Track Listing

1. If Wishes Were Horses - Claire Lynch
2. Silver Tongue and Gold Plated Lies - Suzanne Thomas
3. Sad Situation - Delia Bell
4. True Life Blues - Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard
5. Lonesome Wind Blues - Rhonda Vincent
6. Pardon Me - Cox Family
7. Old River - Hazel Dickens and Ginny Hawker
8. You Tried to Ruin My Name - Wilma Lee Cooper
9. I Can't Find Your Love Any More - Hazel Dickens
10. Just Like Rain - Kathy Kallick with Laurie Lewis
11. Mama's Hand - Lynn Morris
12. Every Time You Say Goodbye - Alison Krauss
13. Blue - The Stevens Sisters
14. Time is Winding Up - Ginny Hawker and Carol Elizabeth Jones
15. Blow, Big Wind - Laurie Lewis
16. Will There Be Any Stars? - The Cox Family with Alison Krauss
17. The Last Old Shovel - Phyllis Boyens
18. Comin' Down from God - Carol Elizabeth Jones
19. Eight More Miles - Laurie Lewis, Claire Lynch, Lynn Morris & Rhonda Vincent

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33650 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-30
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
The bluegrass bandwagon continues to roll in 2001. This collection attempts to capitalize on the breakthrough success of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. Drawn from Rounder's rich catalog, the 19-cut sampler of female singing, fiddling, and picking extends from an era when women were a novelty in this male-dominated music category through the popular crossover ascendance of such contemporary artists (and O Brother favorites) as Alison Krauss and the Cox Family. Harmonies from the likes of Rhonda Vincent and the Stevens sisters soar toward the heavens, while the earthier strains of Hazel Dickens and Ginny Hawker are more reflective of the music's hardscrabble roots. Though Wilma Lee Cooper's "You Tried to Ruin My Name" has all the subtlety of a hog-calling contest, such rawness is about as real as this music gets. --Don McLeese

Customer Reviews

Love it!
The voices are clear and you can actually hear real instruments! There isn't one processed song in the bunch. My kids and husband love it as well. We can actually all listen to it together and I don't have to worry about explaining certain things to the kids.

This Bluegrass CD is Excellent!!!!!!
There are 19 tracks on this CD and with the exception of 1-2 songs, this may well be one of the best bluegrass CDs I own. What a buy! Eight More Miles with Laurie Lewis, Claire Lynch, Lynn Morris and Rhonda Vincent steal the show here. I have been a lover of bluegrass for over 25 years and this CD is a must have for everyone.

Lacks the Cohesion of her Brother
The collection of songs on "O Brother" was made very deliberately, with a wonderful ear toward a "comprehensive" overall sound. But there was no such brilliant and strong guiding force at work for "O Sister", which is essentially a compilation of various female Rounder artistes.

Don't get me wrong - I like many of the songs included here, but they don't always blend together in the best way.

I haven't yet heard a superb compliation collection of female bluegrass artistes, but if you want to hear an excellent and cohesive collection of Rounder artists, buy the 2-CD "Hand Picked: 25 Years of Bluegrass".