
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