195 January 1990 - 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

196 February 1990 - 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

197 March 1990 - 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

198 April 1990 - 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

199 May 1990 - 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

200 June 1990 - 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

201 July 1990 - 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

202 August 1990 - 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

203 September 1990 - 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

204 October 1990 - 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

205 November 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 December 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 January 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 February 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 March 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 April 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 June 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 July 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 August 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 September 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 October 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

217 November 1991 - CHRIS SANDS: Classic Banjoist; Post Office Circulation Report: 1990-91; Product Evaluation: The Scruggs Tape By Ross Nickerson; Earl's Way (Fretting The Fifth String); Book Review: That Half Barbaric Twang By Karen Linn; Back- Up (A Plan Of Action); Murphy Henry (Shorts/One Long About Back-Up); Clinch Mt Banjo (Dave Evans Revisited); Southern Clawhammer (Songs Deer To My Heart); Beginner's Corner (Melodic Banjo For Beginners); Melodic Clawhammer (Piling On The Bois Sec). TABS: No Expectations; Open Road; Honey In The Rock; Doctor, Doctor; Forked Deer; Cripple Creek; Dragger's Reel.

218 December 1991 - MIKE KROPP: Banjoist With Northern Lights; Southern Clawhammer (Banjo Ties); Back-Up (Up The Neck Style); Licks & Letters (Bela Fleck - Soundtrack On Northern Exposure); Murphy Henry - The Day The Music Died (Gamble Rogers' Death); Beginner's Corner (Melodic Style - II); Arrangement Development (christmas Tab); Earl's Way (A Gospel Tune); Reviews: Rhythm Trax & Tunes (Hatfield) & Bluegrass Video (Trischka); Melodic Clawhammer (Banjo Mania); TABS: April Snow; Snake River Reel; I'm Using My Bible For A Road Map; Turkey In The Straw; It Came Upon A Midnight Clear; God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign; The Chaisson Reel Mini Index Volume XVIII.

219 January 1992 - Letter Re The Blue Banjo Tavern (Gore); Report From Japan (Mike Allen); Back-Up (Key Of E - The Easy Way); On The Road (Murphy's Misfits & The Mountain Mamas); Melodic Clawhammer (another Call For Volunteers); Clinch Mt Banjo (Steady As He Goes); Earl's Way (Answering A Request); Beginner's Corner (Melodic Style For Beginners III); The Coin-Operated Banjo; Southern Clawhammer (Right Hand Position); The Alexander Technique; TABS: Sakura (Cherry Blossom); All In My Love For You; The Twin Sisters; California; Handsome Molly; Cotton-Eyed Joe; Backside Of Buncombe

220 February 1992 - CARROLL BEST: Pioneer 3-Finger Fiddle Style Picker; On The Road - Banjo Lessons - The First Four Months; What To Do After Foggy Mt. Breakdown; Melodic Clawhammer - Some Thoughts On Fiddle Tunes; Beginner's Corner - Melodic Style For Beginners - IV; Arrangement Development; Helpful Hints - Shipping Your Banjo; Earl's Way - A Woody Guthrie Classic; Southern Clawhammer - Banjo Roots; Licks & Letters - Janet Davis Instructional Material - Storage Of Capo. TABS: Old Torn Petticoat; Staten Island Hornpipe; Chords Of G Scale; Exercises: Foggy Mt. Roll; Lord MacDonald's Reel; Devil's Dream; When The Saints Go Marching In; Spaghetti Rag; This Land Is Your Land; Sally Johnson

221 March 1992 - ALLEN HENDRICKS: Banjo Picker & Builder; Magic Picks; Book Review: "Sound Around" Directory; Back-Up - Swing; Clinch Mt. Banjo - Airway To Heaven; Beginner's Corner - Melodic Banjo For Beginners - Part V; Earl's Way - Earl In E Minor; Southern Clawhammer - Picking Hand Angle; Melodic Clawhammer - Adventures In Aussie Land; Carroll Best Revisited; A Piccolo Banjo; A Banjo Love Story; TABS: I'm Satisfied With You; Just Because; Bill Cheatham; Where The Lillies Bloom; YOung Guns & Miners; Old Man And The Old WOman; Golden Eagle Hornpipe

