Bill Emerson

About the artist

Bill Emerson (born William Hundley Emerson, Jr. on 22 January 1938; died 21 August 2021) was an American five-string banjo player known for being one of the founding members of the original The Country Gentlemen and duo Emerson & Waldron and considered one of the finest bluegrass banjo players in US music history (Note: not to be confused with another country musician named Bill Emerson, known as "Wild Bill Emerson", who was also born in 1938). From 2007-2015, he recorded as Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie.

Top songs

  1. Fox on the Run
  2. Sweet Dixie
  3. Cowboys and Indians
  4. Home of the Red Fox
  5. Good to Go
  6. Home Sweet Home
  7. My Little Home In West Virginia
  8. Banjo Whiz
  9. Theme Time
  10. Banjo Whizz
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  1. Ticket to Alvarado
  2. Soft Winds of Oklahoma
  3. Proud Mary
  4. Flint Hill Special
  5. New Camptown Races
  6. Rawhide
  7. The Grey Ghost
  8. Old Times in Virginia
  9. Randy Lynn Rag
  10. Welcome to New York
  11. Stonewall Country
  12. Appalachiana
  13. Down to the Wire
  14. Early Morning Rain
  15. Jesse James
  16. Little France
  17. My Smoky Mountain Home
  18. Trail Dust
  19. It Takes One to Know One
  20. Dickenson County Breakdown
  21. Pick Your Own
  22. Poor Rebel Soldier
  23. Curly Maple
  24. Nellie Grey
  25. Ridin' The High Iron
  26. We'll Meet Again Sweetheart
  27. You Can Run But You Can't Hide
  28. Midnight Special
  29. Bill Cheatham
  30. I Don't Know Why
  31. Earl's Breakdown
  32. Little Juniata
  33. Lonesome Night
  34. On Whisky Mountain
  35. Get The Hell Out Of Dodge
  36. Black Mountain Rag
  37. The Last Song
  38. If I Were A Carpenter
  39. Old Cane Pole
  40. Wheels
  41. Tennessee Breakdown
  42. Old Salty Dog Blues
  43. High Lonesome
  44. Teach Your Children
  45. Choking The Strings
  46. Silver Bell
  47. True Blue
  48. All The Good Times
  49. Knights Of The Golden Horseshoe
  50. Ophelia
  51. Reynard In The Canebrakes
  52. Ride It Out
  53. Deep River
  54. Little Maggie
  55. Jump Crickett Jump
  56. New San Juan
  57. Chilly Winds
  58. Runnin' South
  59. When We Look on His Face
  60. I'm Bound To Ride
  61. When It Rains It Really Pours
  62. Coast to Coast
  63. Old Joe Clark
  64. Don't Wake Me
  65. Lonesome Road Blues
  66. The Gunfighter's Lament
  67. Bed and Breakfast
  68. Tex Mex Shindig
  69. Spanish Grass
  70. Espanol
  71. Ridin' My Thumb To Mexico
  72. Baby Sue
  73. Keep On The Sunny Side Of Life
  74. When It Rains-It Really Pours
  75. Faded Love
  76. Trouble Among The Yearlings
  77. On Whiskey Mountain
  78. Twenty-One Years
  79. Little Old Log Cabin
  80. String Time
  81. Cold Sheets Of Rain
  82. Weepin' Willow
  83. Runnin' Wild
  84. Yard Sale
  85. There's No Room In My Heart For The Blues
  86. Maidens Prayer
  87. Honeysuckle
  88. The Chicken Reel
  89. No Steering – No Brakes
  90. banjo waltz

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