Church Street Blues

Posted by mrNatchl, written by Norman Blake

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Size: 2,618kb, uploaded 9/15/2010 3:42:39 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen

One of my all-time favorite Norman Blake tunes. Still not perfect, but I got thru it, which I don't always!

Gray (original)

Written/Posted by mrNatchl

- Play count: 126

Size: 3,053kb, uploaded 4/11/2011 2:13:56 PM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen

This is one of my banjo-centric songs, but the flatpicked guitar break in the middle came out better than I hoped. I've called it folk but maybe it should be "other". I mean, classic rock organ and Latin trumpet section with a banjo tune? OK, I may have gone overboard playing around with some new midi samples. But it's kinda humorous I think.

Mystery Tune

Written/Posted by mrNatchl

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Size: 1,730kb, uploaded 6/15/2009 1:01:58 AM
Genre: Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen

Posted this on Banjo Hangout and nobody could identify it. It's what stuck in my head from something I heard on the radio while driving. It was a totally different arrangement, I though it would sound nice acoustic. If you know definitely what it is... please! Performed by the All Natural Sting Band (i.e., me, pretty much everything I've got: acoustic, reso, banjo, and bass, and Audacity) The old Takamine beater is finger-picked as the backdrop, and flat-picked in a solo. Plywood Wonder reso is flat picked in E standard tuning. My old StewMac "Mutt" banjo is tuned down to open E and picked 3-finger.

Old Time River Man

Posted by mrNatchl, written by John Hartford

- Play count: 438

Size: 4,352kb, uploaded 11/11/2010 1:42:44 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen

One of my favorite Hartford songs. I've played it on banjo for a long time, but while recording it to post on BHO, I ended up adding a flat-picked guitar track, so I'm posting it here for the edification of you flatpickin' folks. The guitar is partial-capoed using a banjo capo across 1-2, leaving 6 open, then basically played in D, which sounds like E - one of my favorite tricks. Try it sometime! The banjo is tuned down to E, where this particular instrument sounds best. This recording has had some GarageBand mastering tricks applied to it which cleaned it up, so it sounds imo better than the one I posted to BHO a while back. Hope y'al enjoy it.

Spring Peepers

Posted by mrNatchl, written by Bob Lucas

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Size: 2,443kb, uploaded 4/4/2011 12:36:18 PM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen

This Bob Lucas tune always reminds me of "sleepin' out" on the back porch summers, when I was a kid. There were a lot of peeper frogs down by the creek.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Written/Posted by mrNatchl

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Size: 4,844kb, uploaded 6/15/2009 1:18:39 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen

An original tune that kind of sounds like something from "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" Most people who hear it think it's inspired by my experience being an expatriate American living in Russia. Actually, when I wrote it, I was thinking more about my experience being a human living on planet Earth. :-) There's some of everything in there: acoustic in double D tuning, capo at 2, The Mutt banjo in open E. Tune has a Creative Commons license.

Walkin' Man

Written/Posted by mrNatchl

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Size: 2,143kb, uploaded 6/15/2009 1:32:47 AM
Genre: Jazz/Blues / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen

Here is the pure unadulterated sound of the 80s vintage transducer in my old Takamine, but that's what I wanted for this kind of Bluesy original tune. it's tempered with the Orpheum plywood wonder reso played as a Dobro with nut extender (track heavily doctored in Audacity to tone down the shriek). Another tune from my Creative Commons songwriting project (http://robertp.thirdline.com/tunes/cc.html).