Just got back from a bluegrass festival in New Hampshire (Pemi Valley). The songs mentioned above are old standard bluegrass, but I didn’t hear one of them all weekend, although non-bluegrass audiences might request them as the only ones they’ve heard of. They have been played so many bohillion times that most bluegrassers I know want to hear / play other less overplayed tunes, and pickers especially avoid the really hackneyed ones like Rocky Top, Fox on the Run and Dueling Banjos. (The songs I did more than once in jams this weekend included new songs by Gillian Welch like “Tear My Stillhouse Down” and old songs by the Louvin Brothers like “My Baby’s Gone.” But that’s a matter of taste.) Also, you can “put the grass” to a lot of non-bluegrass songs, and they turn into bluegrass with the right instrumentation and delivery.

A good source is to get some of those CD’s with collections by various artists.

Be warned that there are probably thousands of bluegrass tunes. You can do a search on the DT for @bluegrass and find some. Here are a few more. No guarantees on trite-free:

All the Good Times Have Passed and Gone
Angel Band
Faded Love
Footprints in the Snow
Home Sweet Home
Last Old Shovel
Life’s Railway to Heaven
Little Cabin Home on the Hill
Long Journey Home
Molly and Ten-Brooks
My Rose of Old Kentucky
Rank Strangers
Rough and Rocky
Sweetest Gift, A Mother’s Smile
Take Me In Your Lifeboat
Walls of Time
Westphalia Waltz
White Dove