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It all began in 1956 with the release of the historic Folkways album American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style (SFW 40037), the first-ever full-length bluegrass LP. From that point on, Folkways Records was synonymous with great bluegrass music. Folkways founder Moses Asch released scores of bluegrass albums, and this collection comprises the cream of the crop from these recordings, including works from giants of the genre such as Red Allen & Frank Wakefield, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, the Stanley Brothers, and The Country Gentlemen. It serves as an outstanding introduction to the wealth of great bluegrass Smithsonian Folkways has to offer. Extensive notes & photos compiled and annotated by Lee Michael Demsey and Jeff Place.
Track listing:
1. EARL TAYLOR & THE STONEY MOUNTAIN BOYS: White House Blues
2. THE JOHNSON MOUNTAIN BOYS: Our Last Goodbye
3. BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: When He Reached Down His Hand For Me
4. HAZEL DICKENS & ALICE GERRARD: Tiny Broken Heart
5. RED ALLEN, FRANK WAKEFIELD & THE KENTUCKIANS: New Camptown Races
6. HARLEY ALLEN-MIKE LILLY BAND: Suzanne
7. THE NASHVILLE GRASS: I Heard My Mother Call My Name in Prayer
8. THE FRIENDLY CITY PLAYBOYS: Teardrops in My Eyes
9. SNUFFY JENKINS: Cumberland Gap
10. RED ALLEN & THE KENTUCKIANS: Live and Let Live
11. ROGER SPRUNG & DOC WATSON: The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
12. HUGH MOORE: Hello City Limits
13. THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN: Legend of the Brown Mountain Light
14. RONI STONEMAN: Lonesome Road Blues
15. DOC WATSON: The Train that Carried My Girl from Town
16. THE NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS: The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake
17. THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Little Birdie
18. THE STANLEY BROTHERS: Rabbit in a Log
19. DAVID & BILLIE RAY JOHNSON: Grey Eagle
20. CULLEN GAYLEAN & THE VIRGINIA MOUNTAIN BOYS: Wayfaring Stranger
21. THE LONESOME STRANGERS: Billy in the Lowground
22. HAZEL DICKENS: The Rebel Girl
23. SMILEY HOBBS: Train
24. THE LILLY BROTHERS & DON STOVER: 'Neath that Cold Grey Tomb of Stone
25. BILL MONROE & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: Get up John
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