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So Many Tunes is meant to document and share some of the music that John wrote. Unless otherwise mentioned the music presented here, both sheet music and sound recordings, are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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Blog archive

      • The New Hat
      • Not Quite Rain
      • Joslin Farm
      • Assisi Heights
      • November Waltz 2020 Deer Track December
      • Telemann Menuets For Two Mandolins 1728
      • Deer Track January 3 2007 April 18 2021
      • St. Francis And Bunny
      • Poets In Time
      • Partially Covered
      • Deer Track February 10 2021
      • Heavens On Earth Virtual Cmsa En Masse
      • Welcome 2021 Deer Tracks December 2020
      • October Snow Again Stumbling On Burning
      • Emma Baker And Little Bread
      • Seasonal Suites For Octave Mandolin Or
      • Ten Easy Duos No 8
      • Boulder On Tracks
      • Yew Sunday Cmsa 2020 Telemann
      • October Snow
      • Harpers Ferry Station
      • One For Team
      • Summer Suite August 2020 For Octave
      • Three To Get Ready
      • Safe Travels Safe Return
      • Oloughlins Waltz In G No 2
      • St. Feriole Island Jig
      • St. Francis Walks At Night
      • Snow At Night
      • How Many Moons
      • Wendys Fancy
      • Morning Shade
      • Ruby And Gold
      • Fine Times On Fess
      • Saturday Social
      • Birthday Bagatelle
      • Riverside Gardens
      • Road To Gnaw Bone And Video Experiments
      • South Bend
      • The Edwardsville Tunnel
      • Winter Done Gone
      • Bonnycastle
      • The Old Clark Cabin
      • Low And Outside 2020
      • Ordaining Trees
      • Wilson Switch
      • Bear Creek Blues
      • Blairs Waltz
      • Orngards
      • Swarbrick Sends Tune To Iowa Live At
      • Deer Track October 23 2019 Cmsa Normal
      • Spring Suite May 2019 Finally Arriving
      • Fifty Years On
      • The Hoosier Clockmaker
      • Port William Sunrise
      • Old Growth
      • Postcards From Crater At Bandcamp
      • Robert Owens Quickstep
      • Matildaville
      • Land Of Living Skies
      • Dug Road Rag
      • Two For Texas Pt 2 Live From Cmsa Santa
      • What Hears Follows 2019 Solo Version
      • Clarks Ramble Live From Cmsa Santa Rosa
      • Water Flowing Under Ice
      • Winter Suite February 2019
      • Clarks Delight Blue Basket
      • Ten Easy Duos No 6 Deer Track April 21
      • The Boatload Of Knowledge
      • Mandolin Tunes 2
      • Its All Goodin
      • Waitin On Julia Belle
      • Deer Track February 27 2014
      • Blevins March
      • St. Francis And Birds Mandolin Quartet
      • May Frost 64 Original Mandolin Tunes
      • James Oswald On Ohio For Mandolin
      • Ten Easy Duos No 5
      • St. Francis And Birds Recorder Quartet
      • Easter Fool Winter Window Sun
      • No Show Snow
      • Grandview Ridge
      • Christmas Afternoon
      • Snow Train
      • The Advent Star
      • River Mist Tree Line
      • Waltz For Squires
      • Henryville Forestry
      • A Jig For Sue
      • Friendly Spirits
      • Elkhart Freight
      • Witch Hollow Pond
      • Tolleys Jig No 7
      • Chocolate For All
      • Walnuts Too
      • Acorns Below
      • Merrills Mills
      • September Waltz
      • Propsland
      • Dover South
      • Aint Over
      • Starbird Siding
      • Black Stream Crossing
      • Enchanted Forest
