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Bluegrass music is one of America's most vibrant and enduring folk traditions, a music born of the mountains, shaped by migration, and sustained by the spirit of storytelling. With it's high, lonesome harmonies and dazzling instrumental drive, bluegrass captures the pulse of rural life and the poetry of human experience. This four-disc collection, 100 Bluegrass Favourites, brings together the pioneering artists and landmark recordings that defined the genre, from it's earliest stirrings in the 1930s and '40s through it's golden years in the decades that followed. Album Tracks 1. Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Flatt & Scruggs 2. Row Us Over the Tide - the Blue Sky Boys 3. Tennessee Cut Up Breakdown - Reno & Smiley 4. When I Safely Reach the Other Shore - Tommy Magness 5. She's Just a Cute Thing - Jimmy Martin & the Osborne Brothers 6. Orange Blossom Special - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys 7. Save It - Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys 8. Alabamy Stomp - Farr Brothers 9. Going Back to Old Kentucky - Hobo Jack Adkins 10. Air Mail Special - Jim & Jesse 11. Uncle Pen - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys 12. Twin Banjo Special - Joe Maphis 13. Banjo Twist - the McCormick Brothers 14. Dickson County Breakdown - the Stanley Brothers 15. Get in Line Brother - Flatt & Scruggs 16. Molly and Tenbrooks - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys 17. My Lonely Heart - Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys 18. Twenty One Years - the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers 19. Harbour of Love - the Stanley Brothers 20. Foggy Mountain Chimes - Flatt & Scruggs 21. Can't You Hear Me Calling? - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys 22. I'm Gone, Long Gone - Reno & Smiley 23. Happy Valley Special - the Bailes Brothers 24. The Nashville Blues - the Delmore Brothers 25. Florida Blues - Jim Eanes & the Shenando
