Composed this years ago but just decided to record it. Added some guitar backup to fill out the sound a bit. It's not bluegrassy or Old-Timey, but it sounded a bit classical to me so at the risk of offending the purists out there that's how I classified it, and that's how I settled on the title, which may be pronounced Broken if you so desire. :>) In G tuning.

A Mormon Hymn from 1846. Cassie Webster vocal, Tom Berghan banjo, Stephen Stubbs classical guitar, Tekla Cunningham violin, Brandon Vance violin

Transcribed By John Bullard

Neo classical piece I wrote in 1985

A neo-classical piece I wrote on a Pohlmann mandoline banjo back in 1985

From my 1992 CD The Classical Banjo

Ric Hollander - My arrangement of two Turlough O'Carolan tunes - Sheebeg and Sheemore, Planxty Irwin. Recorded using the Romero strung with steel strings. Tuning: eCGCD, capo 5th fret. Arrangement and performance copyright 2014 Ric Hollander - All Rights Reserved

This was an outtake from the recording sessions from my third album with the band "Defiance" back in 1991 (album of the same name was released in June 1992).

The Indiana jones theme played first in the lowest octave, then up an octave, then the tracks merged and both octaves synched to play the same time. Played on helix zephyr with chris sands medium nylon strings.

Soft jammin for fun in d tuning!

Main melody played 5 ways on the fretboard. Played on helix midnight zephyr with medium weight chris sands nylon strings.

When I originally learned this I used clawhammer tuned to double D. Then I learned it in open G 3-finger picking style. Now I'm trying it again with clawhammer after more than 30 years. It's coming back to me and I still think it's amongst the prettiest tunes ever written. The story goes that Sheebeg, Sheemore was the blind harpist's first composition in 1691. It's meaning is "Little Mountain, Big Mountain" and was named for a location where a battle between fairy peoples allegedly took...

A version from tab by John Bullard from his Bach on the Banjo book and CD. I now have 104 measures out of 136 memorized. Hopefully will be able to play it all well some day. This version is not current, but representative of what I have done so far.

Some selections my new book of Christmas carols arranged for 5-string banjo. The entire collection, volumes 1 and 2, comprise 37 classic carols, and is available through my website www.countjockula.com, or see my ad in the BHO classified section. Mp3's are available for download at CDBaby.com/Jocko. Enjoy, and Mer-r-r-r-r-y Christmas! (all arrangements (c) 2012, Jocko MacNelly)

The theme of the ballet Coppelia adapted for a duet banjo/guitar

After posting a fast version of Dry and Dusty, here's a slowed up one on the little gourd banjo. The title insinuates struggles, perhaps relating to the Dust Bowl era, since the Morrison brothers most credited with this tune came from Arkansas.