Preface; Introduction; Romancing the Rural Homestead; The Roots of Bluegrass Music; Tin Pan Alley; The Roots of Gospel Music; The Monroe Brothers; The National Barn Dance; Those Magic Crystals; Charlie & Bill in the "Studio"; Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys; Bill Monroe on the Opry; 2 Cents Worth of Music Theory; Transposing; Using a Capo to Transpose; The Wheel of Transposition; Singing with the Guitar; Singing with the Mandolin; Singing with the Banjo; Backing up Songs with the Fiddle; Singing Harmony; Before you Start Singing; A Beautiful Life; All the Good Times are Past & Gone; Amazing Grace; Angel Band; Are you Tired of Me, Darling?; The Lilly Brothers; Banjo Pickin' Girl; Banks of the Ohio; Blue Ridge Mountain Blues; Riley Puckett; Bury Me Beneath the Willow; Carter Family; Careless Love; Bradley Kincaid; Columbus Stockade Blues ; Cotton-Eyed Joe; Cripple Creek; Cumberland Gap; Darling Cory; Dig a HOle in the Meadow; Don't Go out Tonight, My Darling; Don't Let Your Deal Go Down; Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers; Don't This Road Look Rough & Rocky; Down in the Willow Garden; Wade & J.E. Mainer; Wade Mainer & the Morris Brothers; Dream of the Miner's Child; Vernon Dalhart; Drifting Too Far From the Shore; East Virginia; Footmarks in the Snow; Girl I loved in Sunny Tennessee; Give me the Roses Now; Going to Georgia; Handwome Moly; He Will Set Your Fields on Fire; I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home; I'll Be All Smiles Tonight; I'll Remember You in my Prayers; In the Pines; Jealous Lover; Jesse James; Jimmie Brown the Paper Boy; John Hardy; Johnson Boys; Just Over in the Gloryland; Katie Cline; Katie Dear; Knoxville Girl; Leaning on the Everlasting Arms; Leather Britches; Life's Railway to Heaven; Little Bessie; Little Log Cabin in the Lane; Little Maggie; LIttle Rosewood Casket; Little Whitewashed Chimney; Lonesome Road Blues; Long Journey Home; Lord, I'm Coming Home; Man of Constant Sorrow; Maple on the Hill; Mary of the Wild Moor; Midnight on the Stormy Deep; My Home's Across the Blue rtidge Mountains; My Old Cottage Home; New River Train; Nine Pound Hammer; Oh Those Tombs; Old Joe Clark; Poor Ellen Smith; Precious Memories; Pretty Polly; Put My Little Shoes Away; Rabbit in the Log; Red Rocking Chair; Red Wing; Reuben's Train; Roll in my Sweet Baby's Arms; Roll on Buddy; Roving Gambler; Sally Goodin; Seeing Nelly Home; Shady Grove; Shake Hands with Mother Again; Short Life of Trouble; Sweet Sunny south; They're at Rest Together; Turkey in the Straw; The Unclouded Day; Wabash Cannonball; Wait Til the Clouds Roll By; Walk in Jerusalem Just like John; What Would You Give in Exchange?; When the Bees Are in the Hive; When You & I Were Young, Maggie; Where the Soul of Man Never Dies; White House Blues; Whoa Mule; Wild Bill Jones; Wildwood Flower.