      • Queen City Passenger
      • Birthday Girls
      • Board Eddy
      • Ten Easy Duos No 3
      • If Only Now
      • Midsummer Walk
      • Ten Easy Duos No 2
      • Driftless World Premiere Tolleys Jig No
      • Pine Bluffs
      • Ten Easy Duos No 1
      • The Old Gibson Waltz
      • Pilsen Jig Mothers Day Bates No 18
      • May Day Green Bates No 17
      • No Argument At All Bates No 16
      • Conway To Lincoln Bates No 15
      • Tolleys Jig No 5 Bates No 14
      • Deer Track April 2017 No 1 Bates No 13
      • Old Annapolis Bates No 12
      • Tolleys Jig No 4 Bates No 11
      • Paws Down Bates No 10
      • Sherwood Brooks Bates No 10
      • Bear On Beach Bates No 8
      • Two Red Hawks Bates No 7 Deer Track Feb
      • The Cairo Sessions Bates No 6
      • From Balcony Bates No 5
      • Grey Sunny Sunday Bates No 4 Gathering
      • Sometimes Bear Eats You Bates No 3
      • March In January Bates No 2 Goslings
      • Big Tree Down Casselman By Rail Bates
      • Waltz For New Year 2017
      • Postcards From Crater Nos 9 10
      • Postcards From Crater Nos 5 7
      • Postcards From Crater Nos 3 4
      • Postcards From Crater Nos 1 2
      • Postcards From Crater Previews
      • Maple Syrup Cow Summer Kitchen Waffle
      • Swarbrick Sends Tune To Iowa
      • Box Elder Stomp Live From Java Johns 7
      • Woodhaven Solo Version Live From Java
      • Java Johns July 13 2016 Solo Mandolin
      • Java Johns Wednesday June 15 2016
      • Deer Track June 13 15 2013
      • Java Johns Solo Mandolin May 18 2016
      • Java Johns Solo Mandolin Tonight April
      • The North Georgia Hills At Mandolin Cafe
      • The North Georgia Hills Performed By
      • Halfway Home
      • Three Jigs Old New
      • Divertimento No 1 2016
      • Wild Blueberry Pancakes At Stutzmans
      • Bygones
      • Green To Brown All Over Town
      • Ingraham Gardens Kings Landing Nb
      • Tolleys Jig No 2
      • Whalen Cabin Waltz June 5 2011
      • Tolleys Jig No 1
      • Loaves And Fishes Too Many Goats Fourth
      • Alices Garden Duo
      • Eight More Miles To India
      • Lilys Stars
      • Nordic Fest 2015 July 23 2004 Wmandolin
      • Summer Projects Tablature For Mandolin
      • Hiatus Check Back Summer 2015
      • Riff City
      • Deer Tracks For Solo Mandolin Free
      • Deer Track June 8 2013
      • Deer Track May 8 9 2012
      • Bagatelle For Solo Mandolin No 5
      • Deer Track May 25 2013
      • Spring Street Hornpipe Duo
      • Jig March 15 2005 Duo
      • Crooked June
      • July 27 2005 Duo
      • Jig July 11 2011
      • Sand Island 1984
      • November 25 2005
      • August 28 2005 Duo
      • May 3 2005 Duo
      • Mothers Day
      • Easter Waltz For Mandolin Orchestra In
      • Suit Yourself
      • The Ice Wagon Cometh
      • Deer Track June 5 2013
      • Deer Track June 17 2013
      • Rockville Blues
      • Under Snow
      • Bagatelle For Solo Mandolin No 3
      • Family Valentine
      • Bagatelle For Solo Mandolin No 2
      • Snow Crow Shadow
      • Bagatelle For Solo Mandolin No 1
      • December Jigs 2013
      • Deer Track December 26 2013
      • Singing In Dark Place For Recorder
      • Deer Track May 30 2013
      • The Sock Thief
      • Cake On Fire Waiting On Train Walk On
      • Brush Pile Birds
      • Smitten Once Again
      • The Belle From Bridge
      • Port William Hornpipe Cracks In
      • Deer Tracks For Solo Mandolin Has Arrived!
