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411: Jan. 08: BOBBY LUNDY, interview by Greg Cahill. COLUMNS: Earl’s Way: Beginner’s Corner: Reno-style Workshop, Part 2; Let’s Roll: Breaking Out of Intermediate Rut, and playing in D. REVIEWS:Tim Carter’s “Bang Bang; Banjo Improvisation DVD by Jayme Stone; Geiger Tone Enhancer; Stage Mate Banjo Stand. OLD-TIME WAY: R.D. Lunceford interview. REVIEWS: Pretty Little Dog by Laura Schulman; Clawhammer Duets by Wayne Chrusball; Meet Me in the Music by Erynn Marshall and Chris Coole. TABS: Scotland (Bob Black), Tammy’s Song, Banjo Boy Chimes (Lundy), Jim Along Josey (OT), Pretty Little Dog (OT), Mrs. McLeod’s Reel (OT), Black-eyed Susie (OT), Copper Run (OT), Dogpatch (Tim Carter), Little Maggie (BC), Evening Shade Falling (Bob Black).
412: Feb. 08: JASON DAVIS, interview by Greg Cahill. Profile: Rhiannon Giddens by John Salmon. COLUMNS: Exploring the Fingerboard; Earl’s Way: On The Road; All Hail the FLint Hill Flash; Back Up; Scales Tones & Bob Black; Concepts & Systems; MC; Beginner’s Corner: Rolls; Just Pickin’ with the BanjoDiva, Tech Talk: Fitting Tone Chambers. REVIEWS: Tom Adams tab book for “Trains Are the Only Way to Fly; Jason Davis’s “Steppin’ Out”; “American Banjo, 3-Finger & Scruggs Style” tab book; Ed Dick’s 6-string Banjo. TABS: Big Ears (OT), Black Diamond in D (ETF), Found Indian (OT), Lonesome Banjo, In The Gravel Yard, Wildwood Flower Blues (Adams County Banjo), Open Road (Jason Davis), Lonesome Road Bues (EW), Red Wing (BU), John Henry (Snuffy Jenkins), 40 West (Hatfield), Nashville Skyline Rag (C&S), Jake’s Got a Bellyache (MC)
413: March 08: NOAM PIKELNY, interview by Jake Schepps. COLUMNS:Builder’s Forum: Tony Pass: Why Block?; Let’s Roll: Advice to a Young Player, and Changing Chords Faster; Old-time from the Ozarks; On The Road; Melodic Clawhammer: Holding the Banjo, and Frailing Scoops; Reno-Style Workshop: Single String; Beginner’s Corner: Vacation; Adams County Banjo; Just Pickin: Motivation, Provrastination and Instant Gratification. REVIEWS: “Quartet” by Lluis Gomez; “Ten Thousand Leavers” by Jake Schepps; Price Banjo Case. TABS: Music for a Found Harmonium; You Can’t Stop Me From Dreaming, Clear the Palate (OT), Stop the World (Gomez), The Blind Leaving the Blind (2 Sections, Pikelny), Rock That Cradle, Lucy (OT), Big Sciote (BC), The Seagull (Schepps), Gotta Travel On (BC), Beautiful Brown Eyes (Adams County Banjo).
414: April 08: SAMMY SHELOR, interview by Ian Perry. COLUMNS: Trischka’s Picks: I’m A Loser; On The Road; The Banjo & the Superbowl; Earl’s Way: Let’s Roll: Joining Groups; Exploring the Fingerboard; Beginner’s Corner; Adams County Banjo; Teach Talk: Tone Chambers cont. REVIEW: “Bluegrass Banjo Backup, Basic” DVD by Pete Wernick. The OLD-TIME WAY: Pete Vigour interview; Feature: SCott Phillips; Review: The Morgantown Rounders. TABS: Swing That Hammer (Shelor), I’m A Loser (Trischka), Down Down Down (EW), John Lover’s Gone (OT), Firefly (OT), Big Scioty (OT, Phillips), Won’t Be Over You (Shelor), Lonesome Fiddle Blues (ETF), Happy Birthday (BC), Lord Mayo (March-Gavotte), Adams County Banjo.
