Bill monroe instrumentals

[jhbaylor]

I am trying to put together a list of Monroe Instrumentals, here is what I have so far, A to Z. Please contribute more if you can. I imagine you guys can make this list grow...

EDITED WITH ADDITIONAL TUNES................

Ashland Breakdown
Big Mon
Big Sandy River
Bill's Blues
Bill's Dream
Blue Goose
Bluegrass Breakdown
Bluegrass Ramble
Bluegrass Special
Bluegrass Stomp
Bluegrass Twist/ Bluegrass Part One
Brown County Breakdown
Charleston #1
Cheyenne
Chilly Winds of Shannon
Crossing the Cumberland
Dancin in Branson
Dusty Miller
East Tennessee Blues
Evening Prayer Blues
Fair Play
Frog On A Lilly Pad
Galley Nipper
Get Up John
Go (Come) Hither To Go Yonder
Gold Rush
Golden West, The
Heel and Toe Polka
Honky Tonk Swing
I'd Like to be Over Yonder
Jack Across the Way
Jekyll Island
Jenny Lynn
Jerusalem Ridge
Kentucky Mandolin
Kiss Me Waltz
Lady Of The Blue Ridge
Land of Lincoln
Lee Wedding Tune
Lloyd Loar, The
Lockwood
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz
Long Bow, the
Louisville Breakdown
McKinley's March
Melissa's Waltz for J.B
Midnight In Rosine
Milenburg Joy
Mississippi Waltz
Monroe's Blues
Monroe's Farewell to Longholow
Monroe's Hornpipe
My Father's Footsteps
My Last Days On Earth
Never Leave the A string
Northern White Cloud(s)
Old Brown County Barn
Old Daingerfield
Old Ebeneezer Scrooge
Old Gray Mare Came Tearing out of the Wilderness
Old Mountaineer, The
Old Tennessee River
Paddy on the Turnpike
Panhandle Country
Pike County Breakdown
Pilgrim's Knob
Playing for the Old Folks
Pocahontas
Poor White Folks
Raw Hide
Reelfoot Reel
Right, Right On
Road To Columbus
Roanoke
Roxanna Waltz
Salt Creek
Salt River
Scotland
Shenandoah Breakdown
Slow And Easy Blues
Smoky Mountain Schottische
Southern Flavor
Stone Coal
Stoney Lonesome
Sugar Loaf Mountain
Tall Timber
Tallahassee
Tanyards
Tennessee Blues
Texas Blue-Bonnet
Texas Gallop
The Dead March
Tokyo Moonlight Waltz
Tombstone Junction
Trombolin
Up in Front, Out in the Back
Virginia Darlin'
Watson's Blues
Wheel Hoss
Wolf Trap Blues

[jim_n_virginia]

Man you got every one that I know of listed ... and THEN some!

I didn't even know Gold Rush was a Monroe tune. I thought it belonged to O'Conner or one of them other fiddlers.

I only know 7 of those instrumentals. Wonder if there is someone who know's then ALL, THAT would be cool!

[Perry]

here's a few off the top of my head

Dancin in Branson
Land of Lincoln
Never Leave the A string
Monroe's Blues

look at the Bear Family Box Set descriptions on Amazon; they clearly mark tunes as instrumentals; that will be a good start to cross check what you got so far....

[cooper4205]

Ashland Breakdown
Big Mon
Big Sandy River
Bill's Blues
Bluegrass Breakdown
Bluegrass Ramble
Bluegrass Special
Bluegrass Stomp
Bluegrass Twist/ Bluegrass Part One
Brown County Breakdown
Charleston
Chilly Winds of Shannon
Cheyenne
Crossing the Cumberland
Dusty Miller
East Tennessee Blues
Evening Prayer Blues
Frog On A Lilly Pad
Galley Nipper
Get Up John
Go (Come) Hither To Go Yonder
Gold Rush
Golden West, The
Honky Tonk Swing
I'd Like to be Over Yonder
Jack Across the Way
Jenny Lynn
Jerusalem Ridge
Kentucky Mandolin
Land of Lincoln
Lee Wedding Tune
Lloyd Loar, The
Lonesome Moonlight Waltz
Midnight In Rosine
Mississippi Waltz
Monroe's Hornpipe
My Father's Footsteps
My Last Days On Earth
Northern White Cloud(s)
Old Brown County Barn
Old Daingerfield
Old Ebeneezer Scrooge
Old Mountaineer, The
Old Tennessee River
Panhandle Country
Pocahontas
Pike County Breakdown
Playing for the Old Folks
Raw Hide
Reelfoot Reel
Right, Right On
Road To Columbus
Roanoke
Scotland
Slow And Easy Blues
Smoky Mountain Schottische
Southern Flavor
Stone Coal
Stoney Lonesome
Tall Timber
Tanyards
Tennessee Blues
The Dead March
Tombstone Junction
Trombolin
Up in Front, Out in the Back
Virginia Darlin'
Wheel Hoss

[Peter Hackman]

Man you got every one that I know of listed ... and THEN some!

