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                                                                                                                              BANJO TUNES & SONGS

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                                                                                                                              Below is a list of tunes most of which I am actively playing:
                                                                                                                              (Tunes marked * are originals)

                                                                                                                              Instrumentals:
                                                                                                                              Pickaway
                                                                                                                              Lonesome Road Blues
                                                                                                                              Haskell's Stomp
                                                                                                                              Mc Cormick's String Picnic
                                                                                                                              Bugle Call Rag
                                                                                                                              Pike County Breakdown
                                                                                                                              Foggy Mountain Breakdown
                                                                                                                              Feuding Banjos
                                                                                                                              Foggy Mountain Banjo
                                                                                                                              Foggy Mountain Minor*
                                                                                                                              Shake & Bake Breakdown*
                                                                                                                              Blue Ridge Pines*
                                                                                                                              Backcountry Picking Party*
                                                                                                                              Long Hard Road*
                                                                                                                              Alder Brook*

                                                                                                                              Are You Washed in the Blood
                                                                                                                              Crossroads
                                                                                                                              Get in Line Brother
                                                                                                                              Banjo Girl*
                                                                                                                              Deep Water Hornpipe*
                                                                                                                              East Mill Flow*
                                                                                                                              Essex Junction*
                                                                                                                              Five String Dixie*
                                                                                                                              General Hammond*
                                                                                                                              Greenwood Strain*
                                                                                                                              Hard Wide Road*
                                                                                                                              Longing For Home*
                                                                                                                              McCourt's Bridge*
                                                                                                                              Old Home Rag*
                                                                                                                              Panther Mountain*
                                                                                                                              Pig in a Poke*
                                                                                                                              Ripple Crick*
                                                                                                                              The Flight of the Hornet*
                                                                                                                              Uncle Jake*
                                                                                                                              The Valley Rascals Rag*
                                                                                                                              Little Maggie
                                                                                                                              When You and I Were Young, Maggie
                                                                                                                              Jingle Bells
                                                                                                                              Oh Tannenbaum
                                                                                                                              Grandfather's Clock
                                                                                                                              Cripple Creek
                                                                                                                              Whoa Mule
                                                                                                                              Blackberry Blossom
                                                                                                                              You Are My Sunshine
                                                                                                                              Tall Pines
                                                                                                                              Ruben's Train
                                                                                                                              Red River Valley
                                                                                                                              Daybreak in Dixie
                                                                                                                              Ralph's Banjo Special
                                                                                                                              Nashville Skyline Rag
                                                                                                                              Nashville Grass Breakdown
                                                                                                                              Joy Bells
                                                                                                                              Home Sweet Home
                                                                                                                              Banjolina
                                                                                                                              Theme Time
                                                                                                                              Gold Rush
                                                                                                                              Battle Hymn of the Republic
                                                                                                                              Black Diamond
                                                                                                                              Fireball Mail
                                                                                                                              Fireball
                                                                                                                              The Wabash Cannonball
                                                                                                                              Old Joe Clark
                                                                                                                              Cumberland Gap
                                                                                                                              Bluegrass Breakdown
                                                                                                                              Down Yonder
                                                                                                                              Roanoke
                                                                                                                              Black Mountain Rag
                                                                                                                              Mountain Dew
                                                                                                                              She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain
                                                                                                                              John Hardy
                                                                                                                              Little Dave
                                                                                                                              Little Willie
                                                                                                                              Molly and Tenbrooks
                                                                                                                              Monroe's Hornpipe

                                                                                                                              Big Mon
                                                                                                                              Wheel Hoss
                                                                                                                              My Little Girl in Tennessee
                                                                                                                              Georgia Rose
                                                                                                                              Nine Pound Hammer
                                                                                                                              No Mother or Dad
                                                                                                                              Rawhide

                                                                                                                              Rabbit in the Log
                                                                                                                              Red Wing
                                                                                                                              Santa Claus
                                                                                                                              Sourwood Mountain
                                                                                                                              Stony Lonesome
                                                                                                                              Sweet Dixie
                                                                                                                              The Baptism of Jesse Taylor
                                                                                                                              Union County
                                                                                                                              Wildwood Flower
                                                                                                                              Will You Be Loving Another Man
                                                                                                                              How Mountain Girls Can Love
                                                                                                                              Turkey in the Straw
                                                                                                                              Take Me In a Lifeboat
                                                                                                                              I'm Using My Bible For a Roadmap
                                                                                                                              Tears of Regret
                                                                                                                              I'm Changing the Words to My Lovesong of You
                                                                                                                              True Love is too Sweet to Last
                                                                                                                              Old Liza Jane
                                                                                                                              One Tear
                                                                                                                              My Little Honeysuckle Rose
                                                                                                                              My Darling in Heaven
                                                                                                                              Lost All My Money
                                                                                                                              Y'all Come
                                                                                                                              Maple Sugar

