Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Could You Love Me One More Time - Ricky Skaggs
2. Mis'ry River - Doyle Lawson,
3. Long Time Gone - John Starling
4. Moonshiner - Peter Rowan
5. Hey Porter - Marty Stuart
6. Little Rock Getaway - Mike Auldridge
7. One More Love Song - New Grass Revival
8. Church Street Blues - Tony Rice
9. One Way Track
10. Why You Been Gone So Long - Chris Hillman
11. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning - Hot Rize
12. You Touched Me & Made Me Live Again - Jimmy Murphy
13. Come and Sit by the River - The Country Gentlemen
14. Ranger's Command - The Hillmen
15. Greenville Trestle High - Doc Watson
16. More Pretty Girls Than One - Buck White
17. High on a Hilltop - Osborne Brothers
18. Forked Deer
19. Bury Me Beneath the Willow - Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs
20. Don't This Road Look Rough & Rocky - Jonathan Edwards, The Seldom Scene
21. On the Sea of Life - Doyle Lawson, Quicksilver

Disc 2:

1. Freeborn Man
2. If You Ain't Lovin', You Ain't Livin' - Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers
3. Father I Stretch My Hand - The Nashville Bluegrass Band
4. High Hill - Uncle Walt's Band
5. Bigger the Fool - Lonesome Standard Time
6. I'm Not Over You - Carl Jackson
7. Se�or - Tim O'Brien
8. Satan's Jeweled Crown - Emmylou Harris, The Seldom Scene
9. Whiskey 'Fore Breakfast/Sailor's Bonnet - Mike Cross
10. Mariano - Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
11. Rock Bottom Blues - The Nashville Bluegrass Band
12. At My Window - Townes Van Zandt
13. Nobody Knows But Me - Doc Watson
14. One Rose/Hot Buttered Rum - The Red Clay Ramblers
15. Train of Life - Blue Rose
16. Mother I'm Lonely - Kukuruza
17. Unwed Fathers
18. Pig in a Pen - Old & In the Way
19. Trail of Tears - The Nashville Bluegrass Band, Peter Rowan
20. Lord I've Been a Hard Working Pilgrim - Doyle Lawson,

Disc 3:

1. When You Go Walking - The Lonesome River Band
2. All Night Radio - Sam Bush
3. Can't You Hear Me Calling - Del McCoury
4. Rolling & Rambling (The Death of Hank Williams)
5. Dry Run Creek - The Seldom Scene
6. Shadow Ridge - Chris Thile
7. Let's Shake Loose - Brother Boys
8. Way Long Timey Ago - The Red Clay Ramblers,
9. For All I Know - James McMurtry
10. Tree King Creek - Psychograss
11. Out in the Parking Lot - Guy Clark
12. You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive - Darrell Scott
13. Gone to Texas - Terry Allen
14. Big Bug Shuffle - Russ Barenberg, Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer
15. Hills That I Call Home - Front Range
16. Sally Goodin - Byron Berline, Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs
17. Bad Case of the Blues - Laurel Canyon Ramblers
18. Dark End of the Street - John Cowan
19. Let Me Be Your Friend - The Seldom Scene
20. Merry Christmas from the Family - Robert Earl Keen, Jr.

Disc 4:

1. I Walk the Line (Revisited) - Rodney Crowell
2. House of Tom Bombadil - Nickel Creek
3. I Won't Be There - Don Rigsby
4. Dear Sarah - Scott Miller
5. Bound to Ride - Jim Mills
6. My Girlish Days - Mollie O'Brien
7. Man I'm Trying to Be - Ronnie Bowman
8. Ant and the Ant - Sean Watkins
9. I've Got a Mule to Ride - Tara Nevins
10. Levee Town - Sonny Landreth
11. Bluegrass in the Backwoods - Aubrey Haynie
12. Club Manhattan - Jesse Winchester
13. Little Martha - Jerry Douglas
14. Yonder - Donna the Buffalo
15. Whisper in My Ear - The Gibson Brothers
16. Hallelujah Shine - The Gourds
17. Chickenshift - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
18. Lumpy Beanpole & Dirt - Bad Livers
19. Decision at Gladys Fork - Bryan Sutton
20. I'm Gonna Sleep with One Eye Open - Dolly Parton

Disc 5:

1. Bonus Material [DVD][*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69152 in Music
• Released on: 2006-09-12
• Number of discs: 5
• Formats: Box set, Enhanced

Album Description
"Barry Poss was to contemporary, roots-based music in the last quarter of the twentieth century what Ahmet Ertegun and the Chesses and Phillips were to pop music a quarter-century earlier—the founder of a quality music label, a label that consumers came to trust on its own merits. Most of his bicentennial competitors have fallen away, but Poss and Sugar Hill continue to thrive." --Jay Orr, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, from the box set liner notes

For 25 years and counting, Sugar Hill has maintained a tradition of integrity and quality as it explores new frontiers in music. Today, the eclectic Sugar Hill roster includes adventurous artists such as Nickel Creek, the Duhks, Sonny Landreth, Scott Miller and Sam Bush, as well as award-winning traditionalists like Dolly Parton and Tim O'Brien.

