About: The first recording in the Folktunes collection is Cripple Creek, played on the open-backed five-stringed banjo in the clawhammer style.

How learned: Martha Owen taught me this tune in the Summer of 2000 at the John C. Campbell Folk School. It was the first song I ever learned on Banjo.

Chord Progression: G - C G / - - D G :// G - - - / - - D G ://


This audio is part of the collection: Folktunes Archive
It also belongs to collection: Netlabels

Artist/Composer: Forrest Oliphant
Date: 2004-02-25 21:15:00
Source: Shure SM57 -> Behringer UB802 -> Creative Extigy -> Audacity 1.2.0-pre4 @ 16/44.1 (mono) -> Flac Frontend 1.7.1
Label / Recorded by: Forrest Oliphant
Keywords: Folktunes for Learning; Oldtime; G Major; gDGBD; Recorded in Taneichi; Tune Release; Banjo; Clawhammer

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Notes

Recording has a few parts:

1. Slow & simple
2. Sped up a little bit
3. Added some drop-thumbing
4. Tuning reference (open G: gDGBD)
5. Some gabbing

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