222 April 1992 - DAVE GARRETT and Virginia Grass; Back-Up - A Spirited Roll; Melodic Clawhammer - The Readers Take Over; Video Review - How To Play The 5-String Banjo By Pete Seeger; On The Road - Murphy Method Goes Cajun; Beginner's Corner - Melodic Style For Beginners - VI; Banjovia - Coordinator Rods; Arrangement Development - Coffee House Banjo; Southern Clawhammer - Right Shoulder, Other Finger; Earl's Way - Fiddle & Banjo - Two Keys; Augusta Revisited; TABS: Little Rock Getaway; Smolanach; Snowbird On The Ashbank; Girl I Left Behind Me; Blackberry Blossom; Gentle On My Mind; Maggie Jo; Flop Eared Mule; Red Haired Boy

223 May 1992 - JOE DRUMRIGHT; Arrangement Development; Back-Up Guidelines; Beginner's Corner - Locating A Banjo Teacher I; Earl's Way - Scruggs In Waltz Time; Little Moments & Hot Stuff; Southern Clawhammer - Chucking; On The Road - Are You Playing Notes Or Music?; Book Review: "How To Make A Band Work" By Peter Wernick; Clinch Mt Banjo - A Fifth String Capo & A Brand New Instrument; TABS: Thunderhead; Sally Anne; The Hills Of My Home; Shortnin' Bread; Po' Rebel Soldier; Drive The Divills Out; Brand New Tennessee Waltz

224 June 1992 - ALAN O'BRYANT; Back-Up - Back-up is Like Baseball; Beginner's Corner - Choosing A Banjo Teacher; Earl's Way - I'm In The Mood To Roll; Melodic Clawhammer - Happy Go Lucky Jigs; Southern Clawhammer - Discography Project; On The Road - Bits & Pieces; Building Speed On The Banjo; A Glossary of Terms for Beginning Banjo Pickers TABS: No One But My Darlin'; Tea Garden Jig; My Home's Across The Blueridge Mountains; Pig In A Pen; We'll Meet Again Sweetheart; Three Ponies; Six Practice Rolls (Ross Nickerson).

225 July 1992 - TOM HANWAY; Arrangement Development; Back-Up - Fiddle & Banjo; Banjovia; Beginner's Corner - Evaluating A Banjo Teacher -III; Clinch Mountain Banjo - An Ounce Of Prevention; Earl's Way - Another Foggy One; Melodic Clawhammer - Fast Dance Tunes That Aren't Reels; Southern Clawhammer - Chucking Revisited; On The Road - Again; TABS: Turkey In The Straw (Two Parts); Cindy; Foggy Mountain Rock; God's Great Chariot; Yellow Rose Of Texas; Satin Doll (JB); Crooked Stovepipe.

226 August 1992 - DENNIS CYPORYN; Beginner's Corner - Evaluating A Banjo Teacher -IV; Earl's Way -Appropriate Neck Area For Breaks; Lick Of The Month; Melodic Clawhammer - The Readers Take Over Again; Southern Clawhammer - Mount Airy Madness; On The Road - Welcome To The Club;Banjo of A Lifetime (Fran Larkin); A Banjo Strap That Relieves Backstrain TABS: The Krypton Polka; Been To The East, Been To The West; Shackles & Chains; Mack The Knife (JB); Arthur Berry; Crawdad Song; Greensleeves.

227 September 1992 - RICK DALE; Arrangement Development; Back-up - History & Development of Back-Up - I; Banjovia - Banjo Set-Up - A Balancing Act; Beginner's Corner - Playing With Others - I; Clinch Mountain Banjo - Appalachian Patterns; Earl's Way - An Overlooked Instrument; Southern Clawhammer - Summer Doldrums; On The Road - Have Ukulele, Will Travel; A Universal Tailpiece; Lick Of The Month - Ben Eldridge; Mini Index; Licks & Letters TABS: Red Ledge Ramble; How Far To Little Rock; Pickalong; Grandma's Feather Bed; Little Janie; Grandfather's Clock; Down Yonder.

