Once a week, Stack delivers a mix of the most interesting new music on the web, handpicked by the Hype Machine team. Here's a recent mix.
Andy Chase - Old Greasy Coat
MeFi MusicFollow “An old-time tune I've been meaning to learn forever. Solo clawhammer banjo, modal tuning. This is more or less the…” on Mar 22nd, 2020 →
Andy Chase - Skeleton Dance
MeFi MusicFollow “A day late for Halloween, barely in time for Día de Muertos. A composition for classic fingerstyle banjo and piano…” on Nov 1st, 2019 →
Andy Chase - Far South Reel
MeFi MusicFollow “One of the coolest tunes Frank B. Converse ever wrote, from page 105 of his 1886 Analytical Banjo Method. Although…” on Jul 1st, 2019 →
Andy Chase - Cider
MeFi MusicFollow “Traditional oldtime tune, played clawhammer style on an 1896 Bay State banjo, recorded into an Audio Technica AT-2035 mic. Cider…” on May 23rd, 2019 →
Andy Chase - Hi! Ho! the Charleston Gals
MeFi MusicFollow “Usually heard as 'Charleston Gals' in old-time circles these days, this was originally a minstrel-era song. This is an 1858…” on Aug 13th, 2015 →
Andy Chase - Rapahanock Jig
MeFi MusicFollow “A fun one by James Buckley, 1860. Solo gourd banjo, eAEG#B tuning. (Title is as originally printed, but is almost…” on Jul 31st, 2015 →
Andy Chase - Cotton Pod Walk Around
MeFi MusicFollow “Yet another Frank B Converse piece from 1865, trying to get the hang of playing a banjo and foot tambo…” on Jul 30th, 2015 →
Andy Chase - New York March
MeFi MusicFollow “One more 1865 banjo tune for the city songs challenge trifecta! This is another Frank B. Converse composition. Fretless banjo…” on Jul 29th, 2015 →
Andy Chase - Philadelphia Jig
MeFi MusicFollow “Another 19th century banjo tune for the City Songs Challenge, this one from Frank B. Converse's New and Complete Method…” on Jul 25th, 2015 →
Andy Chase - Ducks on the Pond
MeFi MusicFollow “A solo clawhammer banjo recording of a traditional old-time tune. I haven't been playing much clawhammer at all lately, so…” on Jul 14th, 2015 →
Andy Chase - Boston Jig
MeFi MusicFollow “Getting in just under the wire for the May/June city song challenge, this is a short little banjo tune from…” on Jun 30th, 2015 →
Andy Chase - Minor Waltz
MeFi MusicFollow “A composition for 2 banjos in the classic style, composed by S.S. Stewart in 1882. I decided to give it…” on Nov 4th, 2014 →
Andy Chase - Funeral March of an Old Jaw Bone
MeFi MusicFollow “For two banjos in the classic style, composed by Bolsover Gibbs. I'm not sure of the year, but my educated…” on Aug 19th, 2014 →
Andy Chase - Briggs' Reel
MeFi MusicFollow “From Briggs' Banjo Instructor of 1855. Played stroke style on a fretless minstrel banjo.” on Jun 30th, 2014 →
Andy Chase - Get up in the Morning (Say the Geese)
MeFi MusicFollow “I was tending a fire and playing my banjo outside when the geese decided to help. Yet another one from…” on May 3rd, 2014 →
Andy Chase - Unknown Track
MeFi MusicFollow “Not the old-time tune you may be thinking of. Fretless banjo with a percussion loop. (As it happens, Garageband's Jazz…” on Apr 19th, 2014 →
Andy Chase - Old Joe
MeFi MusicFollow “A popular 19th century minstrel tune with fretless banjo, tambourine and vocals. (Different from the old-time tune by the same…” on Apr 16th, 2014 →
Andy Chase - Unknown Track
MeFi MusicFollow “Fretless minstrel banjo with guitar and percussion, from 1855. The bass drum is a synth, unfortunately, and fuels my impractical…” on Apr 12th, 2014 →
Andy Chase - Power of Music
MeFi MusicFollow “More fretless minstrel banjo, with tambourine and marginally played bones. This one is from Phil Rice's 1858 Method for Banjo…” on Apr 6th, 2014 →
Andy Chase - Kentucky Juba
MeFi MusicFollow “A short but stately exercise from Frank Converse's 1872 The Banjo and How to Play It.” on Apr 2nd, 2014 →