Banjo Newsletter - Contents Index - November 1988 to October 1989

IBMA Report; Reno Banjo; Computer Music - What's In It For Banjoists?; Old-Time Three-Finger Quiche-Grass; Original Waltz in Cumberland Gap Tuning; A Typical Bluegrass Gig; Munde-ize Your Back-Up; Augusta Heritage Arts Workshops 1988; Old-Time Banjo; Circulation Report 1987-88; Lick Of The Month; Classic Banjo; TABS: Dill Pickle Rag; I'll Remember You In My Prayers; Two Rivers; Blessed Assurance; The Prisoner's Song; Georgia Railroad; Newton Grove; Mama Don't Allow; Daisy Jig; Daisy Polka.

Tennessee Banjo Institute (Photos & Text); Old Time Banjo; Proper Left Hand Position; Playing in B Flat & Other Flat Keys (Clawhammer); Anatomy Of A Bad Banjo Picker; Daisy Polka Correction; Playing Behind The Dobro; A Majestic Christmas (Story of a Banjo); IBMA - What's In It For Me?; Western Tune; Shelton Section; Duke On The Banjo; TABS: When Christ Was Born; This Land Is Your Land; LeFort's Jig; Panhandle Rag; Rang Tang; Sleepy Rio Grande; Five Feet Two, Eyes Of Blue; Take The A Train.

Learning & Practice Techniques; On The Road - New Year's Resolutions #4; Back-Up - Keith Style, Key of D; Banjo Set-Up & Maintenance; Key of D - Crowe Style; East Kentucky Fiddle Tunes; Bridge Tips For Classic Players; Old Time String Band Workshop; Composing A Solo (Beginners) Pt I; Up The Creek Without A Paddle. TABS: Footprints In The Snow; Golden Eagle Schottische; How High The Moon; Reuben; Ladies On The Steamboat; Jenny Lynn Polka; Bully Of The Town.

Studio Etiquette (c. 1899); The Birrel - Old Time; Banjo Set- Up & Maintenance, Pt II; Composing A Solo (Beginners) Pt II; Advanced Back-Up Techniques; Multi-Track Recording; Chronicle Of A Yankee Picker. TABS: Heavy Traffic Ahead; McNab;s Hornpipe; First Of May; Sweet Georgia Brown; Nine Pound Hammer; Footprints In The Snow; Canfield Hornpipe; O'Connor's Favorite.

TODD TAYLOR, Banjoist With Taylor Twins; Scruggs Ointment; Changing Strings & Installing A Banjo Head; Geiger 5-String Banjo Bridge (Evaluation); Banjos & Suzuki; Scottish Airs & American Waltzes; A Stitch In Time; Composing A Solo (Beginners) Pt III; TABS: Why Don't You Tell Me So; I'll Stay Around; Rain Dancing; Neil Gow's Lament For His Second Wife; Hobo's Meditation; Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms.

A Banjo Quest; Another Banjo Quest; Still Another Banjo Quest; Shelton Special; Getting The Tone You Want; Improvising Solos - Bluegrass Style, Pt. III; Composing A Solo (Beginners) Pt IV; Have Your Own Style; Five String Breakdown - Far In The Mountain; Video Tape review: Merle Watson Memorial Festival. TABS: Silver Bells; Star Of Bethleham; Will The Circle Be Unbroken; Far In The Mountain; Elmer's Tune.

RALPH LITWIN, 3-Finger Stylist; St. Patrick, Béla & I, One Lick Back-Up Series; Earl Scruggs? Melodic Style?; Book Review: Bluegrass Banjo Simplified by Wayne Erbsen; Hungarian Bagpipe Tunes; More On Hand Problems; Are You Out Of Tune? Probably; J.D. Crowe Style. TABS: Poor Monroe; Birth Of The Blues; On And On; Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow; Rocky Top; Dudanota; Seneca Square Dance; Dutch Girl; Glorietta Waltz; Nine Pound Hammer.

SNUFFY JENKINS: Pioneer 3-Finger Picker; Timing - Think What It's All About; Back-up - One Lick Series Continued; Bridge Placement; Scottish & Shetland Fiddle Tunes; Double-Stop Triplets; TABS: Dear Old Dixie; Red River Valley; Love Gone Cold; Foggy Mountain Special; Jesse James; Lumberjack's Reel; Miss Susan Cooper; Crazy Arms; Don't Wake Me Up; Mack The Knife.

RANDALL MORTON, A Picker With Class; Conversion Charts - G & C Tuning; Reader's Beginner Arrangements; Improvising; J.D. Crowe & Earl Scruggs - Side By Side; Fabulous Finishes. TABS: Almost Home; Home Sweet Home; Will The Circle be Unbroken; Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms; Nadja; Can't Stop Now; John Hardy; Spanish Onion; Big John McNeal; Nashville Blues; Love Gone Cold.

NEV JACKSON, Music Therapist; Back-Up - Two Handy Licks; Banjos In Nashville; The CD Plague; The Capo; Playing In The Keys Of Eb & F; A Hump In The Neck; End Of Bluegrass As We Know It Blues; The Arpeggio; Book-Tape Review: Up The Neck Back Up by Doc Logan. TABS: Home from The Forest; Coal Miner's Daughter; Homestead On The Farm; Keep A Memory; Fox On The Run; Lucky Can Du Link Ony; Love Gone Cold; Funeral March.

STEPHEN WADE, Revisited; Watching Earl; Letter from Japan; Book Review: "Soldier's Joy" by M.S. Bell; Dead Man Tuning; Gauging The Gauges; In The Style Of Earl; Same Note Triplets; Letter Reaction to "CD Plague." TABS: Crazy Arms; Tokyo Express; Soldier's Joy; Sweet Sunny South; Over The Waterfall; Arkansas Traveler; The Eavesdropper; Welcome To Cork; Elmer's Tune; Lookin' Out My Back Door.

VIC JORDAN - Back With Jim & Jesse; Earl's Way - The Key of F; A Gem From Béla; Playing In The Key of C; "Sing Out"; Borrow From Earl To Play Béla; A Circular Tune; Kansas City Star - That's What I Are; Unauthorized Repairwork TABS: Going Across The Sea; Sally Ann; You Are My Sunshine; Friday Night In America; The Cuckoo's Nest; Flop Eared Mule; The Sheik Of Araby; Golden Bell Waltz Tab Index - Volume XVI (Nov 1988-Oct 1989).