228 October 1992 - DON WAYNE RENO; Back-up - History & Development of Back-Up - II; Beginner's Corner - Playing With Others - II; Contra Clawhammer - A Couple Of Polkas; Earl's Way; Southern Clawhammer - Almost Heaven; On The Road - V-A-C-A-T- I-O-N; Melodic Clawhammer - Keeping The Music Alive; Lick Of The Month - Short & Sweet - Some Classic Crowe; Reviews: Play Bluegrass Banjo By Ear (Bill Keith) & Banjo Picking Styles (Bela Fleck); TABS: Crooked Stovepipe; Green Mountain Petronella; Excelsior Hornpipe; Trafalger Hornpipe; De Boatmen's Dance; Pea Patch Jig; Old Shoes & Stockings; Blue Moon of Kentucky; Pipe Major Christie of Wick; I'm Gonna Settle Down. BNL Tablature Index (Vol XIX: Nov. '91-Oct. `92)

229 November 1992 - CLARKE BUEHLING; Arrangement Development; Back-up - Through the Civil War Era; Beginner's Corner - Playing With Others - III; Clinch Mountain Banjo - We Are Pleased To Announce; Southern Clawhammer - Look Out Lebanon; On The Road - Owensboro!; Lick Of The Month - Ben Eldridge Tag; Physics of Banjo Sound, Notes & Letters TABS: Camptown Races; Louisiana Belle; That Old Home; Wabash Cannonball (Back Up); Old MacDonald (Lead); I Saw The Light (Back Up); Ben Eldridge Tag Lick; Louie, Louie; Look Out Lebanon.

230 December 1992 - JOHN CARLINI; Back-up - A Christmas Duet; Beginner's Corner - Playing With Others - IV; Earl's Way - Wait For The Sunshine; Southern Clawhammer - Definitely Wild; On The Road -Fiddle One, Murphy?; Melodic Clawhammer - Prince Edward Island - Old Time Southern Connection; Previews Of New Pete Seeger Book; Special Feature: Tennessee Banjo Institute III (Pictorial) TABS: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring; Dixie/ Yankee Doodle Duet; The Old Willow Tree; Greasy Coat; Wait For The Sunshine.

231 January 1993 - JOHN HARTFORD; Arrangement Development - Banjo Newsletter; Back-up - The Classical Era; Beginner's Corner - Roll Backup For Beginners; Clinch Mountain Banjo - A Beautiful Life; Earl's Way - Ring Of Fire; Southern Clawhammer - Aftermath; Melodic Clawhammer - TBI 1992; A Banjo Pool; A Tribute For Hub Nitchie TABS: Old Black Joe; Stompin' At The Savoy (JB); Ring Of Fire (SC); Julie Ann Johnson (OT).

232 February 1993 - GREG CAHILL; Beginner's Corner - Backup Rolls; Clinch Mountain Banjo - Dueling Banjo Companies; Contra Clawhammer; Earl's Way - Handling D Chords; Southern Clawhammer - Little Billy Wilson; Record Reviews by Cathy Fink & Wynn Osborne; 1990 TBI by Richard Sparks; Taking Care Of Your Banjo by G. Stelling TABS: Ross's Reel; Prisoner's Song; When You & I Were Young, Maggie; Big Cow In Carlisle; Little Billy Wilson; New River Train.

233 March 1993 - DOUG MATTOCKS of Banjomania. Arrangement Development; Beginner's Corner - Roll Backup For Beginners; Earl's Way - Bleaker St. Rag; Southern Clawhammer; On The Road; Record Reviews by Fred Gieger (Reno & Adcock; Bill Keith); Banjomania; Akira Tsumara's Banjo Museum; Melodic Clawhammer - An Intriguing Fiddler TABS: Under The Double Eagle; Bleaker St. Rag (SC); Walking In The Parlor (OT); Under The Willow Tree; Sidney's Breakdown (MC); Miss the Mississippi and You (JB).

234 April 1993 - CLARKE PROUTY and his Banjo Reproduction for Mike Seeger; Review of Mike Seeger Concert; Beginner's Corner; Clinch Mountain Banjo; Earl's Way - Sun's Gonna Shine; Southern Clawhammer; On The Road - My Daughter, Banjo Player; Record Reviews by Wynn Osborne & Bubba Hutch; Melodic Clawhammer, Munde's Morsel's (Dr. Stanley); Letters (Leroy Troy) TABS: Sun's Gonna Shine (SC); Musselfork Creek (OT); Camp Town Races; Everything She Wants; Reel du Cordonnier (MC); Make Me A Pallet; Little Mollie, Clinch Mountain Backstep (AM).

