Various – Bluegrass Early Cuts – 1931-1953 – 4 CD

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Track Listing:

CD1:
Jerry & Sky: 1. Orange Blossom Special - 2:49   Red Belcher & The Kentucky Ridgerunners: 2. The Old Grey Goose - 2:10   Red Belcher: 3. Kentucky Is Only a Dream - 2:47   Red Belcher & The Kentucky Ridgerunners: 4. Holston Valley Breakdown - 2:50   Byron Parker & His Mountaineers: 5. Somebody Touched Me - 2:33   6. Jesse James - 3:03   7. Tragic Romance 2:42   Phebel Wright: 8. Lint Head Stomp - 2:40   Whitey & Hogan: 9. Jesse James - 2:48   Ralph Mayo & L.C. Smith Southern Mountain Boys: 10. Radio Boogie - 2:26   Colwell Brothers: 11. Blue Bonnet Lane - 2:22   Rebe & Rabe: 12. Mother, Sweet Mother - 2:48   13. Helen - 3:04   Hack Johnson & His Tennesseans: 14. Let Me Rest (At the End of My Journey) - 2:53   Shenandoah Valley Trio: 15. This World Can't Stand Long - 2:37   Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper: 16. Wicked Path of Sin - 2:30   17. Hallelujah, We Shall Rise - 1:50   Sauceman Brothers: 18. They Sleep Together Now at Rest - 3:14   The Lilly Brothers: 19. What Are They Doing in Heaven Today - 2:38   20. Pain in My Heart - 2:43   Lonesome Pine Fiddlers: 21. Lonesome, Sad and Blue - 3:03   22. Don't Forget Me - 2:25   23. Will I Meet Mother in Heaven? - 2:20   24. Dirty Dishes Blues - 2:47

CD2:
Lonesome Pine Fiddlers: 1. You Broke Your Promise - 2:11   2. I'm Left Alone - 2:13   3. Nobody Cares (Not Even You) - 2:21   4. Twenty One Years - 2:20   5. Lonesome Pine Breakdown - 2:31   Marvin Cobb, Frank Wakefield & The Chain Mountain Boys: 6. New Campdown Races - 2:17   Buster Turner & Frank Wakefield: 7. You're the One (I See in My Dreams) - 1:59   8. Leave Well Enough Alone - 2:41   Frank Hunter & His Black Mountain Boys: 9. Long Time, No See - 2:29   Byron Parker & His Mountaineers, Curly Parker, Darrell "Pee Wee" Lambert: 10. Weary Hobo - 2:53   11. Just a Memory - 2:16   Hobo Jack Adkins: 12. Going Back to Old Kentucky - 2:05   The Bailey Brothers & Happy Valley Boys: 13. Rattlesnake Daddy - 2:09   Sonny Osborne: 14. I'm On My Way to the Old Home - 2:42   Ted Lundy: 15. I've Never Been So Lonesome - 2:10   Connie & Babe: 16. Roll On Blues - 2:04   17. How Will the Flowers Bloom - 2:29   18. The Last Love Letter - 4:17   19. The Lonely Waltz - 2:38   Buster Pack & His Lonesome Pine Boys: 20. Better Late Than Never - 2:04   Pine Mountain Boys: 21. The Bright Crystal Sea - 3:30   22. Where Will You Spend Eternity - 2:31   Hamm Brothers: 23. He Saved My Soul - 2:53   Hobo Jack Adkins: 24. You Have Left Me Memories - 2:57

CD3:
Byron Parker: 1. Married Life Blues - 2:38   Byron Parker & His Mountaineers: 2. Up Jumped the Devil - 2:43   3. We Shall Rise - 2:43   4. C & NW Railroad Blues - 2:39   5. Carroll County Blues - 2:37   6. Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar - 2:34   J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers: 7. Concord Rag - 2:31   8. Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind - 2:33   9. Drunkard's Hiccups - 2:46   10. Blue Ridge Mountain Blues - 2:31   11. Johnson's Old Grey Mule - 2:51   12. Maple on the Hill - 2:46   13. Seven and a Half - 3:07   Wade Mainer: 14. Short Life and It's Trouble - 2:26  Wade Mainer & the Sons of the Mountaineers: 15. Wild Bill Jones - 2:24   16. Lonely Tombs - 2:46   17. Poor Drunkard's Dream - 2:44   18. I Won't Be Worried - 2:34   J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers: 19. Ramshackle Shack - 2:32   Wade Mainer & the Sons of the Mountaineers: 20. Old Reuben - 2:39   21. Don't Leave Me Alone - 2:35   22. You May Forsake Me - 2:06   23. Rambling Boy - 2:50   Preston Young & Buster Carter: 24. I'll Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms - 2:57

CD4:
Jim Eanes & His Shenandoah Valley Boys: 1. Florida Blues - 2:21   2. T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1) - 2:19   3. Missing in Action - 3:03   4. Curtains of Sorrow - 2:47   5. Little Brown Hand - 2:21   6. Down Among the Budded Roses - 2:56   7. Tomorrow May Be Different - 2:39   Roy Hall & his Blue Ridge Entertainers: 8. Come Back My Little Pal - 2:40   9. Wabash Cannonball - 2:29   10. Lonesome Dove - 2:35   11. Where the Roses Never Fade - 2:39   12. Natural Bridge Blues - 2:29   13. The Best of Friends Must Part Sometime - 2:34   14. Polecat Blues - 2:34   15. I Wonder Where You Are Tonight - 2:52   16. Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die - 2:47   17. Can You Forgive - 3:02   18. Loving You Too Well - 2:46   19. 'Neath the Bridge at the Foot of the Hill - 2:49   20. Little Sweetheart Come and Kiss Me - 2:29   Hall Brothers Jazz Band: 21. Little Mohee - 3:03   22. The Wrong Road - 2:17   Mouse Brothers: 23. Orange Blossom Special - 2:58   Morris Brothers: 24. Let Me Be Your Salty Dog - 2:37

Reviews:

1. AllMusic - Steve Leggett
This four-disc box set from JSP Records collects tracks from the earliest years of bluegrass music, and in a rather curious sequencing decision, runs them backwards from the first disc, which includes the latest selections from the 1950s, to the fourth, which is made up of what are essentially high-octane string band tracks from the early '30s. Arranged this way, it neither functions effectively as a history or as an overview of early bluegrass, but that may well be secondary, since it does put about 90 hard to find 78s in one place, which no doubt will be its main attraction to bluegrass scholars and collectors. It is particularly interesting to hear the selections from Byron Parker & His Mountaineers, which all feature DeWitt "Snuffy" Jenkins on five-string banjo. Jenkins' three-finger picking style clearly prefigures the later work of banjo great Earl Scruggs, whose lightning three-finger runs have become the standard -- if not the very backbone -- of modern bluegrass. Also of interest here is the first version of "Orange Blossom Special," recorded by the Rouse Brothers in New York City in 1939. The song was actually written by the fiddler Ervin Rouse, and this simple early rendition is quite striking, particularly when you stop and ponder how many thousands of times the song has been recorded and performed since. Serious fans of bluegrass will find this box set useful and instructive, but casual listeners will no doubt find it to be about three discs too long.

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