Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. John Henry - Hylo Brown, Earl Scruggs
2. Gathering Flowers from the Hillside [#] - Hylo Brown, Earl Scruggs
3. Love and Wealth [#] - Hylo Brown, Earl Scruggs
4. Orange Blossom Special [#] - Hylo Brown, Earl Scruggs
5. Prisoner Song [#] - Hylo Brown, Earl Scruggs
6. How Mountain Girls Can Love - Clinch Mountain Boys, The Stanley Brothers
7. Man of Constant Sorrow - Clinch Mountain Boys, The Stanley Brothers
8. Gathering of Flowers for the Master's Bouquet - Clinch Mountain Boys, The Stanley Brothers
9. Choo Choo Coming - Clinch Mountain Boys, The Stanley Brothers
10. Salty Dog Blues - Flatt & Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Boys
11. Before I Met You - Flatt & Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Boys
12. Cabin on the Hill - Flatt & Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Boys
13. Jimmie Brown, the Newsboy - Flatt & Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Boys
14. Border Ride - Jim & Jesse
15. Gosh, I Miss You All the Time - Jim & Jesse
16. Dill Pickle Rag - Jim & Jesse
17. She Left Me Standing on the Mountain - Jim & Jesse
18. Pardon Me [#] - Jim & Jesse
19. Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes [#] - Jim & Jesse

Disc 2:

1. Kansas City Railroad Blues [#] - Dan Stover, Don Stover
2. Rabbit Soup [#] - Dan Stover, Don Stover
3. Flint Hill Special [#] - Dan Stover, Don Stover
4. Earl's Breakdown [#] - Dan Stover, Don Stover
5. Why Did You Wander? [#] - Dan Stover, Don Stover
6. Bury Me Beneath the Willow [#] - The Lilly Brothers, Tex Logan, Dan Stover
7. Billy in the Lowground [#] - The Lilly Brothers, Tex Logan, Dan Stover
8. Little Annie [#] - The Lilly Brothers, Tex Logan, Dan Stover
9. I'll Live On [#] - The Lilly Brothers, Tex Logan, Dan Stover
10. Walls of Time - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
11. Grey Eagle - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
12. Cotton Eyed Joe - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
13. Shady Grove - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
14. California Blues [Blue Yodel No. 4] - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
15. Molly and Tenbrooks - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys
16. Bluegrass Breakdown - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys

Disc 3:

1. Alabam'
2. Memphis, Tennesee
3. Air Mail Special on the Fly
4. Better Times A-Comin'
5. Bill Cheatham
6. Grave in the Valley
7. Sugarfoot Rag
8. Walking in My Sleep - Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard
9. Tiny Broken Heart - Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard
10. One I Love Is Gone - Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard
11. Maiden's Prayer - Flatt & Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Boys
12. Will You Be Lonesome Too? - Flatt & Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Boys
13. Foggy Mountain Chimes - Flatt & Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Boys
14. Wabash Cannonball - Flatt & Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Boys
15. When the Saints Go Marching In - Flatt & Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Boys
16. Ballad of Jed Clampett [Theme from the Beverly Hillbillies] - Flatt & Scruggs, Foggy Mountain Boys

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #137730 in Music
• Released on: 2001-04-10
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, Live

Amazon.com
Although the college kids and liberal urbanites who flocked to the first Newport festivals may have romanticized bluegrass as traditional mountain music, at least they knew great pickers when they heard them. In the early '60s, most bluegrass artists were struggling to build a new audience in the wake of rock & roll and Nashville countrypolitan, and Newport gave them both a venue and a community. The Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, Hylo Brown, and especially Bill Monroe responded with a palpable energy and joy. These three discs document some uniformly excellent performances, many never released before, and even those familiar with the Lilly Brothers or Jim & Jesse McReynolds will treasure these rare, live, and exhilarating moments from a pivotal period in American music. --Roy Kasten

Customer Reviews

Bluegrass Heads North
The Newport Folk Festivals were wonderfully eclectic in their definition of "folk', exposing music from the electric blues and folk-rock of Paul Butterfield and Bob Dylan to the high-lonesome acoustic sound of bluegrass, as documented on this first-rate collection. Newport, R.I. was not exactly home turf for bluegrass, but most of the all-time greats are here, performing at or near the peak of their powers, from Bill Monroe (long before the decline of his voice in later years), to the Stanley Brothers (not so long before Carter Stanley's alcohol-fuelled death), to Flatt and Scruggs (shortly before their artistic-philosophy-fuelled split-up: Earl wanted to plug in, Lester didn't). Come to think of it, this could be, serendiptitiously, the single best representation of the early giants of bluegrass. And Flatt and Scruggs even do their smash-hit, the "Beverly Hillbillies" T.V. theme song(!!) Very highly recommended.

Very BEST of Bluegrass
This three CD box does represent the best by several of the founders of Bluegrass, including its amazing Father - Bill Monroe. The well known Mr. Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, Flatt and Scruggs and Jim and Jesse are here at their best. The suprise may be the band of the Lilly Brothers, Don Stover and Tex Logan. The music they play here further documents that their music was in a league with these other wonderful early bands. The music of the Lilly Brothers is a hidden gem - as was the music of Monroe and these other now prominent bluegrass bands for too long. Hylo Brown and Hazel and Alice give performances worthy of the title - Best of Bluegrass too. In fact, all the music in this set is truly beautiful!

Nice collection, but . ..
This is a really nice collection of great bluegrass, but what happened to the Doc Watson cuts that were on the 1963 Newport album? He was incredible even back then, and their exclusion here is noticeable.