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

  1. Banjonique
  2. Mineola Rag
  3. Banjo Blues
  4. Train On The Island
  5. Blizzard On The Backbone
  6. Freedom's March
  7. Jay Bird Town
  8. Forks of Sandy
  9. Buck Hill Breakdown
  10. Leather Britches
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  1. Big Sandy
  2. Cotton Eyed Joe
  3. Snowbound Blues
  4. Blue Bird Rag
  5. Candy Man
  6. Walking in the Parlor
  7. Big John Macniel
  8. Twiddlin'
  9. The Berkeley Days
  10. The Berkley Days
  11. Big John McNiel
  12. John Hardy
  13. Jerry and Linda
  14. Jerry and Lynda
  15. Hei-Wa Hoedown
  16. Pig Politics
  17. Banjo Ma'am
  18. Rovin' Gambler
  19. Sequoia Farewell
  20. November Waltz
  21. Old Dusty Miller
  22. Solitaire
  23. Goin' Across The Sea
  24. Indian Nation
  25. Boston Shootout
  26. Port Townsend Shuffle
  27. Juarez Saturday Night
  28. Gray Eagle
  29. Cotton-Eyed Joe
  30. Whiskey
  31. Frankie And Albert
  32. Finger Lakes Ramble
  33. Doctor Jazz
  34. The Valentine
  35. Chinquapin Pie
  36. The Old Dusty Miller
  37. Save The Nation
  38. June Apple
  39. Salt River
  40. The Cabin On The Hill
  41. Ground Hog
  42. Banjo Sprite
  43. Billy in the Lowground
  44. Juarez Saturday
  45. Money Musk
  46. White Deer
  47. Fire on the Mountain
  48. Sittin' In The Catbird's Seat
  49. Maple Leaf Rag
  50. Down South Blues
  51. Banjo On The Hill
  52. Peaceful Times
  53. The Old Man At The Mill
  54. Laughing Water
  55. Money Train Blues
  56. Turkey Trottin'
  57. Jimmy Brown, The Newsboy
  58. Peas And Taters
  59. Strawberry Jam
  60. That Gal With The Run Down Shoe
  61. Talking Garden
  62. Down At The Mouth Of Old Stinson
  63. Br'er Bear
  64. Weary Blues
  65. Rag-a-Muffin
  66. Going Across the Sea
  67. Roving Gambler
  68. Silk And Velvet Waltz (For Clare)
  69. Stone Road
  70. Ragamuffin
  71. Jay Bird Town - Walt Koken
  72. Jimmy Brown The Newsboy
  73. Billy In The Lowland
  74. Snow bound blues
  75. Burk Hill Breakdown
  76. Duck River
  77. Cotton Eyed Joe
  78. Forks in Sandy
  79. Single Footing Horse
  80. Saint Anne's Reel
  81. Old Folks Played and the Young People Danced
  82. Jerry & Lynda
  83. Candy Man Blues
  84. Freedom\'s March
  85. Wa Hoedown
  86. Indian Eat the Woodpecker
  87. Little Gal'll Fool Me
  88. Jack Wilson
  89. Rickett's Hornpipe
  90. Eighth Of January

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