OK 1TS being a resident of Nashville for 50 years I can help some.
first of all, many of those songs are not "old time fiddle tunes", Wabash Canonball and Sweet Bessy from Pike are about all you have that were not written in the 1960-1990s. Sorry bout that.
Check out a song called Shady Grove. Doc Watson did the best version of it I know of. The song dates back to the middle ages. It is on You-tube, along with almost everything he ever recorded. He specialized om playing fiddle tunes on the guitar.
Old Joe Clark is a good one.
Soldier's Joy is another ancient one.
A good new one is The Lovers' Waltz by Jay Unger that did Ashokans' Farewell.
You should also check out Muleskinner's Blues by Bill Monroe. It is an old time fiddle standard.
Check out the Orange Blossom Special, done by Vassar Clemens?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f_QySKfsgI
Black Mountain Rag is one of my favorites, Bonaparte's Retreat is also good.
For a pattern, or just for enjoyment, I would recommend any old time music player buy the
Circle Be Unbroken DVD that was done back in the 1970s by the Nitty Gritty Dirt band and almost every old time preformer still alive at that time. It is a 2 DVD set. I am sure it can now be downloaded. I am still stuck in the past on my recording technology. I still own a cassette player w/duplicator.
I play mostly old Carter Family songs for my own enjoyment but I play guitar and only wish I could play fiddle. I love that instrument. Bad mandolin is as close as I can get to it.
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