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Required Listening for my Imaginary String Band
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StompStomp by Mike Compton & David Long
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Two guys with a variety of mandolin-family instruments tackle some pre-bluegrass classics.
Blue Country HeartBlue Country Heart by Jorma Kaukonen
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A great album of 20s and 30s country blues classics by five of the hottest pickers around.
Crossing Muddy WatersCrossing Muddy Waters by John Hiatt
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Stripped down acoustic tunes by America's greatest living songwriter. Some great mandolin playing by Davy Immergluck, now of the Counting Crows.
Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (Digipak with 72-page booklet)Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (Digipak with 72-page booklet) by Pink Anderson
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Some genuinely strange old-timey music with a terrific book of liner notes.
The MountainThe Mountain by Steve Earle
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If you only get one bluegrass album, this is it right here. Includes my favorite murder ballad, "Carrie Brown."