Can't You Hear Me Calling: Bluegrass 80 Years (2004) (4 Cd)

Product Summary Label: Cbs/epic/wtg Records UPC: 00827969062821 Release Date: 9/28/2004 Buy.com Sku: 63647194 Item#: MWYN3V Buy.com Sales Rank: 25079 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Sodier's Joy - Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers ~ Various Artists 2. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues - Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers ~ Various Artists 3. White House Blues - Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers ~ Various Artists 4. Bill Mason - Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers ~ Various Artists 5. Cannon Ball Blues - The Carter Family ~ Various Artists 6. D Blues - Blue Ridge Ramblers ~ Various Artists 7. Keep On The Sunny Side - The Carter Family ~ Various Artists 8. What Would You Give In Exchange (For Your Soul)? - The Monroe Brothers ~ Various Artists 9. I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes - The Carter Family ~ Various Artists 10. Great Speckle Bird - Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans ~ Various Artists 11. Orange Blossom Special - Roy Hall & His Blue Ridge Entertainers ~ Various Artists 12. Ida Red - Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 13. Pretty Polly - The Coon Creek Girls ~ Various Artists 14. Lonesome Old River Blues - Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 15. Mule Skinner Blues - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys ~ Various Artists 16. Wreck On The Highway - Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 17. Drunkard's Gave, The - The Bailes Brothers ~ Various Artists 18. Rocky Road Blues - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys ~ Various Artists 19. Searching For A Soldier's Grave - The Bailes Brothers ~ Various Artists 20. Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys ~ Various Artists 21. Dust On The Bible - The Bailes Brothers ~ Various Artists 22. I Heard My Mother Weeping - Molly O'Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folks ~ Various Artists 23. Will You Be Loving Another Man? - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys ~ Various Artists 24. Blue Grass Breakdown - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys ~ Various Artists 25. It's Mighty Dark To Travel - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys ~ Various Artists 26. Molly And Tenbrooks (The Race Horse Song) - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys ~ Various Artists 27. Black Mountain Rag - Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Can't You Hear Me Callin' - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys ~ Various Artists 2. Foggy Mountain Breakdwon - Lester Flatt/Earl Scruggs ~ Various Artists 3. Poor Ellen Smith - Molly O'Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folks ~ Various Artists 4. Drunkard's Hell, The - The Stanley Brothers/The Clinch Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 5. Lonesome River, The - The Stanley Brothers/The Clinch Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 6. On The Banks Of The River - Wilma Lee/Stoney Cooper ~ Various Artists 7. Fields Have Turned Brown, The - The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 8. White Dove, The - The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 9. Sunny Side Of The Mountain - Wilma Lee ~ Various Artists 10. I'm A Man Of Constant Sorrow - The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 11. I Wonder How The Old Folks Are At Home - Mac Wiseman ~ Various Artists 12. Uncle Pen - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys ~ Various Artists 13. Stoney, Are You Mad At Your Gal - Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper/Their Clinch Mountain Clan ~ Various Artists 14. When The Angels Rolled The Stone Away - Lynn Davis ~ Various Artists 15. Earl's Breakdown - Lester Flatt/Earl Scruggs ~ Various Artists 16. Don't Get Above Your Raising - Lester Flatt/Earl Scruggs/The Foggy Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 17. Are You Missing Me? - Jim & Jesse/The Virginia Boys ~ Various Artists 18. Why Did You Wander? - Lester Flatt/Earl Scruggs/The Foggy Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 19. Flint Hill Special - Lester Flatt/The Foggy Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 20. I'll Go Stepping Too - Lester Flatt/Earl Scruggs/The Foggy Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 21. Love And Wealth - Carl Story & His Rambling Mountaineers ~ Various Artists 22. 