The Equally Good Book of Standard Bluegrass Songs

This book is a twin to the Really Good Book of Bluegrass Standards. Same format, but entirely different songs. The Equally Good Book has lots of common songs that didn't make the first book, great songs that don't get sung enough and some of the newer traditional sounding pieces.

The Equally Good Book is a concise lyrics book with 418 bluegrass songs. It is spiral bound, 112 page book in 8 ½ X 11 format. There are three or four songs on each page. There are however, no chords or melody in the book, so you need to know the song to make use of it. I use it with my beginning students for ear training on chords. They can read along but can't cheat by reading the chords.

Check out a sample page in PDF format.

Here's the Song Index:

• 1952 Vincent Black Lightning : Del McCoury
• Ain't Gonna Lay My Armor Down : Jim Mills
• Ain't I Been Good to You? : Hot Rize
• Air Mail Special on the Fly : Jim & Jesse
• 
Alabam' : Jim & Jesse
• All I Have Is Just A Memory : Reno & Smiley
• All Night Blues : King Wilkie
• Alone With You : Jim & Jesse
• Another Day : Reno & Smiley
• 
Another Day, Another Dollar : Alison Krauss
• Are You Afraid to Die? : Stanley Brothers
• Are You Coming Back To Me? : Del McCoury
• Are You Missing Me? : Bluegrass Cardinals
• 
Are You Teasing Me? : Red Allen
• Are You Washed in the Blood? : Red Allen
• At the End of a Long Lonely Day : Paisleys
• Back to Dixie : McPeak Brothers
• Banjo Picking Girl : Hazel Dickens
• Barbara Allen : Bray Brothers
• Be Nobody's Darling But Mine : Larry Sparks
• Beautiful Bouquet : Laurie Lewis
• Beauty of My Dreams : Del McCoury
• 
Before the Sun Goes Down : Jimmy Martin
• Better Luck Next Time : Reno & Smiley
• 
Big Ball in Boston : Del McCoury
• Big House on the Corner : James King
• Big River : Nashville Bluegrass Band
• Big Spike Hammer : Osborne Brothers
• Black Eyed Susie : Johnson Mountain Boys
• Blue Eyed Darling : Bray Brothers
• Blue Is the Way That I Feel : Del McCoury
• Blue Skies and Teardrops : Lynn Morris
• Blue Virginia Blues : Larry Sparks
• Bluest Man In Town : Bill Monroe
• Bootleg John : Stanley Tradition
• Bouquet in Heaven : Flatt & Scruggs
• Brakeman's Blues : Bill Monroe
• Brighter Mansion Over There : Reno & Smiley
• Bring Back My Blue Eyed Boy : Lilly Brothers
• Bringing Mary Home : Country Gentlemen
• Busted : Hazel Dickens
• Butcher Boy : 1946
• Cabin on a Mountain : Vern & Ray & The Carroll County Boys
• Careless Love : Jim & Jesse
• Carolina Mountain Home : Stanley Brothers
• Carolyn the Teenage Queen : Lonesome River Band
• Catfish John : Country Gentlemen
• Cheek to Cheek With the Blues : Del McCoury
• Childish Love : Jim & Jesse
• Clinch Mountain Home : Vern Williams
• Cold Cold Love : Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show
• Cold Cold Loving : Flatt & Scruggs
• Cold Wind : Joe Val
• Come Back Darling : Flatt & Scruggs
• 
Comin' Down from the Mountain : True Blue
• Connie & Buster : Nashville Bluegrass Band
• Cotton Mill Man : Jim & Jesse
• Could You Love Me One More Time? : Stanley Brothers
• Country Boy Rock & Roll : Reno & Smiley
• Crazy Heart : Del McCoury
• Crying Heart Blues : Red Allen
• Crying My Heart Out Over You : Flatt & Scruggs
• Danville Girl : Tim Staford
• Dark as the Night, Blue as the Day : Bill Monroe
• Dark Shadows of Night : Nashville Bluegrass Band
• Dear Old Mother : Jim & Jesse
• Deep River : Paisleys
• Devil's Little Angel : Doyle Lawson
• Diamond Joe : Joe Val
• Did You Ever Go Sailing? : Jim & Jesse
• Dirty Dishes Blues : Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