235 May 1993 - JOHN BULLARD The Classical Banjo. Interview by Tony Trischka. Banjo For Kids (Cathy Fink); Drooling Banjos by Mickey Maguire; Earls Way; Clinch Mountain Banjo (Stanley Video); Arrangement Development; On The Road (Boredom); Contra Clawhammer; Melodic Clawhammer (Waltzes & Fiddling); Beginner's Corner (3/4 Time); Back Up (Two Finger Picking); Tab Books for Downpickers; Palmyra BLuegrass Camp; Southern Clawhammer. TABS: Sun's Gonna Shine In My Back Door Someday (SC); Sweet Baby James (AD); Nail That Catfish To A Tree (OT); Westphalia Waltz (MC); The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee; Folding Down The Sheets (OT); Goodnight, Irene.

236 June 1993 - DAVE DICK You Gotta Innovate! Earl's Way (New Earl); On The Road; Tab Of The Month: Star Of The County Down; Banjo In The Hollow; O'Banjo (O'Bryant); Southern Clawhammer; Beginner's Corner (3/4 time part 2); Melodic Clawhammer (Marches). TABS: Blue Highway; Carolina Highway (SC); Star of the County Down; The New Democracy (OB); Fox In The Henhouse (OT); Amazing Grace (BC); George's Army March (MC).

237 July 1993 - DALE VANDERPOOL by Marty Godbey. On The Stelling Side (Replating); Earl's Way (Scruggs Revue fans); On The Road: Banjo Ears; Melodic Clawhammer (Backup Revisited); Clinch Mountain Banjo (Stephen Wade, Stanley); Southern Clawhammer; Pete Seeger's Allaluya; Beginner's Corner (3/4 time part 3); Tab of the Month (Ralph Litwin). TABS: Love Is Just A Four Letter Word (SC); Whalen's Breakdown (MC); Henry Hill (CMB); Katy Hill (OT); Allaluya; All The Good Times Are Past and Gone (BC); Buckdance.

238 August 1993 - BOB FLESHER (Minstrel); TONY TRISCHKA & BELA FLECK. Back Up (Frailing & Clawhammer); Earl's Way; Southern Clawhammer; Arrangement Development (Folk Songs USA); Moving Up; On The Road (Why Me, Ron?). TABS: Old Rattler, Little Maggie & Tennessee Jubilee (BU); Big Black Train (SC); Wilson Clog (OT); Can't Help Wondering Where I'm Bound (AD); Gold Watch & Chain.

239 Sept. 1993 - TOM ADAMS of Johnson Mountain Boys, by Bill Evans. Winfield Championships by Ira Gitlin; Beginner's Corner (3/4 time part 4); On The Road (Alaska); Melodic Clawhammer. TABS: Adams County Breakdown; Rosewood & Pearl; Paradise (BC); Over The Briny Ocean (MC).

240 Oct. 1993 - BILL KEITH Interview by R Piekiel; Richard Kulesh, Tone Ring Alchemist; O'Banjo (Little Maggie); Beginner's Corner (3/4 Time Part 5); Back-Up (Snuffy Jenkins); On The Stelling Side (Refretting); Earl's Way (John Hardy); Arrangement Development (John Hartford); Clinch Mountain Banjo (Fiddle & Banjo), Souther Clawhammer (Clifftop & Galax); Tab of the Month (Dale Vanderpool). TABS: Bay State Bounce; Little Maggie #1; More Pretty Girls Than One (BC); John Hardy (SC); Sweet Sunny South; Bunch Of Old Keys (OT); Stokes Run (Vanderpool).

