#tbt: "Green Corn Jig," or "Buckley's Jig" from Jas. Buckley's New Banjo Method of 1860, recorded 7 years ago.  

https://peertube.social/videos/watch/695d5cce-7807-4ff6-89ed-4cd4d3a8adf8

#mastomusic #banjo #earlybanjo #fretlessbanjo #video #music #musiciansofmastodon #historicmusic #19thcenturymusic

I've decided to go back through all the #earlybanjo clips I've uploaded to youtube since ~2010, try to clean up the audio from some of the better ones a little bit, and release them as an album/EP on bandcamp.

The base sound quality is not going to be great, since most of them were recorded via iphone mic a few feet away, encoded straight to AAC and who knows what youtube has done to them.

For that reason part of me wants to call it something "the early banjo tapes" to communicate that they're a bit rough around the edges, but that seems silly/disingenuous given that none of them were ever recorded to tape. "the early banjo clips," maybe?

Whelpley's Jig, from Jas. Buckley's 1860 book:

https://peertube.social/videos/watch/1d047bd1-f64b-436b-8086-7a73336d7a87

#mastomusic #banjo #earlybanjo #fretlessbanjo #video #musician #music #19thcentury

Is #mastomusicmonday a thing? Here's a clip I recorded #onthisday a long-ass time ago, the beard seemed like a good idea at the time

https://peertube.social/videos/watch/0096e6c2-1983-4956-8151-0320fb000fcb #banjo #earlybanjo #fretlessbanjo #musiciansofmastodon #mastomusic #frankconverse #1886 #acoustic #acousticmusic

#waybackwednesday No. 1: #onthisday in 2014 I recorded 'Jake Bacchus' Reel' from 1860:

https://peertube.social/videos/watch/7ef4356f-a0a2-4d61-803c-9ee98ad8b9fa #mastomusic #musiciansofmastodon #banjo #earlybanjo #fretlessbanjo #fretless