Bluegrass Jam Favorites

Compiled by Pete Wernick
… based on jams around the U.S. and overseas.
Suggestions: Pete@DrBanjo.com

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
  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  • Footprints in the Snow
  • Worried Man Blues
  • Long Journey Home (Two Dollar Bill)
  • Lonesome Road Blues
  • Bile’em Cabbage Down
  • New River Train
  • Hit Parade of Love
  • Your Love is Like a Flower
  • Sitting on Top of the World
  • How Mt. Girls Can Love
  • Pig in a Pen
  • Jesse James
  • Ole Slew Foot
  • Blue Night
  • Fox on the Run
  • Love Please Come Home
  • Hot Corn, Cold Corn
  • Think of What You’ve Done
  • Rabbit in the Log
  • Little Cabin Home on the Hill
  • Love of the Mountains
  • Midnight Moonlight
  • Way Downtown
  • If I Lose
  • Salty Dog
  • Rocky Top
  • Roving Gambler
  • Shady Grove (minor or major key versions)
  • Steam Powered Aereo Plane
  • Highway of Regret
  • Truck Driving Man
  • Live and Let Live
  • I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home
  • Wildwood Flower
  • Foggy Mountain Top
  • I Wonder Where You are Tonight
  • Sunny Side of the Mountain
  • Bury Me Beneath the Willow
  • Dark Hollow
  • Steel Rails
  • Man of Constant Sorrow
  • I’ll Fly Away
  • Crying Holy
  • Working on a Building
  • Dooley
  • On and On
  • Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down (different versions
  • East Virginia Blues
  • White Freight Liner
  • Down the Road
  • Little Birdie

Well-known songs that work well in bluegrass

  • 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
  • I Know You Rider
  • Friend of the Devil
  • Wagon Wheel
  • Freight Train
  • Columbus Stockade Blues
  • Crawdad Song
  • Jambalaya
  • Jingle Bells
  • Auld Lang Syne
  • Silent Night

Instrumentals

  • Cripple Creek
  • Old Joe Clark
  • Foggy Mt. Breakdown
  • Salt Creek
  • Blackberry Blossom
  • Bill Cheatham
  • Shuckin’ the Corn
  • Clinch Mt. Backstep
  • Red Haired Boy
  • Foggy Mt. Special
  • Dixie Breakdown
  • Ground Speed
  • Sally Goodin
  • Soldiers Joy
  • Sally Ann
  • John Hardy
  • Rebecca
  • Gold Rush
  • Red Wing

3/4 time (Waltz)

  • All the Good Times Are Past and Gone
  • Tennessee Waltz
  • Blue Moon of Kentucky
  • White Dove
  • Dark as a Dungeon
  • Drifting Too Far From the Shore
  • Angel Band
  • In the Pines
  • Old Old House
  • Lonesome River
  • Amazing Grace
  • Paradise

Other Slow Tempo

  • Long Black Veil
  • I Am a Pilgrim
  • Banks of the Ohio
  • Don’t This Road Look Rough And Rocky
  • Life’s Railway to Heaven
  • Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
  • Walls of Time