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All-Time Bluegrass Jam Session Top 107

Compiled by Pete Wernick
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Up Tempo:

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

Instrumentals:

  • Cripple Creek
  • Old Joe Clark
  • Foggy Mt. Breakdown
  • Soldiers Joy

Instrumentals - Continued:

  • Salt Creek
  • 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
  • Clinch Mt. Backstep

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
  • Gentle on My Mind
  • Freight Train
  • Columbus Stockade Blues
  • Home on the Range
  • Jambalaya

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
  • Amazing Grace

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


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