By Tom Adams. TAB: My Heart Skips A Beat;
STROKE-STYLE BANJO By Wayne Shrubsall. TAB: The Boatman’s
Dance; JIMMY MARTIN BANJO By Pete Kelly. TAB: Theme Time; EARL’S
WAY By Bob Piekiel . TAB: Instrumental in D Minor.
374 Dec. 2004: LICKS
and LETTERS; Cedar Mountain Banjos— The Lo Gordon Story
By Bob Buckingham; An Interview with ALAN MUNDE By Janet Davis.
Tab Examples; Banjos Down Under —Conclusion: Australian
Banjos and Banjo Makers By Jack Hatfield; TECH TALK: Transferring
Energy By Roger Siminoff; BEGINNER’S CORNER: Holiday Pickin’
By Eddie Collins. TABS: Jingle Bells, The First Noel; REVIEW:
Deering’s new Tenbrooks–Legacy banjo By Mike Kropp;
MELODIC CLAWHAMMER: Using Hammers and Pull-offs for Melody By
Ken Perlman. TAB: Magpie; BANJOS without BORDERS: Gatherin’
Around Fiddler J.P Fraley By Steve Harvey. TABS: Margaret’s
Waltz, Maysville; TABS OF THE MONTH: Christmas Time Is Here By
Bill Evans; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen By Ross Nickerson; ON
THE ROAD: Tis The Season By Murphy Henry; ADAMS COUNTY BANJO
By Tom Adams. TAB: Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer; FLECKOLOGY
by Ian Perry. TAB: Poindexter
375 Jan. 2005: BANJOS
IN CYBERSPACE By Richard Sparks; BEGINNER’S CORNER: Retiring
To The Banjo By Eddie Collins;
THE OLD TIME WAY Co-edited By Bob Carlin and Dan Levenson; REVIEW:
Christian Wig By Dan Levenson TABS: Mole in the Ground, Cold
Frosty Morning; OPEN-BACK BUYER’S GUIDE By Bob Carlin
STROKE-STYLE BANJO By Wayne Shrubsall. TAB: Keemo Kimo;
PROFILE: Bruce Stockwell. TAB: Skye; HOW A BANJO WORKS: Strings
and Things By Jim Rae and Tom Rossing; REVIEW: Ken Perlman’s
"All You Ever Wanted To Know About Clawhammer" By John
Adams;
JIMMY MARTIN BANJO: J.D. By Pete Kelly TAB: I‘m Thinking
Tonight of My Blue Eyes; BACK UP : Substituting BU Patterns By
Janet Davis TAB: I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes; TAB
OF THE MONTH: Haulin’ The Logs By Tauri Oksala; EXPLORING
the FINGERBOARD By Ian Perry TAB: The Mathematician; EARL’S
WAY: Single-String Licks By Bob Piekiel; ADAMS COUNTY BANJO By
Tom Adams TABS: Lovesick and Sorrow, Old Swinging Bridge; OFF
THE RECORD: Sonny Osborne By Bill Evans TAB: Siempre
376 Feb. 2005: ADAMS
COUNTY BANJO By Tom Adams TAB: Tuesday Afternoon; EARL’S
WAY By Bob Piekiel TAB: Some of Shelly’s Blues; CONCEPTS
and SYSTEMS: Arrangement Development By Jack Hatfield TABS: Salty
Dog Blues; A Day at Nechville Musical Products By Eric Magnuson;
PROFILE: Matt Menefee TABS: Memory Like Mine, Tijuana Tango;
TABS OF THE MONTH: Highland Rim By Ian Perry; Piano Roll Blues
