264 October 1995 SCOTT VESTAL Interview by Dan Mazer. Rhythmic Emphasis (Vestal?BU) MC Fleckology Blue Banjo (Furtado) Scruggs Revue (EW) Reviews: Wynn Osborne and Bill Keith Chord Functions Part 3: Minor Chords (CS) Pick-up Bands (OTR) Moving Up in G & D REVIEW: Pete Wernick's Branching Out On Bluegrass Banjo Instructional Video Old-Time Clawhammer Midi Banjo TABS: Benny Hill, In Pursuit of Happiness(Vestal), Love, Please Come Hom

265 November 1995 KEN SEAMAN by Wayne Shrubsall. IBMA highlights, Owensboro '95 (OTR) Major Scales (JB) Tab of the Month (J. D. Crowe) Practicing (BC) Family & Friends (EW) Melodic Duets Celtic Dance Tunes?Single String O'Banjo Miking (MC) Blue Banjo. TAB: Crossing the Big Sandy (Seaman), Major Scales, Bear Tracks (Crowe), Little Dutch Girl (OT), East Virginia Blues (EW), Red-Haired Boy, Will Clancy's Reel, Big River (AO), Flowers of Edinburgh (MC), Blues in A (Knopf).

266 December 1995 MARK SCHATZ: Brand New Old Tyme. By Doug Fulmer. Steve Di

267 January 1996 RON BLOCK by Ira Gitlin. Ron Block (BU) Review by Bob Piekiel: Bill Evans' Native & Fine and Ronnie & Rob McCoury. Homemade Fretless Banjo: From a Can of Roasted Nuts Sonny Osborne (OFTR) Review: Sonny Osborne Video (Homespun) Improvising (BC) Old-Time Clawhammer Waltzes (MU), Chord Functions, Part 5 (CS) MC Editor Choice f

268 February 1996 LYNN MORRIS. Interview by Bill Evans. Amplification Profile: Peter Schwimmer Review of Schwimmer by Janet Davis Gordon Stone Mailbag (MC) Percussive Back-up: John McEuen (BU) Young Fogies, Kevin Enoch, Camp Meeting: Southern Clawhammer To Speak of Many Things (OTR) Case Study: Little No-Name Factory Reject Improvising Part 2 (BC) Chord Inversions (CS). TABS: Groundspeed Intro & Outro (Schwimmer), BEAD Bridge Breakdown (Schwimmer), You Ain't Going Nowhere (EW), Dancing In The Hog Trough (Morris), Old Rip (Morris:OT), Far From Home (MC), Nashville Blues (lead & BU: McEuen), Buckdancer's Choice (

269 March '96 DON STOVER by Hank Edenborn. Don Stover's Back Up BNL- SPBGMA Banjo Workshop '95 Wanderings (OTR) Review: Bill Emerson Butch Robins (OFTR), Fleckology MC Irish Pub Tunes Old-Time Tunings Moving Up EW, Jazz Banjo: Chords derived from Major Scale Irish & Celtic Tunes. TABS: East Tennessee Blues (Robins), Shenandoah Breakdown (Stover: 3-finger & clawhammer), Rockwood Deer Chase (Stover?BU), Blu-Bop (BF), Snouts & Ears of America (MC), Little Stack of Barley, Chilly Winds (OT), Bonaparte's Retreat (MU), Down Yonder (EW), Sally Gardens.

270 April DOUG DILLARD by Lee Grant. Review: On The Truck! Dillard Story SPBGMA (Stelling Side) Finger Pick Round Up by Bill Keith Jack Baker on Doug Dillard Trading Lead and Back-Up (Dillard?BU) Review: Travel Banjo EW Ten Years Ago (OTR) Chord Substitutions (CS) Folk Alliance (MC) Improvising Part 3 (BC) Pete Seeger Bruce

271 May '96 GORDON STONE. Joe Drumright '29?96: Tab by Tony Trischka. Review: George Pegram Golden Age Earl (EW) Reverse Rolls Review: Gordon Stone's & Go Pentatonic Color: Ted Luberecki (BU) Scott Vestal (OFTR) Jazz Banjo Fretting the Fifth String (MC) Review: Baycuphone Pickup Watching Scotty Grow (OTR) Chord Substitutions Part 2 (CS) Improvising Part 4 (BC) Two Fiddle Tunes (OT). TABS: Dusty Miller (Drumright), I've Lost You (EW), Banjo Signal, Monkey Wrench (Stone), Pachysandra (Stone), Banjer Machine (BU), Paddy On The Turnpike (Vestal), All The Things You Are (JB), Night Star (MC), Shoo Fly (OT), Robinson County (OT).

