Banjo Newsletter - Contents Index - November 1997 to October 1998

ART ROSENBAUM. Interview by Ken Perlman. The Traveling Banjoist by Danny Barnes; Jazz Phrase of the Month (#5); Installing a Skin Head; Flecklogy; Playing Slow Songs, Part 6 (C&S); Joe Mullins (OTR); Rare Earl (EW); That Shining Path: On The Road; Don Wayne Reno and Scott Vestal (BU); Licks & Letters. TABS: Shady Grove (2 versions, A. Rosenbaum), Fire on the Mountain, Spanish Fandango, Virginny Dance, County Clare (BF), Greensleeves, Brighter Mansion, Wake Up Show, Charlotte Breakdown

MICHAEL J. MILES. Tale Of The Headless BanjoGord Acri Interview; Jazz Phrase Of The Month #6; The Road To Louisville IBMA 1997 (BU); Review: "American BACH" by M. Miles; Reed Martin (MC); Marc Pruett Rules! (OTR); Review: Alan Munde (AcuTab Vol. 1) By Wayne Shrubsall; Fiddling' Around By Merle Harrison; Yet (BC); Bill Keith. TABS: Bach's Cello Suite III in C MajorGigue; Suite For The Americas, Gigue and Dorian movements (all by Michael Miles), Fifty Dollars, Little Maggie, Panhandle Country, Blue Ridge Cabin Home, Last Chance, Little Billy Wilson, Color Tones, Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies.

BARRY ABERNATHY. Profile: Jimmy Costa; Jazz Phrase of the Month #7; 1997A Personal View of the Year in Music by Bill Evans; Barry Abernathy (BU); The Skip-Stroke Revisited (MC); Keith Little (OTR); Reviews: Pat Cloud, Larry Perkins, The New Primitives, Hubie King and Diane Jones; Celtic 3-Finger; Sam McGee (Old Time 3-Finger); Classical Banjo; Earl's Way, Drop Thumb Banjo; "It, Son of Yet" (BC); Playing Slow Songs, Part 7 (C&S). TABS: Glory-Land Way, Sweet Rosie Jones, Back in My Babies Arms Again (all by B. Abernathy), Big Jim River (MC), Rights of Man, Needlecase, Sonata in C Major by Mozart, The Train that Carried my Girl from Town (EW), The Battle of Waterloo (OT), Greensleeves.

AKIRA SATAKE INTERVIEW BY TONY TRISCHKA. Reviews: A. Satake, The MBA VIDEO. Jazz Phrase # 8: Rhythm Changes; Licks (EW); Profile: Reed Martin; Installing a Skin Head Part 2, by Bob Flesher; Monroe for Banjo by Wayne Shrubsall; On the Road; Earl, J.D., & R. McCoury (OTR); O'Banjo; Playing Slow Slongs Part 8 (C&S); Stretching the Limits by Dan Levenson; Basic Licks (BC). TABS: All Else Pales, Mississippi Sawyer, Heel & Toe Polka, Shuckin' The Corn, Dog House Blues, Faded Love, Hangman's Reel in C.

TOM PALEY Interview by Stephen Wade. REVIEW: Bach on the Banjo by John Bullard. Jazz Phrase #9; Profile: Reed Martin (Conclusion); Celtic 3-Finger; Returning to Oz (MC); Improvising (OTR); Bill Emerson (OTR); Tony Trischka & Altered Tunings (BU); Interview with J.D. Crowe (BC); Tremolo Playing Slow Songs Part 9. TABS: Polonaise by J.S. Bach, Old Molly Hare (OT), Ducks on the Millpond (OT), Colored Aristocracy, Carolan's Ramble to Cashel, Trip to Duro, Opening Day, Man in the Middle, Unfaithful One, Amazing Grace.

GRANDPA JONES: In Memory. Tom Paley (Conclusion). Jazz Phrase #10; Profile: Banjo Builder Kevin Enoch; Reviews: Ross Nickerson, Stephen Wade, Rhythm Rats, Lick Cards, Sammy Shelor AcuTab Transcriptions Vol. II, Arnie Naiman & Chris Coole. Four New Clawhammer CDs (MC); Listening (OTR); Dock Boggs (OTR); Playing in C Craig Smith (BU); Fleckology; Single String Tremolo, Slow Songs Part 10. TABS: Jazz Blues, San Antonio Rose, Indian Ate the Woodchuck, Pretty Little Girl, Two Pathways, Pretty Polly, Country Blues, Prosperity Special, Metric Lips, Winfield's Folly (OT), Don Valley Ramble (OT), Unfaithful One (Part 1).

