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New for 2013--Chickens Crowin' At Midnight Cd ( a reissue of a 2003 recording)  Laid back string band tunes on banjo, dulcimer, guitar, fiddle & banjolin!  Limited edition--back by popular demand--only 99 copies available :)

  

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"...hauntingly beautiful."--Donald Nitchie/ Banjo Newsletter editor

TAM LIN, STEP AROUND JHONNY, JOHN STINSON'S #2, JOHN LOVERS GONE, SONNY MAZURKA WALTZ,LYNCHBURG TOWN, OLD HORSE AND BUGGY, SWEET BAMA, CLUCK OLD HEN, ROCK THE CRADLE JOE, JOHNSON GAL, ELK RIVER BLUES, LOVE WON'T YOU MARRY, OLD GRAY CAT, SPANISH FANDANGO, CHICKENS CROWIN' AT MIDNIGHT

 

Newest CD!!!

Girl With the Banjo Tattoo

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Banjo Newsletter's editor, Don Nitchie, chose this cd as a "Best Banjo CD of 20ll"

 Cello banjo, cigarbox banjo, banjolin, John Bowlin 1865 fretless, Deering Gabriella, John Hartford, Chuck Lee, and Lame Horse banjos on solos and duets on:

Last Chance, Chickens Crowin At Midnight, Scarborough Fair, Whiskey Before Waltzing With Soldiers, June Apple, Goodbye Girls I’m Going To Boston, Morning Has Broken, Sweet Bama, Pretty Polly, Gaspe Reel, Julia Delaney, Star Of the County Down, Needed Time & Chinkapin Hunting.  $15.00

 

 

 

 AND---a New clawhammer banjo tab book too! Simple tabs to all the tunes on "Girl With the Banjo Tattoo" cd---And--all the tunes on "Drumming On the Edge of Banjo--all in one book 

 


POSTAGE & SHIPPING NEWS

   Remember that you can order up to 4 items for the same postage price in the USA ($7) as it costs to order only one item. International postage ($25)

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MORE CDS & TAB BOOKS AVAILABLE HERE :)

Drumming On the Edge Of Banjo

Thanks to NPR's Thistle and Shamrock radio show that has played it twice this year and to Pandora for accepting it into the world music genome. If you don't have your copy yet--please consider ordering it--you won't be sorry. :) Also, it's available on itunes, cdbaby, amazon and many other digital sites for folks who only download. :)

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Here's a string band mountain dulcimer instruction book for folks who would like to play along with their clawhammer banjo friends :). :)  


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Finally for Mountain Dulcimer :) Easy String Band Method for Mountain Dulcimer with Audio CDsimple tab book. :) $20.00 + postage It has 34 tracks on an instructional audio CD including medium and very slow play along versions of : LYNCHBURG TOWN, LIZA JANE, OLD GENS CROWIN' AT MIDNIGHT, ANGELINE, SOLDIERS JOY, LITTLE BLACK DOG GONE TROTTIN' DOWN THE ROAD, FLY AROUND MY PRETTY LITTLE MISS, JULIE ANN JOHNSON, STEP AROUND JOHNNY, SALLY ANN, ROCK THE CRADLE JOE, JOHN STINSON'S #2, &YELLOW;ROSE OF TEXAS The book and cd introduce an easy learning method of one style and one tuning (DAD) to get beginners, novices, and intermediate players up and jamming without being overwhelmed at the beginning by many techniques, tunings, theory, chords, complicated arrangements and ornaments. :) A walk before you run approach that's fun and simple for ordinary musical geniuses. :)

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 FLORIDA BANJO TAB BOOK IS HERE! 45 pages this time, with simple tabs to the tunes on the CD plus a bonus tab for Coo, Coos Nest. There are historical and playing notes, pictures, photos, and extra tidbits of Florida history too.

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Florida Banjo CD "You keep knockin' em outta the park; "Florida Banjo" is another home run.... The Marlins need to sign you up!!" Cheers, Dennis

 Ponce de Leon, Spanish Fandango, Cluck Old Hen, Ragtime Annie, Yearlings in the Canebreak, Shenandoah Falls, Frankie's Blues, Yellow Rose of Texas, Chinquipin, Waterbound, Wind That Shakes the Barley, Peach Bottom Creek, Hail Agin' the Barn Door, Turkey in the Straw, Loch Laven Castle.

15 tunes with Mary Z. Cox and guest musicians: Kerry Blech, Bob Cox, Jim Crozier, Lo Gordon & Ellen Sheppard

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Click on the music link to listen to audio samples of all my tunes.

SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF PAGE FOR TAB BOOKS. :)

 All individual banjo CDs & Tab books are $15.00 each + shipping. (1-3 items $7.00) International $20.00 for 1-3 items

Dulcimer book with instructional CD is $20 plus shipping.

Other CDs and tab books available by Mary Z. Cox

Banjo Dreaming Suwannnee Nights 

Suwannee River, We Three Kings, Dinah, Shepherd's Wife Waltz, Rockin' In A Weary Land, Sweet Sunny South, Song Of the Chanter, Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss, Winder Slide, Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground, John Stinson's # 2, Hangman's Reel, Big Scioty, Going Back to Cairo, Light the Torch Jeannette Isabella/Good Christian Men Rejoice

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Swannanoa Tunnel, Golden Slippers, Andrew Jackson-Go Back Home, Old Town Band, Snake Charmer's Daughter, Old Molly Hare, Sandy Boys, Sally In the Garden, Soldiers Joy, All Through the Night, Hunchback Whiskey, Wayfaring Stranger, Cock-A-Doodle-Do, Pikes Peak, Angeline

Walkin' That Banjo Home 


Greasy Coat, Snowdrop, Westphalia Waltz, Pig Ankle Rag, Julie Ann Johsnon, Southwind, Duck River, Rachael, Walkin' that Pretty Girl Home, Blackberry Blossom, Old Tobacco Hills, Old Yeller Dog, Icy Mountain, Seven Hills, Squirrel Heads and Gravy, Hunchback Liza, Last Chance

Vintage Banjo 


Sally Ann, Dixie, Elzic's Farewell, Johnson Boys, Cindy, Bonaparte's Retreat, Pigtown Fling, Little Black Dog Gone Trottin' Down the Road, Dunsmore Lasses, Cherokee Shuffle, Sheebeg Agus Sheemore, Sugar Hill, Napoleon Crossing the Rhine, Sandy River Belles

Tab books have simple clawhammer banjo tabs to the tunes on the compatible CDs, with playing & historical notes.

A Secret Life of Banjo Tab book




Vintage Banjo Tab Book

Banjo Dreamin' Suwannee Nights Tab Book

Walkin' That Banjo Home Tab Book

  

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And for everyone that only does digital--all of my cds are available on itunes, cdbaby & Amazon--just type in my name at almost any digital site :)

For Pandora Fans:

Banjo Dreamin' Suwannee Nights, Florida Banjo, Drumming On the Edge of Banjo, & Girl With the Banjo Tattoo have all been accepted into the Pandora world music genome and are on Pandora radio for your listening pleasure. :)