Briggs’ Banjo Instructor is an 1855 book of banjo tunes. Rob MacKillop figured out how to play them on ukulele, wrote them out in tablature, and made an MP3 demo for each one. The demos are folksy and Hawaiian sounding at the same time, plus there’s this Scottish accent in the mix. I dig em, so here are links:

If you’re reading this in an RSS reader or some site but soupgreens.com, you’re better off stopping by the blog and hitting the play button in the page, because it will turn all these little snippets into a seamless playlist. Downloading and listening one by one won’t be half as much fun.