Various Artists - Flattops and Fiddlers - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

W. Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, the Weavers, Odetta, Leadbelly, Burl Ives, the Kingston Trio, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs +, full length CD w. 72 page illustrated book.

On January 6th, 2012 a concert based on the music written about in the Little House on the Prairie series of books by author Laura Ingalls Wilder, was filmed at the Loveless Barn in Franklin, TN before a live audience, for broadcast by the PBS television network. Artists performing on the concert include award-winning musician and musical director Randy Scruggs and an all-star string band featuring Matt Combs, Dennis Crouch, Chad Cromwell, Hoot Hester and Shad Cobb, along with featured artists Randy Travis, Rodney Atkins, Ronnie Milsap, Ashton Shepherd, the Roys, Natalie Grant and Committed (NBC Sing Off Champions). Dean Butler (InchAlmanzoInch on the Little House on the Prairie TV show) and Dale Cockrell (President of Pa's Fiddle Recordings) have teamed up to produce this unique show that will feature these top-level artists performing and giving their best interpretations of the great American songs and tunes loved by Pa and Laura Ingalls during their lifetime. To commemorate the occasion, a brand new album is now released by Pa's Fiddle Recordings titled Pa's Fiddle American Fiddler the album, which features songs chronicled in the Little House books, helps place Charles Ingalls among the first rank of old-time fiddlers whose influence is foundational to so much of modern American music. It tells of the power of music to transcend the years, as the IncholdInch songs of Pa Ingalls becomes new again through exciting and dynamic performances by some of the today's finest acoustic musicians. Great American songs on the CD include InchBuffalo Gals, Inch InchWhen Johnny Comes Marching Home, Inch InchPolly Put the Kettle On, Inch InchLife Let US Cherish, Inch InchAll the Blue Bonnets, Inch InchGolden Years Are Passing By, Inch InchBoatmen's Dance, Inch InchMary of the Wild Moor, Inch InchThe Campbell's Are Coming, Inch InchHaste to the Wedding, Inch and more.

The 23 tracks that make up this single-CD reissue vary wildly in terms of style and execution, from straightforward bluegrass like Dick Fegy's renditions of InchBig Sandy RiverInch and InchFire Hose ReelInch to Eric Thompson's adaptation of two Irish reels and Richard Lieberson's jazzy InchPaddy on the Swingpipe. Inch Doc Watson is well represented with three tracks (InchFisher's Hornpipe/Devil's Dream,Inch InchDown Yonder,Inch and InchLiza/Lady Be GoodInch), and David Bromberg kicks in an atypically subdued version of InchThe Kitchen Girl. Inch Most of the other guitarists are relative unknowns; although Dan Crary (InchFishing Creek Blues/Arkansas TravellerInch) will be well-known to bluegrass fans, only hardcore guitarheads are likely to recognize names like Michael Aumen, Barry Solomon, and Eric Thompson. Regardless, all of them play beautifully, and the stylistic variety of the program makes it a great listen from beginning to end. Highly recommended. - Rick Anderson/Allmusic. Com