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We don't provide any recordings of the songs here. There are copyright infringement issues, of course, as well as the logisitical challenge. We do provide discography information for some of the songs, and we intend to add much more of that. In general, recordings of these songs can easily be found via a quick search on iTunes, Amazon, etc. Recommended sources for bluegrass recordings include Down Home Records in El Cerrito CA, Elderly Instruments in Lansing Michigan, and County Sales online.

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For the time being, we will not have tablatures or written notation. Our thinkin' is that the best way to learn bluegrass is to go out and buy as many old bluegrass recordings as you can and sit and listen to them. Then try and figure out how to sound like them! This way you can catch the nuances (is that a bluegrass word?) of the style - melody, phrasing, and musical accompaniment style. The lyrics here are just a helper for those of us who are memory-challenged (that'd be most of us).

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Unfortunately, no. We recommend researching the author of the song, their associated publishing agency or label, and finding out about how to provide the appropriate licensing fees.

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Likely not. We are going to try and get everything on the site as we assemble it, and there are just too many songs that someone heard their mother sing when they were young and they only know a piece of it and what is it and please email it to me. however - that is why we've included our Forums!! Tap into the bluegrass community as a whole, by posting something there asking about some lyrics you need.

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YES! If you have lyircs for bluegrass, old-time or early/traditional country songs that you don't see already listed here, please use our "contribute" form to either paste in the lyrics, or attach a word doc. Please note: we do not publish any lyrics that aren't within these genres, and we also will likely not publish any "originals" (songs you may have written). Thanks!

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Cause I'm lame. Getting there though. I have like 500 emails about some really lamo stuff, and some more emails from angry songwriters whose names aren't listed here. The site can actually be edited now, so we should be cranking though this as well as adding a lot more material. We have hundreds more songs transcribed.

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This is a non-profit site, which has never included ad banners of any kind, and we do it because we love each and every one of you individually. If you'd like to help out, we certainly accept contributions via PayPal. We may at some point add a banner or two from folks we really like, like MandolinCafe or Elderly Instruments, or County Sales or some such. Dunno. 

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Well, it's mostly me, John Kael, but I've had support and help from many fine friends, including but not limited to:

• Jean Bigras (did the content migration to Drupal, does web site work and is an all around great guy. if you need anything like this done, let me know and I'll hook you up)
• Ken Torke (helped with the original database)
• Annie Staninec (she's been helping load some lyrics and make edits)
• All you folks