147 January 1986 - RICK SHUBB; More On Hand Positioning; Bill Gokey, Pt II; Intro To Banjo setup; C7 For Color; Larry Sparks; Building Bridges; Fm9 Tuning; Banjo X-Word; TABS: Grandfather's Clock; This Land Is Your Land; Long Black Veil; Bugle Call Rag; Puff The Magic Dragon; Hey Porter; Tangerine; 5-String Rhapsody

148 February 1986 - JOHNNIE WHISNANT, Pt III; Ah Nuts! Or Cutting Your Own; Seventh Chords; Deering Banjos; Designing An Inlay Pattern; Beginner Jam Sessions; TABS: Claim Jumper; Blackberry Blossom; Camptown Races; Traveling The Highway Home; Bugle Call Rag; Everyday Dirt; Pick Along; John Henry; Short Life Of Trouble; Little Girl In Tennessee

149 March 1986 - RANDY LITTLEFIELD; Arpeggio Revisited; Cases For Mountain Style Banjos; Buzzes & Rattles; Ron Thomason; TABS: MacElmoyle; When You're Smiling; Nelly Bly; Banjo Bounce; Swing Low Sweet Chariot; Little Rock Getaway; Mountain Dew; Nardis

150 April 1986 - Brad Leftwich & Linda Higginbotham; Diminished Chord; Jack Cooke; Theme Park Banjo; TABS: John Lover's Gone; Old Bunch Of Keys; Dear Old Dixie; Old Joe Clark; Act Naturally; Virginia Darlin'; Sometimes I Still Think About You

151 May 1986 - Darrell Sanders; Adventures Up The Neck; Augmented Chord; TABS: Ground Hog; Peek A Boo Waltz; The Roving Gambler; Cowboys & Indians; Geraldine Waltz; Love's Flywheel; You Bake Right With Martha White; Dear Old Dixie

152 June 1986 - Frank Necessary; Unorthodox & Hybrid Banjo Styles; How About A Hand For The Banjo Player; Summer Weather Banjo Care; Minstrel Banjo; TABS: El Condor Pasa; Forked Deer; Dueling Banjos; My Walking Cane; Trail Of Sorrow; Spanish Grass; Nobody's Business; Ain't She Sweet; Cumberland Gap; Hard Times Jig; Hard Times

153 July 1986 - Rual Yarbrough; Libby Banjo; This Matter of Size; Remembering What You've Learned; TABS: Don't Think Twice; Roanoke; New Camptown Races; Little Beggerman; True Blue Bill; Verdie Let Your Bangs Hang Down; Fortune Feed Theme Song; Another Day; Rye Straw

154 August 1986 - MARK PLATIN (Wildwood Banjos); Richard Underwood; Mountain Banjo Neck Inlays; It's Never Too Late To Learn; Joys of Fifth String Fretting; Jam Session Guide Lines; TABS: Freight Train; How High The Moon; Take Me Out To The Ballgame; Swing Low Sweet Chariot; All Of Me; Loons On The Pond; Eight More Miles To Louisville;

155 September 1986 - BELA FLECK (Revisited); Hobbies; Blake Williams; Strings; Military Bands & Origin of Old-Time Sound; TABS: Tenderfoot; Philadelphia Lawyer; Bootleg John; Old Spinning Wheel; Roanoke; Hand Me Down My Walking Cane; Steppin' Lightly; Happy Birthday, Bill Monroe

156 October 1986 - TONY TRISCHKA (Revisited); The Skip Stroke; Key of D; Dealing With Chords; The Banjo Board; Improvisation; Notes On Picks; First Position Backup; Rebirth of Piccolo Banjo: TABS: Crossville Breakdown; Bonaparte Crossing The Delaware; Tennessee Stud; Devil's Dream; Used To Be; Home In The Mountains; Wild Indian; Waltz For Indira; Dickenson County Breakdown; Tab Index - Volume XIII