20/20 Vision - Jimmy Martin & The Osborne Brothers ~ Various Artists 23. My Lord Keeps A Record - Carl Story & His Rambling Mountaineers ~ Various Artists 24. I Love The Hymns They Sang At Mother's Grave - Carl Story & His Rambling Mountaineers ~ Various Artists 25. Reunion In Heaven - Carl Story & His Rambling Mountaineers ~ Various Artists 26. Don't You Hear Jerusalem Mourn - Carl Story & His Rambling Mountaineers ~ Various Artists 27. Hitch Hiker's Blues - Jack Youngblood ~ Various Artists Disc 3 Song Title Sample 1. Martha White Theme, The - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 2. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 3. Seven Year Blues - The Webster Brothers ~ Various Artists 4. Get Down On Your Knees And Pray - Bill & Mary Reid & The Melody Mountaineers ~ Various Artists 5. Somebody Touched Me - Carl Butler/The Webster Brothers ~ Various Artists 6. Feudin' Banjos - Arthur Smith/Don Remo ~ Various Artists 7. Ruby Are You Mad - The Osborne Brothers/Red Allen ~ Various Artists 8. Knoxville Girl - The Louvin Brothers ~ Various Artists 9. Once More - The Osborne Brothers/Red Allen ~ Various Artists 10. Twin Banjo Special - Joe Maphis ~ Various Artists 11. Gosh, I Miss You All The Time - Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys ~ Various Artists 12. You Don't Know My Mind - Jimmy Martin/The Sunny Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 13. Rank Stranger - The Stanley Brothers ~ Various Artists 14. My Empty Arms - Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys ~ Various Artists 15. Foggy Mountain Top - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys/Mother Maybelle Carter ~ Various Artists 16. Beautiful Moon Of Kentucky - Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys ~ Various Artists 17. Stoney Creek - Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys ~ Various Artists 18. She Left Me Standing On The Mountain - Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys ~ Various Artists 19. Sunny Side Of The Mountain - Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 20. Just Joshing - Arthur Smith ~ Various Artists 21. To The Top OF The World, (It's A Long, Long Way) - Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys ~ Various Artists 22. Cotton Mill Man - Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys ~ Various Artists 23. Since Wedding Bells Have Rung - Don Reno ~ Various Artists 24. Rosalee - Granpa Jones ~ Various Artists 25. No More Goodbyes - Sara Carter/Maybelle Carter ~ Various Artists 26. Ballad Of Jed Clampett, The - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 27. Rabbit In The Log - Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys ~ Various Artists 28. Rocky Top - The Osborne Brothers ~ Various Artists 29. Mountain Dew - Grandpa Jones ~ Various Artists 30. Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg/Steve Mandell ~ Various Artists Disc 4 Song Title Sample 1. Turn Your Radio - Granpa Jones ~ Various Artists 2. Black Mountain Rag (Solder's Joy) - The Byrds ~ Various Artists 3. Pretty Boy Floyd - The Byrds ~ Various Artists 4. Bristol Steam Convention Blues - The Byrds ~ Various Artists 5. Farther Along - The Byrds ~ Various Artists 6. Contentment - Don Reno & Bill Harrell/The Tennessee Cut-Ups ~ Various Artists 7. Can't You Hear Me Callin' - Herb Pedersen ~ Various Artists 8. Cora Is Gone - Herb Pedersen ~ Various Artists 9. Choking the Strings - Don Reno & Bill Harrell/The Tennessee Cut-Ups ~ Various Artists 10. Uncle Pen - Ricky Skaggs ~ Various Artists 11. Till The End Of The World Rolls Round - Earl Scruggs ~ Various Artists 12. Vision Of Monther, A - Ricky Skaggs ~ Various Artists 13. Big Country - Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer/Mike Marshall ~ Various Artists 14. If I Could Be There - The O'Kanes ~ Various Artists 15. So Long, So Wrong - Alison Krauss & Union Station ~ Various Artists 16. BP - Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer/Sam Bush ~ Various Artists 17. Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn, The - Alison Krauss/Union Station ~ Various Artists 18. Little Maggie - Bluegrass Reunion ~ Various Artists 19. Carrie Brown - Steve Earle/The Del McCoury Band ~ Various Artists 20. Tortured, Tangled Hearts - Dixie Chicks ~ Various Artists 21. Walls Of Time - Ricky Skaggs ~ Various Artists 22. Is The Grass Any Bluer - Rhonda Vincent ~ Various Artists 23. Daniel Prayed - Patty Loveless ~ Various Artists 24. Twelve Gates To The City - Ralph Stanley ~ Various Artists 25. Soldier's Joy - Mark O'Connor ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel: Bobby Osborne (vocals, tenor, baritone, banjo, mandolin); Bill Monroe (vocals, tenor, guitar, mandolin); Jim McReynolds (vocals, tenor, guitar); Ralph Stanley, Sonny Osborne (vocals, tenor, banjo); Dan Tyminski (vocals, baritone, guitar); Earl Scruggs (vocals, baritone, banjo); Alison Krauss (vocals, baritone, fiddle); Jake Tullock (vocals, baritone); Sara Carter (vocals, guitar, guitarron); Herb Pedersen, Molly O'Day (vocals, guitar, banjo); Mother Maybelle Carter (vocals, guitar, autoharp); Ricky Skaggs (vocals, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, background vocals); Clarence White (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Marina Reid, Billy E. Powers, Earl Webster, Jamie O'Hara, Jimmy Martin , Lester Flatt, Lynn Davis , Mac Wiseman, Red Allen, Riley Puckett, Roger McGuinn, Steve Earle, Walter Bailes, Bill Harrell, Merle Travis, Bill Reid, Carl Butler, Carl Story, Carter Stanley, Charlie Louvin, Charlie Monroe (vocals, guitar); Beecher "Pete" "Bashful Brother Oswald" Kirby (vocals, dobro, banjo); Josh Graves (vocals, dobro); Don Reno, Lily May Ledford, Grandpa Jones, Charlie Poole (vocals, banjo); Audie Webster, Ira Louvin, Jesse McReynolds, Kieran Kane, Red Rector, Rhonda Vincent (vocals, mandolin); Clayton McMichen, Roy Acuff, Stoney Cooper (vocals, fiddle); Skip Battin (vocals, piano); Joe Lee Carter, Gene Parsons, A.P. Carter, Natalie Maines, Patty Loveless, Wilma Lee Cooper (vocals); Curly Seckler (tenor, guitar, mandolin); Del McCoury, John Bailes (tenor, guitar); Ron Block (tenor, banjo); Ramona Jones (tenor, background vocals); John Cowan (tenor); Don McHan (baritone, guitar, banjo); Darrell "Pee Wee" Lambert (baritone, mandolin); Joel Price (baritone); Paul Warren (bass voice, fiddle); Grady Martin (guitar, fiddle); Claude Boone, Bob Hopson, Eddie Hill, Emory Gordy, Jerry Byrd & the String Dusters, Tex Willis, Ralph Mayo, Dale Sledd, Ray "Duck" Atkins, Gram Parsons, Harold Bradley, Lonnie "Pap" Wilson, Norman Woodlief, Sam Pruett, Rosie Ledford, Paul Yandell, Randy Scruggs, Rose Lee Maphis, Roy Hall, Roy Harvey, Russ Barenberg, Salty Holmes, Steve Mandell, Mike Marshall , Jess Easterday, Brian Ahern, Bryan Sutton (guitar); Chet Atkins, Larry Carlton, Ray Flacke (electric guitar); Don Helms, Johnny Sibert, Clell Summey, James "Jimmie" Selph, Hal Rugg, Bruce Bouton (steel guitar); George "Speedy" Krise, Bill Carver, Jerry Douglas , Rob Ickes, Shot Jackson (dobro); Gid Tanner, John Hartford (banjo, fiddle); Russell Vass, Emily Robison, Eric Weissberg, Swanson Walker, Fate Norris, David Akeman, Hoke Jenkins, Rudy Lyle, Clato Buchanan, J.D. Crowe, Jim Smoak, Joe Maphis, Lou Reid , Mark Schatz, Allen Shelton, Mike Miller, Tom Adams, B?la Fleck (banjo); Rita Faye Sinks (autoharp); Chris Hillman, Clyde Moody, David Grisman, Curley Lambert, Charles Everett Lilly, Chick Hurt, Blaine Stewart, Jimmy Williams , Roy Dean Webb, Ernest Ferguson, Joe Stuart, Adam Steffey, Paul Williams , Ronnie McCoury, Sam Bush, Dale Reno, Vernon Derrick (mandolin); Mark O'Connor , Joshua Bell (violin); Chubby Wise, Martie Maguire, Dale Potter, Bob Summer, Deanie Richardson, Del Heck, Michael Cleveland , James "Slim" Martin, Cecil "Skeets" Williamson, Merle "Red" Taylor, Bert Layne, Fiddlin' Kate Warren, Posey Rorer, Benny Sims, James "Sonny James" Loden, Howdy Forrester, Lonnie Austin, Billy Hill, Lester Woodie, Richard Kane, Jack Youngblood, Lowe Stokes, Jason Carter , Jerry Rivers, Jim Brock, Jim Buchanan, Ray Park, Art Stamper, Stuart Duncan, Tex Atchison, Tommy Jackson, Benny Martin, Tommy Magness, Vassar Clements, Bobby Hicks , Buck Ryan (fiddle); John Mock (pennywhistle); Wilene "Sally Ann" Forester (accordion); Mickey Merritt, John Jarvis, Hargus "Pig" Robbins (piano); Gene Sisk (Fender Rhodes piano); Larry Muhoberac (keyboards); Clyde Brooks, Douglas Kirkham, Roy Yeager, Pee Wee Adams, Mike Baird, Jerry Carrigan, Jim