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- The Appalachian Tradition: Original Bluegrass Classics
- Format: CD Album
- Catalogue Number: GAMC062CD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Great American
- Release Date: 13 July 2009
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PRICE: £9.99
The Appalachian Tradition: Original Bluegrass Classics
The Appalachian Tradition is an ideal starter disc for those just beginning to explore bluegrass.
Mostly this is because its 18 selections are so immediately accessible. The "classics" here, in other words, are usually those infrequent bluegrass cuts to have gained radio recognition beyond a core bluegrass audience.
Bluegrass music has seen an upsurge in popularity in recent years.
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 modernized form of the music.
Nothing wrong with that, of course - bluegrass, like every other form of music, must modernize or die, and some of it is pure magic - but this compilation draws on the roots of bluegrass, containing many old classics from the thirties through the fifties.
Track Listing
1. Emry Arthur – I am the man of constant sorrow
2. Marvin Cobb & Frank Wakefield & the chain mountain boys – New Compton races
3. Byron Parker and his mountaineers – Carroll county blues
4. BF Shelton – Oh Molly dear
5. Wade Mainer & The sons of the mountaineers – Ramshackle shack
6. Doc Watson – Little stram of whiskey
7. Erik Darling – Cripple creek
8. Jerry & Sky – Orange blossom special
9. Ralph Stanley – shouting on the hills of glory
10. The Kossoy sisters – Bowling green
11. John Reedy & his stone Mountain boys – somebody touched me
12. Toby Stroud & the blue mountain boys – Jesse James
13. Bill Monroe – I saw the light
14. Etta Baker – John Henry
15. Jim Eanes & his Shenandoah valley boys – down among the budded roses
16. Roy Hall and his blue ridge entertainers – wasbash cannon ball
17. Green Bailey – The fate of Ellen Smith
18. Parker & Woolbright – Will the weaver