415: May 08: BLAKE WILLIAMS, interview by Greg Cahill. Profile: CHRIS QUINN. COLUMNS: Banjos at Music Messe; Practice Techniques: The Trianle Method; Melodic Clawhammer: The Banjo’s African Roots; Let’s Roll: Banjo Claus; Back Up; Playing in D, E and F; Old Time from the Ozarks; Trischka’s Picks: Big Sciota; Beginner’s Corner: Chimes; Adams County Banjo; Bob’s Tunes: Lee Hammons; Banjo Diva: Listen to Earl? REVIEWS: “Great Banjo Lessons” DVD; “Old Bones” by Alan Munde; Recording King’s RK-R50 banjo. TABS: Cherry Creek (B. Williams), Greenfield Cotillion (MC), Prize Pig (C. Quinn), Wasting My Time (BU, Shelor), Stompin’ in the Flatlands (Munde), Old Judge Parker (OT), Big Sciota (3-Finger, Trischka), Taps, Bugle Call Rag (BC), Walking in the Parlor (OT, Hammons), Dead Mouse (Adams County Banjo).
416: June 08: BILLY FAIER. COLUMNS:On The Road; Stuart Duncan Tour; Exploring the Fingerboard; Bob’s Tunes: Stella Kimble; Earl’s Way: Teach Talk: The Restoring Force; Concepts & Systems: Composing with Harmony; Adams County Banjo; OT from the Ozarks: Beginner’s Corner: Moveable Chord Shapes, #1; Reno-Style: Brush Technique. REVIWS: “It’s About Time” by Mac Benford; Mike’s Mute; Otis Taylor’s “Recapturing the Banjo”. TABS: Drive Mother Home (Stockwell), The Hangman’s Reel (ETF), Fiddle Tune (Faier), Zzyzx (Faier), Going Down to Raleigh (OT), Guinea Pig in a Pen (Hatfield, Concepts & Systems), I Though I Heard You Calling my Name (Adams County Banjo), Hell Up Mud Creek (OT), Mississippi Snag (OT), Your Love is Like a Flower (BC), Gone Indian (Benford, OT).
417: July 08: JAKE SCHEPPS, interview by Jayme Stone. COLUMNS: Let’s Roll: Ten Repertoires; Adams County Banjo; Back Up; Harmonic Minor; Concepts & Systems: Composing w/harmony cont.; Beginner’s Corner: Moveable Chord Spapes, #2; Feature: Philippe Revel’s Banjos; Just Pickin: Banjos & Catfish.... REVIEWS: The BanjoMate Tone Enhancer. THE OLD TIME WAY: Interview with Evie Ladin; Here’s The Scoop by Bob Carlin; Reviews: “Get Off Your Money” by Stairwell Sisters; Chuck Lee’s Prairieville banjo. TABS: Lonesome Weary Heart (Evan Ward), Butter on the Biscuit and Jelly on the Side (K. Stitt), Origami (Schepps), The Rise (Schepps), The Prisoner’s Song (Adams County Banjo), Meet Me By the Moonlight (Adams County Banjo), Devil’s Dream (BU, minor), Sleep When You’re Dead (OT), Charleston #1 (OT), Temperance Reel (OT), Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms (C&S), Blackberry Blossom (BC).
418: Aug. 08: ABIGAIL WASHBURN, interview by David Brooks. Profile: WES CORBETT. Builder’s Forum: JIM BURLILE. COLUMNS: Let’s Roll: Hearing Chord Changes; Exploring the Fingerboard; Adams County Banjo; OT from the Ozarks; Melodic Clawhammer: Accompanying Jigs; Earl’s Way: BU: Natural Minor; Tech Talk: More on Restoring Force, and Tuning; Beginner’s Corner: Great Players; On The Road; Banjo Camp North. REVIEWS: The Sparrow Quartet; From Mali to America. TABS: Dixie Hoedown (ETF), California Dreamin’ (Adams County Banjo), Great Big Waltz of China (Washburn), Bear Creek Sally Goodin’ (OT), From Mali to America (OT), Connaughtmann’s Rambles (MC), Panda & Critter (W. Corbett), 30 Min. (W. Corbett), Maggie’s Farm (EW), Devil’s Dream (BU, Nat Minor), Old Dan Tucker (OT).
