Woody Guthrie - Cowboy Waltz

Here's Woody's Cowboy Waltz.

Cowboy Waltz

I sat down for about 5 minutes yesterday with my brother and his guitar while he showed me a new tune he's been working on. We also had a go at a tune we might record next weekend 'Cowboy Waltz'(not the Woody Guthrie one). The banjo part is usually played by Mark who's a bit more bluegrass than me but I think I'd have a go at the picking part. It's faltering but I really enjoy this tune and can't to see if we can capture a good version of it on saturday.

listen to ‘Cowboy waltz’ on Audioboo

St Valentines Day Massacre

Got together with the boys - Carl, Mark, Mark and Johnathan and massacred a few standards for Valentines Day. Needles to say the ladies thought it was a very romantic gesture(not)!


Jesse James


Cripple Creek


John Henry


Cowboy Waltz


Foggy Mountain Breakdown


Whoop Song

End of Year Jam

Got the boys together last night for a jam, played for three hours only got through four songs!

John Henry


Jesse James


Cripple Creek version1


Cripple Creek version 2


Cowboy Waltz

Cowboy Waltz (with lyrics)

Mark at Great North Strum has come up with some words for Carl's song Cowboy Waltz

Cowboy Waltz

October Jam

Got together with the boys for a jam and here are the results.

Cripple Creek


Foggy Mountain Breakdown


Cowboy Waltz


Irish Washerwoman


John Henry

Cowboy Waltz on ukulele

or... caught playing with myself!

The worst moment - Mrs NBB burst into the room as I'm sat at the computer. 'Are you playing with yourself?' she asks. 'Er, yeah I suppose I am', is the embarrassed reply. But luckily I was only playing along with myself, phew. I was trying to play along with the banjo version of Cowboy Waltz which I posted a couple of days ago, so that I could work it our on the uke.

This sticky situation was brought to you by Bruce in Cornwall, who has been following the Cowboy Waltz pieces recently but needed a bit of help to get it right on the uke. So, here's my first online tutorial - Cowboy Waltz on the uke.


banjo version

Fingerpicking

I had another go at Cowboy Waltz, and I think I've nearly got it. Still a bit out on the melody with the hammer-ons, but almost.



Also, since the fingerpicking seems to be coming on, I've been working on a simple chord progression 1/4/5 in C to get my right hand in. It's got the same structure as the progression in F that I was doing on the uke a while back. C/C/F/F/C/C/G7/C/F/C/G7/C

Cowboy Waltz

Hopefully getting together with the lads this week for another jam, so I thought I'd have a go at getting my head around Carl's song 'Cowboy Waltz'. It's G/C/D in 3/4 time and previously we've played it with frailing and finger picking banjos, but it's never quite worked, so I thought this was good time to work on my fingerpicking on the banjo after making some headway picking the uke.

It's not quite all there but I'm get it!

Cowboy Waltz Tutorial

Cowboy Waltz

Mark over at the Great North Strum has recorded a banjo version of Cowboy Waltz by my brother Carl.

Irish Washerwoman and Cowboy Waltz

Last few bits of audio from the August Jam.

Irish Washerwoman (Sorry about the terrible timing on the snare at the beginning)


Cowboy Waltz

This sounds much better with just one banjo accompaniment.

Songs What We Have (almost) Learned

After posting a pretty lengthy song list for last nights jam we only got through six, and one of them wasn't even on the list. They sound pretty rough and ready, but its only our second practice together. Highlights are MC Clawhammer's Foggy Mountain, Cowboy Waltz and Irish Washerwoman.

Old '97


Cowboy Waltz


Cripple Creek


Foogy Mountain Breakdown


Irish Washerwoman


Wildwood Flower