Drunken Hiccups - Fretless Banjo

"Drunken Hiccups" from Tommy Jarrell, in aAEAC# (well, tuned down a little), the banjo equivalent of Calico tuning on the fiddle. This tuning and aAEAE are great for a lot of cross-tuned fiddle tunes.

This one also goes by "Rye Whiskey", "Clinch Mountain" and various other names. Lots of great recordings around: Hobart Smith, Elmo Newcomer and Bill Stepp and Frank Proffitt are some of my favorites.

Don Borchelt has a great video up too of his playing it on his partially fretless banjo in the same tuning.

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[versie18]

Cool!!!!!!!!!!!

[HunterRobertson]

@versie18 Thanks!

[CTomSmithJr]

This is the best solo Banjo/vocal performance I've ever heard. I read through the comments to make sure I wasn't being redundant, but I don't see anyone comparing your vocals to Tom Waits, so I am. And that's a good thing!

Great all 'round. Thank you.

[HunterRobertson]

@CTomSmithJr Ach, I think I can live with being compared to Tom Waits... Thanks!

[ukekeysandbees]

Woohoo!! Pretty cool I think!!

[HunterRobertson]

@blueholygrass Nice!

[blueholygrass]

@HunterRobertson thanks for the kind words. you inspired me to learn this tune; even recorded a banjo/fiddle duet with my 6 string in the tuning you used.

[HunterRobertson]

@blueholygrass Thanks. I like your 6-string, sounds great.

[blueholygrass]

awesome. as always. really diggin the fretless harmony converson too!

[nightfrailer]

@HunterRobertson Hey, thanks for remembering I was working on it!. Slow and steady.  Reading up in my Foxfire books on how to tan groundhog skin... Not sure if I have the stones for that, may go for a calfskin head on ebay. And then when it is all done, I still have to learn to play the thing!