157 November 1986 - MICHAEL COONEY; Banjo Tab Player (Commodore 64); Diverse World of Tablature; Back Up With Imagination; Frank Neat; Liberty Banjo; TABS: Shady Grove; Lord Is My Shepherd; Swanee Jig; Orange Blossom Special; Theme Time; Room At The Top Of The Stairs; Old Salty Dog; Liz Carrol's Jig

158 December 1986 - ALLEN SHELTON; Specifics of Banjo Heads; Casio VL-1; More On Military Bands; Using Repeated Tones; Vega Peg-Heads, c.1920; Improvisation; TABS: Away In The Manger; Oh Come All Ye Faithful; Deck The Halls; Big Bend Gal; Ninth Regiment Quickstep; Fly Me To The Moon; Sally Goodin'; Sleigh Ride; Salty Dog

159 January 1987 - SCOTT VESTAL; Off-Beat Hammer-Ons & Pull-Offs; Playing In Different Keys; Coordinator Rod Adjustment; Peter Wernick Banjo Camp; More On Chordal Playing; Contemporay Standard Chord Progression; Basics Of Tone Rings; TABS: Fort Smith Breakdown; Martha Campbell; Leather Britches; Arkansas Traveler; Your Love Is Like A Flower; Columbus Stockade Blues; Feast Here Tonight; Jeepers Creepers; Cotton-Eyed Joe; Things To Come; Sally Goodin'; Minstrel Medley; Colorado Turnaround

160 February 1987 - Back Plate Carving; J.D. Crowe: Master Scruggs Stylist; Playing Cross-Tuning; Getting The Right Sound; Teachin' The Kid (1); 7-Note Lick for 3/4 Time; TABS: Cryin' Holy; Grey (Gray) Eagle; Darling Nellie Gray; Whiskey Before Breakfast; Gotta Travel On; I Am A Pilgrim; All The Good Times Are Past And Gone; Limehouse Blues

161 March 1987 - DAN LINDNER; The Picking Hand - Pt. 1; Scruggs' Code of Behavior (FHF); Banjo Housekeeping; One Lick At A Time; Building A Block Maple Rim; Single Jigs; Anglo-Irish Influence In Minstrel Tunes; TABS: Silver Eagle; World Is Waiting For The Sunrise; Mary Lyon; Muleskinner Blues; Christmas Day In The Morning; Darkey Money Musk; Darkey Fisher's Hornpipe; Annie's Song

162 April 1987 - Hermitage Banjo c.1830-40; Teaching The Kid - Pt. II; Lacquering Metal Parts; Back-Up In The Style of Bela Fleck; Banjo Fret Scale Calculator; TABS: John Hardy; Walking In A Winter Wonderland; A Creole's Dream; Twin Sisters; Dig A Hole In The Meadow; Coal Miner's Blues; Morpeth Rant; Suwannee River Hoedown; O'Gallagher's Hornpipe; Bluegrass Polka; I'm Walkin'; The 28th of January

163 May 1987 - Joe Bethancourt; The Picking Hand - Pt. II; Emphasizing The Important Notes; A Dulcimer Tuning; Baroque Improvisation; Teach Your Children Well; That Crowe Timing; TABS: Soldier's Joy; My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains; Dear Old Dixie; Two Coats; Old Joe Clark; Opus 38; Sunnyside Of The Mountain

164 June 1987 - PETE SEEGER; Using Scales In Back-Up; Clawhammer Tune Books & Other Sources; A Day of Banjo Teaching; Clawhammer For 3-Finger Pickers; TABS: Suwanee River Hoedown; When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold; Nobody's Business; Chicken Reel; Colorado Turnaround Munde); Ballad Of Jed Clampett; Bonaparte's March; Road To Columbus