By Harold Streeter; Roger Buckmaster’s Open-Backs By Jan
Dale; TECH TALK: Tuning the Head By Roger Siminoff; BEGINNER’S
CORNER: Now That’s Stretching It! By Eddie Collins;
REVIEW: Stelling’s New Crusader By David Schenkman (Interview
with Geoff Stelling); BANJOS ON THE BORDER: The Sandy River Belle;
Tuning By Steve Harvey TABS: Old Joe Clark, Sandy River Belle;
MELODIC CLAWHAMMER: Developing a “Live” Right Hand
By Ken Perlman TAB: The High Road to Linton; ON THE ROAD: This
Magic Moment By Murphy Henry; CLASSIC FINGERSTYLE BANJO: Introduction
to Banjo Chromatics By Chris Sands; PROFILE: Cia Cherryholmes
By Larry Wine TAB: Please Don’t Say It
377 Mar. 2005: TABS
of the MONTH: Danny Boy By Pat Cloud; Banjos We Have Heard On
High By Bob Piekiel; ON THE ROAD: The Two-Stringers By Murphy
Henry; ADAMS COUNTY BANJO By Tom Adams TAB: Send The Angels;
INTERVIEW: Todd Taylor By Janet Davis TAB: The Race Is One; STROKE-STYLE
BANJO By Wayne Shrubsall TAB: Old Dan Tucker; Clarke Buehling,
Banjo Raconteur By John Wolfe TAB: : Fire Bell Galop; JIMMY MARTIN
BANJO: J.D. By Pete Kelly TAB: Jimmy Brown the Newsboy; BEGINNER’S
CORNER: Anchors Away By Eddie Collins; REVIEWS: Banjo Arrangements
of the Kingston Trio, Homespun DVD; Folk Banjo, book by Pete
Curry. By Rik Palieri TAB: Three Jolly Coachmen; A LITTLE TRAVELING
MUSIC By Dan Levenson TAB: Big John McNeil; HOW A BANJO WORKS::
Frequency Content By Jim Rae and Tom Rossing; OLD-TIME from the
OZARKS By Hugh Strawn TAB: Wagoner One-Step; EXPLORING the FINGERBOARD
By Ian Perry TAB: Music Box Dancer; LISTEN UP! Bill Keith By
Steve Garner: TAB: Sunday’s Hornpipe.
378 Apr. 2005:ADAMS
COUNTY BANJO By Tom Adams TAB:Red Line to Shady Grove; An Interview
with CRAIG KORTH By Ian Perry TAB: Over the Ridge; TABS OF THE
MONTH: Don Reno’s Home Sweet Home By Darrell Ackree; Over
the Waterfall By Bob Piekiel; Old Town Ceili By Greg Cahill;
Pullin’ Time By Steve Huber; CONCEPTS and SYSTEMS: Arrangement
Development cont. By Jack Hatfield TABS: Streets of Laredo; THE
OLD TIME WAY #2: REVIEW: Dan Gellert’s CD By Dan Levenson
TAB: Policeman. PROFILE: Will Fielding’s Open-Back Banjos
By Fred Huffman. REVIEW: “Keep Your Skillet Good and Greasy,”
Uncle Dave Macon Bear Family box set By Bill Dillof TABS: Rooster
Crow, In and Around Nashville; REVIEW: Huber’s Jim Mills
banjo By Larry Perkins; BEGINNER’S CORNER: Brief History
of Bluegrass Banjo By Eddie Collins; ON THE ROAD: Stelling Recordingand
“Banjo Noise” By Murphy Henry; TECH TALK: Tuning the
Head, continued By Roger Siminoff .
