The simplest bluegrass banjo book ever written. It can teach anyone to play, we promise! Includes instruction CD with 99 tracks. We guarantee this book will get you started playing bluegrass banjo.

Manners & Morals of Victorian America is your gateway to the fashionable world of Victorian America. It draws from the wealth of late 19th and early twentieth etiquette books. With over 400 historic engravings and illustrations, the book details virtually every aspect of Victorian life, including the proper conduct for courtship and wooing, duties of husbands and wives, how to deal with a rejected suitor and even carriage and motoring manners. 7"x10," 180 pages.

Erbsen's book takes a deep look at bluegrass to discover its true roots. Included are the words and music to ninety-four songs, vintage photos, historical introductions and profiles of scores of musicians at the very core of bluegrass. The book contains tips on singing and playing, and includes accounts of the author's personal encounters with many of these legendary musicians.

Here, at long last, is the perfect fiddle book for the true and total beginner. No previous experience needed! Wayne takes you through every step of adjusting, tuning, holding and playing the fiddle. The tunes are written out in Waynes unique and easy tab system an also in standard notation. Fiddle instruction has never been simpler, clearer, or more humorous. Includes instructional CD.

WAYNE'S friendly and FUN approach to learning has taught tens of thousands of total beginners to play bluegrass music. Join the club!
In this, his 26th book, Wayne cuts through the clutter and confusion of learning to play with his SIMPLE approach to playing the melody. He then leads the beginner down the path of being able to IMPROVISE on the melody by adding several simple rhythms. With Wayne's help, you'll soon be jamming up a storm. Guaranteed.

Reading Log Cabin Pioneers is like stepping inside the door of an historic log cabin. Here you'll meet authentic pioneers who will sing ancient ballads, spin yarns about Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and Thomas Jefferson, tell spell-binding tales of bear hunting with moonshine and give you advise on buying a mule. You'll visit a general store, eat ash cake, hear remedies and superstitions and even get romantic advice.

Finally! A low cost (but snazzy) book packed with songs and lore of the railroads! Includes the melody and lyrics to 28 classic sing-alongs plus: Railroad Superstitions and Tall Tales of Train Wrecks, Robberies, Ghosts, Hobos, Train Insults, Railroad Slang, Street-Car Poetry, vintage drawings and photos.

Includes music and words to songs like "The Big Corral", "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie", "Git Along Little Dogies", "Home on the Range", and many more. Plus cowboy wisdom, 33 uses for a neck scarf, 25 cowboy insults, lingo for whiskey, cowboy one-liners, and much more.

By singing these songs, you will be carried to scenes of parting lovers, sailors on the high seas, mountain cabins and lonesome roads. Each song will tell a story of days gone by.

Bluegrass Jamming on Banjo teaches the tips, tools, tricks and tunes to jam in bluegrass style. Its simple and fun method shows you how to play and improvise on 31 bluegrass jam standards, what to do at your first jam and how to make the tunes your own. You'll learn to make up your own licks and fills while you march fearlessly into your first jam with your banjo blazing away (well almost). This FUN book is fully illustrated with almost 200 vintage photos, 112 pages, spiral binding, 9 x 12." Includes an audio instructional CD with a whopping 197 MP3 tracks to play on your computer.

On the 30th anniversary of the publication of the original book, Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus, Wayne Erbsen has completely rewritten this banjo classic, and now its even better! Clear and humorous instruction. Includes: "Cluck Old Hen," "Poor Wayfaring Stranger, "Sugar Hill," "Shady Grove," "Little Birdie," "Darlin Corey," "Will Bill Jones," "Rain & Snow," "Cotton-Eyed Joe," "Buffalo Gals," Cripple Creek," "the Cuckoo," "Cumberland Gap," "Cumberland Mountain Deer Chase," "Down in the Willow Gardens," "East Virginia," "Groundhog," "Handsome Molly," "Little Sadie," "Lynchburg Town," "Muleys Daughter," "New River Train," "Old Blue," "Old Joe Clark," "Polly Put the Kettle On," ""Red Rocking Chair," "Shortening Bread," "Swannanoa Tunnel," "Sweet Sunny South," "Wild Bill Jones." Includes instructional CD with 85 selections!

A hilarious book of country humor and trivia that gathers together jokes, slang, stories, folklore, and facts on a broad range of topics.