Walt Koken
About the artist
Walt began playing the five string banjo in 1959. He first played in an old time string band in 1965 in the Busted Toe Mudthumpers, based in Ithaca NY. He also played four-string (plectrum) banjo in the Muskrat Ramblers, a New Orleans style seven-peice traditional jazz band around that time, which gave him his background and repertoire along those lines. The Mudthumpers travelled to the San Francisco Bay area twice in 1968 and 1969. When their fiddler
Top songs
- Banjonique
- Mineola Rag
- Banjo Blues
- Train On The Island
- Blizzard On The Backbone
- Freedom's March
- Jay Bird Town
- Forks of Sandy
- Buck Hill Breakdown
- Leather Britches
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- Big Sandy
- Cotton Eyed Joe
- Snowbound Blues
- Blue Bird Rag
- Candy Man
- Walking in the Parlor
- Big John Macniel
- Twiddlin'
- The Berkeley Days
- The Berkley Days
- Big John McNiel
- John Hardy
- Jerry and Linda
- Jerry and Lynda
- Hei-Wa Hoedown
- Pig Politics
- Banjo Ma'am
- Rovin' Gambler
- Sequoia Farewell
- November Waltz
- Old Dusty Miller
- Solitaire
- Goin' Across The Sea
- Indian Nation
- Boston Shootout
- Port Townsend Shuffle
- Juarez Saturday Night
- Gray Eagle
- Cotton-Eyed Joe
- Whiskey
- Frankie And Albert
- Finger Lakes Ramble
- Doctor Jazz
- The Valentine
- Chinquapin Pie
- The Old Dusty Miller
- Save The Nation
- June Apple
- Salt River
- The Cabin On The Hill
- Ground Hog
- Banjo Sprite
- Billy in the Lowground
- Juarez Saturday
- Money Musk
- White Deer
- Fire on the Mountain
- Sittin' In The Catbird's Seat
- Maple Leaf Rag
- Down South Blues
- Banjo On The Hill
- Peaceful Times
- The Old Man At The Mill
- Laughing Water
- Money Train Blues
- Turkey Trottin'
- Jimmy Brown, The Newsboy
- Peas And Taters
- Strawberry Jam
- That Gal With The Run Down Shoe
- Talking Garden
- Down At The Mouth Of Old Stinson
- Br'er Bear
- Weary Blues
- Rag-a-Muffin
- Going Across the Sea
- Roving Gambler
- Silk And Velvet Waltz (For Clare)
- Stone Road
- Ragamuffin
- Jay Bird Town - Walt Koken
- Jimmy Brown The Newsboy
- Billy In The Lowland
- Snow bound blues
- Burk Hill Breakdown
- Duck River
- Cotton Eyed Joe
- Forks in Sandy
- Single Footing Horse
- Saint Anne's Reel
- Old Folks Played and the Young People Danced
- Jerry & Lynda
- Candy Man Blues
- Freedom\'s March
- Wa Hoedown
- Indian Eat the Woodpecker
- Little Gal'll Fool Me
- Jack Wilson
- Rickett's Hornpipe
- Eighth Of January
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