• Don't Ask Me Why : Ralph Stanley
• Don't Bother to Cry : Hazel Dickens
• Don't Come Running Back To Me : Buzz Busby
• Don't Cry to Me : Jimmy Martin
• Don't Get Above Your Raising : Flatt & Scruggs
• 
Don't Go Out Tonight : Stanley Brothers
• Don't Let Me Cross Over : Jimmy Martin
• Don't Let Our Love Die : Nashville Bluegrass Band
• Don't Make Me Go To Bed : 1946
• Don't Say Goodbye If You Love Me : Jim & Jesse
• Doorstep of Trouble : Nashville Bluegrass Band
• Down Among the Budded Roses : Vern Williams
• Down Down Down : Rose Maddox
• Down In The Valley : Bill & Mary Reid & The Melody Mountaineers
• Down the Road to Home : Connie & Babe
• Dreaming : Doyle Lawson
• Dreaming of a Little Cabin : Connie & Babe
• Drifting Away : King Wilkie
• Drifting With the Tide : Reno & Smiley
• Drivin' Nails in My Coffin : Rhonda Vincent
• Drunkard's Hell : Stanley Brothers
• Duncan and Brady : Johnson Mountain Boys
• Dying A Sinner's Death : Stanley Brothers
• East Bound Freight Train : Reno & Smiley
• Eli Renfro : Del McCoury
• Evil Hearted Woman : Parmley & McCoury
• 
Face In The Crowd : Larry Sparks
• Faded Red Ribbon : Longview
• 
Family Who Prays Never Shall Part : Jim & Jesse
• 
Fifty Fifty Chance : Del McCoury
• First Step to Heaven : Ralph Stanley
• Flame In My Heart : James King
• Flying South : Charlie Moore & The Dixie Partners
• Footsteps So Near : Hot Rize
• 
Fraulein : Jimmy Martin
• Freight Train Boogie : Reno & Smiley
• 
Future Remains : Johnson Mountain Boys
• Get Behind Me Satan : Reno & Smiley
• Getting You Out of the Way : Dwight McCall
• Girl at the Crossroads Bar : Bluegrass Cardinals
• Girl I Love Don't Pay Me No Mind : Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show
• Girl in the Blue Velvet Band : Bill Monroe
• Give Me the Roses Now : Jimmy Martin
• Give Me Your Hand : Jimmy Martin
• Goin' Back to the Blueridge Mountains : Jim Mills
• Going Up On The Mountain : Goins Brothers
• Gonna Paint the Town : Stanley Brothers
• Good Things Outweigh the Bad : Jimmy Martin
• Good Woman's Love : Bill Monroe
• Goodbye Maggie : Lilly Brothers
• Goodbye to the Blues : Lynn Morris
• Grave on the Hillside : Connie & Babe
• Hang Your Head In Shame : Del McCoury
• 
Have I Stayed Away Too Long? : Paisleys
• Have You Come To Say Goodbye? : Red Allen
• Have You Someone In Heaven Awaiting? : Stanley Brothers
• He's Coming Back to Earth Again : Reno & Smiley
• 
He Took Your Place : Flatt & Scruggs
• Heartless Love : Lonesome River Band
• 
Hemlocks and Primroses : Longview
• Hey Lonesome : Jimmy Martin
• Hey! Hey! Hey! : Stanley Brothers
• Hickory Wind : Seldom Scene
• 
Highway Paved With Pain : Lonesome River Band
• Hills And Home : Longview
• Hills of Roan County : Stanley Brothers
• Home : Nashville Bluegrass Band
• Home in the Mountains : Stanley Tradition
• Home Run Man : Jimmy Martin
• 
Home Sick : 1946
• Honky Tonk Blues : Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
• How Lonely Can You Get? : Del McCoury
• 
How Long Blues : Del McCoury
• How Will the Flowers Bloom? : Longview
• Howling Blue Winds : 1946
• I Ain't Broke But I'm Badly Bent : David Grisman
• 
I Beg to You : James King
• 
I Buried My Future : Jimmy Martin
• I Could Change My Mind : Johnson Mountain Boys
• 
I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby : Jim & Jesse
• I Don't Care Anymore : Flatt & Scruggs
• 
I Don't Know Why : Red Allen
• 
I Found a Hiding Place : Bill Monroe
• 
I Guess I'll Go on Dreaming : Red Allen
• 
I Haven't Seen Mary in Years : Bill Monroe
• 
I Heard the Bluebirds Sing : Jim & Jesse
• 
I Hope You Have Learned : Bill Monroe
