This is an excellent book and CD package covering the banjo techniques and songs of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. 

The chapters are:

• Some Preliminary Notes
• The Basic Frailing Motion
• Adding The Thumb and 5th String to The Basic Frailing Motion
• The Brush Stroke
• The Pull-Off
• Hammering
• Some Songs
• Drop-Thumb Frailing
• The Roll
• The Triplet
• Some More Songs
• Melodic Drop-Thumb Frailing

The songs covered are:

• Angeline The Baker
• Arkansas Traveler
• Caledonia
• Callahan
• Chicken Reel
• Cluck Old Hen
• Cripple Creek
• Davy
• Fause Knight Upon The Road
• Flop-Eared Mule
• From Jerusalem to Jericho
• Georgia Railroad
• Gwine Back To Dixie
• The Houng Dog Song
• John Booker
• John Hardy
• Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier
• Johnson Boys
• June Apple
• King Kong Kitchie Kitche Ki-Me-O
• Liberty
• Little Birdie
• Little Sadie
• Mississippi Sawyer
• Morpeth Rant
• Ms McClouds Reel
• Old Joe CLark
• Old Jimmy Sutton
• Old Log Cabin In The Lane
• Old Molly Hare
• Over The Waterfall
• Paddy On The Turnpike
• Pretty Polly
• Sabine's Fancy
• Shady Grove
• Shortenin' Bread
• Simple Gifts
• Skillet Good and Greasy
• Soldier's Joy
• Sugar In The Gourd
• Sugar Babe
• Temperance Reel
• Waterbound
• Weevily Wheat
• Willie Moore
• Wind That Shakes The Barley