Various Artists - True Bluegrass Essentials - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The third in the True Bluegrass series is a major-league bargain-and there are no minor-league pickers here! You'll hear favorites like Orange Blossom Special and Wildwood Flower as you hear instrumentals by Ralph Stanley, Ricky Skaggs, Tony Rice and more. Album Tracks 1. John Hardy (Tony Rice) 2. Florida Blues (Ricky Skaggs) 3. Home Sweet Home (Bill Emerson) 4. Orange Blossom Special (Stanley Brothers) 5. Old Spinning Wheel (Charlie Waller & Randall Hylton) 6. Cannonball (Seldom Scene) 7. St. Anne's Reel (Cody Kilby) 8. Train 45 (Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys) 9. Mississippi Sawyer (Norman Blake & Red Rector) 10. Little Rabbit (Richard Greene) 11. Billy in the Lowground (Tony Rice) 12. Swanee River (Don Reno & Eddie Adcock) 13. Wildwood Flower (Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs) 14. Rainbow (Josh Graves) 15. Katie Hill (James Price) 16. Carter's Blues (Larry Sparks) 17. Black Jack (J.D. Crowe) 18. Chicken Reel (Curly Ray Cline) 19. Alabama Jubilee (Jimmy Arnold) 20. Back Up and Push (Kenny Baker)

In the earliest days of bluegrass, the guitar was thought of as a rhythm instrument that augmented the vocals and other pickers. In the 1950s, several groups used the gentle strains of the lead guitar to enhance their gospel recordings. It wasn't until the late 1950s and early '60s that master musicians such as Don Reno, George Shuffler, Doc Watson and Clarence White truly brought the lead guitar to the forefront of bluegrass. Their trailblazing efforts inspired several generations of pickers, the effects of which are on full display in True Bluegrass Guitar. Assembled from the huge catalogs of the Rebel and County labels, the talent for True Bluegrass Guitar reads like a Who's Who of bluegrass guitar picking. For starters, there's IBMA Hall of Fame member Tony Rice who is touted as the Inch most influential living acoustic guitar player in bluegrassInch - he is represented here with four tracks! Then there's Tennessee native Cody Kilby, a 14-year veteran of Ricky Skaggs's Kentucky Thunder and a former National Flat Pick Guitar Champion. Then lending an air of tradition to the project is James Alan Shelton who logged twenty years of service in Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys. David Grier is a three-time winner of the IBMA award for Guitar Player of the Year. Also included here are those who are known for other talents but who also excel on the guitar. Kenny Baker was often introduced by Bill Monroe as the Inchgreatest fiddler in bluegrass music,Inch yet he was also a masterful guitar player. Larry Sparks is known as one of the most soulful singers in bluegrass; his version of InchCarter's BluesInch shows that he is equally adept on the six-string. Long-time Country Gentleman leader Charlie Waller was likewise a stunning vocalist who occasionally - but brilliantly - shone on the guitar. And the list goes on and on. Nineteen tracks, an exemplary set of A-List picke

Rebel Records has combed through it's vaults to showcase 50 years of the finest bluegrass banjo performances it has recorded. Enjoy the works of Ralph Stanley, Bill Emerson, the Seldom Scene and many others. Album Tracks 1. Sweet Dixie 2. Clinch Mountain Backstep 3. Little Rock Getaway 4. Bear Tracks 5. Daddy S Dream 6. Banjo Boy Chimes 7. Cotton Patch Rag 8. Theme Time 9. Hard Times 10. Knee Deep in the Bluegrass 11. Lonesome Road Blues 12. Black Jack 13. Old Time Pickin 14. M Street Rag 15. Nedscape Navigator 16. Home Sweet Home