Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by KI4PRK, updated: 9/6/2009
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Notes: The Wreck of the Old 97 in drop C tuning. There may be a few minor errors in the tab, this is an older tab of mine which I made before I'd fully gotten the hang of tabbing tunes. Still, a good version with an ending I learned from an anonymous banjo player that works well in the key of C, standard tuning as well as this drop-C version. The first repeat is the melody. The second is basically an alternate melody and banjo licks with very little semblance to the real melody.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 3/8/2012
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: C Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by banjoman 1, updated: 2/12/2013
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Notes: The first time I heard this song was back in the early 60's when I heard Jim Reeves sing it.. It's a good jam tune.enjoy. L Williams
Genre: Other Style: Other
Posted by schlange, updated: 5/12/2006
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Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD)
Posted by Jim Yates, updated: 1/25/2011 - 2 Member Comments
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Notes: Tabbed at the request of one of my students. There are two versions here. I forget why I put the asterix in there, but it probably indicates that these two lines are almost the same thing, just found at different places on the fingerboard.
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by schlange, updated: 2/25/2014
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Notes: For the TOTW: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/277486, based on Earl's arrangement.
Genre: Old Time Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by Crusty, updated: 9/15/2014
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Notes: This tune's a three-fer - it's also the melody for "The Ship That Never Returned" and "Charlie On The MTA".
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: G Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by rossnickerson, updated: 4/23/2019
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Genre: Country Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: D Tuning: aDGBD Difficulty: Beginner
Posted by earlsgranada, updated: 11/3/2024
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Notes: Noam Pikelny arrangement of "Wreck Of The Old 97" in D!
Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: B Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by chuckv97, updated: 7/7/2026
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Genre: Bluegrass Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs) Key: A#/Bb Tuning: Standard Open G (gDGBD) Difficulty: Intermediate
Posted by corcoran, updated: 8/14/2012 - 3 Member Comments
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Notes: In memory of Earl Scruggs, here is one of my favorites of Scruggs's breaks. If you pay attention to the nuances of the right hand patterns, you will see that Scruggs did not approach picking patterns in a formulaic way. He played the melody notes and found rhythm notes to flesh out the melody, without being strictly tied to the rolls that so many of us learned from his recordings.
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