What is your favorite song to play on mandolin?

[swampy]

I can't ever seem to pick up a mandolin without playing either Bluegrass Stomp or Tennessee Blues. I think I must have a thing for double stops, because Rawhide is usually in there a lot as well.

[fernmando]

16-16 from David Grisman, Slopes from Strength In Numbers, Southern Flavor (Bill Monroe), Gospel Plow/any Compton/NBB stuff.

Roscoe Morgan

[robert.najlis]

Shabbos Waltz

[Bob Scrutchfield]

Rank Stranger & Under the Double Eagle

[Earthwood]

"Swallowtail Jig" is one of my favorites, but lately it has been "This Side" and "Lighthouse Tale" by Nickel Creek. The intro walk of "Lighthouse Tale" is so catchy, and "This Side" is just plain fun.

[Bob Bronow]

When I pick up a mandolin, the first tune out of my fingers is "St. Anne's Reel". Then it's usually "Ripple" by the Grateful Dead.

[Jeff Budz]

Cliffs of Dover by Erik Johnson

[MANDOHIO]

I have a version of The Black and White Rag that I seem to gravitate to regularly.

[farmerjones]

I agree J.Ridge is an education in itself. But to play it closer to Baker, all the pinky finger work, i'll grab a fiddle. It's just easier to me, and im lazy.
Lately it's the Arab Bounce, and Turkey Knob. I still play Salty for the turn around part. Indeed, if there's some therapy in there, I'll get hooked on it.

[lukmanohnz]

Not quite at my first year anniversary playing mandolin. At this stage in my learning, every single song I play is still a revelation. However I am a bit obsessed with Reischman's The North Shore at the moment.

[George R. Lane]

I enjoy playing Peter Ostroushko's Heart of the Heartland and Mc'Cully's Waltz.

[mommythrice]

Old Daingerfield & Southern Flavor. And I really like Cluck Old Hen... that one's trance-like.

[NotJethro]

With me, it's not so much a favorite song as it is a favorite key. My fingers just love the key of A (or in Canadian terminology, the key of eh). Songs in A like Red Haired Boy and Black Mountain Rag, to name a few, are much more effortless to me than songs in other keys. Less work, more play.

[iancohen82]

Red Wing

[but since I don't try to sing, it's not a 'Song', but a Tune]

In case you'd like to sing, Woody Guthrie took RED WING, wrote new words for it and it became UNION MAID. Pete Seeger does the tune on A VISION SHARED, a documentary about Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly.

[iancohen82]

My favorite tune to play (and sing) on the mandolin is The Band's version of Bruce Springsteen's ATLANTIC CITY.

[tprior]

Although I am far from a seasoned player, my favorite right now is Fishers Hornpipe, but not at blistering speed but rather a reasonable speed . I also like to play Arkansas Traveler , Turkey In the Straw, Soldiers Joy etc...just finding my way I suppose...

[Rick Lindstrom]

"Mississippi Blues" adapted from the guitar arrangement I've been trying to master most of my days.

"Panhandle Rag" is pretty cool, followed closely by "A Night in Tunisia".

In my real life, I play mostly Old-Time.

Rick