Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.6 / 5.0

The grass is always bluer on the sunny side of the hill:

To my way of thinking, bluegrass music is doing its job when it gets your hands and feet to moving and puts your mind on simple, bygone things you recollect, if you're lucky, or must pine for in vain, if you were born too late (like me). Leave it to Rhino Records to come out with a bluegrass sampler that fits the bill to a Model T, mixing bluegrass tunes that have found a fond place in our collective psyche with less familiar (to newbies, anyway) archetypes of the form. Unlike another bluegrass sampler I... more info

Great introduction to traditional bluegrass:

Bluegrass music has seen an upsurge in popularity recently. Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss, Steve Earle, the O brother soundtrack and the various O sister compilations have all contributed. However, while some of that music is traditional, much of it is a modernised form of the music. Nothing wrong with that, of course - bluegrass, like every other form of music, must modernise or die, and some of it is pure magic - but this compilation draws on the roots of bluegrass, containing many old classics, especially... more info

Wonderful Mix of Bluegrass Songs:

I just received the CD this week and I'm already addicted.

The liner notes give an excellent overview of the history of bluegrass, relating the songs on the album to the various stages of the development of the genre.

Tracks:

1. Uncle Pen - Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
2. Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys
3. This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweet... - The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys
4. Are You Missing Me? - Jim & Jesse (McReynolds Bros.) & The Virginia Boys
5. You Don't Know My Mind - Jimmy Martin
6. Rocky Top - Osborne Brothers
7. Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
8. Orange Blossom Special - Stanley Brothers
9. The Ballad Of Jed Clampett - Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys
10. Dooley - The Dilliards
11. Nine Pound Hammer - The Kentucky Colonels
12. Roving Gambler - The Country Gentleman
13. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms - Del McCoury
14. Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell
15. Will The Circle Be Unbroken - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
16. Old Home Place - J.D. Crowe & The New South

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