The Writings of Fretless Josh Shaw

Some of these pieces appeared in Banjo Newsletter and some of them didn't. I sent some of them to Old Time Herald back when Alice Gerrard was editor and she didn't want them. It's good to know there are some standards left, or at least there were then.

Anyways I finally decided to dump them in here so here they are. By the way Donald Nitchie told me BNL doesn't copyright anything, so it's ok to put them here. But if you copy any of them it would be nice to say where you got them. That hasn't always happened.

Very truly yours,

Fretless Josh Shaw (May, 2006)

• How to Fix a Bullet Hole in a Banjo (BNL, July 2002)
• The Basic Bad (BNL, Jan 2002)
• Tender Little Murder Ballad No. 1114 (BNL, June 2002)
• Guitar Players (BNL, Jan 2002)
• DE PANDAE NATURA, or Hannibal's Revenge (BNL, Oct. 2002)
• Brier P. Beethoven (BNL, August 2000)
• What Was Said and What Was Meant
• The Duet that was Played, and Yet it Wasn't
• Études pour le Banjeau, 1
• Johnny Dime, Banjo Teacher
• Festival Report
• The Square County Polka (with tab)
• The Inventions of Roscoe Lee Ozum
• The Banjification of Species
• The Way Things Ought to Be