272 June '96 DWIGHT DILLER cons

273 July BILL EVANS: From Cloud Valley to Dry Branch. Interview by Ira Gitlin. Courtney Johnson 1939?1996. New Tony Trischka Playing in D: Bill Evans (BU) Tab of Month: Joe Mullins Banjo Workout: Single String Jigs (MC) EW Knockin' Down Minstrel Style (Bob Flesher) The V CHord, Chord Substitutions Part 4 (CS) The Capo (BC) Silvio Ferretti on Jason Burleson. TABS: Native and Fine

274 August STEVE HUBER. Review: Huber's ' Time by Bob Piekiel Review: Banjo Echoes in Appalachia Arranging (MC) The Workshop Fleckology: Intros Mothers & Daughters (OTR) Scruggs-style (CS) Review: John McEuen Irish Clawhammer Bill Evans on Courtney Johnson, Silvio Ferretti on Rob McCoury. TABS: Waltzing Matilda (MC), Sweet Georgia Brown (JB), Dancing in the Boat (Huber), Five in the Morning (Huber), Sea Brazil (Fleck-Intro), Cheeseballs in Cowtown (Fleck), Turki Innastra (OT-McEuen), I Still Miss Someone (EW), Sh'Beg Sh'More (OT), True Love Never Dies (McCoury), When the Storm is Over (Johnson).

PETE WERNICK by Bill McKay. Introducing The Maryland Banjo Academy Review: AcuTab's Pete Wernick Transcriptions. Bill Evans on Vic Jordan (OFTR) Less is MoreBill Keith (BU) The Capo, Part 2 (BC) Maddox & Reno (OTR) Jazz Banjo Scruggs Style Part 2 (CS) Learning From Fiddlers (MC) Moving Up 1995 Don Reno Revival EW Missouri Clawhammer (OT) TABS: Gold Rush (Jordan), Drop in the Bucket (Keith), Coal Loading Johnnie (EW), Sky Rider (Wernick), Ruthie (Wernick), Wreck of the Old 97 (MU), All The Things You Are, Part 2 (JB), Granny Will Your Dog Bite (OT), Leeds Hornpipe (MC).

276 October '96 CLYDE DAVENPORT by Ken Perlman. Review: Ridgerunner's Slo-Mo. 1995 Gibson Top Tensions Knockin' Down (Bob Flesher) Bill Keith Traditional (BU) Review: Alison Brown's Quartet Scruggs Style Part 3 (CS) Instrumentals with Words (BC) Alan O'Bryant (AO) EW Dear Pete Seeger (OTR)

VOLUME XXIV 277 November '96 EDDIE ADCOCK. Interview by Dan Mazer. Adcock Tablature by Alan Munde and Steve Garner. Winfield '96 1996 National Banjo Champion Gary Davis Owensboro '96 (OTR), Blue Rose: Clawhammer and Chinese Dulcimer (Ken Perlman) Tony Trsichka (OFTR) Rolls (BC) Review: Freight Hoppers (OT) Bill Keith: Uncluttered BU (BU) TABS: Alabama Jubilee (DAVIS), Sing Banjo Sing (Two breaks?Adcock), Thunder on a Dry Day (Chinese OT), Garlic and Sapphires (Trischka), Cotton Eyed Joe (OT), Pretty Little Girl (OT), Salt Creek (Keith).

278 December '96 -- SPECIAL BILL MONROE ISSUE. In Memorium (Don Wayne Reno) A Players Appreciation (Ira Gitlin) Early Earl (EW) Melodic Clawhammer Giants on Earth (OTR) Old Time Monroe Jack Hicks (OTR) Bob Black (BU) Scruggs-Style Part 4 (C?). TABS: Jerusalem Ridge (A minor), Big Sandy (Scott Vestal), Santa Claus (Bill Keith), Kentucky Waltz (D. Barnes), I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky, Monroe's Hornpipe (MC), Big Mon (Terry Baucom), Sugar-coated Love (Rudy Lyle), Jenny Lynn (OT), Jerulsam Ridge (OT), Come Hither to Go Yonder (Butch Robins), Wheel Hoss (Bela Fleck), Evening Prayer Blues (J. Carlini), Scotland (Greg Cahill), Walls of Time (Jack Hicks), Monroe's Blues (Bob Black), Blue Moon of Kentucky.

