MY SWEET LOVE AIN'T AROUND (2001) ( )

Product Summary Label: Uni/rounder UPC: 00011661161627 Release Date: 4/9/2002 Buy.com Sku: 60489123 Item#: M76NPL Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Let The Whole World Talk - The Johnson Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 2. Old Home Place - J.D. Crowe & The New South ~ Various Artists 3. Cincinnati Rag - Jerry Douglas ~ Various Artists 4. My Sweet Love Ain't Around - The McCoury Brothers ~ Various Artists 5. Here Today And Gone Tomorrow - Hazel Dickens ~ Various Artists 6. Texas Barbeque - Bela Fleck ~ Various Artists 7. Lost And I'll Never Find The Way - Ricky Skaggs ~ Various Artists 8. Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes - Here Today ~ Various Artists 9. John Hardy - Tony Rice ~ Various Artists 10. Crosseyed Cricket - Tony Trischka ~ Various Artists 11. Who's That Knockin' At My Door - The Dreadful Snakes ~ Various Artists 12. Your Letter's Overdue - Delia Bell & Bill Grant ~ Various Artists 13. Leather Britches - Sam Bush ~ Various Artists 14. Someone Play Dixie For Me - Dry Branch Fire Squad ~ Various Artists 15. Diamond Joe - Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys ~ Various Artists 16. Whup Of Love, The - Andy Statman ~ Various Artists 17. Too Late To Cry - Alison Krauss ~ Various Artists 18. You Are The One - Jim & Jesse ~ Various Artists 19. Cherokee Maggie - Blaine Sprouse ~ Various Artists 20. Old Devil's Dream - Nashville Bluegrass Band ~ Various Artists 21. I'd Rather Be Alone - The Bluegrass Album Band ~ Various Artists 22. Rose Of My Heart - The Whitstein Brothers ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info BLUEGRASS MOUNTAIN STYLE was originally released as Rounder Bluegrass Vol. 3 in 1988 and MY SWEET LOVE AIN'T AROUND in 2001. Includes liner notes by Rainer Maria Rilke. Personnel: Pat Enright (vocals, tenor, guitar); Ricky Skaggs (vocals, tenor, mandolin, fiddle); Del McCoury, Dudley Connell, Jim McReynolds, Peter Rowan, Ron Thomason, Tony Rice (vocals, guitar); Herb Pedersen (vocals, banjo); Jesse McReynolds, Joe Val, Roland White (vocals, mandolin); Alison Krauss (vocals, fiddle); Delia Bell, Robert Whitstein, Hazel Dickens, Bill Grant, Jerry McCoury (vocals); Vince Gill (tenor, guitar); Alan O'Bryant (tenor, banjo); Doyle Lawson, Dave Edmundson (tenor, mandolin); Charles Whitstein (tenor); J.D. Crowe, B?la Fleck (baritone, banjo); David Grisman (baritone, mandolin); Mary Jo Leet (baritone); John Hisey (bass voice, banjo); Russ Barenberg (guitar, acoustic guitar); David Parmley, Tommy Goldsmith, Lonnie Meeker, Dave Dillon, Norman Blake, Charlie Collins (guitar); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Sam Bush (banjo, mandolin, fiddle); Richard Underwood, Paul Silvius, Marc Pruett, Allen Shelton, Tony Trischka (banjo); Buck White (mandola, mandolin); David McLaughlin (mandolin, fiddle); Mike Compton, Andy Statman, Bob Applebaum (mandolin); Eddie Stubbs, Glen Duncan, Jim Buchanan, Stuart Duncan, Blaine Sprouse, Vassar Clements, Bobby Hicks (fiddle); Joseph Allen, Marty Confurius, Joey Allen (acoustic bass). Liner Note Author: Rainer Maria Rilke. Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott. One of the great strengths of this bluegrass compilation is that, contrary to its title, it offers a very rich cross section of approaches to the tradition -- not only bluegrass mountain-style, but also bluegrass California-style, bluegrass urban-style, and bluegrass progressive-style. For the hardcore mountain stuff there are classic acid grass performances by the McCoury Brothers (whose rock-hard and piercing vocals on "My Sweet Love Ain't Around" constitute one of this album's highlights) and Ricky Skaggs (who delivers an absolutely slamming rendition of the high-lonesome classic "Lost and I'll Never Find the Way"). For a more urban sound you can skip over to mandolinist Andy Statman's swinging "The Whup of Love" or the late Joe Val's Boston-accented take on "Diamond Joe." California bluegrass legend Tony Rice depresses flatpickers everywhere with his fiery and headlong "John Hardy," and Tony Trischka continues his ongoing expansion of the bluegrass banjo vocabulary with his own composition entitled "Crosseyed Cricket," on which he moves easily between meat-and-potatoes Scrugs-style picking and complex melodic passages (B?la Fleck does much the same thing on his own "Texas Barbecue," which also features some fine work using Keith tuners). And that only scratches the surface of this 22-track collection. Highly recommended. ~ Rick Anderson   Technical Info Release Date : 04/09/2002 Original Release Date : 2001 Catalog ID : 611616 Label : Rounder Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00011661161627    Product Image