Folk Pop Songs

(Easy Guitar). 40 of the most memorable songs of the folk pop genre arranged for beginning guitar with notes and tablature. Includes: American Pie (Don McLean) * Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) * Cat's in the Cradle (Harry Chapin) * Fire and Rain (James Taylor) * Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) * Mr. Tambourine Man (Bob Dylan) * Puff the Magic Dragon (Peter, Paul & Mary) * The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel) * This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie) * We Shall Overcome (Joan Baez) * Yesterday (The Beatles) * and more.

Sixty-two of the most requested folk/pop songs.

A wonderful collection of 20 popular, beautiful and fun-to-play songs for beginning to intermediate guitar students. The melody, an easy strumming pattern, chord diagrams and complete lyrics are provided with each song, so students can choose to either play the melody or strum to accompany themselves as they sing. Large-sized music, TAB and diagrams make the songs easy to read, even for beginners. The 48-page book also contains a review of music reading, tablature and chord diagrams. This handy songbook is the perfect tool for guitar teachers seeking fun musical activities to keep their students happy and involved with music making.

In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music—a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice—was reduced to a series of distinct genres linked to particular racial and ethnic identities. The blues were African American. Rural white southerners played country music. By the 1920s, these depictions were touted in folk song collections and the catalogs of “race” and “hillbilly” records produced by the phonograph industry. Such links among race, region, and music were new. Black and white artists alike had played not only blues, ballads, ragtime, and string band music, but also nationally popular sentimental ballads, minstrel songs, Tin Pan Alley tunes, and Broadway hits. In a cultural history filled with musicians, listeners, scholars, and business people, Miller describes how folklore studies and the music industry helped to create a “musical color line,” a cultural parallel to the physical color line that came to define the Jim Crow South. Segregated sound emerged slowly through the interactions of southern and northern musicians, record companies that sought to penetrate new markets across the South and the globe, and academic folklorists who attempted to tap southern music for evidence about the history of human civilization. Contending that people’s musical worlds were defined less by who they were than by the music that they heard, Miller challenges assumptions about the relation of race, music, and the market.

Striking illustrations, rich in color and texture offer an original interpretation of this popular traditional children’s folk song recorded by the exceptionally gifted musicians. The illustrated lyrics are followed by a recording of the featured song.

Expert settings of 25 American folk classics by a well-known composer and arranger for young pianists. Includes "Amazing Grace," "Aura Lee," "Blue Tail Fly," "The Gift to Be Simple," "Go Down Moses," "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Shortnin' Bread," and "Sweet Betsy from Pike."

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of nearly 70 songs from the folk/pop pioneers to contemporary artists, including: Abraham, Martin and John * Aquarius * California Dreamin' * Daydream Believer * Hallelujah * He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother * Homeward Bound * I'd like to Teach the World to Sing * If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song) * If I Were a Carpenter * Kokomo * Like a Rolling Stone * Mrs. Robinson * Mr. Bojangles * Mr. Tambourine Man * Monday, Monday * Morning Has Broken * People Got to Be Free * Puff the Magic Dragon * The Rainbow Connection * Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head * Sing * Southern Cross * Sunshine (Go Away Today) * Sunshine on My Shoulders * This Land Is Your Land * Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree * The Times They Are A-Changin' * Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) * The Unicorn * Where Have All the Flowers Gone? * A Whiter Shade of Pale * The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald * and more.

(Easy Guitar). Easy arrangements with tab for 50 all-American country classics, including: Act Naturally * All My Ex's Live in Texas * Boot Scootin' Boogie * Crazy * Elvira * Faded Love * Folsom Prison Blues * For the Good Times * Friends in Low Places * Georgia on My Mind * Hey, Good Lookin' * King of the Road * Lucille * Rocky Top * Sixteen Tons * Take Me Home, Country Roads * There's a Tear in My Beer * You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma * Your Cheatin' Heart * and more.