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The Essential Earl Scruggs
(2004)
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Earl Scruggs
"The Paganini of the banjo"'s finest moments are collected on Columbia/Legacy's aptly named Essential Earl Scruggs. Unlike many other "best-of" collections, this two-disc set gathers tracks from nearly all of the stages of Scruggs' career, from his early days as one of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, through his genre-defining work with Lester ...
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Three Pickers
(2003)
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Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs
Folk and bluegrass legends meet live on-stage on Rounder's bright and entertaining Three Pickers. The titular "pickers" are bluegrass banjo innovator Earl Scruggs, guitarist and folk purist Doc Watson, and relative newcomer (with only 45 years of musical experience under his belt) Ricky Skaggs on mandolin and guitar; they work most often as a trio ...
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Greatest Hits 1927-34
(2003)
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The Carter Family
It is interesting that this selection of the Carter Family's early Victor recordings has been titled Greatest Hits, since the trio (A.P., Sara, and Maybelle Carter) didn't really hit their peak popularity until after they left Victor for Decca in 1935 (at which time they promptly re-recorded everything here) and began their radio contract with ...
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Classic Bluegrass, Vol. 2
(2005)
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Various Artists
When Moses Asch released American Banjo (which focused on the influence of Earl Scruggs' innovative three-finger banjo playing technique) in 1956 on his little independent Folkways label, it was the first ever full-length bluegrass LP. Asch followed it up with dozens more, and when Folkways became part of Smithsonian Recordings in 1987, Asch's ...
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The Carter Family: 1927-1934
(2002)
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The Carter Family
Fans looking for more than ASV/Living Era's Wildwood Flower collection but scared off by Bear Family's massive 12-disc box could comfortably pick up this five-disc budget compilation. At 126 songs, it covers all of their RCA Victor recordings in chronological order, omitting only alternate takes. The remastering isn't necessarily better than other ...
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Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music
(2005)
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June Carter Cash
While singer/songwriter/actress/comedienne June Carter Cash's musical legacy may pale in comparison to her beloved husband's work, it is in no way eclipsed by it. As the baby of the legendary Carter Family, June was immersed in the world of entertainment at birth, a vocation that she took to like wildfire. Irreverent and unafraid, she made her ...
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Friends of Old Time Music: The Folk Arrival
(2006)
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Various Artists
At the height of the folk revival in the early '60s, three movers and shakers -- Ralph Rinzler (a member of the Greenbriar Boys folk group), John Cohen (of the New Lost City Ramblers) and Israel "Izzy" Young (owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village) -- presented a number of traditional folk concerts in New York City under the umbrella of ...
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40 Years of Concert Performances
(2001)
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The New Lost City Ramblers
Unlike many bands, the history of the New Lost City Ramblers is fairly easy to trace. John Cohen and Mike Seeger joined with Tom Paley between '58 and '62, reviving string-band music from the '20s and '30s. In '62, Tracy Schwarz' replaced a departing Paley, adding new material to the band's repertoire. 40 Years of Concert Recordings proves as ...
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All the Classic Releases 1937-1949
(2003)
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Bill Monroe
Another great JSP boxed set of archival music at a budget price, All the Classic Releases 1937-1949 collects a great selection of Bill Monroe's recordings both with his Bluegrass Boys and with his brother Charlie as the Monroe Brothers. The extensive (though not really informative) liner notes don't really shed any light as to whether these are ...
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Two Sides to Every Woman/Musical Shapes
(2005)
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Carlene Carter
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Songs of the Famous Carter Family
(1961)
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Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
On this album, Flatt & Scruggs cool their famous "overdrive" to turn in a collection of relaxed, almost dreamy adaptations of Carter tunes. Maybelle herself plays autoharp on the sessions, although it would have been nice if she had sung too, especially since the cover prominently displays her name and picture. This is a pleasant record, though, ...
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Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980
(1963)
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Bill Monroe/Doc Watson
Any time two greats who admire each other and are musically compatible team together, the results are usually mutually beneficial. That was true for Bill Monroe and Doc Watson, whose spirited union on this 17-song disc is a sampler of American musical styles. They ripped through bluegrass, folk, blues, spirituals, mountain tunes, work songs, reels ...
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1959-1963
(1992)
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Flatt & Scruggs
While the first Flatt & Scruggs box on Bear Family documented the band's development over its first 11 years -- 1948-1959 -- this set captures the band at the height of its meteoric rise to fame into the stuff of legend. First and foremost, Flatt & Scruggs eclipsed the fame of their mentor, Bill Monroe by having six charting singles in Billboard ...
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RCA Country Legends
(2004)
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The Carter Family
It's practically impossible to underestimate the importance of the Carter Family in the history of country music -- A.P. Carter, Sara Carter, and Maybelle Carter were not only among the first genuine stars the music produced, but the rough, flinty passion of their performances and the heart-tugging power of their material made them perhaps the ...
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The Wild Man
(1987)
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Hasil Adkins
After exposing the world to the special magic of Hasil Adkins with the epochal 1986 compilation Out to Hunch, which gathered the best of ten years of Cheeze-Whiz-encrusted home recordings on to one LP, the masterminds at Norton Records subjected Hasil to the rigors of modern recording equipment for the first time in 1986, during the sessions that ...
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A Proper Introduction to the Carter Family: Keep on the Sunny Side
(2004)
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The Carter Family
Certainly there are dozens if not a hundred compilations of the music of the Carter Family. While Rounder issued the complete Victor recordings, and there have been some Columbia sets issued as well, this fairly priced single-disc, 25-cut collection from Proper is all most people need. These tunes were all taken from the 1920s and '30s, and are ...
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RCA Country Legends
(2001)
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Skeeter Davis
As part of RCA's Country Legends series, this set highlights Skeeter Davis' earliest records as one part of the Davis Sisters, along with her solo outings. Among the 16 tracks are the hit singles "Rock-a-Bye Boogie," "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know," and her signature song, "The End of the World." With the exception of omitting "I Can't Stay ...
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Sunshine in the Shadows
(2003)
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The Carter Family
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Memories
(1993)
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The Davis Sisters
Bear Family does its usual astonishingly thorough job on this double-CD compilation, which has no less than 59 tracks recorded by both incarnations of the Davis sisters between 1952 and 1956 (as well as a brief 1957 Skeeter Davis solo take on "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels)." The RCA singles are embellished by numerous outtakes, ...
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Bluegrass 1970-1979
(1995)
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Bill Monroe
Bluegrass (1970-1979) is a four-disc box set containing all of Monroe's '70s recordings for Decca, including several unreleased cuts and a live album featuring Jim & Jesse, James Monroe, Jimmy Martin, Lester Flatt, and Carl Jackson. By the time he made these recordings, Monroe was no longer making any innovations with his music. Instead, he just ...
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24 Bluegrass Favorites: Vintage 60's
(2000)
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Various Artists
The '60s was an interesting time for bluegrass. The genre was quickly losing chart potential and solidifying into a rigidly "traditional" form with a cult following even as Flatt & Scruggs and Jim & Jesse were having some of the last mainstream hits bluegrass artists would enjoy. 24 Bluegrass Favorites concentrates on those who found favor with ...
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Country, Bluegrass and Mountain Music
(2002)
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Various Artists
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The On Foggy Mountain
(1979)
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Flatt & Scruggs
This Collectables compilation features a good assortment of Flatt & Scruggs' hits, including "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," "You Are My Flower," "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy," and their two TV themes, "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" and "Petticoat Junction." While other collections may be more in-depth (like the two-disc 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered: ...
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Chet Atkins
(1967)
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Chet Atkins
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Music from Nashville, My Hometown/Chet Atkins
(2005)
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Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins' sleek, elegant guitar-playing almost single-handedly ushered in the so-called Nashville sound in the 1950s and 1960s, and in retrospect his perfect tone and easy grace on the guitar on his solo albums almost seem closer to smooth jazz than country. This set combines on a single disc two of his mid-'60s albums for RCA's Camden Records ...
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