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387 Jan. 2006: DAVID TALBOT Interview by Marci Shore. An Interview with Erik Darling By Rik Palieri; PUTTING MY MASTERTONE on a DIET By Joe Timko; The Earl Scruggs BANJO MAN EXHIBIT; THE OLD-TIME WAY #5: Intro by Dan Levenson; Old-Time Banjo in the Northwest; Goldtone’s Bob Carlin open-back; Review of Jeanie Murphy’s CD; Adams County Banjo; JMB: J.D. Crowe; Beginner’s Corner: Melodic Style; ETF. REVIEWS: Stelling and Huber CDs, Ron Stewart’s DVD, Clawhammer for the Complete Ignoramous by Wayne Erbsen. book. Reviews by Pete Kelly, Dave Schenkman and Fred Huffman; Charlie Parker’s Confirmation; TUNES from TUG HOLLOW By Mike Kropp: TABS: Flowers on a Hill (Erik Darling); Monkey on a Dogcart (OT); 5 New Cents (OT, Murphy); John Lover’s Gone (OT, Murphy); John Henry (JMB); Devil’s Dream (BC); Blackberry Blossom (ETF); Margarita Breakdown (G. Cahill); Apple Blossom (Munde); Blue Fiddler (R. Stewart); Confirmation (JB); April Snow (Odessa), Kropp;
388 Feb. 2006: STEVE ARKIN Interview by Jody Stecher. FEATURE: Aaron Youngberg, REVIEW: Dan Levenson’s “Traveling Home” CD; Beginner’s Corner: 2-Finger Rolls?; ON THE ROAD: All About Licks; Adams County Banjo; TABS OF THE MONTH: arrangements by Alan Munde and Dennis Caplinger; LISTEN UP!; Earl’s Way: Backwards Masking; Melodic Clawhammer: Thumb-Lead; BOB: Two-Finger picker Chip Arnold; TECH TALK: Rims to Woods; Concepts & Systems: Composing By Jack Hatfield. TABS: Durang’s Hornpipe (OT, Levenson); Possum Up A ‘Simmon Tree (OT, Arkin); Midnight on the Stormy Deep (OT, Arking); Yankee Doodle (BC); Devil’s Dream (BC); The Pink Panher (Adams County Banjo); Joy To The World (Piekiel); The Eighth of Feb. (Munde); Any Day Woman (Aaron Youngberg); Flyin’ in the Wind (Aaron Youngberg); Buttons and Bows (Listen Up); Pretty Polly (EW); Home Sweet Home (MC); Midnight on the Water (BOB)
389 Mar. 2006: CHARLIE CUSHMAN, by MaryE Yeomans. REVIEW: The Banjo: From Africa to America, exhibit; REVIEW: Turtle Hill Bluegrass Woody Banjo; Cushman Tab notes by Bill Evans; Back Up; Classic Back-up Lick; REVIEW: John Balch; FEATURE: Matt Flinner Interview by Jake Schepps; ON THE ROAD: Chord Changes By Murphy Henry; JMB; Adams County Banjo; BOB “Three Forks of Ivy”; OLD TIME from the OZARKS; ETF: Blackberry Blossom (Part B); Beginner’s Corner: More 2-Finger Rolls. TABS: Chainsaw, Lutke; Uptown Blues (S. Cushman); Cedar Grove (Cushman); Big Ice (Matt Fliner) Love and Wealth (BU); Wesley (OT-Balch); Sassafras (OT, Balch); Firefly (OT, Balch); Chattanooga Dog (JMB); The Lonesome River (Adams County Banjo); Quince Dillon (OT, BOB); Echoes of the Ozarks (OT); Cruel Willie (OT); Blackberry Blossom (Part B, ETF); Coming Round the Mountain (BC);
