SINGING AND PLAYING BLUEGRASS -- high lonesome singing; choosing the right key; transposing your chords; the capo; BLUEGRASS SONGS -- sentimental songs; breakdown tunes; songs of home; hard luck and hard times; lost love and broken hearts; murder ballads; rascals, rounders and wild women; gospel songs; SENTIMENTAL SONGS -- I'll be all smiles tonight; seeing nelly home; maple on the hill; put my little shoes away; breakdown tunes; cumberland gap; old joe clark; sally goodin; SONGS OF HOME -- little log cabin in the lane; my home's across the smokey mountains; sweet sunny south; HARD LUCK AND HARD TIMES -- all the good times are past and gone; long journy home; rabbit in the log; lonesome road blues; short life of trouble; LOST LOVE AND BROKEN HEARTS -- bury me beneath the willow; handsome molly; don't this road look rough and rocky; East Virginia; midnight on the stormy deep; the girl I left in sunny Tennessee; roll in my sweet baby's arms; when the bees are in the hive; wildwood flower; MURDER BALLADS -- banks of the Ohio; Knoxville girl; poor Ellen Smith; pretty Polly; down in the willow garden; RASCALS, ROUNDERS AND WILD WOMEN -- darling Cory; John Hardy; little Maggie; roving gambler; GOSPEL SONGS -- life's railway to heaven; jost over in the gloryland; Lord, I'm coming home; leaning on the everlasting arms; where the soul of man never dies; a beautiful life; give me the roses now.
Wayne Erbsen has made it his lifelong passion to collect, preserve and perform historic American music. An active teacher, musician, writer, and publisher, he is President of Native Ground Music, Inc. He lives with his wife Barbara and their three children near Asheville, North Carolina.
"Native Ground Books & Music is an impressive niche publisher of books and recording in the genre of historic American music, folklore, and cookbooks. One example of their outstanding work in the field of American popular music is their 'Backpocket' series of inexpensive but highly informative booklets by music historian Wayne Erbsen showcasing two distinctive fields of American music. "Backpocket Bluegrass Song Book" has the words and music for forty traditional bluegrass tunes." -- Midwest Book Review
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