Bob Carlin
About the artist
Bob Carlin (born March 17, 1953 in New York City) is an American old-time banjo player and singer. As well as solo recordings, he has recorded as Bob Carlin & John Hartford. Carlin has toured the United States, Canada, and Europe performing on various historical banjos (including gourd banjos), and has explored the African roots of the banjo by working with the Malian musician Cheick Hamala Diabate (recording as Cheick Hamala Diabaté and Bob Carlin) and the elder African-American fiddler Joe Thompson.
Top songs
- The Falls of Richmond
- Davy Davy
- The Spotted Pony / Sullivan's Hollow
- Too Young to Marry
- Big Scioty
- Needlecase
- Shady Grove
- Farewell Trion
- Clinch Mountain Backstep
- Boatman
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- Icy Mountain
- Pretty Little Indian
- Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet Potato Vine
- Medley: Devil's Dream / Darkey Money Musk / Mrs. McLeod's Reel
- Ora Lee
- Ninety Degrees
- Walk Along John
- Geese Honking
- Trouble
- Far in the Mountain
- Indian on a Stump
- Big Footed Man in the Sandy Lot
- Ain't Gonna Get No Supper Here Tonight
- Cherokee Shuffle
- Hosses in the Canebreak
- Old Sledge
- Indian War Whoop
- Ten Yards of Calico
- Dixie's Land
- Medley: The Spotted Pony/Sullivan's Hollow
- Paddy on the Turnpike
- Cuttin' at the Point
- Chinese Breakdown
- Black Snake Bit Me on the Toe
- Chilly Winds
- Pretty Polly Ann
- Little Boy, Little Boy
- Cider
- Medley: Box the Fox/Pays De Haut
- Spring Creek Gal
- Tempy / Rye Straw
- Norweigan Wood/waiting For Nancy
- You're Bound to Look Like A Monkey
- Box The Fox / Pays De Haut
- Banjo Roustabout
- Medley: Tempy/Rye Straw
- I'm Going Over the Mountain
- Fisher's Hornpipe
- Cotton Eyed Joe
- Little Deuce Coupe
- Big John McNeil
- The Fun Of Open Discussion
- Jenny on the Railroad
- Old Bunch Of Keys
- Otto Wood, the Bandit
- Tishomingo County Blues
- Back Step Cindy
- I Had But Fifty Cents
- When You Ask A Girl to Leave Her Happy Home
- Grasshopper Sitting On A Sweet Potatoe Vine
- OId Bunch of Keys
- Lantern in the Ditch
- Step Back Cindy
- Hy Patitian
- The Merry Girl
- Devilish Mary
- The Boys From North Carolina
- Who's That Knocking At the Door
- Richmond Am a Hard Road To Travel
- Ben Dewberry's Final Run
- The Federal Soldier
- Spanish Fandango
- Shortenin' Bread
- Bull At The Wagon
- Roll Over Beetoven
- Dry and Dusty
- Bonaparte Crossing the Rocky Mountains
- Martha Campbell
- When the Wagon Was New
- I Can See Your Aura
- God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign
- Chinquapin
- They've All Got a Wife but Me
- C-h-i-c-k-e-n
- M.I.S.I.P.
- Kitty Puss
- Died For Love
- Greenback Dollar
- Doc Chapman's Breakdown
- Flying Cloud Cotillion
- Mrs. Maxwell
- Cheetah
- 5.Bonaparte crossing the Rocky mountains
- Ships in the cloud/Folding down the sheets
- Mr. Spaceman
- 12.Ships in the cloud/Folding down the sheets
- 8.Flying Cloud Cotillion
- Medley: Phil Rice's Excelsior Jig / John Diamond Walk Around
- Fiddle Head Reel/Dubuque
- 15.Fiddle Head Reel/Dubuque
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