Rg To Bluegrass (2001) (Monroe/Fleck/Krauss )

Product Summary Label: World Music Network (uk) UPC: 00605633105926 Release Date: 2/27/2001 Buy.com Sku: 60461417 Item#: MKXMXT Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Gospel Train - Larry Sparks ~ Various Artists 2. Every Time You Say Goodbye - Alison Krauss And Union Station ~ Various Artists 3. Lonesome Moonlight Waltz - The Bluegrass Album Band ~ Various Artists 4. Matterhorn - The Country Gentlemen ~ Various Artists 5. Hills Of Home - Hazel Dickens ~ Various Artists 6. Chicken Reel - Jim & Jesse & The Virginia Boys ~ Various Artists 7. Lonesome Wind Blues - Rhonda Vincent ~ Various Artists 8. Hello City Limits - Red Allen & The Kentuckians ~ Various Artists 9. My Better Years - The Johnson Mountain Boys ~ Various Artists 10. Shiloh - Emerson & Waldron ~ Various Artists 11. Rank Stranger - Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys/Tom T. Hall ~ Various Artists 12. Brighter Mansion - Longview ~ Various Artists 13. Nashville Blues - J.D. Crowe & The New South ~ Various Artists 14. Sweetheart, Darlin' Of Mine - Claire Lynch ~ Various Artists 15. I've Waited As Long As I Can - Tony Rice ~ Various Artists 16. Crossfire - Bela Fleck ~ Various Artists 17. You'll Get No More Of Me - Hazel Dickens ~ Various Artists 18. My Sweet Love Ain't Around - The McCoury Brothers ~ Various Artists 19. Can't Say Goodbye - IIIrd Tyme Out ~ Various Artists 20. Mama's Hand - Lynn Morris ~ Various Artists 21. I've Lived A Lot In My Time - Dry Branch Fire Squad ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Includes liner notes by Dan Rosenberg. Unknown Contributor Role: William Blake. When fiddle-playing Scottish and Irish immigrants brought their jigs, reels, and airs with them to the U.S., the Celtic music that they played eventually evolved into what we now know as bluegrass and country. Over the years, some artists have blurred the lines between bluegrass and country; that frequently happens on The Rough Guide to Bluegrass. This compilation isn't for bluegrass purists -- World Music Network takes an eclectic approach to the subject, and some of the tunes are closer to old-time country than bluegrass. But all of the selections have some type of Appalachian influence, which is the common denominator between the artists who provide hardcore bluegrass (Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys, Red Allen & the Kentuckians, Emerson & Waldron, the McCoury Brothers) and the artists who favor more of an old-time country approach (Hazel Dickens, the Johnson Mountain Boys). The CD even gets into country-pop; Claire Lynch's "Sweetheart Darlin' of Mine," for example, has a strong Dolly Parton influence, but minus the slick production values of modern Nashville. Meanwhile, banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck combines jazz and bluegrass on "Crossfire." Fusing jazz and hillbilly music isn't a new idea -- back in the 1930s, Bob Wills and his colleagues embraced a hillbilly/jazz hybrid that came to be known as Western swing. But Fleck is an innovator who, on some of his other recordings, has brought rock and funk as well as bluegrass to his jazz foundation. This compilation is hardly the last word on bluegrass -- how could it be without anything by the great Bill Monroe? But it does take an interesting and highly enjoyable look at some of the Appalachian and Appalachian-influenced sounds of recent decades. ~ Alex Henderson Producer: Phil Stanton (Compilation)   Technical Info Release Date : 02/27/2001 Original Release Date : 2001 Catalog ID : 1059 Label : World Music Network (UK) Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 63m : 54s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00605633105926    Product Image