A good song book for playing folk music?

[DylanCarter77]

I am looking for a collection of songs that I could play on my tenor mandola. I am mainly looking for folk music but any suggestions of other genres would be great.

[JeffD]

Rise Up Singing - Sing Out

[DylanCarter77]

Rise Up Singing - Sing Out

Thank you!

[Martin Jonas]

Also check out this great collection of free PDFs:

Link

Martin

[mandroid]

check out :The Folksong Fake Book, Hal Leonord Publ.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Folksong-F.../dp/0634012703

Or thru lour local music shop.

[Capt. E]

The Mandolin Fake Book as well

[DylanCarter77]

check out :The Folksong Fake Book, Hal Leonord Publ.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Folksong-F.../dp/0634012703

Or thru lour local music shop.

Thanks a lot! This may be the one I end up getting. People here are so helpful!

[DylanCarter77]

The Mandolin Fake Book as well

Thanks as well.

[stevedenver]

rise up singing-("RUS")
a really song packed book
charming in a Birkenstock granola sort of way, ie the hand drawn pictures, the way the pages are set up
very broad selections -from true folks songs, religious tunes, sea chanties, political tunes and a sprinkling of folkie-pop tunes from the 60s and onward-simon and garfunkle, judy Collins, etc.

heres an important thing to know
what is provides are the lyrics and the chord progressions-and not necessarily over the lyrics
sooooo, you really need to know the song in order to use the book, and you will need to be able to 'feel' the changes, you cannot figure out the tune/changes from the info in the book, ie no notation or tab. this can be a good thing to help learn to hear changes

btw I have a copy courtesy a friend who thought I would enjoy it-and -I did

personally, if you like to sing, like to memorize simple folkie tunes for folkie song circles and practice your chord knowledge this is a great place to start imho-it will not advance your mando knowledge, -but it will serve as a map for singing fun tunes you know.

my link/gift for you ,
you might also go online and print the bluegrass songbook for free:

http://caboma.org/sites/default/file...ssSongbook.pdf

this is similar to what you will get in terms of total info, albeit in the Nashville numbering system, and imho, not as interesting layout or graphics, nor as crammed as RUS-in RUS it seems there can be a dozen songs on a single page


and, fwiw there are 2 versions of RUS , one with larger type-the latter is prefereable imho, as the large type isn't, and the normal type is pretty small

[belbein]

Someone might have already said this, but don't overlook the banjo and violin songbooks. Violin fakebooks are a great resource.

My all time favorite is "The Folk Songs of North America," Alan Lomax' book. It's out of print but available on line. It's primary source material, straight from the source (ok, maybe that makes it "secondary").

[allenhopkins]

Rise Up Singing (and I hear there's a "volume two" coming out) is great if you know the melodies.

It's words and chords, no music notation or tablature. If you want standard music notation, The Collected Reprints From Sing Out! has that. For simple one-and/or-two-chord songs, Harvey Reid & Joyce Andersen's Song Train has the songs written out, plus CD's so you can hear them -- maybe play along...