Song List: 5th Avenue Swing Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow American Hornpipe An Comhra Donn Angels Rock Me To Sleep Bacon In The Skillet Balkan Sunset Barney's Goat Bennett's Favorite Reel Bill Cheathum Billy in the Lowground Black And White Rag Blackberry Blossom Blanchard's Hornpipe Bluesin' the Frets Bottom of Punch Bowl Hornpipe Brian Boru's March Brighton Beach Bring Back to Me My Wandering Boy Brunswick Dance Brush Creek Bumpin' Buster's Reel Buttermilk Jig Caleb's Gorge Cape Cod Reel Carolan's Draught Carrie's Dream Catawissa Reel Catskill Night Cold, Frosty Morning Coldwater Creek Collin's Quest Copthorne Blues Crazy Creek Cumberland Gap Cumberland Ridge D Lite Days Of 'Lang Syne Devil's Dream Dixie Breakdown Don't Go Out Tonight, My Darling/East Virginia Down In The Willow Garden Dublin Dance East Tennessee Blues Echo Canyon Echo Waltz Eighth Of January Eleven Mile Canyon Em Study Fair And Tender Ladies Far From Home Gladiator Reel Green Fields Of America Guster Halloween Harvest Moon Strathspey Haste to the Wedding Haul Away, Joe Heebie Jeebie Hens In The Kitchen High Barbaree High five Hills of Roane County Hooker's Hornpipe I Never Will Marry I'll Be All Smiles Tonight Indian Creek Isle Of Cumbrae Ivy Leaf Reel Jacks Fork Rendezvous Jackson's Jig Katy Trail Kitchen Girl Lady's Fancy Lark in the Morning League Reel Little House 'Round the Corner London Hornpipe Lonesome River Lost Indian Luckie Bawdin's Reel Maddie's Bonnet Martha's Cider Mere Point Midnight Flight Mississippi Basin Missouri Mud Molambe Morrison's Jig National Lancer's Hornpipe Neapolitan Threshers Night Voyage North Sea Obadiah Johnson Peeler Creek Waltz Powder Mill Raqad Red Fox Waltz Red Haired Boy Reel De Lapin Rickett's Hornpipe Roll On Buddy Sally In The Garden Shannon's Well Ships Are Sailing Reel Short Life Of Trouble Shuckin' The Corn Sidney Street Silver Bell Silverheel's Shuffle Song Soppin' The Gravy Soulard St Anne's Reel St Clair's Hornpipe Star Of Bethlehem Step Around Johnny Stepping Out Stone's Rag Storms Are On The Ocean Suffolk Stroll Sugar In The Gourd Sundance Swallowtail Jig Sweet Lillie Sweet Sunny South Swing LTD Swing Steppin' The Burning Of The Piper's Hut The Clergy's Lamentation The Cuckoo The Downfall Of Paris The Girl I Loved in Sunny Tennessee The Promenade The Rights Of Man The Teetotaller's Reel The Unfortunate Rake The Wild Mare Whiskey Before Breakfast Wilson's Hornpipe Witch Of The Wave Reel Young McGoldrick

ISBN 9781513459844. 8.75x11.75 inches.

This book presents 42 English folk songs arranged for the intermediate classic guitarist in standard notation with phrase and dynamic markings plus light fingering. The collection includes popular melodies like Sprig of Thyme, Seventeen Come Sunday, and Blow the Wind Southerly, but also lesser known but no less beautiful tunes like Cupid the Pretty Ploughboy, Dabbling in the Dew and Saucy Sailor. All the arrangements present the basic tune faithfully and simply before offering more elaborate and sophisticated variations suitable for concert performance. Without compromising their sophistication, these polyphonic arrangements are elegant and idiomatic to the guitar, all but devoid of excessive physical demands; even barre chords are kept to a minimum so the player can relax and focus on tone and interpretation. The primary objective of this collection is to draw attention to these deserving melodies, some of which are now rarely heard. Longtime fans of the genre will recognize a few songs once performed by folk-rock groups like Steeleye Span and The Fairport Convention, here presented anew for the solo classic guitar. Its an excellent collection - good to play for pleasure, good for learning and consolidating rhythm, good for sight-reading. Just marvelous. It should meet a lot of needs. Gilbert Biberian These are very accessible arrangements of 42 English folk tunes, some of which are familiar and many others which deserve to be better known. They are all tuneful and have interesting harmonies and rhythms in arrangements which will be well within the reach of intermediate guitarists. These fine settings would be useful pieces for a teacher looking for supplementary material and also for the performer looking for unhackneyed repertoire. They are thoughtfully presented with good fingering and phrasing, with idiomatic guitar writing and interesting harmonies. Congratulations to Peter Worley for presenting this compendium of gems from a lesser known tradition. Gerald Garcia.