241 November 1993 - WILL KEYS Two Finger Specialist. Bryan England, Inlay Artist; On The Road (Owensboro); Thompson Vocal Eliminator (Review); O'Banjo (Little Maggie #2); Back-Up: Old Time 3-Finger Picking (Snuffy Jenkins); Melodic Clawhammer (Whiskey Before Breakfast); Southern Clawhammer; Contra Clawhammer (French Canadian); Beginner's Corner (Up the Neck in 3/4); Up the Neck. TABS: Little Maggie #2 (OB); Lonesome Road Blues (BU); Whiskey Before Breakfast, Larry O'Gaff & Fiddlin' Phil (MC); Spotted Pony (OT); Set de la Baie & Reel des Jeunes Maries (CC); All The Good Times Are Past & GOne & Amazing Grace (BC); Faded Love (UTN).

242 December 1993 - DAN LEVENSON of the Boiled Buzzards. Reviews (Fleck & Trischka, Perkins, Wernick); Traveling The High Way Home (Review of John Wright book); Banjo Tone Enhancer (Review); Earl's Way; Clinch Mountain Banjo; On The Road (The Misfits); Melodic Clawhammer (Backup-Coming Full Circle); Back Up (Arranging Christmas Carols); Arrangement Development (Fiddle Times); Beginner's Corner (3/4 time part 7); Tab of the Month TABS: Young Guns & Miners (OT); No Hiding Place Down Here (SC); Traveling The High Way Home (CMB); The Dismissal (MC); Winter Wonderland (BU); Blackberry Blossom & Arkansas Traveler (AD); Ode To Joy (Seeger); More Pretty Girls Than One (BC). TAB Index Volume XX: Nov. 1992-Oct. 1993.

243 January 1994 - JANET DAVIS by Wayne Shrubsall. Masters of the Banjo (On The Road); Munde's Morsels (Tony Ellis); Earl's Way, O'Banjo; Southern Clawhammer (Herrman & Powell); The Briggs Banjo Instructor (Minstrel); The Right Hand (Melodic Clawhammer); Hatfield Farewell (Beginner's). TABS: Whispering (JB), Ace of Spades (AM), I'm Troubled (EW), No Hiding Place (AO), Meeting of the Waters (OT), Richmond Cotillion (MC), More Pretty Girls Than One (BC).

244 FEBRUARY 1994 - JOE MULLINS of Traditional Grass, by Marty Godbey. Herman The Hermit; Single Ply Rims; Counterpoint Banjo By Michael Miles; Single String; TabRite Software (SC); Ashokan Farrewell (AD); Playing In D (Eddie Collins); Review of Jack Hatfield's Bluegrass Banjo, Book 1. TABS: The Blues Are Still The Blues (Mullins), Soldier's Joy (CB), Boil Them Cabbage Down (SS), Rocky Mountains (OT), Ashokan Farewell (AD), Eighth of January (in D).

245 MARCH 1994 - DANIEL KOULECK: Progressive Clawhammer. What The Heck Is Midi?; Makin' Whoopie (Tab of Month); Banjovia; Pull-Offs and Hammer-Ons (Melodic Clawhammer); Irish Dance Tunes for 5-String; Celtic Clawhammer, World Banjo by Tom hanway; Back Up Dynamics; The Red Hots (Southern Clawhammer); Beginner's Corner; Concepts & Systems (Jack Hatfield); Didlake's Banzas. TABS: Bakan The Car (OT), Joshua's Tune (OT), Makin' Whoopie (JB), Tripping Up The Stairs (MC), Drunken Tinker (CE), Coleman's Cross & Patsy Geary (OT), Fisher's Hornpipe (CE), Carolina Blue (BU), Cider Mill (OT), Cumberland Gap (BC).

246 April 1994 - LUBOS MALINA: Check Out The Czechs. Wynn Osborne by Fred Geiger; Béla's "Drive" Tabs; Off-String Hammer's and Pull-Off's (MC); P. Seeger Review: "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" (AD); Licks & Letters; O'Banjo; Murphy's "Misfits"; Telling A Story With Back Up; Gellert & Leftwich (SC); The Number System (CS); Foggy Mountain Back Up (EW); "Saturday Night & Sunday Morning" (CMB) TABS: Yesterday, Big Mon, Highway 31, Paddy On The Turnpike (MC), Where Have All The Flowers Gone (AD), Monroebillia (AO), Will You Be Leaving (BU), Acorn Stomp (OT), Cumberland Gap (EW), Buckwheat (CMB), Lights Of Home