BOBBY THOMPSON Interview by Tony Trischka. Reviews: Sampson Banjo Bridges, Dan Levenson. Musical Form (BU); Maryland Banjo Academy #2; Tribute to Bobby Thompson by Buddy Blackmon; Drop Thumb Banjo; Stretching the Limits: Singing & Clawhammer; Earl's Way; Banjolin Revisited (MC); Needs More Water (OTR); Eddie Adcock (OTR); Tremolo, Playing Slow Songs #11 (C&S); J.D. Crowe Interview conclusion (BC). TABS: Banjo Buster, Sugarfoot Rag, Lady Madonna, Columbus Stockade Blues, Hee Haw Closing Licks (all by Bobby Thompson), Roseville Fair, Lonesome and a Long Way From Home, Tine's Scottische (MC), Silver Bell, Lara's Theme, Unfaithful One (Part 2).

GEOFF STELLING Interview by Mike Ramsey. Reviews: Stelling Glyde-Cote Finish, Homespun Tapes "Getting Started on 5-String Banjo" by David Holt, Dave Bing, Larry Wallace. Drop Thumb Banjo; Bobby Thompson (Conclusion of Interview); Don Reno (OTR); Joe Morley (Classic Banjo); Combining Scruggs, Reno & Melodic into Celtic Fingerstyle, by Tom Hanway; Right-hand Exercises (MC); Andy Boarman (OTR); Music Theory (BC); Tremolo, Playing Slow Songs #12 (C&S). TABS: Sally in the Garden Sifting Sand (OT), Four and Twenty Blackbirds Dancing on a Fawnskin (OT), Bunch of Keys (OT), Tallahassee, Casey Jones, Dixie Hoedown, Banjo Special, Thumbs Up(CB), Soldier's Joy, Lost Wild Indian (OT), Reel St. Jean, Abide With Me.

BRUCE MOLSKY, Interview by Ken Perlman. Reviews: Bruce Molsky; Nechvillle's Enterprise bridge, Alison Brown. Fretless Banjo; Reno Banjo; Sending Tabs by Email; Steve Dilling (OTR); EW; Stretching the Limits (D. Levenson); Playing in C (BC); Ron Block (BC). TABS: Gun Street Girl (OT), Elzic's Farewell (both clawhammer & 3-finger), Road to Corrosol (A. Brown), Little Rabbit (S. Dilling), Bringing in the Georgia Mail (EW), Worried Man Blues, High Lonesome Sound (R. Block).

BÉLA FLECK Interview by Bill Evans. Bobby Thompson Discography; Sonny Osborne; Earl in Ohio (EW); Fleckology; Mirror Images Fleck Style (BU); Wade Ward (OT); Systems of Learning, Intro (CS); Derek Dilling; Playing in C Part 2 (BC); Warm-up Exercises for Left Hand (MC); OTR. TABS: Bluegrass Music's Really Gone to Town, Me and My Old Banjo (S. Osborne), Up and Running (BF), UFO-TOFU, A & B (BF), Peach Bottom Creek (OT), Polly Put the Kettle On (OT), Dilly's Breakdown, Levantine's Barrel (MC), Fling Ding (R. Stanley).

STEVE HUBER Interview by Bill Evans. BELA FLECK interview, Part 2, by Bill Evans. Back-up: Sagami Rorrim; North-South Banjo Camp (MC); Building a Bigger Corral (BC); EW; Civil War Banjo (MB); Reviews: Homespun's "Old Time Clawhammer Banjo, taught by Frank Lee," Video; The Vintage Flathead Tonering. Augusta'98 (OTR); The Demonstrative Learning Method (CS), Alan Munde (OTR). TABS: Shaving a Dead Man (OT), Big Country (BF), UFO TOFU (Parts C & D, BF), Sandy Boys (MC), The Old Home Place (EW), Rose of Alabama (MB), Jenny's Desire (AM).

Country Current's KEITH ARNESON Interview by Dave Wells. Reviews: "Ceilidh Tunes for 5-String," tab book by Iain Maclachlan. Helpful Hints on Compensation by Geoff Stelling; Celtic Polkas (Drop Thumb); Maryland Banjo Academy #2; O'Banjo; Jim Mills (OTR); Beginning Clawhammer by Dan Levenson; Sammy Shelor (BU); Why Drop Thumb? (MC); Beginner's Corner; Old Time Finger Style; I've Been Everywhere (OTR); The Visual Learning Method (CS); TABS: Garian Ghniomh go Leith (OT); Dog Remembers Bacon (OB), Rebecca (J. Mills), Longing for the Old Days (Shelor), Ducks on the Pond (MC), In & Out of Nashville, Pretty Polly, Shandon Bells (Celtic Banjo).