Music Book Recommendation?

I recently purchased "Mel Bay Presents 50 Tunes for Bass, Traditional, Old Time, Bluegrass & Celtic Solos". It has the usual I-V patterns but the book also provides a lot of walking bass lines and solos. It also comes with three CDs for play along. Hope this helps.

 

"The lost art of country bass" by Keith Rosier is a great book that has a lot of different country lines and styles outside of the basic one five stuff. He covers some styles that are a little more electric-oriented, but everything sits fine on DB.

I have some input to the "what to play outside of I-V" question and I'll offer this piece of advice. One of the things that I try to employ outside of basic Root-Five to keep it sounding happening is two-feel walking (as opposed to the four feel walking that rules bop/modern jazz.) It moves the music forward while keeping that deep two feel pocket that I feel is essential for tight bluegrass bands. You can find great examples of this on old Django Reinhardt recordings, try to transcribe some. Also, try and transcribe some bluegrass/old time guitar runs. Or better yet, get lessons from a good bluegrass bassist! Transcribing/lessons/jams have helped me much more than books for roots music, but everything helps. Good luck!

 

+1 to JayB's recommendation. It's a fantastic book.