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Bluegrass Pride!: 40 Bluegrass Classics

Various Artists
2 discs

0. DISC 1:
1. It's Raining Here This Morning - Red Smiley/Bluegrass Cut-Ups
2. Pretty Quandroon - The Stoney Mountain Boys/Earl Taylor/Jim McCall
3. Ties That Bind, The - Jim Greer/The Mac-O-Chee Valley Folks
4. Down in the Willow Garden - Hylo Brown
5. Limehouse Blues - Don Reno/The Tennessee Cut-Ups/Bill Harrell
6. Shady Grove - Red Smiley/Bluegrass Cut-Ups
7. Pallet on the Floor - Herbert Morris/J.E. Mainer/The Mountaineers
8. Wild Bill Jones - Hylo Brown/Timberliners
9. You Are My Flower - Raymond Fairchild/Frosty Mountain Boys
10. Sugar in the Gourd - Red Smiley/Tater Tate
11. Home Across the Blue Ridge Mountains - The Stoney Mountain Boys/Earl Taylor/Jim McCall
12. Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss - Red White/The Dixie Blue Grass Band
13. I Left My Gal in the Mountains - Hylo Brown/Timberliners
14. Short Life of Trouble - Red Smiley/Bluegrass Cut-Ups
15. Yonder Comes the Sheriff - Bob Ensign/The Stump Jumpers
16. Black Jack Davey - Jim Greer/The Mac-O-Chee Valley Folks
17. Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar - Ritchey Brothers
18. Rabbit in the Log - Log Cabin Boys
19. Molly Darling - Jim Eanes
20. Mississippi Sawyer - Curly Fox
0. DISC 2:
1. Sunny Tennessee - Hylo Brown
2. Roll on Buddy - Red Smiley/Bluegrass Cut-Ups
3. Rovin' Gambler - Mac Wiseman
4. Little Henry Lee - The Stoney Mountain Boys/Earl Taylor/Jim McCall
5. East Tennessee Blues - Mac Martin/The Dixie Travelers
6. Deep Elm Blues - Jim Greer/The Mac-O-Chee Valley Folks
7. Weeping Willow - Hylo Brown/Timberliners
8. Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party - Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party
9. In the Pines - Red Smiley/Bluegrass Cut-Ups
10. Old Joe Clark - The Stoney Mountain Boys/Earl Taylor/Jim McCall
11. I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home - Red White/The Dixie Blue Grass Band
12. Cross Eyed Nancy Jane - Hylo Brown
13. Cindy - Ernie & Mack/Bluegrass Cut-Ups
14. Careless Love - Log Cabin Boys
15. Silver Bells - Red Smiley/Bluegrass Cut-Ups
16. Low and Lonesome Sea - Earl Taylor/Jim McCall/Bluegrass Cut-Ups
17. John Hardy - Jim Greer/The Mac-O-Chee Valley Folks
18. My Farm in Louisiana - Red Smiley/Bluegrass Cut-Ups
19. Banks of the Ohio - Red White & the Dixie Blue Grass Band
20. Foggy Mountain Top - Raymond Fairchild/The Maggie Valley Boys
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 105
Credits

Producer Sam Passamano, Jr. (Compilation)
Engineer
Audio Remasterer: Steve Hoffman.
Liner Note Author: John McEuen.
Photographer: Marty Rosamond.
Jim O'Neal started Rural Rhythm Records in 1955, dedicating the imprint to preserving old-time and bluegrass music, and from the 1950s through the 1970s he released albums by some of the steadiest and most consistent performers in the bluegrass genre, including sides by Mac Wiseman, Don Reno, Red Smiley, Hylo Brown, J.E. Mainer, and many others, and built up a massive back catalog of traditional bluegrass tracks. Rural Rhythm continues to release albums by some of the newer artists in the field, but the label's bread and butter are cost-efficient collections like this one, a two-disc, 40-track compilation that revisits that vast back catalog. Nothing here is particularly progressive, but traditional sides like Red Smiley's version of "Shady Grove," Jim Greer's "Black Jack Davey," Mac Wiseman's "Rovin' Gambler," and Hylo Brown's "Wild Bill Jones" show how these modern players took old-time string band material, hit the accelerator, and turned it all into bluegrass. ~ Steve Leggett