Ashland by Bill Monroe (print w/ Courier 10 font) From "The Music of Bill Monroe from 1936-1994," Disc 4. MCA MCAD4-11048 Also on Kenny baker's "The Spider Bit the Baby." OMS Records OMS 251102. The latter version has a nice twin fiddle part. ho = hammer-on; po = pull-off; sl = slide For most of parts A & B, barre the two highest strings at the 3rd fret. This is from Kenny Baker's opening break. He says that Bill Monroe wrote this the same night he wrote "Jerusalem Ridge." A great quote: "That was some night." 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