The southern Appalachian old-time tradition is the deepest pre-bluegrass fiddle-and-banjo repertoire we have. The tunes traveled through the mountains for centuries, picked up local variations, and got recorded into the 20th century by Roscoe Holcomb, Hobart Smith, Tommy Jarrell, the Carter Family, and dozens more. Sixty tunes from the working Appalachian old-time canon.
Each tune’s page on Picker’s Guide has chord charts, recordings, and notes on arrangements.
- 1. Angeline the Baker
- 2. Big Sciota
- 3. Bill Cheatham
- 4. Billy in the Low Ground
- 5. Blackberry Blossom
- 6. Cherokee Shuffle
- 7. Forked Deer
- 8. John Hardy
- 9. Red Haired Boy
- 10. Salt Creek
- 11. Soldier’s Joy
- 12. Turkey in the Straw
- 13. Whiskey Before Breakfast
- 14. Arkansas Traveler
- 15. Bile Them Cabbage Down
- 16. Black Mountain Rag
- 17. Cattle in the Cane
- 18. Cripple Creek
- 19. Cuckoo’s Nest
- 20. Daley’s Reel
- 21. Denver Belle
- 22. Fisher’s Hornpipe
- 23. Flop-Eared Mule
- 24. Girl I Left Behind Me
- 25. Goodbye Liza Jane
- 26. Home Sweet Home
- 27. June Apple
- 28. Leather Britches
- 29. Liberty
- 30. Little Liza Jane
- 31. Old Joe Clark
- 32. Over the Waterfall
- 33. Paddy on the Turnpike
- 34. Ragtime Annie
- 35. Red Wing
- 36. Reuben
- 37. Sail Away Ladies
- 38. Sally Goodin
- 39. Shove the Pig’s Foot a Little Further into the Fire
- 40. Squirrel Hunters
- 41. Temperance Reel
- 42. Wildwood Flower
- 43. Chinquapin Hunting
- 44. Chinquapin Hunting
- 45. Cluck Old Hen
- 46. Cold Frosty Morn
- 47. Cumberland Gap
- 48. Devil’s Dream
- 49. Down Yonder
- 50. Dry and Dusty
- 51. Dusty Miller
- 52. East Tennessee Blues
- 53. Eighth of January
- 54. Elzic’s Farewell
- 55. Fire on the Mountain
- 56. Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom
- 57. Golden Slippers
- 58. Greasy Coat
- 59. Hawk is a Mule
- 60. Hunting the Buffalo
