What is your favorite Bill Monroe tune?

[Shawn Gambrel]

Mine would have to be wayfaring stranger or southern flavor what about you

[Chris Keth]

I'm a pretty new listener but, of what I've listened to, I like "It's Mighty Dark to Travel" and "The Coupon Song."

[Ivan Kelsall]

Without a doubt "Body & Soul". It encapsulates all i love in Bluegrass, & Bill's voice is incomparable
IMHO. But having said that,there are so many other songs i love of his,
Saska

[Mike Bunting]

I'm a pretty new listener but, of what I've listened to, I like "It's Mighty Dark to Travel" and "The Coupon Song."

"The Coupon Song"?

[Brett Moore]

A Good Woman's Love.

[mandolirius]

"The Coupon Song"?

Yep, from Monroe's second session with the Bluegrass Boys, Oct. 2/41. It was a novelty song sung by the bass player/comedien Wilbur Westbrook.

[mandolirius]

Song: Uncle Pen or On My Way Back To The Old Home.

Tune: Roanoke or Bluegrass Breakdown.

Special Mention: Whitehouse Blues, a pretty generic kind of blues but oh the mandolin solos. They're totally on fire!

[Mike Bunting]

Yep, from Monroe's second session with the Bluegrass Boys, Oct. 2/41. It was a novelty song sung by the bass player/comedien Wilbur Westbrook.

Thanks, was that on the Camden disk? I've got it down on the farm and haven't listened to it in years. Don't remember that tune though.

[man dough nollij]

Muleskinner Blues. Yep.

[Mike Bunting]

The version of Get Up John that he played at a workshop at the Gaslight Cafe in NYC in 1966, sparks a'flyin'!!

[Chris Keth]

"The Coupon Song"?

Yeah, it's on a compilation I got from my Mom called "The Essential Bill Monroe: The Early Years 1940-1947."

I think if you google it there are a few places you can listen to it through once without buying it.

[mandozilla]

Favorite WSM recordings...this is tough!

Song - "Memories of Mother and Dad" or "I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling"
Tune - "Kentucky Mandolin" or "Bluegrass Breakdown"

The Coupon Song
by Bill Wesbrooks
At a new cigar store they're giving away,
Hundreds and thousands of coupons each day.
Things good for nothing you can bet your life,
I tried it out and I got a wife.

Neat little song but not written by Big Mon

[jim_n_virginia]

Wow! My favorite Monroe tune? Hard to say I like a LOT of them.

I like pretty much ALL of Monroe's instrumentals.

Probably Roanoke and Jerusalem Ridge. Well I like Uncle Pen too. Oh Yeah Muleskinner Blues.

Oh well I guess I can't pick just one!

[Mandoist]

My favorites might be the tunes Bill never got to show me.

[AlanN]

Such a vast pool.

From his later years, the tunes on Master of Bluegrass (bought the LP when it came out) all are faves. That Come Hither to Go Yonder is great fun, Lochwood too.

[ninevah]

Old Dangerfield

[papawhisky]

Jerusalem Ridge is very cool and lately I have been getting into Cheyenne. It has the cool major/minor contrast.

[Don Stiernberg]

I like them all, but...

Favorite instrumentals
Cheyenne, Road to Columbus, Lonesome Moonlight Waltz,Panhandle Country, Boston Boy, Heel and Toe Polka, Rawhide
Favorite Vocals
Can't You Hear Me calling, Little Joe, Out in the Cold World, Get down on your Knees and Pray, He Will Set Your Fields on Fire, When You Are Lonely, Travelling Down this Lonesome Road

[GTG]

It's a tie between Old Dangerfield and Jerusalem Ridge.

[Ken Olmstead]

My Last Days on Earth

[nate w]

all of them!

[earthsave]

I'm a pretty new listener but, of what I've listened to, I like "It's Mighty Dark to Travel" and "The Coupon Song."

I always hit skip when that Coupon Song comes up.

I honestly cannot narrow it down to a favorite. I do like Loneseome Moonlight Waltz, My Last Days on Earth, and Old Lonesome Waltz for instrumentals. Jerusalem Ridge (ok this is my favorite now that I think about it), Old Daingerfield, Tennessee Blues.

Blue Moon of Kentucky, Sitting Alone in the Moonlight, Im On My Way Back to the Old Home, Memories of Mother and Dad, Uncle Pen, and so on.....

[Elliot Luber]

Not a whole lot of agreement, but not a lot of disagreement at least.

[Darryl Wolfe]

Mr Stiernberg and I must have gone to different schools together. I like his list

[jimbob]

Top fiver would be easier...
Jerusalem Ridge
Old Danger Field
Old Ebenezer Scrooge
Po' White Folks
Dusty Miller
( The entire Master of Bluegrass album)