What is that one bluegrass song?

[Dfyngravity]

You know what I mean. What is that one song that gets your blood going. Like when you are riding alone in your car and it comes on and you crank the volume to 10+ and sing as loud as you can or if there are people riding with you, you shushh them so you can hear your song. I know most of you probably have a few or maybe a dozen, but try to think of just one that you could put at the top of the list.

For me I am a sucker for Lonesome River Band, the song that sits top of my list ( as least right now ) is Sorry County Blues off of the One Step Forward album. Man I think Ronnie Bowman nails this song, as well as most every song he sings.

[JEStanek]

My real Bluegrass introduction was via the Deliverance LP we had, no apologies. I listened to it a lot during middle and high school well before I ever saw the film (still want to read the book). Two cuts off of that that I really enjoy are Shuckin the Corn for the fiddle and Farewell Blues for the groove.

Jamie

[grassrootphilosopher]

It´s either the one I´m picking right now, the one I just played or the one I´m inspired to play next. It´s even the one I might leave out because I have too many on my hand to deal with. I´ve got a project going with a couple of friends. They are (quite) accomplished. It´s fun to play with them. They keep coming with different tunes. It is hard not to get sidetracked.

Bluegrass is good.

[Pete Counter]

One?..One song?.....I have no Idea what you mean, I couldnt pick ONE with a gun to my head!!

[stratton7584]

Mine is Little Maggie...

[farmerjones]

Whenever im commuting and assulted by one of those boom-boom stereo systems, you know what im talking about. I pop in Benny Martin playing Footprints in the Snow, and CRANK IT! ! ! !
Bluegrass - it's the anti-rap

[re simmers]

I guess some may say, "that ain't bluegrass," but mine is Skaggs doing Highway 40 Blues. I think his mandolin break and Bela's banjo break make it halfgrass.

Bob

[Mike Snyder]

Fleck- Whitewater

[Laird]

Old Home Place.

[mandocrucian]

"Plastic Jesus" - Paul Newman

"Saga 'Neath The Sycamore" (aka "The Last Time I Saw Mary") - Goose Creek Symphony (Welcome To Goose Creek)

"Rambler" - Leon Morris & Buzz Busby (Honkytonk Bluegrass)

"Medicine Springs" - Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mt. Boys (w/Larry Sparks & Curly Ray) (Hills Of Home)

"Blue Mule" - Peter Rowan & Muleskinner (Muleskinner)

"If You're Ever Gonna Love Me" - Country Gazette (w/Byron Berline) (A Traitor In Our Midst) real Buck Owens groove

unable to think of any others that I would want to hear. ("Oh Well")

so.... sue me

[journeybear]

Straight ahead BG: Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Bluesy BG: Sitting On Top Of The World
Uncategorizable: Salty Dog

[catmandu2]

Possum Up A Gum Stump

[eightmoremiles]

Jerusalem Ridge, without a doubt. Kenny Baker or Tony Rice.
Second place to Kentucky Mandolin
Third place Tanyards

[Denny Gies]

Any song that I think I can learn on the mandolin.

[Jim Broyles]

"Think of What You've Done"
"Live and Let Live"
"Forty Years of Trouble"

Today, it might be one of these.

[Bslot0622]

Definitly Rocky Top. Whether it's the Flatt & Scruggs version, Dolly Parton's sped up rendition, or Phish's cover, I can't get enough of that song! It's super fun to jam to as well!

[sgarrity]

Little Cabin Home on the Hill.......the imagery in that song is mighty pawr'ful!

[Dfyngravity]

Some might fine choices here. If I were to add another, the song Carolina Star off of Tony Rice Picks and Sings Bluegrass is another I love to crank.

[danny_ga]

This exercise is too hard. Do we really have to pick only one? How about one each from the major styles of bluegrass:

Contemporary Bluegrass: "So Long, So Wrong" - Alison Krauss and Union Station
Gospel Bluegrass: "On the Sea of Life" - Doyle Lawson
Traditional Bluegrass: "Tennessee in 1949" - Larry Sparks

[AlanN]

"If You're Ever Gonna Love Me" - Country Gazette (w/Byron Berline) (A Traitor In Our Midst) real Buck Owens groove

What a record, even the inside comic book is cool. Anna from that LP is a real great tune.

Lonely Man, Lonely Time from a Country Gentlemen show ca. 1980 does it for me.

[wamjr52]

I will have to go with Laird on Old Home Place, second would be Weathered Gray Stone, third On My Way Back to The Home Place,
and number four Blue Virgina Blues. Sometime the order changes depending on the mood, this is it. It is really hard to select but after forty years you can think about the songs that really touch you, I have some many that I have the BG Gospel songs in a separate category.

[Nelson Peddycoart]

I don't know why, but I love Nine Pound Hammer. Other than that, almost any Blue Grass works for me, especially if it is played by the genre's father!

[AlanN]

What a record, even the inside comic book is cool. Anna from that LP is a real great tune.

Another great tune from this is Sounds of Goodbye, with nice cascading mandolin tremble from Byron Berline.

[Rex Hart]

Old and In The Way - Wild Horses....love Vassar's fiddle break
Tony Rice - Brown Mtn. Light................It just drives!
Blue Highway - Last dollar Blues......great Stafford penned bluesy number
Blue Highway - Clear Cut.......great song, great lyrics
New Grass Revival - Lee Highway Blues...gotta love fiddle on phase shifter!!!

[Steve Perry]

Granny White Special from Mark O'Connor's New Nashville Cats CD. Sammy's mando break on that absolutely kills!