247 May 1994 - LARRY PERKINS: A Touch Of The Past. Sally Goodwin: Where's The Beat? by Bill Knopf; 1993 Winfield Champ Eric Welty; Playing In C Without A Capo (OR); Left Hand Fingering (MC); Arrangement Development; E Minor Tunes (CC); Earl's Way; Old Time Reviews (SC); Number System Part 2 (CS); Moving Up; Practicing: Musical vs Physical (BC). Travis Style Advantage. TABS: Lullaby For LuAnn (Perkins), S'Wonderful (JB), Lass o'Gowrie (MC), Planxity Irwin (AD), Old Grey Cat & Pride of Petrivore (CC), Paul & Silas (EW), Hard Traveling (MU), Salty Dog, Cannonball Rag.

248 June 1994 - CALVIN LEPORT. The Deering Banjo Co.; Double Thumbing (MC); Counterpoint Banjo; Playing The Blues (BU); O'Banjo; Licks & Letters; More Foggy Mountain Back Up; Endings (BC); The Number System-Part 3 (CS). TABS: Hekyl & Jekyll (Leport), Spoodis Skerry (MC), Shady Grove (CB), I'm Blue & I'm Lonesome (Baucom-BU), Blue Night (AO), Home Sweet Home (EW), Buffalo Gals (BC)

249 July 1994 - RICK ABRAMS: Old -Timey With A Spark. Steve Louvat by Bill Keith; String Height (Stelling); Drop Thumbing & the Left Hand (MC); Tips To Avoid Jam- Busting (BU); Capos & The Number System (CS); Hard Core Bluegrass (AD); Remembering Odell Thompson. TABS: Soap In The Washpan (OT), Willow Creek, Live Oak (MC), Sugar In The Gourd (BU), Bluegrass Ramble (AD)

250 August 1994 - RIK BARON: Odd Sock. Old Banjos & Wives; CD Reviews (Osborne); "Way Up North In Dixie;" Interview with Harold Streeter; Tabs-Or Not (OR); Extended Chords (BU); Slides on Fretted Banjos (MC); O'Banjo; Earl's Way; World Banjo (Celtic 3-Finger); Boiled Buzzards (SC); A System For Learning The Fingerboard (CS); Roll Inversions (BC). TABS: The Ballad of Jed Clampet (BU), Waitin' For The Federals (MC), Old Daingerfield (AO), Summertime Is Past & Gone (EW), Star of Munster and Alexander's Reel (CE), The Old Woman & Old Man's Quarrel (OT), John Hardy (BC).

251 September 1994 - SAMMY SHELOR. "On Stagefright" By Pete Wernick; CD Reviews (Osborne & Gitlin); Sonny Osborne Intros; The Key of C Without Retuning (BU); New Earl! (EW); Single String Béla; TABrite (SC); Women In Bluegrass (BU); Dotted Quarter Notes (MC); Learning The Fingerboard Beyond the 12th Fret (CS); Remembering Ralph Rinzler. TABS: I'll Take The Blame (Shelor), Windy City & Making Plans (Sonny's Intros), Black Diamond (BU), Summertime Is Past & Gone (1994-EW), Flipper, Rock The Cradle, Joe (OT), Sally In The Garden (MC).

252 October 1994 - RON CODY. Tribute to Tony Trischka by Tony Furtado; Melodic vs Scruggs (BU); The Hicks Sisters Record (BU); Old-Banjo Styles Video! (SC); Odell Thompson by Bob Carlin; Playing The Melody (Ian Perry-BC); Arrangement Development. Review- "Celtic 5-String" by Tony Trischka TABS: Kerri's Reel (CE), The Templehouse (CE), Ralph Trischka, Twinkle Little Star (Vestal-BU), Hangman's Reel (OT), Auld Lang Syne (BC), Ashes of Love (AD). TAB INDEX Volume XXI: Nov. 1993-Oct. 1994.

