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New for 2008 !
Florida Banjo
Jun 2 2008 10:18 AM
"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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All CDs & Tab books are $15.00 each + shipping. (1-3 items $5.00/ 4-11 items $10.00 for USA. International $15.00 for 1-4 items/ $20.00 for 5-11)
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Other CDs and tab books available by
Mary Z. Cox
Banjo Dreamin' Suwannee Nights CD
New banjo CD from Mary Z. Cox--voted as a top four favorite clawhammer banjoist by Banjo Newsletter Readers . (Banjo Newsletter/June 2006) "Mary reacquaints us with how our beloved instrument was really meant to sound." (Banjo Newsletter/September 2006)
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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A Secret Life of Banjo
Hear the secret voice of old time banjo. Even if you've never liked banjo music before--you just may change your mind. 15 banjo instrumentals you'll want to listen to more than once.
"Stand out tunes include Mary's take on Swannanoa Tunnel, an old English work song made popular by Bascom Lamar Lunsford, along with two original tunes, Andrew Jackson Go Back Home and Hunchback Whiskey, that she plays on her Wunder Hunchback fretless gut string banjo. Mary also has the enviable ability to take an old chestnut and make it hers, a la her double-tracked version of Golden Slippers...along with Soldier's Joy and Angeline."
--Don Nitchie/Banjo Newsletter May 2004
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
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Walkin' That Banjo Home
Clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar and a taste of old gut strung fretless banjo by Mary Z. Cox and Kay Van Treese.
National Public Radio chose track #8 (Rachael)to play online on "All Songs Considered." Banjo Newsletter has published tabs and MP3s from this CD.
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
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Vintage Banjo
Looking for a clawhammer banjo CD that you'd like to listen to more than once? Fourteen of our favorite old time tunes on clawhammer banjo with fiddle and guitar. Vintage Banjo was selected as Editor's Pick in the January 2001 Banjo Newsletter.
"A simple no-frills collection of old time tunes on banjo...played with great delicacy and restraint. I found myself listening to it repeatedly..." Donald Nitchie/Banjo Newsletter, August 2000
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
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Dulcimer Fandango
Mountain dulcimer fit for dancing all night. Great blend of old time banjo, fiddle, guitar, bass & banjolin on the tunes you want to hear and play. Old time instrumentals to get your toes a tappin'.
"...exuberant and uplifting"--Jerry Rockwell (artist of the best mountain dulcimer CD ever recorded)
"hauntingly beautiful"--Donald Nitchie (Banjo Newsletter editor)
"..love and appreciation for old time music is evident in every track."--Janita Baker (Blue Lion)
"Mary brings a unique sense of contempory whimsey to solid, traditional old time music. The blending of her banjo and dulcimer style creates a fun, upbeat feeling that carries through the entire project."--Jeff Sebens (dulcimer builder/Meadows Music)
"Be sure and check out Mary's new CD, DULCIMER FANDANGO.
It's just right."--David McKinney (Modern Mountain Dulcimers)
Tam Lin, Step Around Johnny, John Stinson's #3, John Lover's Gone, Sonny's 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
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Tab books have simple clawhammer banjo tabs to the tunes on the compatible CDs, with playing & historical notes.
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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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Like MP3 Downloads? My CDs are available on itunes!
Thanks to everyone that has bought my CDs, tab books and T-shirts. Click on the music link to listen to audio samples of all my tunes and for the month of August only-- FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD of "Hunchback Whiskey" on my minstrel Wunder Banjo.