Bluegrass Fakebook, 150 All-Time Favorites by Bert Casey

A fakebook is what you carry to a jam. This one holds 150 bluegrass standards, 50 of them gospel, with the lyrics, the chord progression and the melody line for each. One song per page in large type, so it reads from a stand at arm’s length instead of up close.

It is deliberately not banjo-only. Chord charts are included for guitar, banjo and mandolin, which is what makes it useful in a room where nobody is playing the same instrument. There is also a listing of available recordings for each song, so you can go and hear how a tune is meant to sound before you try to play it.

• 150 songs, 50 of them gospel
• Lyrics, chord progressions and melody lines
• Chord charts for guitar, banjo and mandolin
• One song per page, large easy-to-read type
• 159 pages, 8.5 by 11 inches

Bert Casey founded Watch & Learn with Geoff Hohwald, the company behind the Banjo Primer and the rest of the instruction books on this site.