Hand-Picked: 25 Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1995-09-19
Music Label: Rounder / UMGD
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- The Old Home Place - J.D. Crowe And The New South
- Along About Daybreak - Joe Val
- High On A Mountain - Del McCoury
- Barrel Of Fun - Country Cooking
- West Virginia, My Home - Hazel Dickens
- Blue Eyed Boston Boy - Bluegrass Cardinals
- The Old Swinging Bridge - TED LUNDY
- Golden Ring - Dry Branch Fire Squad
- Things In Life - Don Stover
- The Last Old Shovel - Phyllis Boyens
- Sourwood Mountain - Allen Shelton
- When Someone Wants To Leave - The Allen Brothers
- I Ain't Broke (But I'm Badly Bent) - David Grisman
- Take Me Back To Happy Valley - Bailey Brothers
- Home Is Where The Heart Is - Connie And Babe And The Backwoods Boys
- Drifting Too Far From The Shore - Boone Creek
- Montana Cowboy - Hazel And Alice
- At The End - Leon Morris And Buzz Busby
- You Tried To Ruin My Name - Wilma Lee Cooper
- I'll Be On That Good Road Someday - Butch Robins
- Crazy Creek - Bill Keith
- When Springtime Comes Again - Vern Williams
- Old Train - Tony Rice
- Ragtime Annie - Byron Berline
- Blue Days, Black Nights - Tasty Licks
- The Model Church - The Bluegrass Album Band
- Leavin' - James King
- Lonesome River - HERE TODAY
- Hard Hearted - Jim And Jesse
- My Better Years - The Johnson Mountain Boys
- Second Wind - Claire Lynch
- New Faces In The Field - IIIrd Tyme Out
- New York Chimes - Tony Trischka
- Is The Blue Moon Still Shining? - Laurie Lewis And Kathy Kallick
- Flop Eared Mule - David Grier And Mike Compton
- Every Time You Say Goodbye - Alison Krauss
- Cold On The Shoulder - Tony Rice
- Who's That Knocking At My Door? - Dreadful Snakes
- Mr. Engineer - J.D. Crowe
- You'll Get No More Of Me - Lynn Morris
- Every Humble Knee Must Bow - Nashville Bluegrass Band
- Mama's Hand - Hazel Dickens
- Sleepy Eyed John/Tom And Jerry - Laurie Lewis And Tom Rozum
- Whitewater - Bela Fleck
- You're That Certain Someone - Warrior River Boys
- I Feel The Blues Moving In - Del McCoury
- When God Dips His Pen Of Love In My Heart - The Cox Family
- River Of Jordan - Ricky Skaggs
- We Believe In Happy Endings - Dry Branch Fire Squad
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Free Music Review: Excellent bluegrass sampler
Hit: 5 Stars
Rounder have priced this very competitively, hoping that people who buy this will think it is so brilliant that they will buy some of the albums from which the tracks are taken. To encourage this, the extensive liner notes give all the relevant information required to track down whichever album contains your favorite tracks. But although you might end up spending more money on Rounder albums, this compilation stands on its own merit.
What you get here, are 49 tracks recorded for one of the most important - perhaps the most important - bluegrass labels around. (Of course, Rounder do a lot more than bluegrass, but that's not relevant here.) Bluegrass music is generally upbeat, good-time music and that is the overall feel of this collection.
Among the 49 tracks, every aspect of bluegrass music is represented from traditional to contemporary and including all types of song that you might find on a bluegrass album. With such notable artists as J D Crowe, Ricky Skaggs, Claire Lynch, Alison Krauss, David Grisman, Tony Rice, Jim and Jesse, Del McCoury, Hazel Dickens, the Johnson mountain boys, Lynn Morris and Laurie Lewis represented here, this is a star-studded line-up. And I didn't name all the stars.
Famous songs are notable by their absence although some songs here are better known than others. Drifting too far from the shore (Boone Creek) is a traditional gospel song. When someone wants to leave (Allen brothers) is a cover of a Dolly Parton song from her Jolene album. Golden ring (Dry branch fire squad) is a cover of one of the classic duets by George Jones and Tammy Wynette. Sourwood Mountain (Allen Shelton) is a cover of a traditional folk song.
As an introduction to bluegrass music, this is brilliant - it is one of the best there is for that purpose. Appalachian stomp (two volumes) and the various O sister compilations are other great alternatives.
Hand-Picked: 25 Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records Poster
Hand Picked, The Best of Watermelon Park Fest contains an amazing selection of bluegrass and acoustic music favorites from the famous Watermelon Park Bluegrass Fest from years 2004 and 2005. This incredible collection includes tracks by Tim O'Brien, Larry Keel and Natural Bridge, The Hunger Mountain Boys, Blue Light Special, Keith Lovett, Will Lee and Danny Knicely, The Good Deale Bluegrass Band, Alex Wudarski and Vernon Hughes, David Via and Corn Tornado, The Mando Mafia, Raymond Riley and the Loudoun Travelers, The Woodshedders, and the Furnace Mountain Band.Rounder compiled this superb 50-song set to serve as an introduction to bluegrass in general and to their own catalog in particular. Obvious marketing motives aside, the collection has few weaknesses and offers a broad look at the ever-morphing genre. Perhaps more than any other label, Rounder gave exposure to the renegade progressive and "newgrass" musicians who worshipped the style despite the fact that they weren't from the mountains. Folks like David Grisman, Bill Keith, Tony Trischka, and Bela Fleck push the music in new directions while others such as Del McCoury, Don Stover, James King, Jim & Jesse, and Vern Williams represent more-traditional concerns. Still others--Tony Rice, David Grier, J.D. Crowe, Nashville Bluegrass Band among them--adeptly fuse elements of tradition and innovation. This collection also highlights the important contributions of female artists including Hazel and Alice, Laurie Lewis, Claire Lynch, and Alison Krauss. --Marc Greilsamer
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