Product Overview
Published by Hal Leonard. While many extant photos of string band artists show members holding a mandolin, it often can barely be heard in most period recordings because the most important instrument to capture was usually the fiddle or voice. This collection provides you with the opportunity to learn over 70 old-time-music period songs recorded mostly by Ernest Stoneman, or the duo Grayson & Whitter, during the 1920s and early 1930s. Many of these songs were also “covered” by other string bands regardless of whether they had the opportunity or not to be commercially recorded. CD tracks of some of the songs in this collection as recorded by a number of different string band artists are provided so that performances can be compared. Songlist: • A Dark Road Is a Hard Road to Travel • A Message from Home Sweet Home • All Go Hungry Hash House • All I've Got's Gone • Are You Washed in the Blood? • Careless Love • Don't Go Out Tonight, My Darling • Down on the Banks of the Ohio • Fallen by the Wayside • Goodbye, Dear Old Stepstone • Handsome Molly • He Is Coming After Me • He Is Coming to Us Dead • He Was Nailed to the Cross for Me • I Am Resolved • I Have Lost You Darling, True Love • I Know My Name Is There • I Remember Calvary • I Saw a Man at the Close of Day • I'll Never Be Yours • It's Sinful to Flirt • I've Always Been a Rambler • John Hardy • Joke n' Henry • Little Maggie With a Dram Glass In Her Hand • Midnight on the Stormy Deep • Mountaineer's Courtship • My Mind is to Marry • My Mother and My Sweetheart • Never Be as Fast as I Have Been • New River Train • Nobody's Darling • No More Goodbyes • On the Banks of Old Tennessee • Red or Green • Remember the Poor Tramp has to Live • Rose Conley • Sally Gooden • Say Darling Say • She's Mine, All Mine • Short Life of Trouble • Shout Lula • Sweeping Through the Gates • Sweet Rosie O'Grady • The Burial of Wild Bill • The Eastbound Train • The Fate of Talmadge Osborne • The Lightning Express • The Nine-Pound Hammer • The Old Hickory Cane • The Old Maid and the Burglar • The Orphan Girl • The Pretty Mohea • The Prisoner's Lament • The Raging Sea, How It Roars • The Railroad Flagman's Sweetheart • The Religious Critic • The Resurrection • The Road to Washington • The Titanic • The Wreck of the Southern Old 97 • The Wreck on the C&O • There'll Come a Time • There's a Light Lit Up in Galilee • Too Late • Train No. 45 • We Parted at the River • What You Gonna Do with the Baby • When the Redeemed are Gathering In • When the Snowflakes Fall Again • Where Are You Going, Alice? • You'll Never Miss Your Mother Until She's Gone.