379 May 2005: ADAMS
COUNTY BANJO By Tom Adams TAB: Ohio; An Interview with JOHN HERRMANN
By Dirk Powell TAB: Whitesburg; (with an excerpt from Ken Perlman’s
interview from 2002)
TAB OF THE MONTH: Turning Blue By Bruce Stockwell; EARL SCRUGGS:
The Person and The Legacy. By Casey Henry; WINTER NAMM REPORT:
Resonator Banjos, by Mike Kropp; JIMMY MARTIN BANJO: Forward
Motion By Pete Kelly TAB: Run Boy Run; BANJO COOKBOOK: Phil Fontaine’s
Banjos By Jim Barrett; OLD-TIME FROM THE OZARKS: By Hugh Strawn
TAB: Goodbye My Honey I’m Gone; TUNES FROM TUG HOLLOW By
Mike Kropp TAB: Salt River
LISTEN UP By Steve Garner TAB: Stoney Creek; REVIEW: Charlie
Poole box set By Dan Levenson; REVIEW: Michael J. Miles’s
new CD By Ken Perlman. TAB: Opus 822; BEGINNER’S CORNER:
Forward Motion By Eddie Collins TAB: This Land is Your Land;
ON THE ROAD: Chris Warner By Murphy Henry; EXPLORING THE FINGERBOARD
By Ian Perry TAB: Limerock
380 Jun. 2005: BNL
June 2005 MP3 file info: (Please insert this page under the "featured
Issue" link, and move the April 05 contents page to the
archive section.); EARL’S WAY By Bob Piekiel TAB: Pastures
of Plenty; REVIEWS: Alison Brown’s new CD By Casey Henry;
Steve Harvey’s Bound for Shady Grove By Mitch Finley; The
Johnny Keenan Banjo Festival By Donald Nitchie; CONCEPTS and
SYSTEMS: Arrangement Development cont. By Jack Hatfield TABS:
Whoa Mule, Whoa; An Interview with JAYME STONE By Jake Schepps
TAB: For Joy in Three Parts; PROFILE: Charles Butler By Donald
Nitchie TAB: Radio Bean; TECH TALK: Tuning the Air Chamber By
Roger Siminoff; BANJOS ON THE BORDER: Backporch Banjo By Steve
Harvey TABS: Pretty Saro, Bachelor’s Hall; ON THE ROAD:
My 10 Lb. Banjo By Murphy Henry; REVIEW: Doyle Lawson’s
new CD By Donald Nitchie TAB: Rosine; MELODIC CLAWHAMMER: The
“Forward Roll” By Ken Perlman TAB: Tony Ellis’s
Stephen; BANJO CAPO ROUND-UP By Ben Freed; REVIEW: John Lawless’s
“5 & Dime” By Ben Freed TAB: Daddy’s Rabbit;
PROFILE: Russell Sawler By Greg Cahill TAB: J.D. Crowe’s
One Tear; BEGINNER’S CORNER: More Forward Motion By Eddie
Collins: Do Lord; ADAMS COUNTY BANJO By Tom Adams TAB: Chicken
on the Banjo' REVIEW: Morgan Monroe’s Foggy Mt. Banjo series
By Bob Piekiel.
381 Jul. 2005: PROFILE:
Jean-Marie Redon By Donald Nitchie TAB: Passage de l’Ouest;
THE OLD TIME WAY #3: Introduction By Dan
Clifftop by Paul Gartner. TABS: West Virginia Highway (Gartner),
Chinese Breakdown (by Ian Hurt); Kyle Creed and his Banjos By
Bob Carlin TABS: Mississippi Sawyer, Lost Indian; A Competitor’s
Tale by Adam Hurt; Review: County‘s Clawhammer Banjo CD
set by Dan Levenson TAB: June Apple; Beyond the LouZee Banjo:
Interview with Paul and David Hopkins By Bobbi Geyer TAB: When
You’re Smiling; The Hopkins Banjo: An informal review By
David Schenkman; EXPLORING THE FINGERBOARD By Ian Perry TAB:
What Was I Supposed To Do
REVIEW: Appalachian Uprising CD by Steve Lutke. Review by Jim
Pankey TAB: Mountain Creek; BEGINNER’S CORNER: Beyond the
Measure Line By Eddie Collins TAB: Country Roads; JIMMY MARTIN
BANJO By Pete Kelly TAB: Sweet Dixie; REVIEW: Goldtone’s
Banjola By Pat Cloud; ADAMS COUNTY BANJO By Tom Adams TAB: Boulevard
of Broken Dreams; BLACK BANJO GATHERING: Then and Now By Bob
Carlin.
