Puncheon Camps by Joseph Decosimo / Old-time clawhammer banjo tune from Clyde Davenport

streaming + video playback clawhammer and old-time banjo workshop November 11! https://www.crowdcast.io/e/playing-be...
Clyde Davenport's Puncheon Camps may be my favorite of the tunes that he played. It's shifted around a bit in my hands, but the core approach is intact. His setting is supremely elegant and banjoey. It meshes with his fiddle part. It plays underneath and alongside the fiddle version perfectly, supporting and suggesting rather than obscuring and cluttering. In my mind, that’s what good banjo does, and that's the kind of stuff we'll be examining this Tuesday, Nov. 11 in a workshop for the Handmade Music School +‪@FloydCountryStore‬. I'll be sharing ideas that I've gleaned from my favorite old school players and thinking through some of the ways that they accompany fiddles and bands. It's last minute notice, but it can be replayed if you can't tune in. Also, I'll be starting up my own series of Old-time banjo workshops soon that will explore clawhammer, two-finger, and other uppicking banjo styles. Please contact me if you'd like to be in the know: https://www.josephdecosimo.com/contact

Tuning: Clyde fiddles it in D. I'm fsharpDADE (lower) but Clyde played it in aDADE. Check out his cassette titled Puncheon Camps to hear him do it.

Charlie Acuff and Buddy Thomas both fiddled versions of this one called Kitty Puss. Gaither Carlton fiddled a version called Tucker's Barn.

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