Blue Drifters

The Blue Drifters Bluegrass Quartet plays traditional bluegrass with a few older covers included, or anything we can craft into interesting, exciting arrangements with trio harmonies and prodigious soloing on fiddle, 5-string Scruggs-style banjo, upright bass and acoustic guitar. These days we show off our harmony vocal arrangements on mostly traditional bluegrass tunes. The players include Tony Smith, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, vocals, Paul Porter bassist/vocals, Jim Lally- fiddle, mandolin, guitar, vocals, Steve Howard banjo/guitar/vocals Below, I’ve provided our current book with brief details: 1 Bad Moon Rising -CCR 2 D – Forked Deer – Fiddle tune 3 G – Down the Road - Flatt and Scruggs - trios 4 E - Song for Life waltz, Rodney Crowell, trios 6 G- Love Please Come Home (1956 Bill Monroe) 7 G – Don’t Cry Blue (1971 Jonathan Edwards) 8 A – Little Maggie  - trios 9 F – Why Don’t you love Me Likd You Used You Do– duet harmonies, Hank Sr. 10 G – Theme Time – guitar solo 11 A – Picture in a Tear –trios – Junior Sisk 12 G – Mr. Engineer – Jimmie Martin 1956- trios 13 D – Gentle on My Mind (John Hartford 1967) 14 G – Wheel Hoss – inst. Bill Monroe - guitar 15 G - Ezekiel Saw the Wheel – acapella quartet 16 A – I’m Country – trios New Quicksilver 17 G - On and On –trios – Bill Monroe 18 C – Jambalaya – duet harmonies – Hank Sr. 19 G-Nine Pound Hammer –Bill Monroe - trios 20 A – Bill Cheatum – fiddle tune 21 G – The Road is a Lover (A Krauss) 22 A – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young) 23 E – Night They Drove Old Dixie – Robbie Robertson 24 C – Peach Pickin Time in GA – Jimmie Rodgers 25 D – Eye of the Hurricane – David Grier guitar solo 26 C – I’m Walking – duet harms – Old Home place album 27 Down in the Willow Garden key B 28 A – Girl From the N Country (Dylan) 29 G -Will U Be Lovin Another Man – Bill Monroe 30 G – Sweet Chariot Swing Low – A cappella trio