Track Listing

1. David Johnson - Blue Grass Breakdown
2. The Country Gentlemen - Roving Gambler
3. Doc Watson, Fred Price, and Clint Howard - Daniel Prayed
4. Half and Half - Fourteen-Carat Mind
5. Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard - Won't You Come and Sing for Me?
6. Jerry Stuart, Pete Kuykendall, Smiley Hobbs, and Tom Gray - Rocky Run
7. Red Clay Ramblers - The Girl Behind the Bar
8. B. Lilly, Chubby Anthony, and Don Stover - Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me
9. Red Allen and Frank Wakefield - Are You Afraid to Die
10. Bill Monroe and Peter Rowan - Walls of Time
11. Friendly City Playboys - Back Up and Push
12. Ola Belle Reed - I've Endured
13. Harley Allen - Carolina in the Pines
14. Eric Weissberg - Jesse James
15. The Georgia Pals - Two Orphans
16. Nashville Grass - China Grove, My Home Town
17. Bill Price - Bluegrass Spectacular
18. Sonny Miller - Stoney Creek
19. Larry Richardson - Little Maggie
20. John Hartford - Miss Ferris
21. Earl Taylor - Foggy Mountain Top
22. Lilly Brothers and Don Stover - Sinner, You Better Get Ready
23. Doc Watson - Sitting on Top of the World
24. Bob Everhart - Renegade
25. Bill Price - Possum Holler
26. Tom Morgan - Red Wing
27. Red Allen - I'll Take the Blame
28. Bill Monroe and Doc Watson - Watson's Blues

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #100842 in Music
• Released on: 2005-06-28
• Number of discs: 1

From the Label
It all began in 1956 with the release of the historic Folkways album American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style (SFW 40037), the first-ever full-length bluegrass LP. From that point on, Folkways Records was synonymous with great bluegrass music. Folkways founder Moses Asch released scores of bluegrass albums, and this collection comprises the cream of the crop from these recordings, including works from giants of the genre such as Red Allen & Frank Wakefield, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, the Stanley Brothers, and the Country Gentlemen. It serves as an outstanding introduction to the wealth of great bluegrass Smithsonian Folkways has to offer. Extensive notes, photos, 62 minutes. Compiled and annotated by Lee Michael Demsey and Jeff Place.

Customer Reviews

More bluegrass gems from Smithsonian-Folkways
More great bluegrass selections culled from the massive Smithsonian-Folkways catalog. Famous performers (Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, The Country Gentlemen), not so famous performers (The Georgia Pals, Half and Half), classic oldies (THE GIRL BEHIND THE BAR, ROVING GAMBLER, FOGGY MOUNTAIN TOP), newer originals (CAROLINA IN THE PINES, MISS FERRIS) are all included. Doc Watson sings and plays a beautiful rendition of SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD, David and Billy Rae Johnson perform a hypnotic BLUE GRASS BREAKDOWN, and Eric Weissberg does an instrumental version of JESSE JAMES - all major highlights here for me. Bluegrass fans will be ecstatic with this release (the same can be said for Volume 1), and at this great price, it would be insane to pass it up. Highly recommended.