What are the most essential songs or listening in Bluegrass music?

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I'll be open about what I'm trying to do.

I'm trying to come up with a list of a Best 100 Bluegrass songs of all
time for a page to be included on music lists at Digital Dream Door
site. (www.digitaldreamdoor.com)

So far, I have these 70 songs; can you suggest some omitted or
overlooked numbers I don't yet have on this list, for vital or
essential Bluegrass listening?

1. With Body And Soul - Bill Monroe *
2. Jerusalem Ridge - Kenny Baker And Bill Monroe
3. The Fields Have Turned Brown - Ralph Stanley
4. Going Across The Sea - Bill Monroe
5. I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home - Mac Wiseman
6. Rocky Top - The Osborne Brothers *
7. Sunny Side Of The Mountain - Jimmy Martin *
8. Paradise - Jim And Jesse McReynolds *
9. Meet Me By The Moonlight - The Stanley Brothers
10. A Voice From On High - Bill Monroe
11. Gloryland - Ralph Stanley
12 Muddy Waters - The Seldom Scene
13. Ruby (Are You Mad) - The Osborne Brothers
14. Little Gloria Rose - The Seldom Scene
15. I'm On My Way To The Old Home - Bill Monroe
16. It's Mighty Dark To Travel - Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
17. Electricity - Jimmy Murphy
18. How Mountain Girls Can Love - The Stanley Brothers & the Glinch
Mountain Boys
19. Me And the Juke Box - Buzz Busby & The Bayou Boys
20. I Wouldn't Change You If I Could - Jim Eanes & The Shenandoah
Valley Boys
21. Windy Mountain - The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
22. Cabin On the Hill - Lester Flatt
23. Kentucky - The Louvin Brothers
24. Barbara Allen - Moore And Napier
25. Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die - Reno
26. I Am a Pilgrim - The Kentucky Colonels
27. Rank Stranger - The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys
28. Nine Pound Hammer - Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys
29. Orange Blossom Special - The Stonemans *
30. Dooley - The Dillards
31. Better Times A-Coming - Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys
32. Uncle Pen - Ricky Skaggs
33. The Boys Are Back In Town - Patty Loveless
34. Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
35. Molly & Teabrooks - Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
36. Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy
Mountain Boys *
37. I've Found a Hiding Place - Carl Story & His Ramblin' Mountaineers
38. ‘Tis Sweet To Be Remembered - Mac Wiseman & the Country Boys
39. Angel Band - The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys
40. You Don't Know My Mind - Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys
41. Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Bill Monroe & His Blue-Grass Boys *
42. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The
Foggy Mountain Boys
43. Howdy, Neighbor, Howdy - Reno & Smiley & the Tennessee Cut-Ups
44. New Muleskinner Blues - Bill Monroe & His Blue-Grass Boys *
45. Cripple Creek - The Stonemans
46. Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg
47. High Lonesome Sound - Vince Gill
48. Wayfaring Stranger - Emmylou Harris
49. I Am a Man Of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys *
50. I'll Fly Away - Alison Krauss
51. Little Birdie - Red Allen & The Kentuckians
52. Long Journey Home - Don Stover
53. Girl At the Crossroads Bar - The Bluegrass Cardinals
54. Little Maggie - Ralph & the Clinch Mountain Boys
55. Sparkling Brown Eyes - Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys
56. Fox On the Run - The Country Gentlemen *
57. (I Know You) Rider - The Seldom Scene
58. Rain And Snow - Del McCoury
59. Old Home Place - J.D. Crowe And The New South
60. Two Highways - Alison Krauss & Union Station
61. Blue Ridge Cabin Home - The Bluegrass Album Band
62. Duncan And Brady (He's Been On the Job Too Long) - The Johnson
Mountain Boys
63. Shady Grove - Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
64. Bluegrass Express - Rhonda Vincent
65. High On a Mountain - Del McCoury & The Dixie Pals
66. John Deere Tractor - Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers
67. The Legend Of the Rebel Soldier - The Country Gentlemen
68. I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby - Jerry Douglas
69. The Little Mountain Church - Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
70. O Death - Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys

Continuing: I'd like to get 30 more songs...but the more suggestions,
the better. Moreover, if you think you can do a better job on this
list, I'd be willing to concede the project to you, and I'd give you
the webmaster's address at Digital Dream Door. I like this music, but
my greatest passions and deepest loves are, admittedly elsewhere. But
the webmaster at DDD would like a credible BG list, and I'm willing to
help out.. Would you help us out then? Even if you just have 1 or 2
songs to suggest, that would be very welcome. We'll vet those (listen
to them), and decide on the 30 most worthy suggestions. Or we may
even take just the 5 best suggestions, and submit a list of 75 for
starters.

Tom Blumenthal