Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways

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, 62 minutes. Compiled and annotated by Lee Michael Demsey and Jeff Place.

Track Listing

101	White House Blues	Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys	02:01
102	Our Last Goodbye	The Johnson Mountain Boys	02:35
103	When He Reached Down His Hand for Me	Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys	02:48
104	Tiny Broken Heart	Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard	03:05
105	New Camptown Races	Red Allen, Frank Wakefield, and the Kentuckians	02:34
106	Suzanne	Harley Allen-Mike Lilly Band	02:40
107	I Heard My Mother Call My Name in Prayer	The Nashville Grass	03:10
108	Teardrops in My Eyes	The Friendly City Playboys	02:29
109	Cumberland Gap	Snuffy Jenkins	01:33
110	Live and Let Live	Red Allen and the Kentuckians	02:47
111	The World is Waiting for the Sunrise	Roger Sprung and Doc Watson	02:40
112	Hello City Limits	Hugh Moore	02:22
113	Legend of the Brown Mountain Light	The Country Gentlemen	02:36
114	Lonesome Road Blues	Roni Stoneman	01:14
115	The Train that Carried My Girl from Town	Doc Watson	02:19
116	The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake	The New Lost City Ramblers	03:31
117	Little Birdie	The Stanley Brothers	02:40
118	Rabbit in a Log	The Stanley Brothers	02:24
119	Grey Eagle	David and Billie Ray Johnson	02:50
120	Wayfaring Stranger	Cullen Gaylean and the Virginia Mountain Boys	05:10
121	Billy in the Lowground	The Lonesome Strangers	01:03
122	The Rebel Girl	Hazel Dickens	03:00
123	Train 45	Smiley Hobbs	02:22
124	'Neath that Cold Grey Tomb of Stone	The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover	03:06
125	Get up John	Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys	02:36