BNL Contents Index
Nov. 1980 to Oct. 1981
Volume VIII

85 Nov. 1980:

Howie Bursen; Playing The Melody; Fast Fret String Cleaner; Keep On The Sonny Side; Up The Neck Licks; Marty Cutler (2); Moving Up The Neck; Working Out Tunes In Scruggs Style (2); TABS: Robinson County; Pain In My Heart; Hot Corn Cold Corn; Take This Hammer; Footprints In The Snow; Why Don't You Tell Me So; Broken Hearted Lover; Hello Dolly; Ground Hog; Peek-A-Boo Waltz; Dark Hollow; Marie.

86 Dec. 1980:

Country Banjo (An Alternative); Keep On The Sonny Side; Doggy Music; A. Craig Hoffman; Using Standard D Licks To Fake A Song; Staining With Aniline; TABS: Jolly Old St. Nicholas; This World Is Not My Home; Blue Christmas; Frosty The Snowman; From The Manger To The Cross; Doggy On The Carpet; Home Sweet Home; Birth Of The Blues; Maple On The Hill; Pain In My Heart; Pastures Of Plenty; Darling Nellie Grey; I Wonder Where You Are Tonight; Dysentary Stomp; Deck The Halls.

87 Jan. 1981:

Courtney Johnson; Keep On The Sonny Side; Munde's Morsels; Improvisation; Ronnie Nichols; Melodic Turnarounds; Finish Polishing; Working Out Tunes In Scruggs Style (3); Thinking On The Strings; TABS: Follow The Leader; Is It Too Late Now; Take Me In A Life Boat; Powder Creek; Sonny Mountain Chimes; Highway Of Regret; Shortnin' Bread; Cindy; My Little Girl In Tennessee; You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone; Little Rock Getaway; Brown's Ferry Blues; I Saw The Light.

88 Feb. 1981:

Greg Cahill; Back-Up Pattern For Waltzes; John Hickman; Making Up Exercises; Keep On The Sonny Side; Ragtime Banjo; TABS: Cuckoo's Nest; Saro Jane; Till The End Of The World Rolls `Round; I'm Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open; Kentucky Waltz; Roanoke; Red-Haired Boy; Brown County Breakdown; Shout Little Lulie; Wild Bill Jones; Maple On The Hill; Follow The Leader; Speed The Plow; Irish Washerwoman; Jesse James; The Entertainer; Time In A Bottle.

89 Mar. 1981:

John Burke; Freeing The Licks; Waltz Back-Up; Earl of `63; First Quality Banjo Pot Assembly; Working Out Tunes In Scruggs Style (4); TABS: Golden Slippers; Blue Moon Of Kentucky; Angel Band; Lost All My Money; Yardbird Suite; Bells of St. Mary's; If I Fell.

90 Apr. 1981:

Gibson Ball Bearing Banjo; Keep On The Sonny Side; Building A Neck/Wood Choice; Half Measure D Licks; Waltz Back-Up; Carl Jackson; Mike Elias D Cam Tuners; TABS: Birth Of The Blues; Texas Gales; Nine Pound Hammer; Handsome Molly; John Hardy; Kiss Me Waltz; Little Darling Pal Of MIne; Reuben (lick); Careless Love; Old Joe Clark.

91 May 1981:

Butch Robins; Chord Tones; 3/4 Time; Jimmy Martin Back-Up Licks; Working Out Tunes In Scruggs Style (5); Neck Blanks; Stanley Brothers' In-Print Discography; TABS: Rural Retreat; Shady Grove; Down In The Valley; In The Pines; Shenandoah Waltz; I Saw The Light; Long Journey Home; Wildwood Flower; Meltdown At Indian Point; I'll Never Love Another; Miller's Reel.

92 Jun. 1981:

Doug Dillard; Fingerboard & Peghead Materials; Jimmy Martin 3/4 Time Back-Up; Ralph Stanley Discography; Munde's Morsels; H.H. & Harold Marcum; Chord Melody; Bacon & Day Reproduction; TABS: Hand Me Down My Walking Cane; Battle Hymn Of The Republic; Girl In The Blue Velvet Band; I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky; This Heart Of Mine; Lonesome Fiddle Blues; 20-20 Vision; Little Birdie; Katy Daly; Sure Didn't Take Him Long; Come Sunday; When You And I Were Young Maggie; Take Me In A Lifeboat.

93 Jul. 1981:

Rick Bentley; Make Your Practice Time Count; Classic Banjo; Scotch-Irish Melodic; Double Lead-Ins; Melodic vs. Scruggs; Recording & Studio King Banjos; Building A Banjo; Jimmy Martin 3/4 Back-Up; Chord Melody & Substitutions; Working Out Tunes In Scruggs Style (4); TABS: Seeing Nellie Home; Sharecropper's Son; Love Me Darling Just Tonight; Minuet In G (Bach); Hewlett; Loch Lomond; Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow; When The Saints Go Marching In; Shuckin' The Corn; Drink Up And Go Home; Tea For Two; Limehouse Blues; Ida Red; Clear Away, Let The Banjo Ring.

94 Aug. 1981:

Jean Marc Andres; Don Stover (1); Shaping The Neck; Basic Back-Up; How Should I Practice; Banjo Making & The Overhead Router; II-V-I Sequence; TABS: New River Train; Old Reuben No. 1; Patty On The Turnpike; I'll Fly Away; Lay My Burdens Down; Chicken; Mole In The Ground; Sally Goodin'; Eight More Miles To Louisville; Blue Kentucky Girl; Chicken Reel; My Little Georgia Rose; Bellahaboy Fair; Hills Of Ireland; Autumn Leaves.

95 Sep. 1981:

Bob Carlin; Four Rules of Left-Hand Technique; G Tags In Upper Positions; Transposing Licks; Clyde Blaylock; D Tuning; Adcock Style Back-Up; Inlay Cutting; Pre-Scruggs Finger Style; TABS: The Falls of Richmond; Down The Road; The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; Bully Of The Town; Jeff Davis; Reuben; Hamilton County Breakdown; Did She Mention My Name; Double Women Blues; I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home; Molly & Tenbrooks; Over The Waterfall.

96 Oct. 1981:

Herb Trotman; II-V-I Progression; Flamenco Banjo?; Upper- Neck Left-Hand Fingering; Up The Neck Back-Up; Inlaying; The New (1981) Bluegrass Directory; TABS: Someday We'll Meet Again Sweetheart; Chatanooga Choo-Choo; Honesuckle Rose; Malaguena; The Girl I Left Behind Me; Dixie Home; McKinley's Gone; Eight More Miles To Louisville; Sunny Side Of The Mountain; Love Please Come Home; Your Worries & Troubles Are Mine; Little Willie; Cluck Old Hen; Scotland the Brave; Index - Volume VIII (Nov 1980-Oct 1981).