253 November 1994 - LEROY TROY: Uncle Dave Would Be Proud. 1989 Jimmy Arnold Interview with Bobby Cherry. Owensboro `94 (ONR); Playing the Melody (BC); Earl's Way; Moving Up; Reviews: Hatfield's Bluegrass Banjo Vol. 2 & You Are Your Instrument; Melodic Lead & Scruggs Back-Up (BU); Music of Maritimes (MC); Southern Clawhammer; Learning the Fingerboard, Part 3: The Sequential Chord Form Formula (CS). TABS: Auld Lang Syne (BC), Steamboat Whistle Blues (EW), Bluebirds Calling (MU), Redwing (BU), Darlin' Nelly Grey (MC), Yellow Barber (OT)

254 December 1994 - ROB MAIRS: Scottish Classic Banjo. Banjo In The Hollow (OTR); Banjo Solos (BU); Playing The Melody, Part 3 (BC); The Fingerboard, Part 4 (CS); Reviews: Geiger Chord Pro, Masters of the 5-String CD; O'Banjo; Learning By Ear (MC); The Rhythm Rats (SC); Kaiser Roll or Forward Roll; The Workshop by Jim Pankey. TABS: Teddy Bears Picnic (CB), O Holy Night (BU), Greensleeves, White Christmas, Kansas City Railroad Blues (OB), Auld Lang Syne (BC), St. Anne's Reel (SS), Sweet Sixteen (OT), Plaza Polka (MC).

255 January 1995 - ALISON BROWN. BNL Editor's Choices for 1994, BNL `94 Survey comments. Earl & Randy Scruggs; Earl's Way; Taking Care of your Hands; Palying The Melody Part 4 (BC); Counterpoint Banjo (Clawhammer-M Miles); Blues Banjo (Furtado); Chords & Progressions (CS); Childish Love by Sandy Rothman & Herb Pederson; Winterizing your banjo (Stelling); Endings; Playing In C w/out capo. Reviews: Dix Bruce's Backup Trax for 5-string; TABS: American Made World Played (SC), Leaving Cottondale (Alison Brown), Auld Lang Syne (BC), Planxty Denis O'Conor & Andante by Vivaldi (lead & harmony), Down Greasy Creek (Furtado), Childish Love (2 versions), Bile Them Cabbage Down, Back Up & Push (in C).

256 February 1995 - ROB McCOURY. Letters, BNL Survey Results. Allen Banjo; Banjo Physics- Holographics (Piekiel), On The Road, Fiddle Tunes, Southern Clawhammer, Fleckology; Chords & Progressions Part 2-Seventh Chords (CS), Moving Up; Helpful Hints- To Upgrade or Not; MC; 2 JD Crowe tabs. Reviews: Price Straightline Tailpiece, Mel Bay's Clawhammer Book; TABS: Cheaters In The Soup (McCoury), Swinging On A Gate (Melodic), Texas (OT), Tell It To The Gov'nor (Fleck), Love Please Come Home (MU), Beaumont Rag (MC), Cheyenne (JDC), Runaround (JDC).

257 March 1995 - BOB CARLIN. Minstrel Banjo (Tony Trischka tab); Fiddle Tune (Over The Waterfall), The Bounce Part 1 (BC); More Single String; O'Banjo; Rare Earl; Basic Syncopation (MC); Endings (BU); New England Clawhammer; Earl's Back-up (EW); SPBGMA `95 (OTR). Reviews: Minstrel Banjo Styles CD & Osborne Bros. Video; TABS: Git Up In De Mornin' (Minstrel), Over The Waterfall, Grandfather's Clock (BC), Open Faced Reel (SS), Miles To Go (O'B), Gonna Have Myself A Ball (EW), Buffalo Gals (OT/MC), Come Dance & Sing (OT), Prince William (OT), Little Darlin' Pal Of Mine (EW-BU).

