Publisher's Synopsis
This is the music of America's soul! The 65 pieces in this songbook form Volume Twoof a collection of some of the best traditional songs from the mountains, farms and woods of America - Old-Time and Bluegrass favorites that have been a mainstay of down-home American music for generations. These songs were chosen by author Ben "Gitty" Baker from among his personal favorites, the sort that you'd be most likely to hear around a camp fire at a bluegrass or old-time music festival. Each song arrangement includes 3-string tablature, chord names and forms, lyrics and additional verses. A short snippet of background and history is also provided, as well as multiple arrangements in different keys and styles, to accommodate varying skill levels and vocal ranges. Includes these songs and many more: - Mama Don't Allow; - Man of Constant Sorrow; - Maple on the Hill, The; - Midnight on the Stormy Deep; - Milwaukee Blues; - Molly and Tenbrooks; - My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains; - My Old Kentucky Home; - New River Train; - Nine Hundred Miles; - Nine Pound Hammer; - Nobody's Business; - Oh Death; - Oh Susannah; - Old Dan Tucker;- Old Gray Mare, The; - Old Joe Clark; - Old Paint; - Old Time Religion; - Paul and Silas; - Pig in a Pen; - Railroad Bill; - Rain and Snow; - Red River Valley; - Reuben's Train; - Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms; - Roll On Buddy; - Roving Gambler; - Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea; - Sally Goodin; - Salty Dog Blues; - Shady Grove (Bluegrass Style); - Shady Grove (Old-Time Style); - Shenandoah; - Shoo Fly Don't Bother Me; - Short Life of Trouble; - Shortnin' Bread; - Silver Threads Among the Gold; - Sitting On Top of the World; - Somebody Touched Me; - Standing in the Need of Prayer; - Streets of Laredo; - Sugar Hill; - Take This Hammer; - There's More Pretty Girls Than One; - This Train (Is Bound For Glory); - Tom Dooley; - Train That Carried My Girl From Town, The; - Train They Call the Cannonball, The; Turkey In The Straw; - Unclouded Day, The; - Wabash Cannonball, The; - Walk In Jerusalem Just Like John; - Walking In My Sleep; - Wayfaring Stranger; - Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?; - When I Lay My Burden Down; - When the Work's All Done This Fall; - When You and I Were Young, Maggie; - Where the Soul Never Dies; - Whitehouse Blues; - Wild Bill Jones; - Wildwood Flower; - Worried Man Blues; - Wreck of the Old '97.Also includes supplemental instructional sections on how to read tablature, play chords and more!