      • Walnut Dog
      • Deer Tracks Season 7
      • Lost Summer
      • Wyandotte Woods
      • August 2 2013
      • Six Duettinos Summer 2006 No 6
      • Deer Tracks Season 6
      • Suzies Landing
      • All She Wrote
      • Waiting In Wood
      • The Night Train Waltz
      • Rollin Through Gap
      • Deer Tracks Season 5
      • Deer Tracks Season 4
      • Deer Tracks Season 3
      • Deer Tracks Season 2
      • Deer Tracks Season 1
      • Mothers Day
      • Aint Broke Two Days To Maine
      • May Jigs
      • Six Duettinos Summer 2006 No 5
      • Off To Minnesota With Providence
      • Wintry Mix
      • Late Breakfast
      • Easter Jigs 2004
      • Deer Track March 10 11 2013
      • Antonina From Gravenstein Mandolin
      • The Old White House
      • The Oneota Stomp
      • The New Henrietta
      • Six Duettinos Summer 2006 No 4
      • Groundhog Special
      • Were Heading South
      • Coulda Been Log
      • September Last
      • Six Duettinos Summer 2006 No 3
      • Snow To Come
      • Six Duettinos Summer 2006 No 1
      • Lemon Water
      • Sonata In Lou
      • Lazy Susan
      • Emorys Crossing
      • Shenandoah Bound Mp3 Pdf Without
      • Not Option
      • Return To Dream Acres
      • From Artists Point
      • Walk On Dry Leaves
      • Bighorn River Sunset Meets Mandolin For
      • St. Francis And Birds Duet
      • St Anthony Returns
      • Riff City In Portland
      • Summers End 2005
      • Yazoo Ramble
      • Cumberland Mission
      • Rainy Island Sunday
      • Notes From Farm
      • Mandolin Tunes Cd
      • Trailer In High Grass
      • Dodge Plow
      • Old Basement Piano
      • Northern Exposure
      • Waterloo Polka
      • In Shape Of Pear
      • November Duo 2005
      • Mandolin Orchestras Coast To Coast
      • Midwestern Mandolin Duos
      • September 2010 2 Palmers House
      • September 2010 1 Jaunty Ted
      • May 2010 1 May Frost
      • April 2010 3 Quack Goose
      • April 2010 2 Deer Track December 26
      • April 2010 1 Kings Landing
      • March 2010 1 Seed Savers Waltz
      • February 2010 4 Deer Track February
      • February 2010 3 Deep Pockets
      • February 2010 2 Something About Queen
      • February 2010 1 Old Books In Motion
      • January 2010 5 Hold That Thought
      • January 2010 4 Deer Track Jan 29 2009
      • January 2010 3
      • January 2010 2
      • January 2010 1
      • Waltz Lesson For Mandolin Orchestra
      • Jefferson Livesleadfootgo Figure
      • 31 Waltzes
      • December 2008
      • November 2008
      • Beautiful Days
      • July 2008
      • June 2008
      • May 2008
      • April 2008
      • Up River Road On Youtube
      • March 2008
      • February 2008
      • G For Gordy
      • Jigs Pt 1
      • Harvest Stomp
      • St. Francis And Birds
      • Old Clarksville
      • Company You Keep
      • Graveyard Owl
      • Open Church Dunn Meadow
      • Wedding March Set
      • Raccoon In Bird Feeder
      • Smitten For Mandolin Orchestra
      • Clifty Falls Stonehead
      • Highlandville May 14 2004
      • July 23 2004
      • Hamlet To High Point
      • Coast Is Clear
      • First Snow
      • Backbone
      • Wedding Broom
      • Sebec Fair Smalltown Downtown
      • Two Lieutenants Sledding At Walnut
      • Rocks In Sun
      • Ekin Avenue
      • Winter Leaves New Blanket
      • Shelter Dogs Needle In Sawdust

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Decorah, Iowa, United States


Links

  • Alphabetical list of tunes
  • Mandotopia website
  • YouTube channel
  • Postcards From the Crater (download) @Bandcamp
  • Mandolin Tunes 2 CD (download)
  • Mandolin Tunes CD (download)
  • Deer Tracks (for solo mandolin) CD (download)
  • 18 Duettinos by William Bates (download)
  • jgoodin@SoundCloud
  • Contratopia 2.0 blog
  • Contratopia website