Product Number:
20487EB
Format:
eBook
Skill Level:
Beginning
Pages:
180
Binding:
eBook
ISBN:
1-6097-4546-9
ISBN13:
978-16097-4546-2
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
2/24/2011
Wayne Erbsen's newest book takes a deep look at bluegrass music to uncover its true roots: ballads of early pioneers, Scots-Irish fiddle tunes, black spirituals, plantations melodies, blues, murder ballads, sentimental parlor songs from Tin Pan Alley, North Carolina banjo styles and gospel songs. The book is richly illustrated with over 100 vintage photos and includes lyrics, musical notation, chords, history and playing tips to 94 songs. There are also nearly 80 pages of history and profiles portraying important musicians including the Monroe Brothers, Carter Family, Bradley Kincaid, Riley Puckett, Charlie Poole, Wade & J.E. Mainer, Vernon Dalhart, Carolina Tar Heels, G.B. Grayson and Henry Whitter, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, Ernest V. Stoneman, Blue Sky Boys, Fiddlin' John Carson, Coon Creek Girls, Earl Scruggs, Eck Robertson, Callahan Brothers, Samantha Bumgarner, Bill Monroe Zeke & Wiley Morris, Jimmie Rodgers and Stringbean.
A Beautiful Life
All the Good Times Are Past and Gone
Amazing Grace
Angel Band
Are You Tired of Me, Darling?
Banjo Pickin' Girl
Banks of the Ohio
Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
Bury Me Beneath the Willow
Careless Love
Columbus Stockade Blues
Cotton-Eyed Joe
Cripple Creek
Cumberland Gap
Darling Cory
Dig a Hole in the Meadow
Don't Go Out Tonight, My Darling
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky
Down in the Willow Garden
Dream of the Miner's Child
Drifting Too Far From the Shore
East Virginia
Footmarks in the Snow
Girl I Loved in Sunny Tennessee
Give Me the Roses
Going to Georgia
Handsome Molly
He Will Set Your Fields on Fire
I Wonder How the Old Folks are at Home
I'll Be All Smiles Tonight
I'll Remember You in My Prayers
In the Pines
Jealous Lover
Jesse James
Jimmie Brown the Paper Boy
John Hardy
Johnson Boys
Just Over in the Gloryland
Karl & Harty
Katie Cline
Katie Dear
Knoxville Girl
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
Leather Britches
Life's Railway to Heaven
Little Bessie
Little Log Cabin in the Lane
Little Maggie
Little Rosewood Casket
Little Whitewashed Chimney
Lonesome Road Blues
Long Journey Home
Lord, I'm Coming Home
Man of Constant Sorrow
Maple on the Hill
Mary of the Wild Moor
Midnight on the Stormy Deep
My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
My Old Cottage Home
New River Train
Nine Pound Hammer
Oh Those Tombs
Old Joe Clark
Poor Ellen Smith
Precious Memories
Pretty Polly
Put My Little Shoes Away
Rabbit in the Log
Red Rocking Chair
Red Wing
Reuben's Train
Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
Roll on Buddy
Roving Gambler
Sally Goodin'
Seeing Nelly Home
Shady Grove
Shake Hands With Mother Again
Short Life of Trouble
Sweet Sunny South
The Unclouded Day
They're at Rest Together
Turkey in the Straw
Wabash Cannonball
Wait till the Clouds Roll By
Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John
What Would You Give in Exchange?
When the Bees are in the Hive
When You and I Were Young, Maggie
Where the Soul of Man Never Dies
White House Blues
Whoa Mule
Wild Bill Jones
Wildwood Flower
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