Hi,
The song of the week is 'Blue Ridge Cabin Home' in the key of A. 

Progression
The chord progression for Blue Ridge Cabin Home is:

1144
5511
1144
5511

(Progression W8 on the Basic Chord Progressions chart. In the key of A: 1=A, 4=D, 5=E. In the key of Bb: 1=Bb, 4=Eb, 5=F. In the key of G: 1=G, 4=C, 5=D.)

Notice that both halves of the progression are identical with each other.

Two other old Bluegrass classics on the current main song list for the beginner jam that use the same progression are Flatt & Scruggs' 'We'll Meet Again Sweetheart', and Bill Monroe's 'Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong'. Other songs that make use of the same chord progression include: 'We Can't Be Darlings Anymore', 'Is It Too Late Now', 'The Prisoner's Song', 'I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes', 'A Few More Seasons', 'Nobody's Business', the verses (but not the choruses) of 'I Wonder Where You Are Tonight', 'Are You Tired Of Me My Darling', 'Sunny Tennessee', 'I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap', 'I'd Rather Be Alone', and 'Thinking About You',  the A-Parts of  'Randy Lynn Rag', 'Orange Blossom Special', and 'Durham's Reel', and the B-Part of 'Mastertone March'. 

Recordings
Flatt and Scruggs - key of Bb. This is the original recording of 'Blue Ridge Cabin Home'. It is in the key of Bb instead of A only because all the instruments were tuned a half-step higher than standard. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcZN9x4q4kg

Here is a link to the same recording, but which the person who posted it on youtube has taken it upon himself to slow it down a bit so that it is lowered to the key of A. You may wish to try playing along with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdo34w5-DtQ

For a more recent recording of Blue Ridge Cabin Home, here is one of my favorites:

The Bluegrass Album Band - key of Bb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htxGouge9-g

In many Bluegrass circles, the Bluegrass Album Band (Tony Rice - guitar, vocals; J.D. Crowe - banjo, vocals; Doyle Lawson - mandolin, vocals; Bobby Hicks - fiddle; Todd Phillips - bass) version of Blue Ridge Cabin Home, released in 1981, has replaced the 1950s Flatt & Scruggs version as the primary point of reference for the song.  

Listening over and over again to the set of records recorded by Tony Rice, J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, etc., under the name 'The Bluegrass Album Band' was a big help to me when I was first learning to play bluegrass about 25 years ago. 

Here are my other favorites, besides Blue Ridge Cabin Home, on the first of the Bluegrass Album Band records:

Molly & Tenbrooks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR6S3FPpvtc

We Can't Be Darlings Anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsK8-icQg2I

On My Way Back To The Old Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzic83JN1EE

Gonna Settle Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JXF1yFUZKQ

                            ..and my favorites from the second record:

Your Love Is Like A Flower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzWTsRAqsQQ

Take Me In The Lifeboat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih2tC-3jAeI

Back To The Cross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNItr_UPxmE

Just When I Needed You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTYiAYQniTE

Is It Too Late Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD4jdceCl7c

I'll Never Shed Another Tear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8by47nEjkVE

Other Bluegrass artists and bands besides Flatt & Scruggs and the Bluegrass Album Band that I especially recommend listening to in high doses for those who are new to Bluegrass include Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, and Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder. But, beyond these, there are many other great bluegrass artists and bands that are well-worthwhile checking out. The following is only a very short list of such artists:

The Osborne Brothers
Jim & Jesse
J.D. Crowe & The New South
Del McCoury 
Reno & Smiley
Jimmy Martin
Doc Watson
Alison Krauss & Union Station
The Lynn Morris Band
Larry Sparks
Hot Rize
The Seldom Scene
Kenny Baker
Peter Rowan

Happy Pickin',
Jason

Hi,
The song of the week is the old Flatt and Scruggs Bluegrass jam classic 'Blue Ridge Cabin Home' in the key of A. 

For those who find these useful, attached here are melody sheets in standard notation, mandolin tab, guitar tab, and banjo tab, to help guide you in coming up with a melody-based break for the song.

The chord progression is the one labelled as W8 on the Basic Chord Progressions handout, namely:

1144
5511
1144
5511

Notice that both halves of the progression are identical with each other.

Two other old Bluegrass classics on the beginner jam song lists that use the same progression are Flatt & Scruggs' '(Someday) We'll Meet Again Sweetheart', and Bill Monroe's 'Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong'. The same progression is also used for 'We Can't Be Darlings Anymore', 'Is It Too Late Now?' (both of which are highly jam-friendly classic Flatt & Scruggs songs) 'A Few More Seasons', 'Nobody's Business', the verses of 'I Wonder Where You Are Tonight', 'Are You Tired Of Me My Darling', 'Sunny Tennessee', 'I'm Using My Bible For A Roadmap', 'I'd Rather Be Alone', and 'Thinking About You', and the A-Parts of  'Daybreak In Dixie', 'Randy Lynn Rag', 'Orange Blossom Special', and 'Durham's Reel'.

For those of you who are still far less familiar with Bluegrass than with certain other genres of music, then, depending on your musical background, good points of reference for Prog. V8 may include one or more of the following songs: 'The Prisoner's Song' (an old country song that sometimes comes up at Bluegrass jams), 'I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes', 'The Great Speckled Bird', 'The Wild Side Of Life', 'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels', 'Fraulein', the verses of 'Your Cheating Heart', 'They'll Never Never Take Her Love From Me', and 'Mocking Bird Hill', the chorus of 'Reuben James', the A-Part of 'Life In The Finland Woods', and the first half of the B-Part - or, in some versions, the entire B-Part - of '(O Dem) Golden Slippers'.

Here are a couple of youtube links to listen to:

Flatt and Scruggs - key of Bb. This is the original recording of 'Blue Ridge Cabin Home'. It is in the key of Bb instead of A only because all the instruments were tuned a half-step higher than normal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCKBD17GKV4

Here is a link of the same recording, but which the person who posted it on youtube has taken it upon himself to slow it down a bit so that it is in the key of A. You may wish to try playing along with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdo34w5-DtQ

For a more recent recording of Blue Ridge Cabin Home, here is one of my favorites:

The Bluegrass Album Band - key of Bb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htxGouge9-g

Happy Pickin',
Jason