Popular Dusty Strings Tunes
Tunes that have been played at the Dusty Strings jam, sorted by how many times they’ve been played:
- Old Joe Clark (9)
- Boil Them Cabbage Down (8)
- Arkansas Traveler (7)
- Emma’s Waltz (7)
- Soldier’s Joy (7)
- Whiskey Before Breakfast (7)
- Buffalo Gals (6)
- Cripple Creek (6)
- Little Rabbit Where’s Your Mama (5)
- Seamus O’Brien (5)
- Swallowtail Jig (5)
- Tennessee Waltz (5)
- Bill Cheatham (4)
- Faded Love (4)
- Pretty Little Shoes (4)
- Saint Anne’s Reel (4)
- Shove That Pig’s Foot a Little Further In The Fire (4)
- Turkey in the Straw (4)
- Angeline the Baker (3)
- Britches Full of Stitches (3)
- Devil’s Dream (3)
- Home With the Girls In The Morning (3)
- Liberty (3)
- Matt’s Polka (3)
- Paddy on the Handcar (3)
- Possum’s Tail is Bare (3)
- Red Haired Boy (3)
- Sandy Boys (3)
- Shortnin’ Bread (3)
- Blackberry Blossom (2)
- Bolle Olle (2)
- Chinky-Pin (aka Too Young To Marry, My Love is But a Lassie, etc.) (2)
- Cincinnati Hornpipe (2)
- Cluck Old Hen (2)
- Fisher’s Hornpipe (2)
- Florida Blues (2)
- Harry’s Hambo (2)
- Jefferson and Liberty (2)
- Lost Indian (2)
- Marmaduke’s Hornpipe (2)
- Me And My Fiddle (2)
- Oh, Suzanna (2)
- Over The Waterfall (2)
- Ragtime Annie (2)
- Red Wing (2)
- Rye Whiskey (2)
- Waltz from Boda (2)
- Westphalia Waltz (2)
- You Are My Sunshine (2)
- Boston Rattler (1)
- Bowling Green (Clyde Davenport) (1)
- Cold Frosty Morning (1)
- Cuckoo’s Nest (1)
- Dirty Sheets (1)
- Dixie (1)
- Elmer’s Waltz (1)
- Far Away (Pete Jung) (1)
- Flame Point (Stuart Williams) (1)
- Golden Slippers (1)
- Harvest Home Hornpipe (1)
- Heel Flies (via Stuart Williams who got it from Gary Lee Moore) (1)
- Johnny’s Gone To France (1)
- Johnny’s Gone to France (1)
- Julie Ann Johnson (1)
- Little Liza Jane (1)
- Mairi’s Wedding (1)
- Midnight Breakdown (1)
- Moon and Seven Stars (1)
- Nail That Catfish To A Tree (1)
- Old French (1)
- Peekaboo Waltz (1)
- Pig Ankle Rag (1)
- Red River Valley (1)
- Round The Horn (Jay Ungar) (1)
- Sleeping Giant Two-Step (1)
- The Merry Blacksmith (1)
- Turkey In The Straw (1)
- Waltz From Boda (1)
- Woodchopper’s Reel (1)
Old Joe Clark and Bile Them Cabbage Down have counts higher than the number of jams there have been because they were played more than once at one or two jams. We should think about making sure some of these tunes are in the Slower Than Dirt repertoire.
(I’ll try and keep this page updated every month, with new totals from Dusty Strings jams as they happen.)