279 January 1997 -- RANDY LUCAS Interview by Pat Ahrens. Review: Stelling Banjo Pick-up Tommy Thompson: An Appreciation In Memorium: Don Stover The Maryland Banjo Academy Changing Your Banjo's Sound (Bob Flesher) Warm-up Exercises (BW) Fleckology Review: Basic Clawhammer Banjo by Ken Perlman Review: Hickman & Berline Ralph Stanley (BU) Craig Smith (OTR) Tony Trischka (OTR) Scruggs Style Part 5: Choosing Note Location, Keys and Tunings (C?). TABS: When The Angels Carry Me Home (Don Stover), Red-Eyed Bennyhen (Lucas), Raccoon Dance (MB), Seven By Seven (BF), Liverpool Hornpipe (MC), Funky Chicken (J. Hickman), Let's Part the Best of Friends (R. Stanley), Bootleg John (C. Smith).

280 February 1997 -- NED LUBERECKI Interview by Janet Davis. BNL 1996 CD Round Up Reviews: Deering's GoodTime Banjo, Ned Luberecki's Strings, and David Crisler's Introduction to Jazz Improvisation for the 5-String Banjo J.D. Crowe (OTR) Fiddlin' Around Clinch Mountain Banjo Changing Your Banjo's Sound (Part 2, B. Flesher) Dwight Diller (MC) Rolls, Part 2 (BC) Scruggs-Style, Part 6 Jazz Banjo. TABS: Trousdale Ferry Rag (EW), Salt River (Luberecki), Sally Goodin' (OTR), Pig Ankle Rag, Farther Along (CMB), Hide Ye In The Blood (CMB), The Brass Spittoon (MB), Yew Pine Mountains (MC), Scrapple From The Apple (JB).

281 March 1997-- RON LYNAM Interview by Wayne Shrubsall. Reviews: Tennessee 20-Hole Tone Ring (Rev. by Janet Davis), The Influence by Chris Grotewohl, and Bay Presents Classical Banjo by Larry Vanek Celtic Banjo Creating the Merle Watson Banjo Contest by Pete Wernick Old-Time, More on Song-Melody Arrangements (MC) On The Road, Ned Luberecki (BU) Earl's Way Fiddlin' Around Richard Bailey Rolls, Part 3 (BC) Scruggs-style Part 7: Alternate Tunings (C?). TABS: Devany's Goat (CT), False Summit (R. Lynam), Julia (R. Lynam), The Golden Vanity (MC), Emergency Pull-Off (N. Luberecki), Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance (EW), Boys From Bluehill (FWH), Claire de Lune, I Want To Be Loved (R. Bailey), Cripple Creek (C?).

282 April 1997 -- MIKE RAMSEY And Chanterelle Workshop. Interview by Fred Huffman. LeRoy Troy Flip Book! Reviews: Boy by Ken Perlman, Tim Lake, Leftover Salmon, Music of Kentucky, and Special Consensus. Fretless Notes by Mike Ramsey I'll Be Somewhere Listening (OTR) Playing Tunes that Change Keys (MC) Jason Burleson (OTR) Rolls, Part 4 (BC) Playing in A Minor Scruggs Style, Part 8: Alternate Tunings (C?) Klezmer Banjo Minstrel Banjo (Buehling) Reno Banjo Earl's Way, Slides (BW). TABS:Boatman's Dance (OT), Judique (MC), Horseshoe Bend (OTR), Deputy Dalton (BC), Wayfaring Stranger, Shady Grove (C?), F?r Elise, Fiselekh, Fiselekh (Klezmer), Old Virginny Jig (MB), I've Found A New Baby, It's Mighty Dark To Travel (EW).

