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Six more weeks of winter it will be ! Can you eat a ground hog? Shoulder up your gun and whistle up your dog (repeat) Off to the woods for to catch a groundhog. Oh, groundhog. Run here Sally with a ten foot pole, (repeat) To twist that whistle-pig out of his hole. Oh, groundhog. Here comes Sal with...

Did you look at Mandolin Cafe. http://www.mandolincafe.com/tabarc.html All the music there is tablature but you could look at the tune lists. I looked at the Bluegrass list and found that I didn't recognize many of the tunes but I don't keep up with bluegrass. From my limited experience I can sugges...

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The first band name I got was so long I got another one.

Box player Paddy O'Brien has a collection of 500 tunes on CDs.

http://www.chulrua.com/tunehome.html

That article really peaked my interest.

I have refrained from beating a session member to death with his own instrument-so far, anyway.

Well, I always liked the way a whole bunch of circus clowns could climb into a Crosley.

"Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?"

I don't play tenor banjo but that looks like a very good buy for someone. Does it have a tone ring? You could try to get Michael Holmes (not the bouzouki player) to identify it. http://www.mugwumps.com/ Yes, it does have a tone ring (a round one, not something fancy like a tubaphone type ring). -Br...

The way to cook the possum sound Carve him to the heart. First parboil him then bake him brown. Carve him to the heart Put sweet potatoes in the pan Carve him to the heart The sweetest meat in all the land. Carve him to the heart Carve that possum Carve that possum, children Carve that possum Carve ...

I don't play tenor banjo but that looks like a very good buy for someone. Does it have a tone ring? You could try to get Michael Holmes (not the bouzouki player) to identify it.

http://www.mugwumps.com/

missy wrote:is it true that being born will eventually cause you to die????

There is a high correlation between the two but no cause and effect relationship has ever been demonstrated.

"Sallow skin, lusterless eyes, flabby muscles, loose stools, cold and clammy hands, poor indigestion, heart palpitations, hollow chest, headaches, dizziness all mark the young man snared by vicious habit."

I like the "poor indigestion" part.

I can't reccomend a good book but you could start with Han Speek's DADGAD web site. http://www.xs4all.nl/~hspeek/dadgad/ and also Michael Eskin's DADGAD page. http://members.cox.net/eskin/DADGAD.html I would advise against buying a book called The DADGAD Guitar Book (or something like that). IMO it'...