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Song list- The Repertoire of the Bluegrass Messengers

Here are the songs!

The group plays three original songs by Richard Matteson based traditional folk material-Fishin' Bound, Go long Mule and Little Black Engine. All three songs appear on Matteson's "True Blue" recording (available on cassette only).

All of the highlighted songs can be listened to just by clicking on them. If your using dial-up the download time is about 4 minutes at 53K or 6 minutes at 40k. After you listen once, subsequent play times will be much faster especially if you save it to disk. Everything is in mp3 format.

Live From Mt. Airy:

  1. Worried Man Blues
  2. This Little Light of Mine
  3. Cripple Creek
  4. Maiden's Prayer
  5. Froggie Went A Courtin'
  6. Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  7. Wabash Cannonball
  8. Fox on the Run
  9. Careless Love
  10. Jessie James
  11. Roll In my Sweet Baby's Arms
  12. Duelin' Banjos
  13. I Saw the Light
  14. Rocky Top

Diggin' Up Roots:

  1. Hallelujah, I'm Ready
  2. One Hundred Miles
  3. Go Long Mule
  4. Battle of New Orleans
  5. Buck's Stumble
  6. Wildwood Flower
  7. When God Dips His Pen
  8. Amazing Grace
  9. Salty Dog
  10. Frankie and Johnny
  11. I'll Fly Away
  12. Woke Up this Morning

Farther Along:

  1. Shady Grove
  2. Lonesome Valley
  3. Home Sweet Home
  4. Little Black Engine
  5. Pretty Saro
  6. Keep on the Sunnyside
  7. Paradise
  8. Tennessee Stud
  9. Warfaring Stranger
  10. Man of Constant Sorrow
  11. I Am A Pilgrim
  12. Farther Along
  13. Take Me Home Country Roads
  14. Ashoken Farewell

Bluegrass Boogie:

  1. Foggy Mountain Breakdown
  2. Hallelujah I’m Ready
  3. *Bluegrass Boogie
  4. Jerusalem Ridge
  5. Salt Creek
  6. *Fishing Bound
  7. Bile Dem Cabbage Down
  8. John Hardy
  9. Dogget’s Gap
  10. Alabama Jubilee
  11. Little Maggie
  12. Maple Leaf Rag

    Performers:
    Richard L. Matteson Jr.- Guitars, Slide, Bass, Lead & Back-up Vocals
    Mark Arrowood- Banjo
    Kristina Powell- Vocals
    Debbie Gitlan- Fiddle
    Josh Burchem –Mandolin, Vocal on “John Hardy”
    Rhonda Matteson- Back-up vocals
    Alan Kirby- Banjo
    Lisa Parrish- Back-up vocals
    Kevin Crooks–Bass
    Justin Swaim- Banjo

Other songs include: Alabama Jubilee, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Salt Creek, MTA, Little Maggie, Old Joe Clark, Country Roads, Think of What You've Done, Shady Grove, Paradise, Tennessee Stud, Lonesome Valley, Keep on the Sunnyside, Home Sweet Home, Man of Constant Sorrow, Uncloudy Day, Sweet Bye and Bye, Pretty Saro, The Water is Wide, Bile Dem Cabbage Down, Black Dog, I am a Pilgrim, The Ballad of Jed Clampitt, Bill Bailey, Do Lord, John Hardy, Where the Wild River Rolls, Mountain Dew, Jacob's Vision, You Ain't Going Nowhere, Tom Dooley, Faded Love, Red River Valley, House of the Rising Sun, Great Specked Bird, Dill Pickle Rag, Poor Wayfaring Stranger, and many others.

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