Poss has handpicked tracks for SUGAR HILL RECORDS: A RETROSPECTIVE, a collection that illuminates 25-plus years of contributions to American roots music, and the evolution of the groundbreaking, Grammy-winning label.

The massive SUGAR HILL RECORDS: A RETROSPECTIVE box set includes FOUR discs with 81 songs and a bonus DVD with exclusive artist interviews (TIM O'BRIEN, DOYLE LAWSON, JERRY DOUGLAS, and more), music videos, and archival photo gallery.

The box set's 80-page booklet contains extensive liner notes by Poss including anecdotes and insights into the artists and times that shaped Sugar Hill’s legacy. Liners also include a historical perspective from Country Music Hall of Fame's Jay Orr, a well as artist reflections on the label and Poss.

Amazon.com
With four discs containing 81 musical selections and a bonus DVD of artist interviews, videos, and photos, one of Americana's leading indie labels celebrates its first 25 years. Actually, Sugar Hill passed the quarter-century mark in 2003, but such a handsomely packaged and lovingly annotated set arrives better late than never. Label founder Barry Poss made the selections and contributes anecdotes about each, with the sequencing following a chronological progression from 1978 to 2003. From its base in bluegrass, both traditional and progressive, the North Carolina label has subsequently branched into maverick Texas songwriters (Robert Earl Keen, Townes Van Zandt, Terry Allen, Guy Clark, James McMurtry) and bands as diverse as the Gourds, Bad Livers, and Donna the Buffalo. Though label stars such as Jerry Douglas, Nickel Creek (as a trio and in their solo efforts), and Dolly Parton are inevitably represented, the set also features the underexposed artistry of country singer John Starling and harmony trio Uncle Walt's Band. Though never signed to the label, Emmylou Harris provides harmonies all over the set, while Johnny Cash guests on two cuts. As Vince Gill notes in the accompanying booklet, "Whenever you bought music on Sugar Hill, even if it was by an artist you were unfamiliar with, you'd be pretty sure it was something pretty great." --Don McLeese

Customer Reviews

A great boxed set
As the Nashville Sound developed, it ignored the market for traditional country music leading to the creation of Sugar Hill Records in 1978. This company was founded and continues to produce the best of traditional country music. They prefer to call their sound "roots-based contemporary music", which has merit. This is a combination of traditional sounds featuring old and new songs by some of our best artists.
The four music CDs are outstanding and I've found it impossible to find a pick of the litter. The first CD covers 1978 to 1986, starting with a fine Ricky Skaggs song and includes Doc Watson, The Osborne Brothers and The Country Gentleman. The second CD covers from 1982 to 1996 with The Seldom Scene, another Doc Watson, Townes Van Zant and some classic tracks. CD number three contains Del McCoury, another Seldom Scene track coupled with some classic and cotemporary songs. The fourth CD, 1998 to 2003, starts strong with Rodney Crowell doing I Walk the Line (Revisited) and never slows down. Don Rigsby, Nickel Creek and Dolly Parton keep the energy high and our foot tapping. The four CDs contain over eighty songs not one of which I consider a clinker. Included in the set is a 65-page booklet on the company, the artists and songs with photos on every page. A DVD of interviews, videos and a photo gallery complete the set. This is one collection that always is played both for the quality of the artists and the selection of songs.

Lots of great stuff here. Good introduction to their artists.
I had only the barest notion of what Sugar Hill Records was all about when I picked up this box on impulse at a Towers Records store closing sale. I am so glad I bought it.

Beyond just the listening pleasures it brings, it serves to expose one to a broad range of styles and artists that I never would have discovered. With this box, I can explore deeper into individual groups. For example, I had never heard of Red Knuckles but they did my favorite of the whole set "If You Ain't Loving, You Ain't Living." A capella Southern white male gospel singing was something else I wouldn't have dug into but I discovered I loved the pieces here.

I've since bought additional sets for gifts.

A Great Compilation
This is a wonderful compilation of great songs from various Sugar Hill artists. They are all winners. It is a joy to listen to again and again. I strongly recommend it.