Banjo Newsletter - Contents Index - November 1989 to October 1990

GREG RICH: Supervisor of Gibson Banjo Division; You Should Have Been There; Earl's Way - All Choked Up; Clinch Mt. Banjo - One More Time; Melodic Clawhammer - Brushes & Drones In Clawhammer; Back-Up - "Fill" For Fun; Seasonal Changes; Licks & Letters; More Of The Eldridge Sound; Shelton Special; Beginner's Corner - Playing In The Key of C, Part II TABS: Mama Blues; Hey Hey Hey; Strawberry Roan; North Shore; Friday Night In America; Mean Mother Blues; Sourwood Mountain; Jingle Bells.

MICHAEL J MILES: The Old Town School of Folk Music; Earl's Way - More "Mama"; A Happy Ending; Chorducopia; Gibson Banjo Insert; Nuts & Frets; Beginner's Corner - Playing In The Key of C, Part III; Arrangement Development; Down Picker's Blues; Back-Up - Using Different Chords For Back-Up; Old Time & 3-Finger; Melodic Clawhammer - Adding Drive Notes To "Melodic" Tabs TABS: Shady Grove; Whiskey Before Breakfast; Mama Blues - Part II; Stars Fell On Alabama; Angels We Have Heard On High; Soldier's Joy; Cat's In The Cradle; It Came Upon The Midnight Clear; Away In The Manger; Nine Points of Roguery; Away In A Manger.

ALISON BROWN: A Fireball Feminizes The 5-String; The Dillards-A Night In The Ozarks; Back-Up-Breaking New Ground; For "Scruggs" Only (FHF); Worth Crowing About; You All Remember Jethroe? Bridging The Gap & Getting A-head For The 90's; The Joy Of Picking With Others (MC); Playing Up The Neck, Part I (BC); Clinch Mt. Banjo-Basic Training; Arrangement Development; Licks & Letters TABS: Breaking New Ground; Freeborn Man; Jethroe's A Powerful Man; Scollay's Reel; Cumberland Gap; Molly & Tenbrooks; Moonglow; Boatin' Up Sandy.

What On Earth Makes You Build Banjos?; Earl's Way-Another TV Tune; Chorducopia; Playing Up The Neck, Part II (BC); Arrangement Development; Modal Tunes (BU); Excerpt from "Banjo Lessons," by J.D. Kleinke; Use Your Mistakes!; Melodic Clawhammer-Guitar & Lute Pieces TABS: Green Acres; Daahoud; Sally Goodin'; Greensleeves; Pretty Polly; La Roque; Spanish Fandango.

MIKE SCOTT: All-American Banjo Picker; Review of Mini-Flex Microphone; Chorducopia; Shelton Special; Clinch Mt. Banjo - Farm & Fun Time From `47; Earl's Way - Playing High Breaks In Keys Other Than G; Success Secret; Beginner's Corner - Playing Up The Neck, Part III; Melodic Clawhammer - Open D Tuning; Random Sightings (Kleinke); TABS: Alabama Jubilee; A Foggy Day; Bye Bye Blues; White House Blues; Little Joe; Theme Time; Grasshopper Sittin' On A Sweet Potato Vine; Lost Indian.

BOBBY LUNDY: His Roots Are Deep; Product Review: Clip-On Pickups For Electronic Tuners - Perfect Tune Model II, Walters Crystal Pick-Up, ISO-CLIP; Back-Up - Sally Goodin' or Sally Goodwin, Which Chords Should You Play?; On The Road - He Quit Me?; D-Tuners; Earl In 3/4; Melodic Clawhammer - Reaching Out To "Traditional" Pickers; Beginner's Corner - The Choke; Arrangement Development; Classic Banjo; Abdou Mangara's Gambare and Origins of the Banjo; Munde's Morsels - 3-Finger Old-Timey Style TABS: Sally Goodwin; Over The Hills To The Poorhouse; King William's March; Lonesome Road Blues; Georgia Cracker; Tiger Jig; Little Rabbit.

Earl's Way - A Bunch Of One Liners; Warranty Problems; Clinch Mt. Banjo - Another Winter, Another Record; On The Road - On Kids & Dolls; Melodic Clawhammer-Sully's G-Banjo 2 Book; Back-Up - Modal Back-Up; The 1989 Bluegrass Supercruise; A Banjoman For All Seasons (Kleinke); Building A Better Banjo; A Tune From Tony; Licks & Letters; Harmonic Overtones (Chimes); Real Straight Ahead With J D Crowe; Licks & Letters TABS: No Doubt About It; Dim Lights, Thick Smoke; The Atlantic Coastal Line; I Don't Care Anymore; Gotta Travel On (Scruggs Fragments; Wolfe County; Banish Misfortune; Sally Goodin'; Bugle Call Rag; Blackjack.

MARTY LANHAM: Banjo Builder; Lick Of The Month; On The Road; Melodic Clawhammer - Multiple Hammers & Pull-offs; Uncle Dave Macon Days; Back-Up - Traditional Bluegrass; Earl's Way - A Trademark Lick; Bluegrass Vernacular; Adjusting The Intonation TABS: Nine Pound Hammer; Wabash Cannonball; High Reel; Rawhide; Footprints In The Snow; Grandfather's Clock.

BANJO BOB COX; Licks & Letters; Back-Up - In Unusual Keys; Beginner's Corner - Buying A Banjo, Part I; Melodic Clawhammer - Some Ideas On Song Accompaniment; Arrangement Development; Shelton Special; Earl's Way - More Tab, Less Talk; Something To Crowe About; Clinch Mt. Banjo - A Happy Correction; Thoughts From Dave's Prefabricated Concrete Garage - Veneers Crack, Wood Shrinks TABS: Roberto's Dream; When Johnny Comes Marching Home; Sioux City Sue; Leroy Brown; Birth Of The Blues; Lay Me Down In Dixie; Hard Hearted; Way Down Deep.

JEFF MURRAY - Banjo Picker With The Boys From Indiana; Ben Eldridge Tab; Banjo Boogie; On The Road - Bits & Pieces; Back-Up - Frailing 3-Finger Style; Earl's Way - More Chokes & A 3rd String Trick; Melodic Clawhammer - Changing Tunings On The Fly; Arrangement Development; Some Hot Advice; Thoughts From Dave's Prefabricated Garage - Flange Fangling; Licks & Letters TABS: Georgia Rose; Boogie Woogie Blues; Plant Your Fields; Don't Give Your Heart To A Rambler; The Judge; The Gray Days Of Autumn; Take This Hammer.

Civilians & The Banjo (Kleinke); Back-Up - Keeping It Simple; Clinch Mt. Banjo - News Update; Earl's Way - A Final Look At A New Lick; Arrangement Development; Melodic Clawhammer - Prince Edward Island Fiddling; On The Road - You Can Go Home Again; Beginner's Corner - Buying A Banjo, Part II; Richard Underwood's Approach TABS: Railway To Heaven; Two Flowers Blooming; Don't This Road Look Rough And Rocky; Poison Love; Sheehan's Reel; Granite Reel.

Tennessee Fall Homecoming (John Rice Irwin); For The First Time; Melodic Clawhammer - The Importance Of Phrasing; Clawhammer For Contradances; Beginner's Corner; On The Road - We Are Jamming!; Earl's Way - A Request Tune; Classic Banjo; Arrangement Development; And The Winner Is?TABS: Mahoney's Mumble; The Tarbolton; Cuckoo's Nest; Buffalo Gals; Oh, Susannah; Love & Wealth; Fred Wilson's Clog; Wheel Hoss; Tab Index - Volume XVII (Nov 1989-Oct 1990).