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"Hook & Line" Lesson

Recently I was asked to show some of my variations in the essential dance piece "Hook and Line." The banjo is tuned to relative gCGCD. Other titles this song is found under include "Minnow on the Hook" and "Shout Lulu."

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"Hook & Line" Lesson "Hook & Line" Lesson

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Yes, fine lesson and nice shirt!

Cecilia Vore

Great lesson!!!

Al Neale

I do believe that Double C tuning might be my favorite

Blaine Chappell

This clip shows Roscoe playing some of what Clifton has explained/demonstrated. Also note he claims he only plays a tune every couple months- wish I was that efficient <a href="https://youtu.be/0DoATcInlYQ" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/0DoATcInlYQ</a>

Matt Spears

Love this lesson! Can't stop playing Hook and Line with the fun variations. Thank you, Clifton.

Banjo Jane

Great lesson Clifton. Thank you! Double C is place I need to explore more, this is sweet.

Old Joe

Yes! Toward the end of the video above I attempted to demonstrate Roscoe's "California Blues" break--which is at the top end of my vocal abilities! Tony, have you seen the clip of Maybel Cawthorn doing "Shout Lulu?" <a href="https://youtu.be/SxjmRfqwilk?t=1m29s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/SxjmRfqwilk?t=1m29s</a>

Clifton Hicks

It comes from amusical and dance culture where just the rhythm of something like shout lulu shout shout shout lulu shout shout starts out a rhythmn and dancers and pickers come back with their response to this call and it gets going with people contributing and making variations and maybe cracking on each other in what they say, not the kind of stale culture where people look in a Portland book to find how to play something

Tony Thomas

Shout lulu is an old shout and that is why there are so many verses of all kinds used elsewhere and more in it because the only thing that identifies the song is the rhythm of the shout lulu and then the challenge to answer it back with something witty or rhyming that fits in and keep the heat of the ring shout going. My favorite version is Mr. Roscoe Holcomb's version where he breaks into Jimmie Rodger's California blues in the middle of it. a real frailer, even banjoists who mostly finger pick like Roscoe and Dock Boggs frail the heck out of it

Tony Thomas

It is a very standard verse from old minstrel songs, with the second versa she lived so long that her hair got bald and I surely know she won't die at all/"

Tony Thomas

Fantastic! I have grown so very fond of double C, I really enjoyed the fact that you show the different variations, very, very helpful! And your anecdotes keep it very interesting.

Luka Jovanovic

For our European friends here I should transcribe the interesting verse I sang from Maybel Cawthorn: "My old mistress promised me when she dies she'll set me free, Shout Lulu shout your best your old grand mammy's gone to rest!" She was just an amazing person and musician, see a short clip of her here: <a href="https://youtu.be/SxjmRfqwilk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/SxjmRfqwilk</a>

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