Did You Hear John Hurt. A song by Tom Paxton. I try to play it in a Vestapol tuning.

Telling My Trouble To My Old Guitar. I have tried to learn this song from a video with Doc Watson. I believe it's originally written by Chet Atkins. I had to take it over several times but kept making errors, so now I ended up with the one with least errors. It often happens that I can play it without errors when practicing, and then when I come to recording it something goes wrong. I dunno.

This is a song that goes way back to the British Isles several hundred years. Here's a little information from Wikipedia: "The Twa Sisters" is a murder ballad that recounts the tale of a girl drowned by her sister. It is first known to have appeared on a broadside in 1656 as "The Miller and the King's Daughter." At least 21 English variants exist under several names, including "Minnorie" or "Binnorie", "The Cruel Sister", "The Wind and Rain", "Dreadful Wind and Rain", "Two Sisters", and the "Bonnie Bows of London". The ballad was collected by Francis J. Child and is also listed in the Roud Folk Song Index." And apart from appearing in the folk repetoire in North America, the theme of the song is widely spread throughout northern Europe. There's at least 125 versions of it known in Sweden alone. It is also known in Denmark under the title "To Søstre". The Two Sisters. I sing that song somewhere else here among my youtube videos if you should be interested in hearing that version.

Old song, dating back to the Civil War I guess. Don't know much about it except it's an old fiddle tune with a song in between the fiddlin'. I try to fill the gaps between the singing with some melody playing on the guitar.

A cover of a song written by the great Norman Blake. One of my all time favorite guitar pickers.

The Cat Came Back. This one I have from an old recording with Riley Puckett. The song can be found in different versions, both concerning lyrics and melody, but I especially like Puckett's version. It is from the 1920's. I play it on a Washburn parlor guitar.

Hard Travellin'. This is a song written by Woody Guthrie in the 1950s. I play on a 90 years old Harmony parlor guitar

It Ain't Gonna Rain No More. This song was written and recorded by Wendell Woods Hall (August 23, 1896, St. George, Kansas -- April 2, 1969, Fairhope, Alabama). He was an American country singer, vaudeville artist, songwriter, pioneer radio performer, Victor recording artist and ukulele player. He released the song in 1923 and it sold about 2 million copies. It can be found in different variations on the lyrics. I have made my own mix of verses here. I have recorded the song before and it can be found among my videos in my channel here. I try to play it on guitar ukulele on this version. You can read more about Wendell Hall here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Hall Here's how the song sounds on his own recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQA2lcYbdo

$100.000 In Pennies. A song written by Shel Silverstein.

I'll Fly Away.

Cumberland Gap

Darling Corey

Sweet Sunny South

Little Omie Wise. Another one of the many murder ballads in american folk music.

An old murder ballad. I have recorded it on a pocket size BOSS digital four track recorder. Song, guitar, acoustic bass guitar, another guitar in Nashville tuning and singing harmony.

Poor Ellen Smith- This is one of the many murder ballads in american folk music. It is based on a true story, which follows here. At least what I have found out about it so far: "Poor Ellen Smith is a 19th century popular murder ballad that tells the story of a girl who was found shot through the heart. Her ragged clothes were scattered on the ground. A murder hunt began and eventually the murderer was captured while he was loafing around. It ends with the murderer saying he wants to grow flowers on her grave because the old ones have all faded away. The song is based on real events in 19th-century Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 1894, a town drunk and ne'er-do-well named Peter DeGraff had an ill-fated love affair with Ellen Smith, who was unable to understand his rejection and may have been mentally challenged. Smith became pregnant by DeGraff, but their child died at birth. Afterwards she began following DeGraff around town, and eventually he sent her a note that asked her to meet him in a secluded area, worded in such a way that Smith would have believed DeGraff wanted to reconcile. Instead, when she arrived, DeGraff shot her through the chest. He later reported that Smith's only words after being shot were "Lord have mercy on me." DeGraff confessed to the crime on the gallows, shortly before he was hanged."

Jimmy Brown the Newsboy- A Carter Family song.

Dooley- I recieved this baritone uke the day before I made this video. I do some three finger picking, and the uke is tuned in an open G like on a five-string banjo.

I'll Go Stepping Too. I made this video the day after I got the baritone uke. I have tuned it in an open G like on a five-string banjo and pick with three fingers.

Pretty Saro-This beautiful old song can be found in a large variety of versions, recorded by many, such as Elisabeth LaPrelle and Doc Watson to name a few. Both sing it unaccompanied by instruments. There's also many different lyrics for it. I try to do a humble rendition here. And though my main instrument is the guitar, I try to pick it on my old japanese banjo.