Isbell, George Grantham, Buddy Harman (drums); Gary Coleman (percussion); Carmella Ramsey (background vocals). Liner Note Authors: Ralph Stanley; Billy Altman. Recording information: Atlanta, GA (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Austin, TX (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Carlisle, MA (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Charlotte, NC (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Chicago, IL (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Cincinnati, OH (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Clayton, GA (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Colombia (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Dallas, TX (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Franklin, TN (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Gallatin, TN (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Hollywood, CA (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Jacksonville (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); London, England (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Memphis (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Mill Valley, CA (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); N. Hollywood, CA (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Nashville, TN (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); New York, NY (07/27/1925-??/??/2002); Purchase, NY (07/27/1925-??/??/2002). Photographers: Don Hunstein; David Gahr; Jim McGuire ; Mary Ellen Mark; Les Leverett; Neal Preston; Matthew Barnes; Merri Cyr; James Minchin; Jimmy Ienner, Jr. Arrangers: Clarence White; David Grisman; Herb Pedersen; Ira Louvin; Lynn Davis ; Alison Krauss; Mark O'Connor ; Molly O'Day; Ralph Stanley; Red Allen; Roger McGuinn; Roy Acuff; Union Station; Charlie Louvin. The title pretty much says it on this deluxe four-disc package from Sony's Legacy imprint. Here on four discs are 109 performances that cover the spectrum of American bluegrass, beginning with its pre-birth roots in Appalachian country string band music via the recordings of Gid Tanner, Charlie Poole & the Blue Ridge Ramblers, and the Carters in the mid-'30s. The story really takes off with the Monroe Brothers and their classic "What Would You Give in Exchange (For Your Soul)?" in 1936, the same year that Roy Acuff issued his first hit, "The Great Speckled Bird." Ralph and Carter Stanley, the Bailes Brothers, and Molly O'Day enter the root stream within a few years, and the tree blossoms at the dawn of World War II, flowering with Flatt & Scruggs' "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" in 1949. These are all here, of course, as are cuts by Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, the Osborne Brothers, Roy Hall, Grandpa Jones, Jim & Jesse, Bill & Mary Reid, the Webster Brothers, and many others from these early decades. Where the set really takes its chances is in including the contributions made to rock and modern country and bluegrass music through offerings from the Byrds, Ricky Skaggs, Eric Weissberg, the Dixie Chicks, the O'Kanes, Rhonda Vincent, Herb Pedersen, and many others. What it makes for is a provocative look at the music as it evolved not only musically, but culturally and socially, as it crossed from the Deep South into the East and West Coasts and moved north. Not everyone will agree with the track choices, of course, and the tiresome purists will no doubt find the last CD difficult to handle given their attitudes of preservation at any cost -- including premature death -- but the rest of us can be delighted, beguiled, amused, and confronted by this primitive, raw original American underground music as it entered the mainstream of our society. The set includes a fantastic historical essay by former Creem editor Billy Altman, and a fine introduction by Dr. Ralph Stanley. ~ Thom Jurek Producer: Gregg Geller; David Grisman; Dixie Chicks; Don Law; Dan Hornsby; Eli Oberstein; Emory Gordy, Jr.; Harry Silverstein; Frank Jones; Fred Foster; Gary Usher; Frank Walker; Murray Nash; Jamie O'Hara; Jim Vienneau; John Thompson; Ken Nelson; Kieran Kane; Larry   Technical Info Release Date : 09/28/2004 Original Release Date : 2004 Catalog ID : 90628 Label : Legacy Recordings Number of Discs : 4 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00827969062821