Product Description

30 Vintage Classics Preserved...Over 60 Minutes of Historic MOUNTAIN BLUEGRASS MUSIC!
Several Tracks Never-Before-Available On CD


Continuing with our successful SOUND TRADITIONS Series, Rural Rhythm is proud to release this special new 30 Song Heritage Collection title, APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN BLUEGRASS 30 VINTAGE CLASSICS which contains over 60 minutes of Historic Bluegrass Music and debuts many classic recorded songs Never-Before-Available on CD.

Of late, Appalachia has been romanticized in movies, stories, and songs. Many songs like the ones on this collection are snapshots of life as it was lived in the most forgotten part of our nation. If folklorists had gone into the small towns, hill communities, and hollers throughout the southeast during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we might understand how the music of the old and new worlds melted into one. We might understand how parlor songs and minstrel music made their way into isolated rural communities. We might see how black performers introduced the banjo and the blues to white performers. We might understand how the cadences and melodies and fervor of religious music slipped into secular music. Fiddle, banjo, and the occasional mandolin or guitar was what you would have heard. And songs like these.

If we could somehow set the time machine for a dark hollow in Appalachia on a Saturday night some hundred or two hundred years ago, we might see a group of neighbors getting together by the coal oil lamps. Someone might arrive with a fiddle, and we might even hear a few of these songs. And thanks to this CD and the others in the SOUND TRADITIONS series, future generations will be introduced to this music and hand it on to their children. So many of these songs are priceless snapshots of the way we were and deserve no less.

This new collection album contains 30 VINTAGE CLASSICS, (many lost but not forgotten through the years), including Foggy Mountain Top , Black Mountain Blues , Home Across The Blue Ridge Mountains , Cumberland Gap , Big Sandy , Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee , Fire On The Mountain , Rabbit In The Log , Run Boy Run , Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss , and Amazing Grace , by some of the biggest Bluegrass stars during the heyday of Bluegrass Music including MAC WISEMAN, DON RENO, RED SMILEY, HYLO BROWN, EARL TAYLOR, JIM McCALL, MAC MARTIN, BILL HARRELL, RAYMOND FAIRCHILD, TATER TATE, J.E. MAINER, etc.

Each song was remastered from the original master tapes by Steve Hoffman, (a leading mastering engineer in the High End Audio market). The end results are some of the best sounding authentic Traditional Bluegrass music available today!

SOUND TRADITIONS: APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN BLUEGRASS 30 VINGAGE CLASSICS, is a new HERITAGE COLLECTION on Rural Rhythm that takes the BEST OF song masters by BLUEGRASS LEGENDS that will be a must for listeners who cherish Traditional Bluegrass Music!

Track Listing

1. Foggy Mountain Top - Jim McCall, Stoney Mountain Boys, , Earl Taylor
2. Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee - Jim Greer & The Mac-O-Chee Valley Folks
3. Froggie Went a Courtin' - Hylo Brown & The Timberliners
4. Cumberland Gap - The Cumberlands
5. Black Mountain Blues - Mac Martin & His Dixie Travelers,
6. Home Across the Blue Ridge Mountains - Jim McCall, Stoney Mountain Boys, , Earl Taylor
7. Poor Ellen Smith - Reno & Harrell, Tennessee Cut-Ups,
8. Where the Soul of Man Never Dies - Hylo Brown & The Timberliners
9. Grandfather's Clock - Mac Wiseman
10. Big Sandy - Red Smiley & the Bluegrass Cut-Ups
11. Worried Man Blues - Jim McCall, Stoney Mountain Boys, , Earl Taylor
12. Deep Elm Blues - Jim Greer & The Mac-O-Chee Valley Folks
13. Wild Bill Jones - Hylo Brown & The Timberliners
14. Rovin' Gambler - Mac Wiseman,
15. Soldier's Joy - Michael Cleveland, The Cumberlands
16. Darling Corey - Jim McCall, Stoney Mountain Boys, , Earl Taylor
17. Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss - Red White & the Dixie Blue Grass Band
18. When the Bees Are in the Hive - Jim Greer & The Mac-O-Chee Valley Folks
19. Bread and Gravy - Morris Herbert, , J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
20. Run Boy Run - Michael Cleveland, The Cumberlands
21. Gathering Flowers from the Hillside - Jim McCall, Stoney Mountain Boys, , Earl Taylor
22. Mole in the Ground - Hylo Brown & The Timberliners
23. Long Journey Home - Reno & Harrell, Tennessee Cut-Ups,
24. Rebel Soldier - The Cumberlands
25. Fire on the Mountain - Wear Family, DeWayne Wear,
26. Tie That Binds - Jim Greer & The Mac-O-Chee Valley Folks
27. Rabbit in the Log - Raymond Fairchild, Frosty Mountain Boys
28. All the Good Times Are Past and Gone - Hylo Brown & The Timberliners
29. Just Over in Glory Land - Mac Wiseman
30. Amazing Grace - Raymond Fairchild, , Maggie Valley Boys

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44232 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-22
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

appalachian mountain bluegress
my son loved the music . will be buying more of the same kind of music for him

Bluegrass mix
A good mixture that reminds of the old fiddlers convention that was held in my hometown when I was growing up.