'Pistol Packin' Mama' written by Al Dexter (May 4, 1905 -- January 28, 1984) who was an American country musician and songwriter. He is best known for "Pistol Packin' Mama," a 1944 hit that was one of the most popular recordings of the World War II years and later became a hit again with a cover by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters. It has also been recorded by Frank Sinatra and recently by John Prine and & Mac Wiseman and Willie Nelson on his album Country Music. Al Dexter. He owned a bar in Jacksonville, Texas in the 1930s and helped popularize the style of country music known as honky tonk.

Here I play two guitars, one in regular tuning and on in Nashville tuning. The original recording can be found further down my SoundCloud page. A facebook friend, Dan Hayes from Canandaigua, NY, USA has downloaded this recording of mine. He has then added three tracks where he plays Marimbula, a sort of acoustic bass, clawhammer banjo and hammered dulcimer. Dan has made a terrific job on this one.

Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia. This is a song I have heard with Riley Puckett. I play it on an almost 90 year old Harmony parlor guitar. The song is well known from a record with Jimmie Rodgers from way back then. I don't yodel though.

Fishing Blues. This is a blues first recorded by the old blues man Henry Thomas. Here I play it on a Harmony parlor guitar from the 1920's.

It Ain't Gonna Rain No More. Here I sing an old song I have heard on an old record with Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers. I think it is from around 1925-30 and was sung at minstrel shows among others.

I play Cluck Old Hen on an old fretless banjo bought on eBay. It was found hanging on a wall in W. Virginia. It's probably 100 to 150 years old. Here I play in two finger Thumb-Lead Style. The seller wrote about the banjo, "I found the banjo in an old barn that was falling down when I went to look at an old car. I ask the owner if he would sell it. He said no because it was hanging in that barn when his grandfather bought the place. But he would give it to me. WOW!! I kept the banjo in my closet for many years until I decided to restore it. I hope you enjoy as much as I did". And here I sit in Denmark and pick it last january, just out of hospital.

Improvisation on a new Republic "Resolian" Resonator Guitar from American Folklore Inc. in Texas. I got this guitar recently. It isn't flawless as I haven't played blues for many years. It's much different than a all wood acoustic guitar. This is a metal body, painted to look like wood. An old craft we also know in Denmark, but mostly on doors and closets and stuff, to make it look like expensive wood. It's a very beautiful job done on this one. I try to improvise a little blues piece here. Hope you like it.

A new transatlantic video collaboration with my friend Randy Shartiger. He lives in Virginia USA and I live in Denmark. It was pleasure as always to jam with him. He did a great job playing and putting this together. It sounds like we're sitting in the same room together.

Old working song, railroad gangs and stuff. First time I play it on the banjo. The first version I heard of this song was with Clarence Ashley on the records he made with Doc Watson back in the 60's. Another fine version is the one Mike Seeger has made for Smithsonian Folkways, which can be found here on the tube.

Roving Gambler on baritone ukulele. I have played this song a lot recently on the banjo, but felt like trying it out on the baritone ukulele. I have tuned it DGBD like a G tuning on the banjo and play it three finger picking style.

He Was A Friend Of Mine. Those who have seen the movie "Brokeback Mountain" might remember this song sung by Willie Nelson. I thought he had written it, but it was credited to Bob Dylan, who sure enough had recorded it on a bootleg recording from 1961, but actually, to my delight, it turned out to be a traditional. So how old and who wrote it I don't know. Here I sing and play it finger picking style or a change without picks. I play a Blueridge Parlor guitar.

Bubbles in My Beer. A song written by Cindy Walker (1918-2006), a singer and dancer from Texas, but best known as a song writer. Among the many songs she wrote for a long line of country singers, she wrote "Lone Star Trail" which Bing Crosby had a top-ten hit with in 1940. The song I sing here was recorded by Bob Wills in 1948. In 2006 Willie Nelson made a tribute album with some of her songs "You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker" which was released just 9 days before she died at the age of 87.

Under the Double Eagle played on a Blueridge Parlor guitar. The tune is a military march from 1800's Germany, and was adopted by John Phillip Sousa, who invented the Sousaphone, an instrument in family with the Tuba. He recorded the tune on a 78' record, and became popular among guitar players in Kentucky. And has more or less have become a bluegrass standard. Here I try to do it more old-time like. It's recorded on an iPad as I was curious how good it would be at it. Especially the sound. But I think it is ok. The little microphone seems to work properly.

Sweet Sunny South played on a banjo from 1800's found in a barn in West Virginia and nicely restored. I was just out of the hospital and played it for the first time.

Bald Headed End Of The Broom Played thumb lead two finger style.

Sweet Sunny South.

Ready For The Times To Get Better.

Country Blues