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Is there a way to save these backing tracks for easy use to your computer? VIDEO: Flatt & Scruggs playing Fire Ball Mail VIDEO: Banjo Masters - Fireball Mail - Grey Fox 2011 VIDEO: Lonesome River Band (Fireball Mail) Raccoon Creek Bluegrass Festival, July 2012 VIDEO: Fireball Mail (High) - Excerpt from the Custom Banjo Lesson from Casey Henry of the Murphy Method VIDEO: Fireball Mail - Excerpt from the Banjo Lesson from The Murphy Method I (and others) would love to hear (and see!) you play your version of this tune-post it in a reply below!

Tabs: several in the BHO archives, including a great one from Jack Baker based on Earl's Foggy Mountain Banjo recording.

Backing Tracks: Band in a Box tracks are included below at various speeds for your practicing pleasure.

Each is only $6 thru the end of the week. Secondly, Casey Henry teaches Earl's high break. First, Murphy Henry teaches Earl's low break.

We have two video lessons available for the breaks on this tune.

Hear It using the GrooveShark playlist to the right.

Watch her fly huggin' the rails let her by by by the fireball mail Now lere she comes look at her roll there she goes eatin' that coal Watch her fly look at her sail let her by by by that's the fireball mail Watch her swerve look at her sway get that curve out of the way See that freight clearin' the rail bet she's late late late it's the fireball mail Like a hound a waggin' his tail Dallas bound bound boud it's the fireball mailĮngineer makin' up time tracks are clear look at her climb Let her go look at her steam hear her blow whistle and scream Watch her fly huggin' the rails let her by by by it's the fireball mail Here she comes look at her roll there she goes eatin' that coal I didn't know at first who 'Floyd Jenkins' was it's easy to fool a country boy."īanjo players, though, typically identify the song with Flatt & Scruggs' instrumental version of it on their amazing 1961 "Foggy Mountain Banjo" album.īoth Acuff and Scruggs' versions can be heard in the playlist to the right.

Art Satherley, but I found out later, after I recorded it, that Fred wrote it under the name Floyd Jenkins. I first thought it was written by a lady who was connected with Mr. I recorded it in 1943 in the key of A, but when I do it now, I have to do it down a couple of notes.

A lot of the boys are still doing it today. "It's a very good number, and it's done very well for me. "Fireball Mail" was written by Fred Rose, under the name "Floyd Jenkins." Rose was a prolific songwriter who worked closely with Roy Acuff-Rose also write "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (you can read more about him here.) This song was popularized by Acuff's recording of it in 1943.

This week's tune is another "train song" featuring a fast-moving mail train. widget.swf" /> /widget.swf" height="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="300"> Fireball Mail by Eric Schlange on Grooveshark