Home > Music > Bluegrass Jargon > Banjo Tune

Banjo Tune

Instrumental song. In the string band days of the 19th and early 20th century the banjo was the lead instrument on these songs. Cripple Creek (Not the "Up On Cripple Creek" by the Band) is probably the best know banjo tune.

See also Breakdown and Frailing.

This bit of jargon has been viewed 7,587 times.

Return To Bluegrass Jargon

Home | Add Jargon | F.A.Q | About | Contact

Jargon Database is sponsored by Profit Awareness - discover your best clients, and get rid of your bad ones (Check out out business practices blog here)

Jargon Database was built by the best web development agency in Atlanta Georgia - Digital Tool Factory