Showing posts with label fiddle tunes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fiddle tunes. Show all posts

Thursday, October 17, 2013

20 Tunes that will Rock the Jam

There's nothing more fun than getting into a jam with a bunch of trapezoids! In between Ken Kolodner's instruction and M.J.'s food there was plenty of time to play music with friends at the Sandbridge Dulcimer Workshop last week. It was great to have a variety of instruments to enhance the experience ... guitar, mando, banjo, fiddle, piano, a shaker or two. Over a crabby dinner at Margie and Ray's last Friday night a group of us at the end of the table brainstormed our favorite jammin' tunes. As one might expect, there's some overlap with the list I generated myself and posted last March, "Today's Top 20 Favorite Jam Tunes." Looking to enhance your own play list? These tunes are hard to beat!

  1. Bill Cheatham
  2. Booth Shot Lincoln
  3. Granny, Does Your Dog Bite?
  4. Hangman's Reel
  5. John Brown's March
  6. John Ryan's Polka (dum dum)
  7. John Stenson's #2
  8. Leather Britches
  9. MacDonald's Reel
  10. Missouri
  11. Nail that Catfish to a Tree
  12. Oklahoma Rooster
  13. Rock the Cradle, Joe
  14. Roscoe
  15. Sandy Boys
  16. Sandy River Belle
  17. Shenandoah Falls
  18. Snake River Reel
  19. Waynesboro
  20. Willafjord
I bet we missed a "few" good ones. Don't see YOUR favorite here? Add it in the "Comment" section below!



Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Today's Top 20 Favorite Jam Tunes

These are my favorite jam tunes, in alphabetical order, in this moment:
  1. Bill Cheatham
  2. Coleman's March
  3. The Gale
  4. Golden Slippers
  5. Hangman's Reel
  6. Lady of the Lake
  7. Leather Britches
  8. Liberty
  9. MacDonald's Reel
  10. Midnight on the Water
  11. Missouri
  12. Oklahoma Rooster
  13. Over the Waterfall
  14. Rock the Cradle, Joe
  15. Sandy Boys
  16. Shenandoah Falls
  17. St. Anne's Reel
  18. Waynesboro
  19. Whiskey Before Breakfast
  20. Willafjord
I admit, some of these are not the most common tunes, but in the right circles there's enough critical mass to make it fun!

Here's a link to Randy Marchany's Top 40.

What do you think? Additions? Corrections? Comments?
What's on your "favorites" list?