419: Sept. 08: NED LUBERECKI, interview by Ian Perry. COLUMNS: Just Pickin’: My Reuben Rut; On The Road; Kaufman Kamp; Adams County Banjo; Melodic Clawhammer: Using Different Chords to Change Atmosphere; Concepts & Systems: Interview with Bela Fleck (conclusion); BF; Earl’s Way: Bob’s Tunes: Fred Cockerham’s ‘Roustabout’; Reno-Style: Part 5—Roadmap; Beginner’s Corner: Have Banjo, Will Travel; OT from Ozarrs: Latest Rage; Lety’s Roll: Finding a Jam. REVIEW: “Banjo Camp” by Senyak, review by Tom Adams. TABS: Light at the River (Adams County Banjo), Last Chance (Luberecki, 3-finger), And Take Your Brother With You (Luberecki), Lost Girl (MC), Spain (BF), Gotta Travel On (EW), Roustabout (Cockerham, OT), South Missouri (OT), Walkin’ (Lluis Gomez)
420: Oct. 08: CHRIS PANDOLFI, interview by Jake Schepps. A “Pre-War” Symposium. COLUMNS: Let’s Roll: Getting Away from Memorizatiaon, and Creating Solos; Earl’s Way: Tech Talk: “Pre-War” SOund; Beginner’s Corner: What Makes a Good Album?; ETF: Scruggs-Style in D; On The Road; Thomas Point; Adams County Banjo; Just Pickin’: The Cow, The Horesman & the Sophomore. REVIEWS: Johnny Butten’s “Solo”; “Modern 5-String Method” by Alan Munde. The OLD-TIME WAY: Workshops, Lesson and Camps, A Guide by Dan Levenson; Florida’s Old-Time Calendar; Reviews: Kevin Fore’s “Round Peak”; Gold Tone’s CED-6. TABS: Jason’s Run (Butten), All The Good Times are... (EW), C Tuning (Pandolfi), Moon Man (Pandolfi), Cripple Creek (Fore, OT), Sally Ann (Fore, OT), Ireland’s Green Shore (6-string, OT), Worried Man (Munde), Sail Away Ladies (BC), I Saw the Light, in D (ETF), The Munster’s Theme (Adams County Banjo).
421, Nov. 08: BANJO NEWSLETTER Remarks by Tony Trischka, Roger Siminoff, Ray Hesson and Martha and Eddie Adcock. The Return of the Flint Hill Flash! 35 Years Ago Today. Back-Up: Hub Nitchie; On The Road: Looking Back by Murphy Henry, Beginner’s Corner: #35 and Counting; Melodic Clawhammer: Nancy Nitchie and MBA. Along with our usual columns: Munde’s Morsels, Chorducopia, Let’s Roll, Bob’s Tunes, Adams County Banjo, EW. TABS: South 14 (OT), Shakin’ Off the Acorns (Ferretti), Cast Your Fate to the Wind (AD), Brown County Breakdown (Munde), Black Mountain Rag (BU), Blue Ridge Cabin Home (BC), Ship in the Clouds (OT, Carlin), Hot Corn Cold Corn (EW), Bristol Steam Convention Blues (Hub Nitchie), Sweet Lorraine (JB), Little Donald in the Pigpen (MC), Darlin’ Nellie Across the Sea (Adams County Banjo).
422, Dec. 08: Feature: ERIC WEISSBERG, Part 1, interview by Mike Kropp. 5-String Update: Ben Eldridge. Michael J. Miles and his Banjos in the Classroom. A Banjo Players IBMA. REVIEWS: Tony Trischka’s “Hill County” reissue; Modern Banjo ideas by Jake Schepps; “Jingle All the Way” by the Flecktones; “Evergreen” By Alison Brown, Goldtone Cello Banjos. And our usual columns: Just Pickin’; Adams County Banjo; Exploring the Fingerboard; Bob’s Tunes (Ora Lee); Beginner’s Corner; Let’s Roll (Back to Basics. TABS: In The Jailhouse Now (Adams County Banjo), Sleigh Ride (BF), New York Chimes (Trischka), O’Carolan’s Concerto (Alison Brown), ETF Blues (ETF), Grandpa Get Your Guitar (Eldridge), Fair Weather (Alison Brown), Johnny Bring the Jug Around the Hill (Ozarks OT), Greasy Coat (OT, Cox), Auld Lange Syne (BC).
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