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Native Ground Music, Inc. is located at:

109 Bell Rd
Asheville, North Carolinaย  28805

By accessing this website we assume you accept these terms and conditions in full. Do not continue to use Native Ground Music, Inc’s website if you do not accept all of the terms and conditions stated on this page.

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Easy 2-Chord Songs for Guitar MP3s

Thanks for purchasing Easy 2-Chord Songs for Guitar!ย  Click on one of the links below to download or stream instructional audio tracks to accompany your book. Whenever you see an image of an antique gramophone in your eBook, it will have a number inside of it which corresponds to the numbered audio track.

Please note: The first link below contains a zipped file, and you need software to ‘unzip’ it (there is free software available).

If you are unable to download the MP3s, you can directly stream these files from your browser, using the second link. If you have trouble,

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Hangman’s Reel – Dark History & Banjo Tab

Albert Hash and Emily SpencerHangmanโ€™s Reel always reminds me of my old friend and mentor, Albert Hash. I first met Albert at the Grayson County Fiddlers Convention in the summer of 1972, and took an instant liking to him. Not only was he a great old-time fiddler, but I was drawn to him by his plainspoken ways and his humble spirit. He spoke in an old-time Southwest Virginia dialect, and I hung on his every word. The man was wise from his head to his toes, and I spent a lot of time hanging out and playing music with him at his Whitetop Mountain

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The Dark History of ‘Hangman’s Reel’ + Clawhammer Banjo Tab

By Wayne Erbsen

Albert Hash and Emily SpencerHangmanโ€™s Reel always reminds me of my old friend and mentor, Albert Hash. I first met Albert at the Grayson County Fiddlers Convention in the summer of 1972, and took an instant liking to him. Not only was he a great old-time fiddler, but I was drawn to him by his plainspoken ways and his humble spirit. He spoke in an old-time Southwest Virginia dialect, and I hung on his every word. The man was wise from his head to his toes, and I spent a lot of time hanging out and playing music with him at

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Wholesale Info

We’d love to provide your shop with our down-home titles of historic & nostalgic American cooking, folklore and music. We are a small family business and love working with wholesale accounts of all sorts. You can order directly through us or through your favorite rep group (just have them reach out to us). You can also find our titles on Ingram.

To be more accessible for smaller stores, we require low minimums ($75 first orders/$50 reorders), competitive pricing, and we are always happy to help you pick out which titles will work best for your store. We ship UPS and

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A History of Bluegrass Guitar in Western North Carolina

By John Martin

When folklorists like Cecil Sharp came to the mountains of North Carolina they found an enduring musical culture of Scotch-Irish fiddle tunes and ballad singers as well as some of the only black banjo and fiddle players in the country.ย  In the 1940s, western North Carolinians helped produce a new form of music: bluegrass. Earl Scruggs popularized the regional three-finger banjo style that in many ways defined bluegrass, and the state also made many contributions to guitar playing.ย 

While the acoustic guitar began as a rhythm instrument, North Carolinians Don Reno, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, and George

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โ€œWest Virginia, My Homeโ€ A Visit With Hazel Dickens Interview by John Lilly

hazelSongwriter and performer Hazel Dickens is among the most respected and celebrated folk or country music artists to come from West Virginia. She has recorded 11 albums, contributed to the soundtracks of nine feature films or videos โ€“ including such popular releases as Matewan and Songcatcher โ€“ and seen her songs recorded by artists such as Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Hot Rize, and others. Among the many honors and awards she has received is the prestigious National Heritage Fellowship, presented to her by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2001.

Born in 1935

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Music of the Southern Appalachians by Mike Seeger

This area is to the west of the flat tidewater and piedmont areas of the Atlantic coastline and includes some broad valleys with good agricultural land, such as the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, as well as many smaller valleys, some just wide enough for a little bottomland next to a creek. The eastern mountains are not nearly as tall as the Rockies; they generally rise 1,000 to 3,000 feet with a maximum of 6,000 feet, and are forested with a variety of deciduous and evergreen trees and many smaller bushes and flowers. Some mountains are green, rolling hills, but in

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Why Are There So Many Banjo Jokes?

By Wayne Erbsen

Maybe youโ€™ve heard the one about the banjo player who always sits in a level spot so the tobacco juice will run out of both sides of his mouth.

Or the guy who makes a perfect score by throwing a banjo in a dumpster without hitting the sides. He earned extra points for landing on top of an accordion.

Or what has 16 legs and 3 teeth? The front row of a banjo concert.

Or what do you call a banjo player in a three-piece suit? A defendant.

The fact is, people love making jokes about banjos

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