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Sittin’ on Top of the World

Sittin’ on Top of the World

Was in the spring one sunny day,
My sweetheart left me, she’s gone away.

Chorus:
And now she’s gone and I don’t worry,
Because I’m sittin’ on top of the world.

She called me up from down in El Paso,
Said come back, daddy, Lord I need you so. (Chorus)

Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust,
Show me a woman a man can trust. (Chorus)

Mississippi River is deep and wide,
The woman I’m loving is on the other side. (Chorus)

If you don’t like my peaches, don’t you shake my tree,
Get

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Clarence White and the Roots of Bluegrass Guitar in Southern California

By Wayne Erbsen

In the early sixties I lived within earshot of the Ash Grove, a legendary folk club on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood. As I recall, Monday night was called “hoot night,” and the house band was “The Country Boys.” When I first heard the band in mid-1962, it consisted of Clarence White on guitar, Billy Ray Lathum on banjo, LeRoy Mack on Dobro, and playing bass was Roger Bush.

In the fall of 1962 the band got the opportunity to record their first album for Briar International. At that time the founder of the band, Roland White,

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Clawhammer Banjo – A Simple Lesson

Red Rocking Chair tablature

By Wayne Erbsen

Here are the basic steps to learning old-time clawhammer banjo:

1. With your right hand over the strings of your banjo, curl your fingers up as if they were holding a baseball bat.

2. Strike down on the 1st string with the nail of your middle finger. (This is your melody note). With your hand still in motion, let your right thumb come to rest on the 5th string.

3. Then lift up you right hand and quickly brush down on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd strings with the nails of your middle and ring fingers. Again,

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Who Moved My Cheese?

By Wayne Erbsen

Many people don’t like change. They don’t want their cheese moved, as the book says. I’m more guilty of this than almost anyone I know. Once I discover something I like, I tend to do that thing from that day forward, without wavering one iota.

In bluegrass music, most traditional players don’t want their cheese moved either. They think, if Earl, Don, Carter, or Bill played a lick a certain way, by God, that’s the way I’m going to play it too, or try to. Now, I can’t really fault that way of thinking, because I’m as

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Publicity

Here you’ll find an (incomplete) list of magazines and other publications that have featured Native Ground Books & Music, and our authors/owners Wayne Erbsen & Barbara Swell

Barbara Swell

“10 Best Pie Cookbooks in 2022 (Chef-Reviewed)” -MyBest, 2022

“Log Cabin Cooking in Asheville: Where the hearth is” – Our State Magazine, 2021

“Pie experts and amateurs offer insights into making the perfect crust” – Mountain Xpress, 2021

“Asheville Culinarians Share Layers of Tradition in Appalachian Kitchen“- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2019

“Cozying up to slow cooking: WNC winters inspire wood-fired and slow cooker comfort food”– Mountain Xpress,

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Arkansas Traveler Skit

Rural Roots of Bluegrass by Wayne Erbsen
arkanas-traveler-art

By Wayne Erbsen

The Arkansas Traveler is one of most recognizable and popular old-time fiddle tunes played today. The tune was first printed on February 23, 1847. The skit that goes with the tune is said to go back to the 1820s, and some have credited it to Colonel Sandford C. Faulkner, who became known as The Arkansas Traveler. The setting of the skit is a farmer playing the fiddle on the front porch of his ramshackle cabin in rural Arkansas. Up rides a city slicker on a horse who is beyond lost. Their conversation is captured in the

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Pretty Polly

Rural Roots of Bluegrass by Wayne Erbsen

Rising to the top of the most well-known murder ballad in bluegrass music is “Pretty Polly.” Based on an actual murder, legends tell that the cruel murder of Pretty Polly was at the hands of a ship’s carpenter by the name of John Billson near Gosport, England. The ballad was first printed in about 1727 as “The Gosport Tragedy,” and sung to the tune of “Peggy’s Gone Over Sea.” It tells the chilling tale of Billson’s murder of his pregnant girlfriend and the flight aboard the ship M.M.S. Bedford. The story takes a haunting turn when the seaman Charles Stewart

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Cripple Creek

Clawhammer banjo for the complete ignoramus cover

Cripple Creek

I got a girl and she loves me,
She’s as sweet as sweet can be.

She’s got eyes of baby blue,
Makes my gun shoot straight and true.

Goin’ up Cripple Creek, goin’ on a run,
Goin’ up Cripple Creek to have a little fun
Goin’ up Cripple Creek, goin’ in a whirl
Goin’ up Cripple Creek to see my girl.

Cripple Creek’s wide and Cripple Creek’s deep,
I’ll wade old Cripple Creek before I sleep.

Roll my britches to my knees,
I wade old Cripple Creek when I please.

Cripple Creek’s wide and Cripple Creek’s muddy
I’m

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