Oh Susanna

New song this week.  Oh Susanna.  Everyone probably is familiar with it.  I've practiced it for 5 days and still has lots of rough spots, but here's the video:

And the Banjo Tab:

Play List

Our Tuesday jam plays a lot of songs, but I made up a list of those we play frequently.  So while this is in no way a comprehensive list of our jam songs, these come up a lot.


Played Open:

Blackberry Blossom

Lonesome Road Blues

Down Yonder

Will the Circle be Unbroken

Ballad of Jed Clampett

Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Dear Old Dixie

Dixie Hoedown

John Hardy

East Virginia Blues

Fireball Mail

Ground Speed


Capo 2:

Gold Rush

Old Joe Clark

Theme Time

Cherokee Shuffle

Bill Cheatham

Big Sandy River

Doug’s Tune

Ragtime Annie

Blue Night

Clinch Mountain Backstep

Red Haired Boy

Whiskey Before Breakfast

Cul-de-Sec Jam Tuesday 5/5/2020.

Tuesday's jam worked out well.  6 folks showed up, which was enough for a good jam without overwhelming our social distancing.  Here's a short video of us playing Down Yonder.

Down Yonder Video

Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom

I got a new song in my lesson on Wednesday.  It’s Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom (not related to the Blackberry Blossom we all play).  I had never heard it before and it seemed almost discordant at first, but after playing it a couple hundred times over the past 4 days, it begins to make musical sense.  It’s still very bluesy but not actually discordant.  It’s a fiddle tune and is usually played fast, but slow is the best I can do so far.

Here's The Tab: