Sugar Hill Records: A Retrospective [Box Set] (2006)

About this title: With over 25 years of quality music in the can, it's certainly not too soon for Sugar Hill Records to take a look back with their box set Sugar Hill Records: A Retrospective. Founder and label head Barry Poss' love for quality, roots-based music has garnered his label a whole mess of respect (and 12 Grammy Awards), and his impeccable taste continues to add a mark of quality to any band he picks up. As sprawling and diverse as this four-disc collection is, it's pretty cohesive (Poss' good judgment at work). From the plaintive early work of Ricky Skaggs to the charming, shambling rent-party ... read more

Tracks:

1. Could You Love Me One More Time [Stanley]
2. Mis'ry River [Worf]
3. Long Time Gone [Betts]
4. Moonshiner [Traditional]
5. Hey Porter [Cash]
6. Little Rock Getaway [Sigman/Sullivan]
7. One More Love Song [Russell]
8. Church Street Blues [Blake]
9. One Way Track [Skaggs/Golding]
10. Why You Been Gone So Long [Newbury]
11. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning [Traditional]
12. You Touched Me & Made Me Live Again [Murphy]
13. Come and Sit by the River [Roehrig]
14. Ranger's Command [Guthrie]
15. Greenville Trestle High [Jett]
16. More Pretty Girls Than One [Delmore/Smith]
17. High on a Hilltop [Collins]
18. Forked Deer [Traditional]
19. Bury Me Beneath the Willow [Traditional]
20. Don't This Road Look Rough & Rocky [Flatt/Scruggs]
21. On the Sea of Life [Angel/Sloan]
22. Freeborn Man [Lindsay/Allison]
23. If You Ain't Lovin', You Ain't Livin' [Collins]
24. Father I Stretch My Hand [Traditional]
25. High Hill [Hood]
26. The Bigger the Fool [Cordle/Rushing]
27. I'm Not Over You [Jackson/Montgomery]
28. Seņor [Dylan]
29. Satan's Jeweled Crown [Edens]
30. Whiskey 'Fore Breakfast/Sailor's Bonnet [Cross]
31. Mariano [Keen]
32. Rock Bottom Blues [Dowling]
33. At My Window [VanZandt]
34. Nobody Knows But Me [McWilliams/Rodgers]
35. One Rose/Hot Buttered Rum [Ellis/Thompson]
36. Train of Life [Miller]
37. Mother I'm Lonely [Traditional]
38. Unwed Fathers [Prine/Braddock]
39. Pig in a Pen [Traditional]
40. Trail of Tears [Rowan]
41. Lord I've Been a Hard Working Pilgrim [Brumley]
42. When You Go Walking [Messer/Varney]
43. All Night Radio [Krekel]
44. Can't You Hear Me Calling [Monroe]
45. Rolling & Rambling (The Death of Hank Williams) [Williams/Williams]
46. Dry Run Creek [McPeak]
47. Shadow Ridge [Thile]
48. Let's Shake Loose [Snodderly]
49. Way Long Timey Ago [Thompson]
50. For All I Know [McMurtry]
51. Tree King Creek [Anger]
52. Out in the Parking Lot [Clark/Scott]
53. You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive [Scott]
54. Gone to Texas [Allen]
55. Big Bug Shuffle [Barenberg]
56. The Hills That I Call Home [Amos]
57. Sally Goodin [Traditional]
58. Bad Case of the Blues [Stanley]
59. Dark End of the Street [Moman/Penn]
60. Let Me Be Your Friend [Stanley]
61. Merry Christmas from the Family [Keen]
62. I Walk the Line (Revisited) [Crowell/Cash]
63. House of Tom Bombadil [Thile]
64. I Won't Be There [Ferguson/Rigsby]
65. Dear Sarah [Miller]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.