165 July 1987 - Busking; An Original Tune (Fleck); Bridge Alterations & Tone; A Most Unpleasant Subject (Practice); A (Mountain) Reading List; Banjoizing Fiddle Tunes II; Reno Banjo; Resonator Construction; Picking Hand - Right Hand Speed Pt. 2; Teaching The Kid III; Tone Is Everything; TABS: Somerset; Brennan On The Moor; Clinch Mountain Backstep; O'Gallagher's Hornpipe; Double Banjo Blues; My Wandering Boy

166 August 1987 - JIMMY COX; Original Tune (McNeely); A Banjoist Is Born; How To Fret; Using Scales; Beginner's Fundamentals; Jam Sessions & Pickin' Parties; Clawhammer & Current UK Folk Scene; Discovering Bluegrass And Britain; A Weekend In Paris; Clawhammer For 3-Finger Pickers; TABS: John Hardy; Boil Them Cabbage Down; The Dashing White Sergeant; Tennessee Waltz; Red Wing; Worried Man Blues

167 September 1987 - ELMER BIRD; Strathspeys; Pentatonic Scales; Teaching The Kid, Part IV; Banjoizing Fiddle Tunes, Part III; TABS: The Laird O'Drumblaire; The Grey Ghost; Stack Of Barley Hornpipe; The 28th Of January; Durang's Hornpipe; Steel Guitar Rag

168 October 1987 - Andy Boarman; The Bb Scale; Bouncing Baby Bluegrass; Dynamics; Alternating M & T Strokes On The Same String; 12 Long Tags; TABS: Lonesome Road Blues; Dixie; Train 45; Road To Columbus; Sourwood Mountain; Fort William Hornpipe; Nobody Love Is Like Mine; Home Sweet Home; Cumulative Tab Index Volumes I - XIV; Tab Index Volume XIV

169 November 1987 - Roots Of The Banjo; Are You Going To Miss Me When I'm Gone? (Stolen Instruments); Teaching The Kid, Part IV; Sound Of The Major Scale; Alternating Arpeggio Strokes & Drop Thumbs On The Same String Pair; Banjoizing Fiddle Tunes, Part IV; Building A Mountain Banjo Neck; TABS: Little Cabin Home On The Hill; Blue Ridge Mountain Blues; Merriweather; Ashes Of Love; Dinah; Stack Of Barley Hornpipe; Augie's Blues;

170 December 1987 - Garry Boggs; Tenor Conversions (Pro & Con); Blue Notes; Scottish Pipe Marches & Scottish Medleys; Accenting The Melody; TABS: Up The Blue Ridge; Don MacLean's Farewell To Oban; Silent Night; Bound To Ride; Blackjack; How High The Moon; Good Night Ladies; Yankee Doodle Dandy; Wildwood Flower

171 January 1988 - Stype Brothers Banjo Shop; Contemporary Back-Up; Another Radio Gem; How To Learn; Swedish Fiddle Tunes; Peghead Ear Angle Error; TABS: Off To California; Fire Ball Mail; Little Girl In Tennessee; All The Good Times Are Past Amd Gone; She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain; Jentland Tune

172 February 1988 - Frogs & Banjos (Continued); Tarrant Bailey Jr. Tribute; Johnson Mountain Boys Break-up; Briggs Banjo Instructor; Clean Sound; Product Evaluation: "Beginning Banjo" Video by Michael J. Taylor; TABS: Mame; I'll Never Shed Another Tear; Swanee River; Let's Talk For A While; Bury Me Beneath The Willow; Dance, Boatman Dance; Old Zip Coon; Darkey Fisher's Hornpipe

173 March 1988 - Tony Furtado (National Bluegrass Champion 1987-88); On The Stelling Side #1; Advice About Advice; One Finger At A Time; Product Evaluations: "Tab Playing Software" for Amiga 1000 by Jeff deRienzo; "Moon Bridge" by Randy Stockwell; Playing in F; TABS: Overdrive; Sleigh Ride; Spanish Grass; She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain; Two Dollar Bill; Hello Dolly; Hull's Victory' Fisher's Hornpipe; All Of Me; This Land Is Your Land

