Country Cooking - Country Cooking-26 Bluegrass I - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Rebel Records has released a single, Bluefield West Virginia Blues, from their upcoming album by Big Country Bluegrass. It's a new song from Tom T. & Dixie Hall and Troy Engle, telling of a time when Tom T. encountered an exceptional banjo player who he didn't have a chance to meet. It's one of two songs by the Halls that will be included on Country Livin', due June 9 from this popular Virginia band. Like so many artists in bluegrass, Big Country Bluegrass had a long relationship with Miss Dixie Hall, and had recorded many of her songs during their career before she passed away earlier this year. Founding member and mandolinist Tommy Sells shared a sentiment from the group InchMiss Dixie was a dear friend who loved and supported our music so much. Her wonderful contributions, not only to us but to bluegrass music as a whole, were beyond measure.Inch Their arrangement is driven by Lynwood Lunsford's tasty D-tuning banjo, and concludes with his version of Green Mountain Hop, Don Reno's classic rendering of Black Mountain Rag in D. Country Livin' - Big Country BluegrassCountry Livin' isn't scheduled to hit until June, but the single is available for sale now in iTunes, and the band is accepting album orders online. Big Country Bluegrass is Tommy Sells on mandolin, Teresa Sells on guitar, Lynwood Lunsford on banjo, Tony King on bass, Eddie Gill on guitar, and Tim Laughlin on fiddle. Album Tracks 1. Bluefield West Virginia Blues, the 2. Easy Memories 3. Country Livin' 4. Cotton Mill Song, the 5. A Heart Is Like a River 6. Hound Dog from Harlan, the 7. Just An Old Friend 8. Hold Me Closer, Jesus 9. Blue River 10. Till I Met You 11. Boy from the Country, the 12. Snow White Grave 13. My Lonely Heart

Album Tracks 1. Devil in Disguise 2. Letter from My Darlin' 3. A Hundred Years from Now 4. Unfaithful One 5. Down the Road 6. I'd Rather Be Alone 7. Big Spike Hammer 8. Please Search Your Heart 9. Hey Lonesome 10. I'm Waiting to Hear You Call Me Darlin' 11. Wall Around Your Heart 12. Come Back Darlin'

There's nothing like a healthy does of bluegrass music, much like the 23 songs on this terrific compilation. With the Pike County Boys, Smiley Hobbs and a whole host of other talent, you'll hear some of the finest examples of a genre is timelessly enjoyable. Album Tracks 1. Katy Hill - Tex Logan 2. Katy Cline - Stover, Lilly & Anthony 3. Short Life of Trouble - Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys 4. The Philadelphia Lawyer - Bob Baker and the Pike County Boys 5. Little Willie - Bob Baker and the PCB 6. Leather Britches - Smiley Hobbs 7. Natchez Under the Hill - Tex Logan 8. Old Joe Clark - Yellin, Seeger & Weissberg 9. There Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone - Stover, Lilly & Anthony 10. White House Blues - Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys 11. They're at Rest Together - Earl Taylor and the SMB 12. Foggy Mountain Top - Earl Taylor and the SMB 13. Nine Pound Hammer - Smiley Hobbs 14. Cricket on the Hearth - Anthony and Stover 15. New River Train - Anthony, Seeger & Yellin 16. Fox Chase - Earl Taylor & the SMB 17. Feast Here Tonight - Bob Baker & the PCB 18. Snow Dove - Bob Baker & The PCB 19. Drifting Too Far from the Shore - Bob Baker & the PCB 20. Rocky Run - Stuart, Kuykendall, Hobbs & Gray 21. Bile 'Em Cabbage Down - Stover, Lilly & Anthony 22. All the Good Times Have Past and Gone - Earl Taylor and the SMB 23. Sally Ann - Earl Taylor and the SMB