Songs and tunes

This is a tune everybody references, but is rarely played in the old timey version. I kinda like it as the first time I heard it played was by Buffy Sainte-Marie, on a mouth-bow. It has words too!

This is a great, short, hard-driving number. I can't remember where I first heard it - but I have a suspicion it was from an old Dillards album.  Straightforward, no frills G tuning - be great to have a fiddle with this one.

 Lovely haunting melody. There are a lot of versions of this – I guess it is the story of Romeo and Juliet.

An old-timey classic - the story is a recurrent theme in such songs as 'Banks of the Ohio'. The song itself is a standard and there are as many versions as variations. This is another in gDGCD (mountain minor) tuning.

This is one of the first old timey songs I learned when I discovered 'mountain minor' tuning - that's really a modal tuning: I tune it gDGCD, but some folks also tune the fourth string down to C.  This is loosely based upon the singing of Clarence Ashley - I always...

This is just a fun old song. I got this version from an old 'New Lost City Ramblers' album.

Okay, this is a real early recording of mine of the great traditional tune 'Wild Bill Jones' ... there have been many variants of this, I guess 'Pretty Polly' is the most famous, and may be more original, but I like this because of the 'slurs'.  First version I heard...

This is a great old instrumental. I don't know much about it, so any input would be much appreciated. I have looked up a few versions online, but it seems there are a lot of tunes called 'Chilly Winds'  that are nothing like this. I did find one great version by Annie...