174 April 1988 - Alan Munde (Bluegrass Music Instructor - South Plains College); A Banjo Night In January; Klezmer Klawhammer Revisited; Dowel Stick Fit; Banjo Picking In Australia; Learning Procedures; Contemporary Back-Up; Cape Breton Fiddle Tunes; TABS: Billy In The Lowground; Der Broiges Tanz; If I Should Wander Back Tonight; I'll Answer The Call; Fireball Mail; I've Heard These Words Before; Mr. John Campbell Of Watertown

175 May 1988 - FONZA SMITH (Allen Banjo Company); Memorizing Phrases; Reader's Letters (Hand Problems); Cape Breton Medleys; Book Review: "Masters of the 5- String Banjo" by Wernick & Trischka; Model Back-Up; Calypso Banjo; Don't Fret About It; TABS: I'll Fly Away; Miss Johnson of Pittworth; All The Things You Are; My Cabin In Caroline; Whoa Mule; Jamaica Farewell

176 June 1988 - Steve Cunningham & Mike Munford (Baltimore Bluegrass); Done Reno & Red Smiley video (1958); Munde's Morsels; Banjo Set-Up; Modern Trends in Banjo Back-Up; Improvising Solos; Combining Phrases; Sixteenth Note Groups; TABS: Release Me; Salt Creeek; I'm Gonna Settle Down; My Cabin In Caroline; Old Joe Clark; Marquis Of Huntly; Dixie

177 July 1988 - Greg Jowaisas; Some Thoughts About Bluegrass Banjo Design; Key Of F (Crowe Style); Tennessee Banjo Institute Announcement; Today's Traditional Back- Up; Percussive Clawhammer?; Fancy Arrangements For Somgs From Other Traditions; Tuning The Banjo - Part I; Head, Strings & Bridges; TABS: Last Pay Day At Coal Creek (Duet); Banks Of The Ohio; Little Maggie; Coosy; Hatikvah; Salty Dog

178 August 1988 - Banjo Roots, The African Lute; Tuning - The Banjo Part II; Chord Melody; Which Wood Would One Want?; Contemporary Sounds in Back-Up; On Banjo Contests; Scotch Measures; Something To Crowe About; TABS: John Hardy; All The Things You Are; Never Ending Love For You; How Mountain Girls Can Love; Both SIdes Now; Longing For The Southland; The White Cockade; She's Gone, Gone, Gone

179 September 1988 - DAVE EVANS; Me & Bela; Piccolo Potshots; I Was There (Scruggs at Frontier Ranch); Shetland Tunes; How To Practice; Key of D (Crowe Style); Back-Up Emphasis; Highlights of Winterhawk; More Embarrassing Moments; TABS: Highway 52; Willafjord; Dark Hollow; Way Downtown; Baby Blue Eyes; Don't Go Out Tonight; Texas Blues;

180 October 1988 - MIKE ALLEN (1986-87 National Bluegrass Banjo Picking Champion); Open Four Capoing; BNL Celebrates 15th Year; Dueling Bagpipes; More Django; And What Did You Do On Your Summer Vacation?; Good Banjo In Country Rock (Bernie Leadon); Product Evaluation: "Deering Delta Banjo Case"; Shelton Section; Improvising Solos; TABS: Whiskey Before Breakfast; K.C.'s Ride; Banjo Breakdown; Anouman; Doolin' Dalton; Sweetest Love; Lonesome Road Blues; Shelton Special . Tab Index Volume XV

181 November 1988 - 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

182 December 1988 - 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

183 January 1989 - 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

184 February 1989 - 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

185 March 1989 - 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

186 April 1989 - 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

187 May 1989 - 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

188 June 1989 - 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

189 July 1989 - 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

190 August 1989 - 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

191 September 1989 - 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

192 October 1989 - 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

193 November 1989 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

194 December 1989 - 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 The Manger