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updated July 2010 :) How about a little Afro/Celt for Summer?
It’s very old and new at the same time--we believe it's our best CD yet. Afro/Caribbean drumming with Celtic claw hammer frailing fusion banjo. Entirely acoustic with fresh blends of banjos, cello banjo, djembe, congas, mountain dulcimer, dulcimette, guitar, bass, pots and pans, and featuring George Clinton singing "John Bowlin's Groundhog Strut." Drumming On the Edge of Banjo CD 
Thanks to all who bought my banjo cds and books in 2009 and for all the nice feedback from my dulcimer friends who bought the new instruction method book/cd. Hope everyone has a wonderful 2010 wrapped in the love of family and friends and lots of good picking. :)
Finally for Mountain Dulcimer Playing friends :) Easy String Band Method for Mountain Dulcimer with Audio CD and simple tab book. :) $20.00 + postage It has 34 tracks on an instructional audio CD including medium and very slow play along versions of : LYNCHBURG TOWN, LIZA JANE, OLD GRAY CAT, JOHN LOVER'S GONE, CHICKENS CROWIN' AT MIDNIGHT, ANGELINE, SOLDIERS JOY, LITTLE BLACK DOG GONE TROTTIN' DOWN THE ROAD, FLY AROUND MY PRETTY LITTLE MISS, JULIE ANN JOHNSON, STEP AROUND JOHNNY, SALLY ANN, ROCK THE CRADLE JOE, JOHN STINSON'S #2, &YELLOW;ROSE OF TEXAS The book and cd introduce an easy learning method of one style and one tuning (DAD) to get beginners, novices, and intermediate players up and jamming without being overwhelmed at the beginning by many techniques, tunings, theory, chords, complicated arrangements and ornaments. :) A walk before you run approach that's fun and simple for ordinary musical geniuses. :)
FLORIDA BANJO TAB BOOK IS HERE! 45 pages this time, with simple tabs to the tunes on the CD plus a bonus tab for Coo, Coos Nest. There are historical and playing notes, pictures, photos, and extra tidbits of Florida history too.
Florida Banjo CD "You keep knockin' em outta the park; "Florida Banjo" is another home run.... The Marlins need to sign you up!!" Cheers, Dennis
Ponce de Leon, Spanish Fandango, Cluck Old Hen, Ragtime Annie, Yearlings in the Canebreak, Shenandoah Falls, Frankie's Blues, Yellow Rose of Texas, Chinquipin, Waterbound, Wind That Shakes the Barley, Peach Bottom Creek, Hail Agin' the Barn Door, Turkey in the Straw, Loch Laven Castle.
15 tunes with Mary Z. Cox and guest musicians: Kerry Blech, Bob Cox, Jim Crozier, Lo Gordon & Ellen Sheppard
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Thanks to everyone that has bought my CDs, tab books and T-shirts.
Click on the music link to listen to audio samples of all my tunes.
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All CDs & Tab books are $15.00 each + shipping. (1-3 items $5.00/ 4-11 items $10.00 for USA. International $15.00 for 1-4 items/ $20.00 for 5-11)
Dulcimer book with instructional CD is $20 plus shipping.
Other CDs and tab books available by Mary Z. Cox
Although this is not a "Christmas " CD--it sounds wonderful in this holiday season--with soft haunting arrangements and three holiday carols--if you already have it--don't forget to load it up and listen this time of year! :) Banjo Dreamin' Suwannee Nights CD New banjo CD from Mary Z. Cox--voted as a top four favorite clawhammer banjoist by Banjo Newsletter Readers . (Banjo Newsletter/June 2006) "Mary reacquaints us with how our beloved instrument was really meant to sound." (Banjo Newsletter/September 2006)
Suwannee River, We Three Kings, Dinah, Shepherd's Wife Waltz, Rockin' In A Weary Land, Sweet Sunny South, Song Of the Chanter, Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss, Winder Slide, Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground, John Stinson's # 2, Hangman's Reel, Big Scioty, Going Back to Cairo, Light the Torch Jeannette Isabella/Good Christian Men Rejoice
A Secret Life of Banjo
Hear the secret voice of old time banjo. Even if you've never liked banjo music before--you just may change your mind. 15 banjo instrumentals you'll want to listen to more than once. "Stand out tunes include Mary's take on Swannanoa Tunnel, an old English work song made popular by Bascom Lamar Lunsford, along with two original tunes, Andrew Jackson Go Back Home and Hunchback Whiskey, that she plays on her Wunder Hunchback fretless gut string banjo. Mary also has the enviable ability to take an old chestnut and make it hers, a la her double-tracked version of Golden Slippers...along with Soldier's Joy and Angeline." --Don Nitchie/Banjo Newsletter May 2004
Swannanoa Tunnel, Golden Slippers, Andrew Jackson-Go Back Home, Old Town Band, Snake Charmer's Daughter, Old Molly Hare, Sandy Boys, Sally In the Garden, Soldiers Joy, All Through the Night, Hunchback Whiskey, Wayfaring Stranger, Cock-A-Doodle-Do, Pikes Peak, Angeline
Walkin' That Banjo Home
Clawhammer banjo, fiddle, guitar and a taste of old gut strung fretless banjo by Mary Z. Cox and Kay Van Treese. National Public Radio chose track #8 (Rachael)to play online on "All Songs Considered." Banjo Newsletter has published tabs and MP3s from this CD.
Greasy Coat, Snowdrop, Westphalia Waltz, Pig Ankle Rag, Julie Ann Johsnon, Southwind, Duck River, Rachael, Walkin' that Pretty Girl Home, Blackberry Blossom, Old Tobacco Hills, Old Yeller Dog, Icy Mountain, Seven Hills, Squirrel Heads and Gravy, Hunchback Liza, Last Chance
Vintage Banjo
Looking for a clawhammer banjo CD that you'd like to listen to more than once? Fourteen of our favorite old time tunes on clawhammer banjo with fiddle and guitar. Vintage Banjo was selected as Editor's Pick in the January 2001 Banjo Newsletter. "A simple no-frills collection of old time tunes on banjo...played with great delicacy and restraint. I found myself listening to it repeatedly..." Donald Nitchie/Banjo Newsletter, August 2000
Sally Ann, Dixie, Elzic's Farewell, Johnson Boys, Cindy, Bonaparte's Retreat, Pigtown Fling, Little Black Dog Gone Trottin' Down the Road, Dunsmore Lasses, Cherokee Shuffle, Sheebeg Agus Sheemore, Sugar Hill, Napoleon Crossing the Rhine, Sandy River Belles
Tab books have simple clawhammer banjo tabs to the tunes on the compatible CDs, with playing & historical notes.
A Secret Life 
of Banjo Tab book
Vintage Banjo Tab Book
Banjo Dreamin' Suwannee Nights Tab Book
Walkin' That Banjo Home Tab Book
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