390 Apr. 2006: ROBBY BOONE, by Greg Cahill. REVIEW: Gibson’s J.D. Crowe signature Blackjack banjo. Review by Mike Kropp; OFF THE RECORD: J.D. Crowe’s Backup. OLD TIME WAY #6: Review of Jimmy McCombs new CD; Diane Jones’s new instructional DVD, Rebekah Weiler interview, by Bob Carlin.; Review and profile of the Field Recorders’ Collective, by Bob Carlin; Earl’s Way: Adams County Banjo; ON THE ROAD: The Banjo Cruise; TECH TALK: Neck Woods; Concepts & Systems: Composing on the 5-string, introduction (part 2); Beginner’s Corner: Dueling Banjos phrases. TABS: Inigosh Jig (Celtic); Your Love is Like a Flower (JD Back-up); Sally in the Garden (OT, Weiler); Twin Sisters (OT); Reuben’s Train (OT); Love’s Gonna Live Here (R. Boone); Uncloudy Day (Boone); Cure, The (EW); Dream of a Miner’s Child (Adams County Banjo); Dueling Banjo (BC, #1)
391 May 2006: RON BLOCK by Petra Jones. REVIEWS: Learn to Play Bluegrass Banjo!, DVD. Cigar-box Banjo Review. Ultimate Banjo Songbook. BOB: Cathy Fink’s DVD; Andy Pond’s The Pugilist; Concepts & Systems: Composing on 5-String: Technical Aspects; TA: Reggae; Beginner’s Corner: Ending the Dueling; JMB; FEATURE: Eugene Chadbourne Introduction by Tony Trischka.; ETF: Harmony Banjo; Melodic Clawhammer: Close Harmony; OLD-TIME from the OZARKS; ON THE ROAD: Listening Deeper; REVIEW: Ray Hesson’s “Sunrise.” TABS: The Pugilist (Andy Pond); Cluck Old Hen (Ron Block); Bright Sunny South (intro, R. Block); Get Up, Stand Up (Adams County Banjo); Dueling Banjos (chorus, BC); All the Good Times (JMB); Rebecca (ETF); Old Joe Clark (MC); Peacock Rag (OT, Ozarks); Horse and Buggy-O(OT, Ozarks); Bye Bye Love (Janet Davis); Dixie House Rag (Ray Hesson)
392 June 2006: PAUL BROWN By Alan Friend. TABS of the MONTH: Dave Brubeck’s Blue Rondo; Scott Vestal’s Last Night’s Fun; 2006 BNL Reader’s Survey Results; Adams County Banjo; TECH TALK: Neck Woods, cont, FEATURE: Ben Krakauer Interview by Jake Schepps; Beginner’s Corner: Basic Back-up, Playing with Others; REVIEW: Cotton Blossom CD/Tab Review by John Salmon; ON THE ROAD: First 3-Chord Song; Melodic Clawhammer: Close Harmony, Part 2: Fiddle Tunes; FEATURE: Michael Hurley Interview by Donald Nitchie; EARL’S WAY. TABS: Blue Rondo (JB); Last Night’s Fun (Vestal); Buckeroo (Adams County Banjo); Shortenin’ Break (OT, Paul Brown); Dawg Patch (Krakauer); Lookee Here (Krakauer); Boil ‘Em Cabbage (BC); There Was An Old Soldier (OT); Fisher’s Hornpipe (MC); Yo Mona (Michael Hurley); Randy Lynn Rag (EW)
393 July 2006: JENS KRUGER By Petra Jones. 2006 Reader’s Survey Revisited; Suggested Bluegrass Banjo Reading; THE OLD-TIME WAY #7: Remembering Ailene Adams; REVIEW: Fred Cockerham CD; Remembering Fred Cockerham By Ray Alden; REVIEW: North Carolina Banjo Players DVD by Bob Carlin; REVIEW: Jericho Road by Dwight Diller Review. Adams County Banjo; Back Up; The Krugers; Concepts & Systems: Composing: Technical Aspects; Exploring the Fingerboard; REVIEW: Bill Evans’s Power Pickin’ 3: Bluegrass Backup DVD Review by Eddie Collins; Beginner’s Corner: Stagefright. TABS: New Country (Adams County Banjo); Round Town Girls (OT, Cockerham); Sugar Hill (OT, Cockerham); Callaway (Diller, OT); Sarah (Kruger); Cumberland Gap (BU, Kruger); Feudin’ Krugers (Kruger, BU); Somewhere Over the Rainbow (ETF); All the Good Times (Bill Evans BU); El Choclo (tango banjo);
