Track Listing

1. Katy Hill - Tex Logan
2. Katy Cline - The Lilly Brothers, Don Stover
3. Short Life of Trouble - Stoney Mountain Boys, Earl Taylor
4. Philadelphia Lawyer - Bob Baker, Pike County Boys
5. Little Willie - Bob Baker, , Pike County Boys
6. Leather Britches - Smiley Hobbs
7. Natchez Under the Hill - Tex Hogan
8. Old Joe Clark - Mike Seeger, , Yellin, Seeger & Weissberg
9. There Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
10. White House Blues - Stoney Mountain Boys, Earl Taylor
11. They're at Rest Together - Stoney Mountain Boys, Earl Taylor
12. Foggy Mountain Top [#] - Stoney Mountain Boys, Earl Taylor
13. Nine Pound Hammer - Smiley Hobbs
14. Cricket on the Hearth - Anthony & Stover
15. New River Train - Anthony, Seeger & Yellin
16. Fox Chase - Stoney Mountain Boys, Earl Taylor
17. Feast Here Tonight - Bob Baker, , Pike County Boys
18. Snow Dove - Bob Baker, , Pike County Boys
19. Drifting Too Far from the Shore [#] - Bob Baker, , Pike County Boys
20. Rocky Run - Kuykendall, Stuart Hobbs & Gray
21. Bile 'Em Cabbage Down
22. All the Good Times Have Past and Gone - Stoney Mountain Boys, ,
23. Sally Ann [#] - Stoney Mountain Boys, Earl Taylor

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #217977 in Music
• Brand: Mountain
• Released on: 1992-07-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
Unforgettable performances by Don Stover, Earl Taylor, Chubby Anthony, Tex Logan and many others. Traditional bluegrass played by some of the genre's most talented and committed musicians. For over 30 years, Mountain Music Bluegrass Style remains a superb anthology. "Listeners who value spirit over polish...will find many of these selections to be as exciting and powerful as they were over 30 years ago." -- Bluegrass Unlimited

Customer Reviews

Early Bluegrass Album Captures Era & Style Well
"Mountain Music Bluegrass Style" features field recordings made by Mike Seeger, who was trying to showcase the more traditional side of bluegrass music as practiced by mostly part-timers in the Washington D.C. area (who had little chance of otherwise recording). This album was made when things were getting thin for professional bluegrass musicians and just before the folk music boom fully embraced bluegrass (this album was targeted at followers of the folk music). This re-issue contains the original 19 tracks plus 4 fine outakes. An insert features brief notes by Seeger written in 1990 plus extensive original notes (reportedly the first written description of bluegrass music).

For the most part the CD features that raw, hard-edged country singing that I like so well. Some of the fiddle work by Chubby Anthony is quite good, too. Especially noteworthy are the strong cuts by Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys, Don Stover and half of the Lilly Brothers (this being Bea Lilly; Everett Lilly was off with Flatt and Scruggs), and Bob Baker and the Pike County Boys (with Seeger on banjo and tenor vocals).

My favorite cuts here are "Katy Cline," "Short Life of Trouble," "Little Willie", "There Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone," "White House Blues," "They're At Rest Together," "Foggy Mountain Top," "Cricket on the Hearth," "Snow Dove" (pretty much "The Butcher's Boy"), "Bile 'Em Cabbage Down." "All the Good Times Have Passed and Gone," and "Drifting Too Far From the Shore."