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Contact: tomjoad2005 [at] yahoo dot com
March 2008. New clawhammer tablature: "Waiting for Nancy." "Frosty Morning" is back on the tablature page. "Cottage in the Grove" tablature amended.
February 2008. New clawhammer tablatures added: "Flop-Eared Mule", "Dance All Night", "Cottage in the Grove", "Western Country" and "Seneca Square Dance". Also a re-arrangement of "Old Mother Flanagan" Tablature. "June Apple" and "Needle Case" now available as TableEdit files.
January 2008. Clawhammer tablatures added: "Bill Cheathum" and "Pretty Little Dog".
December 2007. New video clips added to multimedia page. Clawhammer roots section added.
November 2007. Added a clawhammer tablature for "Jaybird".
October 2007. New clawhammer tablature transcription of "Frosty Morning" as played by WildWest. Available on the tablature page. I have also made some minor changes to the tablature "Wedding Dress".
September 2007. New Clawhammer Banjo Tablatures: "Boatman" and a second arrangement of "Arkansas Traveller". Get them on the tablatures page.
An index of freely downloadable mp3s and other audio files by Tom Joad and his musical collaborators, Ian Jacks and Gerry Dempsey, are hosted at the Open Source Audio Archive. Some of them are in the high quality lossless .flac format.
I used to be a member of a stringband called Shake that Little Foot. While it was in existence, it made a recording and the tracks are available for download at the Internet Archive. See the photo at the top right of this page which was taking straight after the recording session in 1993.
Here also is a flac plugin for Winamp.
I can also mail audio CD-Rs if required. E-mail me for details.
For more videos, go to the multimedia page.
This was a recording done on my home PC. Ragtime Larry, a promising young violinist in his late teens, dropped by one Sunday in 2004 and learned this tune on the fiddle from scratch, without notation, in about 20 minutes. He then played the bodharan (for the first time in his life!) and added the percussion track to this recording.
Download the higher quality mp3 here.
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Below is a video clip which explains the purpose of Creative Commons licenses. There are more clips on the Creative Commons site.