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All-Time Bluegrass Jam Session Top 106

compiled by Pete Wernick
Please suggest additional songs to Pete at Pete@DrBanjo.com



Up-Tempo

. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
. Blue Ridge Cabin Home
. Think Of What You've Done
. Nine Pound Hammer
. Will the Circle Be Unbroken
. Old Home Place
. Little Maggie
. Good Old Mountain Dew
. Salty Dog
. Footprints In The Snow
. Worried Man Blues
. Long Journey Home (Two Dollar Bill)
. Lonesome Road Blues
. Bile Em Cabbage Down
. Sitting On Top Of The World
. How Mountain Girls Can Love
. Fox On The Run
. Jesse James
. Love Please Come Home
. Rabbit In The Log (Feast Here Tonight)
. Rocky Top
. John Henry
. Roving Gambler
. Sunny Side Of The Mountain
. I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home
. Friend of the Devil
. Steel Rails
. I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
. Little Cabin Home on the Hill
. Hit Parade of Love
. Ole Slew Foot
. Man of Constant Sorrow
. Bury Me Beneath the Willow
. Crying Holy
. Dark Hollow
. If I Lose
. Blue Night
. New River Train
. Truck Driving Man
. Steam Powered Airplane
. Hot Corn Cold Corn
. Working on a Building
. I Know You Rider
. Highway of Regret
. Little Georgia Rose
. I Saw the Light
. Shady Grove (minor or major key versions)
. Live and Let Live
. Foggy Mt. Top
. I'll Fly Away
. Love of the Mountains

Instrumentals

. Cripple Creek
. Old Joe Clark
. Foggy Mt. Breakdown
. Soldiers Joy
. Salt Creek
. Clinch Mt. Backstep
. Red Haired Boy
. Sally Goodin
. John Hardy
. Blackberry Blossom
. Bill Cheatham
. Dear Old Dixie
. Dixie Breakdown
. Ground Speed
. Foggy Mt. Special
. Rebecca
. Gray Eagle
. Shuckin the Corn


Waltz (3/4) time

. All The Good Times Are Past And Gone
. White Dove
. Blue Moon Of Kentucky
. Tennessee Waltz
. Paradise
. Dark As a Dungeon
. Drifting Too Far From the Shore
. Angel Band
. In the Pines
. Old Old House
. Lonesome River
. I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling

Other Slow Tempo

. Long Black Veil
. Banks Of The Ohio
. Don't This Road Look Rough And Rocky
. I Am a Pilgrim
. Life's Railway to Heaven
. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies

Well-known songs that work well in bluegrass style

. This Land Is Your Land
. Wabash Cannonball
. You Are My Sunshine
. When the Saints Go Marching In
. Red River Valley
. She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain
. Mama Don't 'Low
. Careless Love
. Red Wing
. Charlie and the MTA
. Jingle Bells
. Auld Lang Syne
. Silent Night
. Amazing Grace
. Gentle on My Mind
. Freight Train
. Columbus Stockade Blues
. Home on the Range
. Jambalaya









Selected articles from The Doc's Prescriptions




Entry: 01 --"practice tape tips"

Entry: 02 --"helpful hints"

Entry: 03 --"All-time bluegrass jam session tunes, Top 106"

Entry: 04 --"teaching beginning banjo students"

Entry: 05 --"On stage fright and playing under pressure"

Entry: 06 --"Loop exercise method"

Entry: 07 --"List of 29 possible practice goals"

Entry: 08 --"Summary of the Beginners Bluegrass Method"

Entry: 09 --"SPEED"

Entry: 10 --"Two-chord songs"

Entry: 11 --"Favorite songs that use two or three chords"

Entry: 12 -- "A New Direction in Teaching and Learning Bluegrass Music"
(Bluegrass Unlimited guest editorial, May 2004)

Entry: 13 --"Learning to sing in tune"

Entry: 14 --"Can't find people to jam"




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