382 Aug. 2005: TRSICHKA’S
PICKS: Joe Thompson By Tony Trischka TAB: Corn Liquor (3-finger
and claw.); ON THE ROAD: Banjo Camps By Murphy Henry; Winnie
Winston By Pete Wernick; Chicken On The Banjo; TECH TALK: Tuning
the Air Chamber By Roger Siminoff;
PROFILE: Dick Smith By Ian Perry TAB: Night Ridin’; BANJOS
WITHOUT BORDERS: The Banjo LutBy Steve Harvey TABS: Un Canadien
Errant, Believe Me...; Middle-Aged Newbie By Angie Sumptor
CONCEPTS and SYSTEMS: Arrangement Development Studies By Jack
Hatfield TABS: Whoa Mule, Whoa; MELODIC CLAWHAMMER: Fiddle-Banjo
Duets By Ken Perlman TAB: Billy In The Lowground
BACK UP: Playing Note-for-Note By Janet Davis TAB: Blackberry
Blossom; TAB OF THE MONTH: Jim Mills By Harold Streeter TAB:
It’s Raining Here This Morning; BEGINNER’S CORNER:
Au Natural By Eddie Collins; LICKS and LETTERS; PROFILE: Janet
Beazley By Harold Sexton TAB: 5 South; REVIEW: “Southern
Summits” CD By Arnie Naiman; ADAMS COUNTY BANJO By Tom Adams
TAB: Oh, Susanna
BACK UP: Digital Technology Meets the Banjo By William W. Stringer.
383 Sep. 2005: FLECKOLOGY
By Ian Perry TAB: Perpetual Motion; ON THE ROAD: Old Friends
By Murphy Henry; EXPLORING the FINGERBOARD By Ian Perry TAB:
Irish Washerwoman; FEATURE: Danny Barnes By Tony Trischka TAB:
Barnes’s Warm Up; PROFILE: Larry Good By Ian Perry TAB:
Uncle Billy’s Breakdown; OLD TIME from the OZARKS By Hugh
Strawn TABS: Fiddler’s Shuffle, Kennedy Rag; REVIEW: Sam
Ferris’s Tranjo Review by Joe Garinger;
BEGINNER’S CORNER By Eddie Collins TAB: Golden Wings; LICKS
and LETTERS; LISTEN UP! By Steve Garner TAB: Jerusalem Ridge;
REVIEW: Grey Cat on a Tennessee Farm By Bill Dillof TABS: Grey
Cat, Rabbit in the Pea Patch; ADAMS COUNTY BANJO By Tom Adams
TAB: Ragtime Annie; JIMMY MARTIN BANJO By Pete Kelly TAB: Doin’
My Time; PROFILE: Lluis Gomez By Donald Nitchie TAB: James
384 Oct. 2005: TAB
OF THE MONTH By Harold Streeter TAB: Billy Richardson’s
Last Ride; ON THE ROAD: Bob Black By Murphy Henry;
OFF THE RECORD: Jim Mills By Bill Evans TAB: The Old Hen; CONCEPTS
and SYSTEMS By Jack Hatfield TABS: Little Maggie
LICKS and LETTERS; THE OLD-TIME WAY #4; Review: Nancy Sluys Review
by Bob Carlin TAB: Darlin’ Nellie Grey; Skinning A Banjo
Dan Levenson; Minstrel & Gourd Banjo Makers By Bob Carlin;
Review: Early Minstrel Styles Review by Joe Ayers TABS: Git Up
in De Morning, Foster’s Jig; Interview with Joe Weidlich
By Mike Ramsey; FEATURE: Alison Brown By Casey Henry TAB: McIntyre
Heads South; BEGINNER’S CORNER: Funny? By Eddie Collins;
TECH TALK: Banjo Rims By Roger Siminoff; LISTEN UP! Lesson 4
By Steve Garner; ADAMS COUNTY BANJO By Tom Adams TAB: Popcorn;
TRISCHKA’S PICKS By Tony Trischk TAB: Never Ending Song
of Love
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