                                                                                                                              Spinning Wheel
                                                                                                                              Brandy Wine
                                                                                                                              Sally Goodin
                                                                                                                              Missouri Road
                                                                                                                              Silver Bells
                                                                                                                              Jake Brake
                                                                                                                              Shucking the Corn
                                                                                                                              The Rheatown Ramble*
                                                                                                                              Mountain Fairies*
                                                                                                                              Chuckey Pike Breakdown*
                                                                                                                              Sledd Ridin'
                                                                                                                              The Banjer Am The Instrument Fer Me (Grandpa Jones)
                                                                                                                              Hot Corn Cold Corn
                                                                                                                              The Beverly Hillbillies
                                                                                                                              The Bells of Saint Mary's
                                                                                                                              Foggy Mountain Top

                                                                                                                              Washington County
                                                                                                                              Little Home in West Virginia
                                                                                                                              Fox On The Run
                                                                                                                              Wagon Wheel
                                                                                                                              Ridin' That Midnight Train
                                                                                                                              The Flint Hill Special

                                                                                                                              The Randy Lynn Rag
                                                                                                                              The Unaka Bounce*
                                                                                                                              I'm Off to the Jam*
                                                                                                                              Fred's 5-String Breakdown*
                                                                                                                              (And many more that I'll list at a later time)



                                                                                                                              I can play along with hundreds and hundreds of songs and so I'll not list them all.

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                                                                                                                              Me and my 'Idol' (Carl Kithcart)

                                                                                                                              Billy Lee Cox

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                                                                                                                              Billy Lee Cox is one of the finest banjoists to be found on the circuit today. His "Reno" style and Eddie Adcock and Scruggs and Stanley influence is enhanced by his own wonderful style. His backup is second-to-none. I love listening to Billy. I also love visiting with him and "hanging" out with him and attending his banjo workshops when they're available and listening to him jam out in the field when at festivals.
                                                                                                                              Billy wrote a banjo book a few years back with his 100 hottest licks. I've volunteered to update his book with transcribing all his licks to music and banjo tab.
                                                                                                                              Billy is a truly wonderful man and a tremendous pleasure to know. He's in the band "Remington Ryde". Be sure and catch a Bluegrass festival where they're all playing. You'll be happy you did.


                                                                                                                              New York and Northern States Banjo Pickers

                                                                                                                              Here are some of the many banjoists I've picked with:
                                                                                                                              Ricky Payro
                                                                                                                              Bob Gibeault
                                                                                                                              Roger Sprung
                                                                                                                              Gordon Stone
                                                                                                                              Fred Pike
                                                                                                                              Sam Tidwell
                                                                                                                              Billy Kimball
                                                                                                                              Don Stover
                                                                                                                              Don Reno (from TN, but met him and picked with him in Maine and New York)
                                                                                                                              Jimmy Cox
                                                                                                                              Billy Lee Cox
                                                                                                                              Tiny Martin
                                                                                                                              Carol Bevins
                                                                                                                              Lynn Williams
                                                                                                                              Herman McGee
                                                                                                                              Bill Gokey
                                                                                                                              Brian Mason
                                                                                                                              Dick Pelletier
                                                                                                                              Mike Van Alstyne
                                                                                                                              Steve Walker
                                                                                                                              Pat Ashley
                                                                                                                              Cliff Erdman
                                                                                                                              Rich S. (Lake Luzerne, NY) aka ADK Rebel
                                                                                                                              Richie Steenburn
                                                                                                                              Carl Kithcart
                                                                                                                              Eric Gibson
                                                                                                                              Stan Ink
                                                                                                                              Steve Light
                                                                                                                              Scott Hopkins
                                                                                                                              Doug Knight
                                                                                                                              Will Challet
                                                                                                                              Ted Lehmann

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                                                                                                                              Tennessee, Virginia & North Carolina Banjo Pickers

                                                                                                                              There are many banjo pickers that I've had the pleasure of meeting and picking with here in Tennessee and surrounding areas. As time goes on and I've had the opportunity to meet more, (and remember more of the pickers I've already met) I'll include their names here, too.
                                                                                                                              Some that I've already met and picked with are:

                                                                                                                              Ron Duncan
                                                                                                                              Terry Tester
                                                                                                                              Frank Wing
                                                                                                                              Jason Skinner
                                                                                                                              Alan Shepard, Jr.
                                                                                                                              Mike Laws
                                                                                                                              Burl Mast
                                                                                                                              Clancy Mullins
                                                                                                                              Edison Wallin
                                                                                                                              Mike Hensley
                                                                                                                              Tim Decker
                                                                                                                              Grady Johnson
                                                                                                                              Bill Harris
                                                                                                                              Paul Greene
                                                                                                                              Mike Broome
                                                                                                                              Eddy Ray
                                                                                                                              Roger Messer
                                                                                                                              Teddy Morton
                                                                                                                              Bobby Hicks
                                                                                                                              Mike Draughn
                                                                                                                              Chuck Poore
                                                                                                                              Tony Olivent
                                                                                                                              Larry Hartsell
                                                                                                                              Tony Mabe
                                                                                                                              Haley Stiltner

                                                                                                                              1963 Gibson Bowtie Flathead

                                                                                                                              Below are some pictures of my 1963 Gibson Bowtie.

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                                                                                                                              Ronnie Shelton, Eddy Ray & Fred Warner