• 
I Hung My Head and Cried : Flatt & Scruggs
• 
I Just Want To Grow Old Lovin' You : James King
• 
I Know You're Married But I Love You Still : Reno & Smiley
• 
I Live in the Past : Bill Monroe
• 
I Never Get to Hold You in My Arms Anymore : Reno & Smiley
• 
I Overlooked an Orchid : Paisleys
• I Thought I Heard You Calling My Name : Paisleys
• 
I Was Left on the Street : Bill Monroe
• 
I Wasted My Tears : Traditional Grass
• 
I Wish It Had Been a Dream : Laurie Lewis
• 
I Won't Be Hangin Around : Flatt & Scruggs
• 
I Wonder Why You Said Goodbye : Larry Sparks
• 
I Worship You : Stanley Brothers
• 
I Wouldn't Change You If I Could : Reno & Smiley
• 
I'd Rather Be Alone : Flatt & Scruggs
• 
I'll Claim The Blame : 1946
• 
I'll Love You Til the Day I Die : Vern Williams
• 
I'll Never Change My Mind : Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
• I'll Never Grow Tired Of You : Stanley Brothers
• I'll Never Take No for an Answer : Jimmy Martin
• I'll Pretend It's Raining : Lynn Morris
• 
I'll Still Write Your Name in the Sand : Lilly Brothers
• I'll Take Back My Wedding Rings : Traditional Grass
• 
I'll Take the Blame : Stanley Brothers
• 
I'll Wash Your Love from My Heart : Jim & Jesse
• I'm Better off Now That You're Gone : Stanley Tradition
• I'm Going Back to See the Old Home : Reno & Smiley
• 
I'm Going Home Again : Longview
• 
I'm Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail : Red Allen
• 
I'm Lonesome and Blue : Flatt & Scruggs
• 
I'm So Blue : Open Road
• 
I'm The Biggest Liar In Town : Reno & Smiley
• I'm the Boss Of This Here House : Jimmy Martin
• 
I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes : Jimmy Martin
• I'm Using My Bible for a Roadmap : Reno & Smiley
• 
Imitation of the Blues : High Country
• 
In Foggy Old London : Jimmy Martin
• 
In My Dear Old Southern Home : Laurie Lewis
• 
Indecision : James King
• 
Is It Over Now? : Stanley Tradition
Is
• It Too Late? : Flatt & Scruggs
• 
Is the Blue Moon Still Shining? : Bill Monroe
• 
It Must Be Love : James King
• 
It's a Long, Long Way To the Top of the World : Jim & Jesse
• I've Endured : Del McCoury
• 
I've Got My Future on Ice : Jimmy Martin
• 
I've Lived a Lot in My Time : Bill Monroe
• I've Lost You : Flatt & Scruggs
• 
I've Waited as Long as I Can : Tony Rice
• Johnson Boys : Flatt & Scruggs
• 
Just Ain't : Flatt & Scruggs
• Just Another Broken Heart : Hazel Dickens
• 
Just When I Needed You : Jim & Jesse
• Keep On Going : Red Allen
• Kentucky Borderline : Rhonda Vincent
• 
Kentucky Road : McPeak Brothers
• Knocking at Your Door : Red Allen
• Knoxville Girl : Jim & Jesse
• Last Letter Home : The Gibson Brothers
• Leavin' Home : David Grisman
• 
Legend of the Rebel Soldier : Country Gentlemen
• Let's Go To The Fair : Ralph Stanley
• 
Let Me Be Your Friend : Stanley Brothers
• 
Let Me Love You One More Time : Stanley Brothers
• 
Let the Whole World Talk : Johnson Mountain Boys
• Let Us Travel On : Doyle Lawson
• Letters Have No Arms : James King
• Life's Railway to Heaven : Jim & Jesse
• 
Life's Too Short : Hot Rize
• 
Lights on the Hill : Del McCoury
• 
Likes of You : Lynn Morris
• 
Little at a Time : Stanley Brothers
• 
Little Bessie : Stanley Brothers
• 
Little Joe : Stanley Brothers
• 
Little White Church : Jimmy Martin
• Little Willie : Stanley Brothers
• Livin' the Blues : Nashville Bluegrass Band
• 
Lonely River : James King
• 
Lonesome River : Stanley Brothers
• 
Lonesome Road to Travel : Bill Monroe
• Lonesome Whistle Blues : Dreadful Snakes
• Lonesome Wind Blues : Bill Monroe
• 
Long Time Gone : Joe Val
