Rural Roots of Bluegrass de Wayne Erbsen

Rural Roots of Bluegrass: Songs, Stories & History

Wayne Erbsen

Erbsen's book takes a deep look at bluegrass to discover its true roots. Included are the words and music to ninety-four songs, vintage photos, historical introductions and profiles of scores of musicians at the very core of bluegrass. The book contains tips on singing and playing, and includes accounts of the author's personal encounters with many of these legendary musicians.

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"Rural Roots Of Bluegrass: Songs, Stories & History is an eclectic medley of a book that profiles great bluegrass musicians, offers a wealth of music (including a classic song with notes and lyrics on almost every page), and packed from cover to cover with fascinating anecdotes of history, and so much more. Rural Roots Of Bluegrass is an enjoyable romp through the history of enduring favorite tunes and the great people who performed them." -- Midwest Book Review

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Preface; Introduction; Romancing the Rural Homestead; The Roots of Bluegrass Music; Tin Pan Alley; The Roots of Gospel Music; The Monroe Brothers; The National Barn Dance; Those Magic Crystals; Charlie & Bill in the "Studio"; Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys; Bill Monroe on the Opry; 2 Cents Worth of Music Theory; Transposing; Using a Capo to Transpose; The Wheel of Transposition; Singing with the Guitar; Singing with the Mandolin; Singing with the Banjo; Backing up Songs with the Fiddle; Singing Harmony; Before you Start Singing; A Beautiful Life; All the Good Times are Past & Gone; Amazing Grace; Angel Band; Are you Tired of Me, Darling?; The Lilly Brothers; Banjo Pickin' Girl; Banks of the Ohio; Blue Ridge Mountain Blues; Riley Puckett; Bury Me Beneath the Willow; Carter Family; Careless Love; Bradley Kincaid; 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; Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers; Don't This Road Look Rough & Rocky; Down in the Willow Garden; Wade & J.E. Mainer; Wade Mainer & the Morris Brothers; Dream of the Miner's Child; Vernon Dalhart; Drifting Too Far From the Shore; East Virginia; Footmarks in the Snow; Girl I loved in Sunny Tennessee; Give me the Roses Now; Going to Georgia; Handwome Moly; 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; 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 rtidge 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; They're at Rest Together; Turkey in the Straw; The Unclouded Day; Wabash Cannonball; Wait Til 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 & I Were Young, Maggie; Where the Soul of Man Never Dies; White House Blues; Whoa Mule; Wild Bill Jones; Wildwood Flower.