Bluegrass Fakebook: 150 All-Time Favorites, Seventh Edition [Paperback]

CASEY (Author), Bert (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1999

Bluegrass Fakebook by Bert Casey - This handy songbook contains bluegrass lyrics, bluegrass gospel lyrics, chord progressions, and melody lines to 150 of the all-time favorite Bluegrass songs, including 50 gospel tunes, as well as many new bluegrass songs. Printed in large, easy-to-read type with one song per page, this book is excellent for use on stage or in jam sessions, because everyone can read along. Also includes chord charts for the guitar, banjo, and mandolin to help you learn your favorite bluegrass chords and a listing of currently available recordings of each song. Now all those obscure verses you can never remember are right at your fingertips.

Product Details

• Paperback: 154 pages
• Publisher: KMP Publishing; 7th edition (December 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 189390749X
• ISBN-13: 978-1893907492
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #356,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 Stars for newbies, April 17, 2007

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Chris Oliver - See all my reviews
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If you can read even just a little music and would like to know the melody of a song, this is the book for you. Being relatively new to bluegrass, I do not know names of songs but do recognize the melodies. With this book, even not knowing the melody is no problem. Play the melody straight out of the book! Bonus, if you need an impromptu solo, play the melody! This book has really benefited me in learning traditional bluegrass and gospel songs. If you don't read music... well, the chords are displayed above the music notation and lyrics as well.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a must-have book for Bluegrass, January 5, 2007

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Terry Gold (Boulder, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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I think the other reviewer might have meant to give this 5 stars. This is one of two books that it seems every Bluegrass player owns. Most copies have many pages turned down and look like they've been left out by the campfire, which they probably have. The other book to own is the Bluegrass Songbook by Pete Wernick. Together these books will give you a great source for the words to many Bluegrass songs without the annoying pop-ups of most online lyrics sites.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST..., November 3, 2007

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C. Burks "phriend2spin" - See all my reviews
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I think this book is a must have for bluegrass jams. I love the selection for this book, it has a lot of old classic and a lot of newer songs that wouldn't think that would have made it. None the less its one of the better ones out there.