From the course: Banjo Lessons: 2 Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
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"Old Dan Tucker"
From the course: Banjo Lessons: 2 Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
"Old Dan Tucker"
(Old Dan Tucker) - "Old Dan Tucker was a fine old man. He washed his face in a frying pan," or so I've heard. It's a great old tune that is not really much part of the bluegrass repetoire for some reason. It's just a really fun silly tune with silly words. "Died with a toothache in his heel." That says it right there. Bruce Springsteen did this as part of his Seeger Sessions album and tour. And I saw a video of him doing this in Italy with the entire Italian audience singing these lyrics about "died with a toothache in his heel." And the version I've worked up here, and I've known this song since I was a kid. You just would hear it around. It was in the air and in the ethers. But I kind of picked this up to confirm that my memory was correct about how this tune went from a version of Grandpa Jones playing it on Hee-Haw with his wife, Ramona. So you might tune into that and hear how Grandpa did it in a kind of a claw hammer style, an energetic claw hammer style. He does a great job of…
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