Track Listing

1. Hollyding - Wade Ward
2. As Time Draws Near - Tommy Jarrell
3. Georgie - Matokie Slaughter
4. Shaving a Dead Man - Oscar Wright
5. John Hardy - Glen Smith
6. Let Old Drunkards Be - Oscar Wright
7. Little Birdie - Gaither Carlton
8. Cluck Old Hen - Wade Ward
9. Little Brown Jug - Beverly Thompson,
10. Sugar Hill - Glen Smith
11. Tater Patch - Charlie Lowe
12. Western Country - Glen Smith, Wade Wood
13. John Henry - Glen Smith
14. Liza Jane - Oscar Wright
15. Going Back to Georgia - Glen Smith
16. Jimmy Sutton - George Stoneman
17. Johnson Boys - Wade Ward
18. Arkansas Traveler - Glen Smith, Wade Ward

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #230510 in Music
• Released on: 2005-01-18
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

An outstanding set of bluegrass/old-timey music
Yahoo!! These are some of the most welcomed reissue records in all of bluegrass-land, extended versions of the original three-volume series of vinyl LPs from the 1960s and '70s, that feature some of the sweetest, simplest examples of the downpicking, or clawhammer, style of banjo playing... These tracks were all gathered by folklorist Charlie Faurot, who recorded informal sessions by Tommy Jarrell, George Stoneman, Wade Ward, and many other, less well-known clawhammer pickers. Most of the tracks, but not all, are instrumentals, and while you might think that three albums worth of the same style of music on the same instrument might wear thin after a while, I actually found these to be some of the most enjoyable records I've listened to recently. You can just kick back and let the music flow, washing you in waves of a bygone time... As the liner notes point out, since these records were originally issued, all of the artists featured on them have passed away, and with them went the direct connection to the older, backwoods world they came from. Sure, there are folks today who can play in the same style and who know all the old songs, but somehow there's nothing that quite matches the feel of music made by people who really grew up in rural communities without electricity or many of the other amenities of modern life, folks who have felt the sweet side of hard times, players from another time and another world altogether. Anyway, these discs all sound special to me, and I think you'll like 'em, too... And for present-day students of clawhammer banjo, you couldn't ask for a better guide to the style... Highly recommended!

Clawhammer Banjo
This cd is just as wonderful as Vols 1 & 2..........wonderful music for someone who is learning to play clawhammer banjo.

More good old time music
I already had Clawhammer Banjo vol. 1 & vol. 2, so getting vol. 3 was a no brainer. More good old time clawhammer tunes, lots of good stuff by Wade Ward, Oscar Wright and others. If you're an old time music fan, this is another good resourse for your collection. Nice liner notes about each of the musicians.