394 Aug. 2006: GENE PARKER By John Lewis. TAB OF THE MONTH Bob Piekiel’s Secret Tune; FESTIVAL JAMMING; ON THE ROAD: Improvising! Harvest Time. Comments by Greg Cahill; BOB JMB: Paul Craft; Back Up; Billy Ray Latham; BF; Beginner’s Corner; Melodic Clawhammer: “Priming” on the Banjo; OT from the OZARKS; Adams County Banjo; TECH TALK: Neck Wood continued; Wayne Roger’s Banjo Suite. TABS: Secret Tune (Bob Piekiel); Harvest Time (Gene Parker); I Am a Pilgrim (BOB, OT); Ain’t Nobody’s Gonna Miss Me (JMB); Clinch Mt. Backstep (Billy Ray Latham); Whistle Tune, the (BF); Indian Nation (MC); Red Wing (OT, Ozarks); Little Dog Trottin Down the River (OT, Ozarks); Last Date (Adams County Banjo); Banjo Suite (Wayne Roges);
395, Sept. 06: BILL CHAPMAN, interviewed by Greg Cahill. Feature: Paul Presopino. One More Banjo Legend; How the Banjo Got to Australia by Bob Carlin. Exploring the Fingerboard; BACK-UP: Bill Chapman; LISTEN UP!; Concepts & Systems Composing on the Banjo; Beginner’s Corner: Earl’s Top 10; TA;OT from the OZARKS ON THE ROAD: Just Call Me Back. REVIEW: Mary Z. Cox’s new CD. TABS: Crazy Heart (Adams County Banjo), St. Ann’s Reel (ETF), Dinah (OT), Hot Corn, Cold Corn; Mudgee Waltz, Waltzing Matilda, The Old Man in the Shanty (Chapman, BU), I Walk the Line, Roundeye (Steve Sparkman), Cotton Blossoms (OT), America the Beautiful
396, Oct 06: EARL SCRUGGS, Interviewed by Tony Trischka and Bela Fleck. On The Road: Earl’s Book; Earl’s Way: The Old-Time Way: Old-Time in Ohio; Interview wth Curt Bouterse; Review of the Basic Backyard Banjo kit. Beginner’s Corner: Earl’s Top Ten; Back Up; Scruggs’ patterns; REVIEW; The Three Pickers; Adams County Banjo. TABS: John Henry (EW); Foggy Mt. Top (Scruggs); Soldier’s Joy (OT, Wig); Liza Jane (OT); Foggy Mt. Breakdown (BC); Nine Pound Hammer (BU); Katy Hill (BU); In The Gloryland (TA, Scruggs)
397, Nov 06: JIM HALE, interview by Bob Carlin. EARL SCRUGGS, Part 2, interviewed by Tony Trischka and Bela Fleck. Nova Scotia Banjo Camp; On The Road; IBMA 2006; Adams County Banjo; Concepts & Systems: Composing; Banjos on the Border; Melodic Clawhammer: Keith-picking, clawhammer style; Beginner’s Corner: Earl, simplified; Profile: Bob Fults and his tailpiece; Exploring the Fingerboard; Back-Up: D Tuning and Reuben; Tech Talk: More about Mass. TABS: Johnson Mt. Chimes, Rambling Hobo (OT), Mrs. McLeod’s Reel (MC), Big John Henry (OT), Jealous Hearted Lover (OT), Ballad of Jed Clampett (BC), Hardwood Ridge (Ian Perry), I’ll Love Nobody But You, Breton Ride (Leon Hunt), Reuben (BU)
398, Dec. 06: KENNY CANTRELL, interview by Greg Cahill. Earl’s Way; On The Road 2.0; The Debt We Owe Earl by Jim Mills; Adams County Banjo; REVIEWS: Cedar Hill; Homespun Slow Jam by Pete Wernick; Recording King Banjos, review by Dave Schenkman; Beginner’s Corner; Interview with Bob Carlin; The Banjo in Spain; Old-Time from the Ozarks; Back-up; Tech Talk: Resonators. TABS: The Old Cross Road (EW), Ricestrow (Adams County Banjo), McKenna’s Howdown (Cantrell), Silent Night, Black-Eyed Daisy (Carlin), Buckhorn (John Balch), God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Spain, Got A Little Home to Go To (OT), O Holy Night
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