BNL Contents Index
Nov. 1990 to Oct. 1991
Volume XVIII

205 Nov. 1990:

PETER WERNICK Revisited: Camping With Dr. Banjo; More On Rapid Retuning; Earl's Way - Close To Clinch; Banjos In Children's Literature; Back-Up - Useful Licks; Classic Banjo Duet; What To Adjust & When To Adjust It TABS: Valley Forge; Come Give Me Your Hand; Spanish Steps; Loafer's Glory; True Life Blues; Gilbert's Polka; Miner's Night Out.

206 Dec. 1990:

Tennessee Banjo Institute 1990; TBI Meltdown Program Notes; TBI Reports From Some Members; TBI Sponsors; TBI Panoramic Photo; Owensboro IBMA 1990; Back-Up - Changing Keys; Innovative Clawhammer Doesn't Have To Be "Hard"; Earl's Way - A Christmas Tune; Anchoring The Ring Finger TABS: Hark The Herald Angels Sing; Jingle Bells; Dona Nobis Pacem; Ragupati Ragava Rajah Ram; Joy Bells; Hark The Herald Angels Sing; Road To Columbus.

207 Jan. 1991:

DANNY MENZONE; Playing In Alternate Keys; A Jig That Isn't; Back-Up - Chromatic Modulation; The "Three T Tour"; To Capo Or Not To Capo; Fun & Games At TBI; Sample TBI Schedule; Some Early Banjo Artists & Compositions; Don Stover - "Things In Life"; Tennessee Banjo Institute; Clinch Mt Banjo - A Brief Look Back; Something To Crowe About TABS: Shady Grove; Chorus Jig; Transition From Key of G to Key of A; Pearl, Pearl, Pearl; The Duke Of Perth; Things In Life; Rang Tang; Big Spike Hammer.

208 Feb. 1991:

MIKE SNIDER: A Banjo Champion Turns Entertainer; The Disadvantages of Owning A Prewar Flathead Gibson Mastertone; Back-Up - The Pivot Chord; A Different Opinion on ANchoring The Ring Finger; G Minor Tuning - Continued; Upgrading Your Banjo; Murphy's Monday Night Misfits; A Great Tune From The Revue; Southern Clawhammer; Melodic Clawhammer - Back-Up Revisited TABS: Kentucky Mandolin; Broad River; Fortune; The Black Mill; Faded Love.

209 Mar. 1991:

JERRY GARCIA; Jerry Garcia's Banjo Style; Back-Up - False Modulation; Fingerboard Maintenance; In This Old Book Of Mine; Sunny In The East; Beginner's Corner; Licks & Letters; Melodic Clawhammer - A Musical Expedition; Earl's Way - Way Down Town But Up To Date; Arrangement Development TABS: Pig In A Pen; Song For Life; Holiday Pickin'; Reuben; Train 45; Heather On The Hill; Way Down Town; Tie A Yellow Ribbon.

210 Apr. 1991:

TOM NECHVILLE: The Helimount Banjo; Southern Clawhammer - Playing In The Key of A; Back-Up - Key of D Without Retuning; Making A Video - What Really Happens; A Carter Family Standard; Massage Your Hard-Working Hands; Calypso Clawhammer; Playing In C Tuning; Arrangement Development; Shelton Special TABS: Sugar In The Gourd; Chalk Up Another One; Homestead On The Farm; Jamaica Farewell; Farewell Blues; South; Don't Love Nobody.

211 May 1991:

SILVIO FERRETTI Melodic Clawhammer - Being At Home Below The Range; Back-Up - Key of D Without Retuning; Back-Up For The Beginner; Varieties of Back-Up; Product Evaluation: Digital Slo-Mo; Clinch Mt. Banjo - The Way His Mama Taught Him; A Slave Banjo; Southern Clawhammer - A Tune in A Tuning TABS: Miss Lisle; Settin' Me Up; Wabash Cannonball; Bill Cheatham; Cripple Creek; John Brown's Dream.

212 Jun. 1991:

ALAN MUNDE; Arrangement Development; On The Road (Women In Bluegrass); Back-Up (Key of D Without Retuning); Melodic Clawhammer (Construction Of Fiddle Tunes); Festival Adjustments; Earl's Way (Quick Chord Changes); Southern Clawhammer; Beginner's Corner (Muted Vamping); Licks & Letters (Dave Guard). TABS: Keep On Pushing; Lullaby Of Birdland; Everything I Used To Do (2); Quindaro Hornpipe; Blackberry Blossom; Rachael; I Saw The Light.

213 Jul. 1991:

CAPTAIN BILLY SCHOOL OF 5-STRING BANJO (Ernie Guterjahn); Clinch Mt Banjo (Old Wine In A New Bottle); Earl's Way (Simple Is Not Always Simple); Back-Up (Key Of D - Reno Style); On The Road (You Played The Melody & You Didn't Mess Up The Song); Beginner's Corner (Upbeat Vamping); Reviews: PlayPerfect (Don Miller); Traditional Banjo Workshop (Ron Block); Melodic Clawhammer (Nail Wars); Southern Clawhammer (Some Interesting Techniques); So I Bought Myself A Banjo; TABS: Going To Georgia; Nothin' To It; Talk Of The Town; Jesse James; Indian Nation; 14 Days In Georgia.

214 Aug. 1991:

JACK BAKER; Banjo Is Boring And Other Myths; Back-Up (Traditional Forms); On The Road (Tidbits); Beginner's Corner (Split-Bar Vamping); Earl's Way (A Tune To Pause Over); Melodic Clawhammer (Up The Neck Revisited); Southern Clawhamer (Bob Flesher); Classic Banjo; How To Read Tablature In Banjo NewsLetter; TABS: Wild Indian; June Apple; Hello Trouble (BU) Cripple Creek (BC); Bang You're Alive (SC); Shenandoah Falls (OT); The Cackling Hen (OT); Carnival Of Venice (CB).

215 Sep. 1991:

TOM MCKINNEY; Old Time Banjo (A Tune Popular With Contra Dancers); Clinch Mountain Banjo (Present At The Creation [Perhaps]); Arrangement Development; When Finger Tips Meet COld, Hard Steel; Earl's Way (A Nifty Break & Unusual Back-up); Licks & Letters; Five String Walkin' The Dawg Music; A Down Home Kind Of Place (Blue Ridge Pickin Parlor); Spanish Luthier (Some Very Interesting 5-String Variants); A Fast Train Ride To A Great Right Hand; Monte Hendricks - Banjo Builder; Beginner's Corner; TABS: Opera Reel (OT); Don't Ask Me Why (CMB); I Won't Be Hanging Around (SC); Opus 38; Train 45 (BC).

216 Oct. 1991:

DAVID HOLT; Hard Travelling With Murphy Henry; Southern Clawhammer (Odds & Ends) Western Swing Scruggs' Style; Back-Up Dynamics; Melodic Clawhammer (Greetings From Prince Edward Island); Licks & Letters (Women In Bluegrass; Stelling South Plains College Adv; Accent Marks In Tab; Hand Placement); Product Evaluation (Ellington Silver Picks); TABS: Devil In The Straw Sack; Take Me Back To Tulsa; Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone; Sally Gardens; Take Me Out To The Ballgame; Cripple Creek In E Flat; Tab Index: Volume XVIII (Nov 1990-Oct 1991).