JAMES ALLEY BLUES - played by MARC NERENBERG - Clawhammer banjo blues

[@joemarvin2303]

unbelievable! Sure glad I searched blues banjo.

[@HomegrownStringBand]

Great playing and singing! Harry Smith would have love it!

[@Rawk17]

this is the kind of music they should play on the radio

[@slimpickensrx]

wow! I really dig the blues and I really dig your blues banjo!

[@pabrizzer]

Whoo Hoo. Rollicking version! Brill!

[@WhyteLaydieToneRing]

Awesome Marc! This is one of those times that I feel like your version is so much better than the original. I'm sure you'll be posting this in the Blues Banjo group, but I hope you'll post it in the Songsters and String Bands group as well. Probably the best version I've heard yet.

[@ddofat]

Awesome!

[@ClawhammerDude]

Like a boss! 😎

[@juneapplelefty]

Hey Marc--great video--thank for posting this. I keep coming back to it to get a little more of that riff. What's your tuning on the banjo here?

[@rustyratmuddler]

Sweeeet!

[@slimpickensrx]

what tuning are you using there?

[@Po-JamaPeople]

yeeeah man

[@StefanWirz]

Richard (Rabbit) Brown discography at www.wirz.de/music/brownrab.htm

[@vinnymusician]

Do you have a Cd? I love you music.

[@vade999]

wow - what tuning plz?

[@KevinThrasher]

recorded in 1927

[@SWAviatorII]

Wow! Great rendition. Great claw hammer!Is that sawmill tuning? I've got to learn this.

[@marcnerenberg1]

Thanks. EDIT (I originally had this wrong. I fixed it:)The banjo tuning (without the capo) is eADad with the low A & D being an octave below the high a & d strings. (This makes the 3rd and 4th strings quite low.) However, I have the capo at the 2nd fret (but have not tuned up the 5th string) so the capoed tuning ends up as eBEbe, with the 1st and 5th strings at the same note, and I'm playing in E.

[@gadaya]

Fantastic job. Check out my last post at « The Old Weird America » where you read about it and can hear some great versions of this song as well.

[@Lincoln5string]

Ditto what hgstrngbnd said!