 | The Music of Bill Monroe by Bill Monroe
Buy new: $28.47 / Used from: $23.60 The Master... I hate to recommend what is essentially a "Greatest Hits" but this record really does a great job. Buy all his others too but start here.
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 | The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys: The Complete Mercury Recordings by The Stanley Brothers
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $18.99 If I had a gun to my head and had to choose just one bluegrass group to listen to for the rest of my life... it would be the Stanley Brothers (sorry Bill).
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 | At Carnegie Hall! by Lester Flatt
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.91 This is my favorite Flatt and Scruggs record by far. Clearly, they've garnered the appropriate amount of practiced.
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 | Appalachian Swing! by Kentucky Colonels
Buy used from: $4.64 The Kentucky Colonels were part of the third wave of bluegrass and just outstanding.
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 | On the Road by The Country Gentlemen
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.07 The Country Gents (and Seldom Scene) are required listening and I especially love them live. Mr. Duffy... you are missed.
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 | Old & In the Way by Old & in the Way
Buy used from: $25.98 Bluegrass traditionalists (aka bluegrass-nazis) will scoff at this choice... but this started me and MANY others down the Bluegrass path. So feel free to kick said scoffers in the balls.
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 | The Folkways Years: 1964-1983 by Red Allen & Frank Wakefield
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.96 Red and Frank... love it. I'd also buy the Kitchen Tapes but Amazon doesn't offer it...
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 | Monroe Brothers, Vol. 1: What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul by The Monroe Brothers
Buy used from: $7.00 Just buy this... your ear will explain to your brain why this is fantastic.
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 | Off The Record, Vol. 2: Live Duet Recordings, 1963-1980 by Bill Monroe
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $6.99 Ditto for what I said about the Monroe Brothers...
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 | An Evening Long Ago: Live 1956 by The Stanley Brothers
Buy used from: $3.49 Live Bluegrass is better, bumper stickers should be issued.
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