Anthology

Bill Monroe - Anthology

Anthology
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Artist: Bill Monroe
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-04-22
Music Label: Mca Nashville
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. New Mule Skinner Blues
  2. My Little Georgia Rose
  3. Uncle Pen
  4. Raw Hide
  5. Kentucky Waltz
  6. When The Cactus Is In Bloom
  7. Get Down On Your Knees And Pray
  8. In The Pines
  9. Footprints In The Snow
  10. Walking In Jerusalem Just Like John
  11. Get Up John
  12. On And On
  13. I'm Working On A Building
  14. Blue Moon Of Kentucky
  15. Roanoke
  16. Goodbye Old Pal
  17. Molly & Tenbrooks
  18. I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World
  19. I Saw The Light
  20. Scotland
  21. Panhandle Country
  22. Gotta Travel On
  23. Big Mon
  24. Linda Lou
  25. Lonesome Road Blues
Music CD 2
  1. Time Changes Everything
  2. I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky
  3. Toy Heart
  4. Live And Let Live
  5. Old Joe Clark
  6. Columbus Stockade Blues
  7. Drifting Too Far From The Shore
  8. Somebody Touched Me
  9. Jimmy Brown The Newsboy
  10. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
  11. Devil's Dream
  12. Highway Of Sorrow
  13. Roll On Buddy, Roll On
  14. (We're Goin') Just Over In The Gloryland
  15. Fire On The Mountain
  16. The Long Black Veil
  17. I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
  18. Dusty Miller
  19. Midnight On The Stormy Deep
  20. Sally Goodin'
  21. Walls Of Time
  22. I Haven't Seen Mary In Years
  23. With Body And Soul
  24. Walk Softly On My Heart (a.k.a. Walk Softly On This Heart Of Mine)
  25. My Last Days On Earth

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Combining hillbilly, blues, gospel and folk ballads, Bill Monroe made his lightning mandolin a lead instrument within his tightly syncopated acoustic stringband style. In the process, he singlehandedly create his own genre of music. Well annotated and remastered, Anthology starts chronologically with "New Mule Skinner Blues" from his debut 1950 Decca session and ends with 1981's eerie "My Last Days On Earth" (inspired by a bout with colon cancer).

Monroe redid for Decca some songs he'd done on Columbia before angrily leaving that label after it signed the rival Stanley Brothers. The 1954 version of his signature "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" - recorded right after Elvis' did it for Sun - picks up speed compared to his 1946 original on Columbia. One surprise is a 1951 rendition of his standard "Kentucky Waltz" with drums and organ. Some songs are autobiographical: "Uncle Pen" honors the uncle who took him in as a cross-eyed teen-aged orphan while "My Little Georgia Rose" refers to the daughter his long-time bassist Bessie Lee Mauldin bore him.

Half the 50 cuts found here aren't on his most extensive package, MCA's four-CD The Music Of Bill Monroe: 1936-1994, making this an essential purchase for Monroe fans.

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Distilling the four-disc Music of Bill Monroe down to 50 songs, this double-disc Anthology is a fine survey of the bluegrass pioneer's career. Picking up in 1950 after Monroe's breakthrough Columbia tenure, this set documents his 30-year Decca period and its song list reads like a Bluegrass 101 songbook, offering classic after classic. Like the greatest of jazz bandleaders, Monroe's Blue Grass Boys band was a proving ground for aspiring bluegrass musicians and a springboard for their future solo success, with each incarnation of the group displaying its own distinct character. Vocal powerhouse Jimmy Martin helped propel Monroe's stellar early-'50s band while other contributors include singers Del McCoury and Peter Rowan and elite pickers such as banjoists Bill Keith and Don Stover and fiddlers Richard Greene, Kenny Baker, Bobby Hicks, and Vassar Clements. Of course, Big Mon's fiery high tenor vocals and feverish mandolin are the common threads. --Marc Greilsamer

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