The Del McCoury Band"I'm Lonely For My Only"
A Deeper Shade of Blue
Rounder 1993
www.delmccouryband.com
This is my favorite McCoury Band album, a great example of how the blues rules bluegrass! If you didn't know, McCoury actually got his start in bluegrass in Glen Rock, PA where he played 5-string banjo with Keith Daniels & the Blue Ridge Ramblers. His family had moved there when he was 2 from his birthplace of Bakersville, NC. It wasn't until McCoury joined Bill Monroe's band in 1963 that he took up rhythm guitar.
Patty Loveless
"Pretty Little Miss"
Mountain Soul
Epic 2001
www.pattyloveless.com
Crooked Still
"Little Sadie"
Shaken By A Low Sound
Signature Sounds 2006
www.crookedstill.com
Crooked Still is currently in the studio in Shokan, NY finishing up a new album. You can keep up with the progress at www.playthebassdrivethebus.blogspot.com. Here is a fairly decent video of the band performing Little Sadie.
Gillian Welch
"Red Clay Halo"
Time (The Revelator)
Acony 2001
www.gillianwelch.com
Free Range Pickin"Pastor Flaps"
Free Range Pickin
Driving 2004
www.freerangepickin.com/
This Minneapolis based band is saying they will have their new CD Flight Risk completed and ready for release very soon!
Doc Watson
"Gambler's Yodel"
Ballads From Deep Gap
Vanguard 1967
Norman Blake
"Billy Gray"
The Fields of November/Old and New (A double album)
Flying Fish 1992
No Speed Limit
"Hometown"
Sweet Virginia
Arhoolie 2006
www.nospeedlimitband.com
Tim O'Brien
"I've Endured"
Traveler
Sugar Hill 2003
Tim O'Brien
"Land's End - Chasing Talon"
Fiddler's Green
www.timobrien.net
Sugar Hill 2005
Here is a video of Tim O'Brien playing with Nickel Creek and Bela Fleck at the last Nickel Creek show of their Farewell For Now Tour at the Ryman in Nashville. I was lucky enough to have been at this great night of music!
Steve Gulley
"Livin' It Down"
Sounds Like Home
Lonesome Day 2007
www.stevegulley.com
Former lead singer of Mountain Heart and leader of the new trio Grasstowne, Steve Gulley steps out for a solo project that includes most of the Mountain Heart lineup including fiddler Jim VanCleve, mandolin player Adam Steffey and bassist Jason Moore. This is a pure bluegrass endeavor that is a welcome addition to anyone's library.
The Gibson Brothers
"Don't Forget the Coffee, Billy Joe"
Bona Fide
Sugar Hill 2003
www.gibsonbrothers.com
Uncle Earl
"The Last Goodbye"
Waterloo, Tennessee
Rounder 2007
www.uncleearl.net
New Grass Revival
"County Clare"
and
"One Love - People Get Ready"
On the Boulevard
Sugar Hill 1984
The Stanley Brothers"Bound to Ride"
An Evening Long Ago - Live 1956
DMZ/Columbia/Legacy 2004
Some of the recordings on this Stanley album are first-time releases and present the Stanley Brother in a laid-back and at-ease environment. There's country and bluegrass mixed in with old folk ballads. A number of these tracks are the only available live versions of these Stanley songs. This album also represents some of the best production available of Stanley Brothers material from this time period. If you are a Stanley Brothers fan then you surely will want to add this to your collection.
Peter Ostroushko
"Montenegro"
Postcards
Red House 2006
www.peterostroushko.com
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