The Top Ten Bluegrass Banjo Songs

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This post was going to be easy, or so I thought, the top ten banjo songs - simple, get a pen and start writing them down. What makes them the top ten? Is it the most requested song, the most recognized, my favorite?, I don’t know. This list is a combination of two criteria : Number One - It has to be a good banjo song -Players and listeners alike have an appreciation for these songs. Number Two - How well is the song known. This list has to have songs that are familiar to most people. This top ten is a solid list of songs that are appreciated by listeners and at the same time,are fun to perform as a banjo player. Go to a bluegrass jam, you’ll hear a few from this list.

Enough criteria and justification: Here it is Banjoblogger’s Top Ten Bluegrass Banjo Songs:

  1. Foggy Mountain Breakdown - People love to hear this one.
  2. Cripple Creek - Defines the banjo sound to some people.
  3. Ballad of Jed Clampett - Brought bluegrass to a wider audience.
  4. Clinch Mountain Backstep - Ralph Stanley - Cool and fun to play.
  5. Wildwood Flower - Listeners favorite.
  6. Flint Hill Special - Players favorite.
  7. Blackberry Blossom - Melodic style is neat on this song.
  8. Lonesome Road Blues - Bill Monroe version is amazing.
  9. Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Good sing-a-long.
  10. I’ll fly away - Everyone knows this song.

There it is - My Top Ten. I’m sure there ’s a few songs that should have been on the list and a couple that some of you would take off, but this is the best I can do. Oh, by the way, Please help support the Banjoblogger and buy me a beer - check out the left sidebar. Thanks for visiting Banjoblogger.com, Happy New Year 2008.

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December 30, 2007 | Filed Under Banjo News, Top Ten Lists for Banjo 

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2 Responses to “The Top Ten Bluegrass Banjo Songs”

  1. mame on March 6th, 2009 6:45 am

    have you heard this song?

    http://www.4shared.com/file/75627451/35304000/1990_italia_bodobiamusicpersianblogir.html;jsessionid=050C9050FD4585625EDB686862669E87.dc90

    do you know that ?

  2. charlie kucharski on November 24th, 2009 8:52 pm

    Hey, what a great listing. I agree on about every one and you could probably have done a list of around twenty or thirty. Thanks for posting!

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