I didn't even know Gold Rush was a Monroe tune. I thought it belonged to O'Conner or one of them other fiddlers.

I only know 7 of those instrumentals. Wonder if there is someone who know's then ALL, THAT would be cool! #

Gold Rush was an idea of Monroe's that Byron Berline helped complete, basically turning a sketch into a genuine fiddle tune. Berline also contributed the out-chorus.

Seems Watson Blues is missing from the list.

[jhbaylor]

I know you guys would come through...those are ones I never even heard of.

[sgarrity]

Man, you're fast! You got all of the others I was thinking about.
There are a few on the list that aren't necessarily Monroe originals. Jenny Lynn, Dusty Miller are old-time fiddle tunes. But Monroe certainly put his mark on them!

[Spruce]

Don't forget Melissa's Waltz for J.B., Fair Play, Lochwood, and Lady Of The Blue Ridge....

[Peter Hackman]

and Lady Of The Blue Ridge....

you mean Jolie Blon de la Crete Bleue (referring to the mangled version, of course)

By the way, Big Sandy is either a Kenny Baker tune or traditional.

[sgarrity]

How 'bout:

Monroe's Farewell to Longholow

[jhbaylor]

Is that Smokey Mountain Schotische (spelling) a Monroe tune? I know he plays it on the DVD. Didn't know if he wrote it or not.

[sgarrity]

I don't think he "wrote" that one either. Probably heard it from an old fiddler when he was growing up. Evan....Tom....where are ya?

[cooper4205]

Perry's post got me thinking about a few more (ones he wrote, or made his so to speak, but for the most part are not well known)

Bill's Dream
Blue Goose
Evenin' Prayer Blues
Heel and Toe Polka
Jekyll Island
Kiss Me Waltz
Long Bow, the
Milenburg Joy
Old Gray Mare Came Tearing out of the Wilderness
Poor White Folks
Roxanna Waltz
Sugar Loaf Mountain
Tallahassee
Texas Gallop (or Quickstep)
Texas Blue-Bonnet

[cooper4205]

I don't think he "wrote" that one either. Probably heard it from an old fiddler when he was growing up. Evan....Tom....where are ya?

that pretty much what I've heard, from talking to Evan and reading. I just listed it because he's the main one it's associated with (there are a few on my lists like that)

[fwoompf]

You know what would be an amazing weekly-or-so feature on the cafe? If some enterprising mando player recorded and broke down each song over a period of a year or something. I definitely don't know what most of those even sound like...there really should be a repository of this stuff!

[Mike Bunting]

Pilgrim's Knob

[AlanN]

Bill Monroe tunes?

Easy Listening?

[MandoBen]

I didn't see these on the list, but maybe they have alternate titles and/or lyrics, but they are listed as Monroe originals on one of my CD's:
Louisville Breakdown
Tallahassee
Shenandoah Breakdown

[sgarrity]

Come to the SE Comando Gathering in May and you'll get a good dose of most of these tunes. Last year it was Evan, Tom, Red Henry and a few others tearing up the Monroe tunes. I wish I'd had a recorder going.....

[jhbaylor]

Tom and Evan did a heck of a job of them last weekend with Brian Aldridge at Bluegrass First Class.

They need to get a look at this and give a sign off on this thing...

[cooper4205]

Come to the SE Comando Gathering in May and you'll get a good dose of most of these tunes. Last year it was Evan, Tom, Red Henry and a few others tearing up the Monroe tunes. I wish I'd had a recorder going.....

I'm coming this year, wife be damned!

[John Kasley]

"Come hither to go yonder" seems to be missing.

[sgarrity]

Does she read this board?? LOL Luckily, I don't have to worry too much about that...

[Spruce]

""Come hither to go yonder" seems to be missing. "

Nah, it's on there under "Go", which was the typo on the original LP....

[evanreilly]

Smoky Mountain Schottische:
Here is my account of this tune, which Monroe rarely played.
When Monroe was a child, there was a youngster the same age as Monroe living on the farm adjacent to the Monroe place. This was 'Tex' Atcheson.
Atcheson grew up and began to play with the Prairie Ramblers.
They recorded SMS in 1936, with Atcheson playing the lead on the fiddle.
There are significant differences between the versions as played by Monroe and the one recorded by the Ramblers.
Monroe's version has three parts, switching from the key of D on the third part to the key of G. The Ramblers' version only has the first two parts, both in D.
Monroe's is a much more notey and staid version; the Ramblers' is a wilder version.
So, I am of the strong opinion that both young men heard the tune while living on their respective farms in Rosine. Maybe Uncle Pen had heard it in his travels and taught it to the boys.
I have spent some time working on that tune, as it is the type of tune that Monroe sought very hard to preserve and pass on.
A few others have recorded it; Butch Waller and Skip Gorman come to mind.