"Banjo" Billy Mathews        Specializing in Old Time Banjo & Fiddle Tunes

                                 
 

 
 
The 500 Tunes Project

CURRENT TUNE COUNT: 149

     Billy's mission is to record a collection of 500 Traditional Old Time Style Fiddle tunes he has learned or composed.
The first 100 tunes are available now to order in a special signed, numbered, Limited Edition. There are only 20 available - so get yours today!  
           Shipping Early Spring 2008
 Somewhere in Dixie Re-Release!                        Fire Alarm Re-Release!
Billy is proud to announce the re-release of Fire Alarm and Somewhere in Dixie.
These iconic Skirtlifter Classics haven't been available since folks stopped using tape players!


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Billy started a new project;  which is  recording a collection of  500 Fiddle Tunes.
Billy is aiming to  release 5 triple discs (15 CD's in all)of  the first 500 tunes with a book of musical notation to accompany the recordings.   For more info click here: 500 Tunes
                 
 
Billy Mathews is known far and wide across this land for his musical skill and old time fiddlin' and pickin' ability.  He has traveled extensively throughout the Midwest for over 30 years.   Kinships have earned him a considerable amount of notoriety and recognition throughout old time, traditional music circles. Billy has that Ozark up-bow/backbeat style of fiddlin' that is in the Midwest Dance Tradition. more


Also, true to his name,
Banjo Billy plays a variety of banjos as owner of the Phippsburg Banjo Company.
Rd. Lunceford of The Old Time Herald said that Billy's  Minstrel style banjo playing on the album Ghost of Banjo Billy is ,
" what true traditional banjo playing has really always been  about."
 Lunceford also says about Billy's tunes that: " ...had I not known better, I would have expected to have found them in an early 19th Century banjo manual"

 Billy still resides in the Ozark Mountains  continuing work on music projects. Billy keeps busy by traveling throughout the country for workshops, concerts and other special events, 
playing his  huge repertoire of old time fiddle and banjo tunes.  
It'll get your feet a tappin' and your heels a clickin'!
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 Click on picture below to view Banjo Billy's schedule.

                           

 


Silver Anniversary
   Edition-2CD Set



A Rogue's Buffet




Children of Foreign Lands



Old Time Waltz Collection



Phippsburg Banjo Co.
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          Celebrate an American Tradition of Old Time Minstrel Style playing!  
                                         Billy Mathews is proud to release: 


The Ghost of Banjo Billy
Gonna Rise Again
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       DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT                Web Exclusives          FOR SPECIAL DEALS ON SPECIAL TUNES !

                              Billy Mathews Live in Concert - Milwaukee, Wisconsin -    ONLY $9.99! 
 
                 Coming Soon: Skirtlifters Recordings Re-Issue--- Somewhere in Dixie and Fire Alarm will be available on CD in March 2008.  For more information or to order these recordings, please email:
                                                                                     contact@banjobilly.net
           
 

This site was last updated 04/30/08 by e.a.weiss