clawhammer banjo - fast - don't know the title of this song please help if you do

like the title says, i don't know the name of this song. it was taught to me by a man named joel stafford approximately 16 years ago. i have no idea what the name of the song is. if you do, then please drop me a line so that i can stop wracking my brain.

thanks.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• clawhammer
• banjo
• old
• time
• timey
• appalachian

[jgenens]

Hey, man. I found something similar to the intro to the song you're playing. Check out a tune called Kitchen Girl.

I hope this helps!

[duececaboose]

@jgenens thanks so much! i'd never heard of kitchen girl before. very cool.

[tinderhorn]

Hi there. The melody is actually a combination of two different songs as far as I can tell. The first part is Barlow Knife/ Cabin Creek, but the second part is called Shoes and Stockings or sometimes Flying Indian.

Barlow Knife has a B and C part that you don't play and Shoes and Stockings also has a B part not included in your version, but what you are doing is cool anyhow so I suggest you just name it something new and claim it is your own work.

cheers.

[duececaboose]

@tinderhorn thank you so much for your help! i believe i learned it as barlow knife, but obviously it was a version that is significantly different from the "standard" version commonly found on youtube (not that i particularly believe there is a "standard" version to any old time song!) anyway, i really appreciate your input because it's helped me research some other tunes, too.

[dropthumb2]

Possibly Barlow Knife, aka, Cabin Creek

[duececaboose]

@dropthumb2 i think you are right! i'm pretty sure i learned this under the title "barlow knife" but listening to the other versions of barlow knife on youtube i've realized that this version is significantly different from the others. so i guess the question, then, is: "is this really barlow knife, or something else?" anyway, thank you so much for your input!

[Bayuno88]

This is so funny. I believe we had the same banjo teacher. A teacher named Joel in San Francisco taught me that same song about 15 years ago. I play it in the same way. I have no idea what it is called.

[Fightsrulez62]

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[tinderhorn]

@duececaboose

My pleasure. I like the way you play the Barlow Knife part of the song a lot, you throw in a few chord-y things in there I hadn't ever thought about. Plus, you know, banjo players get no respect from anyone else so they gotta stick together.

cheers,

Adam.

[catfish222banjo]

ye hoo!