• Losing You : Jimmy Martin
• Lost John : Hot Rize
• Lost River : McPeak Brothers
• 
Love Gone Cold : IIIrd Tyme Out
• 
Love Me Darling Just Tonight : Stanley Brothers
• 
Love Me or Leave Me Alone : Hazel Dickens
• Make Room for the Blues : Del McCoury
• 
Mansion for Me : Bill Monroe
• Mansion On The Hill : Jimmy Martin
• Me And The Jukebox : Buzz Busby
• 
Medicine Springs : Stanley Tradition
• Memories Of Mother : Stanley Brothers
• Memories of You : Bill Monroe
• Memory of Your Smile : Stanley Brothers
• 
Milwaukee Here I Come : Jimmy Martin
• Miner's Prayer : Ralph Stanley
• Moonshiner : Peter Rowan
• Mother Knows Best : Paisleys
• 
Mother No Longer Awaits Me : Stanley Brothers
• Mr. Engineer : Jimmy Martin
• Muleskinner Blues : Bill Monroe
• My Better Years : Johnson Mountain Boys
• 
My Darling's Last Goodbye : Flatt & Scruggs
• My Dixie Home : Del McCoury
• My Lord Keeps A Record : James King
• My Main Trial Is Yet to Come : Stanley Brothers
• My Sweet Love Ain't Around : Red Allen
• My Walking Shoes : Jimmy Martin
• New Patches : Lynn Morris
• 
New Set of Rules : Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
• Next Sunday, Darling, Is My Birthday : Stanley Brothers
• Ninety Nine Years And One Dark Day : Hot Rize
• No Doubt About It : Flatt & Scruggs
• No Mother in This World : Flatt & Scruggs
• No Mother Or Dad : Flatt & Scruggs
• No One But My Darling : Bill Monroe
• 
No Vacancy : Paisleys
• Nobody Cares : Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
• Now Just Suppose : Johnson Mountain Boys
• Old Blue : Dillards
• Old Crossroads : Bill Monroe
• 
Old Home Town : Flatt & Scruggs
• Old Memories Mean Nothing to Me : Del McCoury
• Old Rattler : Stanley Brothers
• Old River : James King
• Old Train : Tony Rice
• One More Dollar : Nashville Bluegrass Band
• One Tear : Osborne Brothers
• One Way Ticket to the Blues : James King
• One Way Train : Doyle Lawson
• Only Time Can Mend a Broken Heart : Longview
• Out On The Ocean : Red Allen
• Over the Hills to the Poorhouse : Flatt & Scruggs
• Phone Call Away : IIIrd Tyme Out
• Please Be My Love : Jim & Jesse
• 
Please Come Back Little Pal : True Blue
• Please Don't Feel Sorry for Me : Reno & Smiley
• Please Don't Honey Please Don't : Paisleys
• Please Search Your Heart : Bluegrass Album Band
• Poor Ellen Smith : Jimmy Martin
• Pretending : Reno & Smiley
• Prison Walls of Love : Paisleys
• Put My Little Shoes Away : Bill Monroe
• Rabbit in a Log : Stanley Brothers
• Reno Bound : Buzz Busby
• Right Before My Eyes : Parmley & McCoury
• Roll on Blues : Johnson Mountain Boys
• 
Room Over Mine : Paisleys
• Roust-A-Bout : Flatt & Scruggs
• Ruby Are You Mad : Osborne Brothers
• Sad Situation : O Sister
• Sally-Jo : Bill Monroe
• Sally Ann : True Blue
• Scraps from Your Table : Lynn Morris
• Sea of Sorrow : Del McCoury
• Send Me Your Address From Heaven : Red Allen
• Seven Year Blues : Bill Monroe
• Sharecropper's Son : Stanley Tradition
• 
She Has Forgotten : Reno & Smiley
• Shoulder to Shoulder : Lynn Morris
• Six White Horses : Flatt & Scruggs
• Skip, Hop and Wobble : Jimmy Martin
• Sleepy-Eyed John : Jim & Jesse
• Smoky Mountain Memories : Larry Sparks
• Sold Down the River : Bill Monroe
• Some Kinda Sorry : Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
• Somewhere Between : Paisleys
• Southbound : Flatt & Scruggs
• Southern Moon : Mac Martin
• Sparkling Brown Eyes : Joe Val
• Standing Room Only : Stanley Brothers
• Steel Rails : Alison Krauss
• 
Steppin' Stones : Jimmy Martin
• Stepstone : True Blue
• Stormy Horizons : Jim & Jesse
• Stormy Waters : Jimmy Martin
