"Swannanoa Tunnel" Lesson
Added 2020-10-07 06:37:12 +0000 UTCgCGCC. I learned "Swannanoa Tunnel" from several Library of Congress recordings of Reta Spradlin (The Pea Fowl), Roscoe Holcomb (Swanno Mountain), and Bascam Lunsford.
When you hear my pistol firing
Another man's gone, honey, another man's gone,
When you hear that hoot owl calling
Somebody died, honey, somebody died.
Asheville Junction, Swannanoa Tunnel
All caved in, honey, all caved in,
Last December I remember
Wind blew cold, honey, wind blew cold!
Little girl lost forty-one dollars
All in gold, honey, all in gold,
When you hear my pea fowl squalling
Somebody died, honey, somebody died.
Comments
I needed another song in triple C
Don Doughty
2021-12-21 06:48:02 +0000 UTCI joined because this lesson.
Texas Mopar
2021-07-08 02:02:49 +0000 UTClike it!
josh waller
2020-10-10 22:59:56 +0000 UTCI learned this one many years ago from Happy Traum and his cassette banjo lessons.
Tod Booth
2020-10-10 02:28:19 +0000 UTCSounds like you're well on the war path! I did do a video years ago on "walking the fingerboard," should probably re-visit that.
Clifton Hicks
2020-10-08 15:17:22 +0000 UTCI have four or five banjos hanging about at any particular moment and thanks to you, I have no idea what tuning any one of them is going to be in when I pick it up. It’s keeping me on my toes but also forcing me to adapt to random tunings quickly as I noodle about. Now if I could only get your down the neck strumming sounding right.
Nomad Boatbuilding - Mark Reuten
2020-10-08 14:44:40 +0000 UTCOK, glad it's not hanging people up too much! When I was a 13-year-old learning from Ernie Williams and George Gibson, we never worried about matching our tunings precisely. This is especially true of George, who couldn't care less what pitch a banjo is tuned to. George never even owned a tuner until the early 2000s, and even now he doesn't use it much.
Clifton Hicks
2020-10-08 14:06:54 +0000 UTCThanks for including the lyrics on this one.
Nomad Boatbuilding - Mark Reuten
2020-10-08 13:23:24 +0000 UTCNo worries. Good practice trying to figure it out by ear anyway.
Nomad Boatbuilding - Mark Reuten
2020-10-08 13:15:29 +0000 UTCI didn't use a tuner, sorry, but yes I'm probably very near to that. That's where I would have tuned, had I had the tuner.
Clifton Hicks
2020-10-08 13:14:43 +0000 UTCHe appears to be in fA#FA#A# near as I can make out folks.
Nomad Boatbuilding - Mark Reuten
2020-10-08 01:53:23 +0000 UTCThank you, Clifton! We all appreciate you going farther back "into the woods" to find these more obscure tunes.
John L Schneider
2020-10-07 15:46:33 +0000 UTCthat banjo sounds better each time I hear it!!
Daniel Pearce
2020-10-07 13:54:50 +0000 UTC