283 May 1997 -- KEN PERLMAN Interview by Ed Britt and Jeff Davis. Reviews: .D.Crowe Transcriptions, Vol. 1, Review by John Carlini Ray Hesson, Music of Prince Edward Island by Ken Perlman. Correction: Banjo Workout (April) Earls Way, Monroe For Banjo (W. Shrubsall) Copenhagen: Drive the Congregation Wild! (OTR) Listening to Records (BC) Moving Up Alan O'Bryant Irish & Celtic Tunes Ron Block (OTR) Playing in F (TW) Clawhammer with A Twist (Dan Levenson. TABS: Slide Mountain (Correction for April, TW), You Are What I Am (J.D. Crowe), Rosewood Casket, Money Creek (Greg Cahill), Upper Denton Hornpipe (MC), Major Bogey March (Theme to Bridge Over River Kwai), Monroe's Hornpipe (MFB), I Got A Date (AO), Far From Home (Celtic), A Stone That Builder's Refused (EW), Little Liza Jane (OTR), Beaumont Rag (TW), The Flying Indian (OT?in G & D).

284 June 1997-- JASON BURLESON. Interview by Eddie Collins. Reviews: Hatfield's to Play Banjo by Ear, and Rick Barron's & Toe. Jason Burleson's Picking Style & Set-up Fleckology The Maryland Banjo Academy, by D. Nitchie Banjo Accompaniment MBA (MC) Bill Emerson (OTR) Billy Faire's Ragtime (BU) BillEvans (OTR) Rolls (C?) Old-Time Clawhammer Old-Time Three-Finger: Uncle Dave Macon Monroe For Banjo. TABS: It's A Long, Long Road (J. Burleson), Sunset Road (BF), America the Beautiful (P. Seeger), Frank Collins Reel (MC), Bright Angel Rag (BU), Goodbye Liza Jane (OTR), The Old Blue Tick (OT), Five Miles to Town (OT), Down the Old Plank Road (Uncle Dave Macon), Brown County Breakdown (MFB).

285 July 1997-- SNUFFY SMITH Interview by Alan Munde. Review: Reno Revival Video. Backup in D out of G (EW) Memorizing Tunes (IR) Soloing at Slow Tempos (C?) Jazz Phrase of Month, #1 Sammy Shelor (BU) The Maryland Banjo Academy by Casey Henry Tom Adams (OTR) Clawhammer Jazz Old-Time Three Finger Rudy Lyle (MFB) Drop-Thumb Banjo Listening To Records Part 2 (BC) Banjo Samba. TABS: I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome (EW), Whitewater (BF), 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered, Crazy River, Lady of Spain (OTR), Oh Death, Rawhide (MFB), Bangum & The Bear (OT), All Young (OT), One Note Samba.

286 August 1997 -- JANNE VIKSTEN Finland's Melodic Specialist By Niles Hokkanen. Reviews: Sammy Shelor, Calypso Banjo, The Blues, Joe Ayers. Licks & Letters: Remo's Fiberskyn Head Jazz Phrase of Month, #2 Soloing at Slow Tempos, Part 2 (C?) Crawdad Song (EW) Sentimental Journey (OTR) Clawhammer Klezmer (MC) Stretching the Limits (Dan Levenson) Inside Rolls (BW) Interview with Scott Vestal (BC) Melodic Banjo, Slides (TW). TABS: Feta Cheese and Meaballs (J. Viksten), Ravit Kapylassa (J., Viksten), Get Away--The Crawdad Song (EW), Romanian Bulgarish (MC), Foggy Mountain CHimes (EW), Nasil That Catfish To A Tree (OT), Goodbye Liza Jane (TW), Red-haired Boy.

287 September 1997 -- HERB PEDERSEN By Lydon Stambler. Review: Laurel Canyon Ramblers. Foggy Mountain Chimes. Bela and Tony's Excellent Adventures, by Russ Shade. Sammy Shelor (OTR) Soloing At Slow Tempos, Part 3 (C?) Phrasing (BC) Augusta Heritage Center (OTR) Building With Licks (BU --Robbie McCoury) Tuning (MC) Drop-Thumb Banjo. TABS: Jazz Phrase of the Month #3, Rambler's Blues (H. Pedersen), Yellowhead (Pedersen), Ernest T. Grass (OTR-Shelor), Some Old Day (2-note chords), John Hardy (BC), Sorrel Mare (OT), Thanks A Lot (BU), Billy Wilson (MC).