Videos of Old-Time Performances and Clawhammer Banjo Lessons by Hunter Robertson

<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#CCCCCC" link="#9999CC" vlink="#9999FF" alink="#FF3300"> <p>Videos More videos available at: http://www.youtube.com/user/HunterRobertson Pateroller SongPateroller Song, learned from Hobart Smith. Pretty much the same tune as Salt River and a close cousin to Lonesome John. Banjo's tuned to sawmill (aEADE) and the fiddle AEAE (more or less, probably less).Lonesome JohnThis is Lonesome John (from John Salyer) played on my recently defretted Harmony (the bright light from the banjo neck is a sheet of copper) - makes a great fretless banjo. Tuning is sawmill (gDGCD, tuned a hair low I think). This is a version of the first real tune my father taught me, Clinch Mountain Backstep - I don't know where he got it, but he taught it to me as a clawhammer tune. Not very different but this is a little more fiddle-like. The Salyer recordings are available on the Digital Library of Appalachia, and well worth hearing.Soldier's JoySoldier's Joy, played on my trusty plastic Harmony. Tuning is gCGCD. This is based on Hobart Smith's version of the tune. Old Joe ClarkCasey Abair (fiddle) and Hunter Robertson (clawhammer banjo, tuning gDGBD). We played live on WRUV's show Exposure, hosted by Jeremy Ayers, on February 27th 2008. Our friend Rose came and filmed us.John Brown's DreamJohn Brown's Dream (or Herve Brown's Dream or Little Rabbit or Devil's Dream) performed by Casey Abair (fiddle) and Hunter Robertson (clawhammer banjo, tuning gDGBD). Old Molly HareOld Molly Hare, a descendant of Largo's Fairy Dance and Fairy Reel. I think I've got some bits of Juba in there too. The banjo's an S.S. Stewart with nylgut strings, tuned to the equivalent of gCGBD, down about 5 steps though. Learned this from my father's playing and Art Rosenbaum's and John Burke's books as well as Lomax's field recording of the McDonald family singing it.�2002-2008 Hunter Robertson - www.hunterrobertson.com</p> <p>If you're seeing this, you either have frames disabled, or are using a browser that can't display them. You can navigate the site, albeit inefficiently, by following the links given below:</p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/banjo.htm">Banjo</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/banjoframe.html">Banjoframe</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/hark.htm">Music</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/harkframe.html">Musicframe</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/ifyou.htm">If You Want</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/ifyouframe.html">If you want frame</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/index.html">Index</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/links.htm">Links</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/linksframe.html">Links frame</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/news.htm">News</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/newsframe.html">News frame</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/press.htm">Press</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/pressframe.html">Press Frame</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/reachout.html">Contact</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/reachoutframe.html">contact Frame</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/shows.htm">Shows</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/showsframe.html">Shows Frame</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/singssongs.htm">Sings Songs</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/singssongsframe.html">Sings Songs Frame</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/fretless_tin_can_banjo.htm">Fretless tin can banjo</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/fretlessframe.html">Tin Can Banjo</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/video.htm">Video</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/videoframe.html">Video Frame</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/who.htm">Who</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/whoframe.html">Who Frame</a></p> <p>- <a href="http://www.hunterrobertson.com/intro.htm">Intro</a></p> </body>