Hi all, I’m looking for recommendations on your favorite slow, sweet sounding tunes on our favored instrument. My family is ready to hear something other than the same old fiddle tunes and bluegrass jams. Thanks!
Hi all, I’m looking for recommendations on your favorite slow, sweet sounding tunes on our favored instrument. My family is ready to hear something other than the same old fiddle tunes and bluegrass jams. Thanks!
1924 Gibson A Snakehead
Northfield F5S
Northfield Calhoun
Eastman 305
I've really enjoyed learning this one:
https://johnreischman1.bandcamp.com/track/sarafina
Travis Book singing Poor Boy's Delight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvnW7u2ojLM
Monroe's Lonesome Moonlight Waltz.
Or break away from the Grass altogether & learn Italian tunes. There are 1000's. Check under the Classical, Italian category for Sheri Mignano Crawford's threads.
Highly Recommended.
Joe B
A Splendid Time is Guaranteed for All
Streets of Laredo
Birmingham jail
Red river valley
There’s got to be 100 other Lonesome cowboy songs I just can’t think of right now
Two of the best for sweet melodies are Peter Ostroushko and John Reischman.
Heart of the Heartland and Prairie Jewel would be two great ones to learn.
Girouard Concert A5
Girouard Custom A4
Nordwall Cittern
Barbi Mandola
Crump OM-1s Octave
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Break away from bluegrass. lol. The very idea...
This reminds me of one of my favorite early Simpsons quotes. Lisa suggested to the music teacher that the school band perform a song that WASN'T written by John Phillip Sousa. The music teacher looked back, perplexed, and asked "You mean something just ARRANGED by Sousa?"
Eastman MD-514 (F body, Sitka & maple, oval hole)
Klos Carbon Fiber (on order)
And still saving my nickels & dimes & bottle caps & breakfast cereal box tops for my lifetime mandolin.
Any of Andrew Marlin's three solo instrumental albums have quite a few slow, sweet tunes (in addition to some barn-burners).
These are a couple of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT5jGGEDQng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPJsA4ZuS80
"Keep your hat on, we may end up miles from here..." - Kurt Vonnegut
Eastman MD-514 (F body, Sitka & maple, oval hole)
Klos Carbon Fiber (on order)
And still saving my nickels & dimes & bottle caps & breakfast cereal box tops for my lifetime mandolin.
Every now and then I'll just play Greensleeves, which I think I learned when I first picked up a mandolin around 1970.
There are a lot of standard waltzes that work well -- Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, Tennessee Waltz, Midnight On the Water come to mind. And Statman's Flatbush Waltz.
Also O'Carolan tunes: Panxty Fanny Power, Si Beag Si Mor, Planxty George Brabizon. Celtic waltzes: Greenwood Tree, South Wind, Gentle Maiden, Snowy-Breasted Pearl.
Lotsa them out there.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust"
On my regular playlist to play (with vocals) as moderately slow, sweet songs:
Love, Me (Collin Raye)
I can’t help falling in love (Elvis)
Remember When (Alan Jackson)
Ripplin’ Waters (I like the NGDB version)
Good Morning Beautiful (Steve Holy)
Wonderful Tonight (Clapton)
I realize these may not be the style you had in mind but they certainly are slow, sweet songs.
The Long and Winding Road….
what was the question?
A Place in the Heart.
Wayfaring Stranger…tab is in the Cafe library…
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain in E major
Big Muddy EM8 solid body (Mike Dulak's final EM8 build)
Kentucky KM-950
Weber Gallatin A Mandola "D hole"
Rogue 100A (current campfire tool & emergency canoe paddle)
Mandolin Mondays from a week ago had a beautiful rendition of the Ookpik Waltz. It is still on the front page. There is always Ashokan Farewell though it has been done to death. One of my favorites to play is the one below from the master himself, the Maiden's Prayer.
I think Moonlight on the Water is one of the prettiest songs there is. I do like to do a whole Ken Burns Lewis and Clark doc mini-set - When Summer Ends (by Silly Wizard, it was Lewis' theme in the show), Heart of the Heartland (as previously noted) and Beech Spring.
I also really like Mark Knopfler's theme from the film Local Hero. Then that gets me thinking about Hector the Hero which is so sad when you learn the story behind it. Niel Gow's Lament for His Second Wife is a beautiful slow tune and the sheet music is readily available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c191UCP89xw
Neil Gow’s Lament on the Death of His Second Wife
Inisheer.
The Waltz of Dreams, Magnus Zetterlund
Last edited by Charlie Bernstein; Dec-09-2021 at 11:36pm.
Gibson A-Junior snakehead (Keep on pluckin'!)
Love "Blue Shadows on the Trail"!
For the curious: The first source is Roy Rogers singing it in the Disney movie Melody Time. Bing Crosby (a cowboy music fan) sang it, too. More recently, Randy Newman covered it, and Syd Straw sang it on the Disney tribute album Stay Awake.
You just inspired me to get around to learning it. Thanks!
Gibson A-Junior snakehead (Keep on pluckin'!)
Elk River Blues by Ernie Carpenter
Farewell Trion
THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE JUST FOR YOUR SMILE!
Not exactly sure what you are looking for but when in the mood a few others I go for:
Sweet Baby James
Sunshine on My Shoulder
The Rose
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
Dream A Little Dream Of Me
Hope this helps.
Big Muddy EM8 solid body (Mike Dulak's final EM8 build)
Kentucky KM-950
Weber Gallatin A Mandola "D hole"
Rogue 100A (current campfire tool & emergency canoe paddle)
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