In our ongoing effort to promote bass portability and homemade instruments, our friend and yodeler extraordinaire The Viper shows you how to make your own washtub bass. In part one, you’ll learn what materials you’ll need to pick up at the hardware store to make the Stradivarius of gutbuckets.

We were very happy to have The Viper sit in with us for a few songs on our last sojourn to the land of cows and beer. We have some recordings that we’ll share soon.

An old jazz standard done by many.

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This used to be a Tangleweed standard original but has fallen by the wayside like so much material. I still have nostalgia however since this was the first melodic tune I worked out on the banjo. We warmed up with it at the request of Scott before our show at the Double Door, so it was on my mind this week.

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Nate Baker and I recorded this today in the Old Town Concert Hall. I added brushes on the banjo and tuned my guitar down an octave to get the bass.

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Charles Kim and his short rendition of Funky Town:

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This is Jimmy Martin tune. It’s rough around the edges. Live in the Old Town School of Folk Music lobby.

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Tangleweed Practicing