258 April 1995 - J D CROWE. Part 1-Interview by Marty Godbey. Doug Hutchens & Roy's Own Picks. 26 JD Crowe-style endings (BU); The Bounce, Part 2 (BC); Tabs of Craig Smith; Music Theory Q & A (CS); Triplets (MC); Lynn Morris Clawhammer (OTR); Minstrel Styles & Walt Koken (SC). Reviews: Play Back Up Video by Janet Davis & Playing In C by Eddie Collins. TABS: Hold Whatcha Got & You Can Have Her (JD Crowe), Baby Had A Banjo (EW), Someday When You're Lonely & When You & I Were Young Maggie (Craig Smith), Sean Ryan's Polka (MC), Beasties In The Sugar (SC), TurnaroundS In C, 26 JD Crowe-style endings

259 May 1995 - BELA FLECK Interview By Alison Brown. Part 2 of JD Crowe Interview. Fleckology; Béla's Bluegrass Back-up (BU); The Diminished 7th Chord (CS); On The Road; Melodic Clawhammer, Clinch Mountain Banjo, Good Tone (Stelling), Earl's Way. TABS: Waiting For You (Crowe), Sinister Minister (Fleck), Fireball Mail (Fleck- BU), A LIttle At A Time (CMB), Deep Elum Blues (MC)

260 June 1995 - JIM MILLS Interview by Marty Godbey. Remembering Carroll Best. Jim Mills tabs by Silvio Ferretti; A Gospel Tune (BU); Troubleshooting Tabs (BC); Tuning Your Banjo (MC); O'Banjo; Irish & Celtic Banjo: Tom Hanway; The Augmented 5th Chord (CS); More of the Misfits (OTR); Moving Up. Reviews: The Thumm-Flat pick, Tab Books of Sammy Shelor, Tom Hanway, Bill Knopf, Larry Vanek & John Bullard; The Nechville Nuvo by Marc Horowitz. TABS: Trouble Keeps Hanging Around Your Door & Now There's You (Mills), The Little White Church (Mills-BU), Sitting On Top Of The World (Shelor), Gavotte by Bach, The Flying Cloud Cotillion (MC), I'll Be On That Good Road Someday (OB), Kitty's Wedding (CB), Darcy Farrow (MU).

261 July 1995 - MARK JOHNSON: Clawgrass! Interview by Wynn Osborne. Mark, My Word! (SC); 1994 Winfield Banjo Champ Jonathon Jones; Bill Knopf Tab; Changing Keys in Gospel (BU); Potpourri, Pt 1 (BC); Earl Instrumentals (EW); Reviews: Banjo Play- Along Tapes by Steve Kaufman & Ross Nickerson; Short Reviews: Robins, Carlin, Hartford, Chris Sands, Rounder Banjo, Bass Mt. Boys; Banjo on the Internet; Locating the Bridge Using an Electronic Tuner; Melodic Duets. TABS: Blackberry Blossom, North Carolina Breakdown (OT); Never Going Back Again (Bill Knopf), Colored Aristocracy (OT), Flowers of Edinburgh (Melodic duets-FH), I'll Fly Away (EW), Katie Hill, Rock of Ages (BU).

262 August 1995 - DANNY BARNES of the Bad Livers. Barnes' Picking Style (Eddie Collins); Barnes Back-Up; Profile: Walt Koken (Clawhammer); Beginner's Corner Potpourri Pt. 2; Reviewing the Earl Scruggs Revue; A Revue Tab (EW); New from AcuTab: Emerson & Baucom books; Chord Functions Pt. 1 (CS); New Alan Munde Tab; Clawhammer in U.K. & Europe (MC); Women In Bluegrass (OTR) TABS: Stevejames (Barnes), Blue Ridge Express (Barnes), Candy Man (OT), Whiskey Before Breakfast (OT), Taveling Prayer (EW), Cold Sheets of Rain (Baucom), True Blue (Emerson), Amarillo Highway (Munde), Dinah (OT/MC).

263 September 1995 - DENNIS CAPLINGER of Bluegrass Etc. Hands (MC); Profile: Julie Elkins of New Vintage; Basics of Scruggs Style (BC); Old Joe Clark in E? (TW); 21 Fill-In Licks (BU); Winterhawk: On The Stelling Side; Don Wayne Reno's Instructional Video; Chord Functions Pt 2 (CS); Playing On Stage (OTR); Earl's Way TABS: Blues In Grey (Caplinger), Durang's Hornpipe (Caplin.), Old Country Waltz (MC/OT), Trevor Travis (Elkins), No Mother Or Dad (BC), Old Joe Clark, 5 x 8 (Don Reno), Blue Goose (OT), Chicken In The Snowbank (OT) TAB INDEX Volume XXII: Nov. 1994 - Sept. 1995.

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