This book presents more than 70 tunes in the unique highly developed clawhammer style known as "Round Peak" -named after the Blue Ridge Mountain, North Carolina community where it originated. While not intended for the absolute beginner, this book will benefit players at various experience levels. Tunes in the book are organized according to the specific banjo tuning used, with A and D tunings most prominent. Much of the book's commentary and the audio download recording is directed towards the fretless variant of the 5-string banjo but as these tunes are written in standard 5-string banjo tablature, they can most definitely be played on the more common fretted instrument. Includes tune lyrics and extensive historical and biographical notes plus technical tips and a discography. Written in 5-string banjo tablature only. Includes access to online audio.

Arkansas Traveler      
Baby-O      
Backstep Cindy (Step Back Cindy)      
Big-Eyed Rabbit      
Breaking Up Christmas      
Chilly Winds      
Cluck Old Hen      
Cotton-Eyed Joe      
Cripple Creek      
Darling Nellie Grey      
Ducks on the Mill Pond      
Fall on My Knees (Lonesome Road)      
Fire on the Mountain      
Fisher's Hornpipe      
Forkey Deer      
Fortune      
Frankie Baker (Frankie and Albert)      
Greasy String      
Groundhog      
Ida Red      
John Brown's Dream      
John Hardy      
John Henry      
June Apple      
Kitty Clyde (Katy Cline)      
Let Me Fall (Old Hard Road)      
Little Maggie      
Lonesome Road Blues (Going down the Road Feeling Bad)      
Mississippi Sawyer      
New River Train      
Old Buck (Paddy on the Turnpike)      
Old Bunch of Keys      
Old Jimmy Sutton      
Old Joe Clark      
Old Molly Hare      
Old-Time Backstep Cindy      
Old-Time Ruben      
Old-Time Sally Ann      
Piney Woods Gal      
Police      
Polly Put the Kettle On      
Poor Ellen Smith      
Pretty Little Gal      
Pretty Polly      
Richmond Cotillion      
Rickett's Hornpipe      
Rochester Schottische (Walking in the Parlor)      
Rockingham Cindy      
Round Town Gals (Buffalo Gals)      
Ruben (Train 45)      
Sally Ann      
Say Darling Say      
Shortening Bread      
Soldier's Joy (Love Somebody)      
Sourwood Mountain      
Stay All Night      
Stillhouse (Cider)      
Sugar Hill      
Susananna Gal      
Sweet Sunny South      
Tempie      
The Blackest Crow (My Dearest Sweetheart)      
The Bravest Cowboy      
The Joke on the Puppy (Rye Straw)      
The Tater Patch Tune      
The Wreck of the Old 97      
The Yellow Rose of Texas      
They Say that It's Sinful to Flirt (Willie My Darling)      
Train on the Island      
Tumblin Gap (Cumberland Gap)      
Walking in My Sleep