Bill Monroe: Tune of the Week 2009

Wendy Anthony - Editor

John Bird has launched a new TOW version in 2009, focused only on the playing of Bill Monroe.

Tune of the Week (TOW) was started in April 1999 as a way of choosing tunes to learn on the mandolin & discussing how to play them with other members of CoMando ListServe. TOW continued from 1999 until 2004, reviving once again in 2007 & 2008.

Note: Tunes are available as tef files in Mandozine's TablEdit Archives or abc text files. The tef link will take you to the TablEdit Archive Search Results page, where you can download the tef file by either clicking directly to open up the file in TablEdit or Right-click to download the file to your computer. You need either TablEdit or free TefView to use the tef files. See Related Links sidebar for information about using these files as well as links to previous years' TOW files.

Tune Discussions in CoMandoList Archives can be searched using one of these formats:
      - Search for: "Tune name" (type/copy/paste the name in quotation marks)
      - Subject contains: Monroe TOW (add the number, without leading 0; eg: TOW 2)
      - Subject contains: Monroe (for all discussion about Monroe).

Bill Monroe: TOW - 2009

ABC Files

TOW #: Tune Name	Genre	Key	TablEdit	abc
01: I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky	Monroe	A	tef	abc
02: Salt Creek	Trad	A	tef	abc
01: I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky	Monroe	A	tef	abc
02: Salt Creek	Trad	Amix	tef	abc
03: Bluegrass Stomp	Monroe	D	tef	abc
04: My Father's Footsteps	Monroe	A	tef	abc
05: Dusty Miller	Trad	A	tef	abc
06: Big Mon	Monroe	Amix	tef	abc
07: Poor White Folks	Monroe	A	tef	abc
08: The Chilly Winds of Shannon	Monroe	Amix	tef	abc
09: Ashland Breakdown	Monroe	C	tef	abc
10: Old Dangerfield	Monroe	A	tef	abc
11: Come Hither To Go Yonder	Monroe	Am	tef	abc
12: Lonesome Moonlight Waltz	Monroe	Dm	tef	abc
13: Kentucky Mandolin	Monroe	Gm	tef	abc
14: Roanoke	Monroe	G	tef	abc
15: Bluegrass Breakdown	Monroe	Gmix	-	-
16 & 17: Jerusalem Ridge	Monroe	Am	tef	abc
18: Methodist Preacher	Monroe	G	tef	abc
19: Monroe's Hornpipe	Monroe	A	tef	abc
20: Farewell To Long Hollow	Monroe	Am	tef	abc
21: Boston Boy	Monroe	C	tef	abc
22: Honky Tonk Swing	Monroe	C	tef	abc
23: Bluegrass Twist (Bluegrass, Pt. 1)	Monroe	G	tef	abc
24: Bluegrass Special	Monroe	A	tef	abc
25: Stoney Lonesome	Monroe	A	tef	abc
26: Tall Timbers	Monroe	G	tef	abc
27: Rawhide	Monroe	C	tef	abc
28: Brown County Breakdown	Monroe	E	tef	abc
29: Watson's Blues	Monroe	E	tef	abc
30: Monroe's Blues	Monroe	G	tef	abc
31: Tennessee Blues	Monroe	A	tef	abc
32: Evening Prayer Blues	Monroe	G	tef	abc
33: Pike County Breakdown	Monroe	A	tef	abc
34: White Horse Breakdown	Monroe	G	tef	abc
35: Paddy on the Turnpike	Monroe	G	tef	abc
36: Southern Flavor	Monroe	E	tef	abc
37: Monroebilia	Compton	A	tef	abc
38: Panhandle Country	Monroe	C	tef	abc
39: Texas Blue Bonnet	Monroe	C	tef	abc
40: The Gold Rush	Monroe	A	tef	abc
41: Get Down On Your Knees and Pray	Monroe	G	tef	abc
42: On And On	Monroe	G or A	tef	abc
43: Letter From My Darlin'	Monroe	G	tef	abc
44: I'm Working On A Building	Monroe	A	tef	abc
45: Chippewa	Campbell?	Gm	tef	abc
46: Uncle Pen	Monroe	A	tef	abc
47: My Sweet Blue Eyed Darling	Monroe	A	tef	abc
48: Road To Columbus	Monroe	A	tef	abc
49: Walls Of Time	Monroe	C	tef	abc
50: Get Up John	Monroe	D	tef	abc
51: Old Ebeneezer Scrooge	Monroe	A dor	tef	abc
52: My Last Days on Earth	Monroe	Dm	tef	abc