• Summertime Is Past and Gone : Bill Monroe
• 
Sweet Fern : True Blue
• Sweeter Than the Flowers : Stanley Brothers
• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot : Jim & Jesse
• Take Me in the Lifeboat : Flatt & Scruggs
• Tall Pines : Bill Monroe
• Teardrop on a Rose : James King
• Tears of Regret : Jim & Jesse
• 
Tennessee : Jimmy Martin
• Tennessee 1949 : Larry Sparks
• Tennessee Stud : Doc Watson
• 
Tennessee Waltz : Jimmy Martin
• Texas Girl : Laurie Lewis; Tom Rozum
• That's How I Can Count on You : Jimmy Martin
• That's Why You Left Me So Blue : Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
• There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight : Jim Mills
• There's Another Baby Waiting for Me Down the Line : Reno & Smiley
• Through The Bottom Of The Glass : Seldom Scene
• Tiny Broken Heart : Hazel Dickens
• Tis Sweet to Be Remembered : Flatt & Scruggs
• 
Tomorrow I'll Be Gone : Bill Monroe
• Too Late To Walk The Floor : Larry Sparks
• Too Many Tears : Jim & Jesse
• Trail Of Sorrow : Reno & Smiley
• Train That Carried My Girl from Town : Flatt & Scruggs
• 
Traveling the Highway Home : Stanley Gospel Tradition
• Troubles Around My Door : Red Allen
• Trust Each Other : Stanley Brothers
• Try Me on One More Time : Del McCoury
• Twenty One Years : Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
• Two Arms to Hold Me : Jim & Jesse
• Valley Of Tears : Carl Story
• Virginia Waltz : Jim & Jesse
• Vision of Mother : Stanley Brothers
• Walk the Way the Wind Blows : Hot Rize
• Walking in My Sleep : Hazel Dickens
• Wall (The) : James King
• Wave the Ocean, Wave the Sea : Tim & Mollie O'Brien
• We Live In Two Different Worlds : Red Allen
• 
Wear a Red Rose : James King
• Weary Blues from Waitin' : Nashville Bluegrass Band
• Weathered Gray Stone : Johnson Mountain Boys
• Well Enough Alone : Red Allen
• 
West Virginia, My Home : Hazel Dickens
• What's Good for You : Flatt & Scruggs
• 
What Can I Do? : Joe Val
• What Was I Supposed to Do? : Jimmy Martin
• What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul? : Monroe Brothers
• When My Time Comes to Go : IIIrd Tyme Out
• When the Cactus Is in Bloom : Bill Monroe
• When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland : Tim & Mollie O'Brien
• When Your Phone Don't Ring It'll Be Me : James King
• Where The Old Red River Flows : Joe Val
• Whispering Waters : James King
• White Rose : Country Gentlemen
• Who's Going Down to Town : Vern Williams
• Who's That Knocking? : Hazel Dickens
• Who Done It? : Osborne Brothers
• 
Whose Red Wagon : Buzz Busby
• Window up Above : Stanley Brothers
• Windy Mountain : Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
• Wings of Angels : Stanley Brothers
• Y'all Come : Bill Monroe
• 
Yesterday's Gone : Osborne Brothers
• 
You Are the One : Jim & Jesse
• You Broke Your Promise : Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
• You Don't Love God : Carl Story
• You Left Me Alone : Longview
• You Left Me to Cry : Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
• You Live in a World All Your Own : Bill Monroe
• 
You Won't Be Satisfied That Way : Bill Monroe
• You'll Be a Lost Ball : Jimmy Martin
• You'll Find Her Name Written There : Bill Monroe
• You'll Get No More of Me : Hazel Dickens
• You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone : Flatt & Scruggs
• You're a Flower in the Wildwood : Del McCoury
• 
Your Love Is Dying : Reno & Smiley
• You're Not a Drop in the Bucket : Flatt & Scruggs
• You're Still to Blame : Stanley Brothers
• Your Selfish Heart : Stanley Brothers
• Zion's Hill : Stanley Gospel Tradition