Bluegrass At Newport: Recorded Live At The Newport Folk Festivals 1959, 60 & 63 [Live]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 16, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Vanguard Records
• ASIN: B000000ECV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #379,088 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Salty Dog Blues

2. Before I Met You

3. Cabin on the Hill

4. Jimmie Brown, the Newsboy

5. Train Forty-Five

6. Pretty Little Miss

7. Liza Jane

8. Jordan Am a Hard Road to Travel

9. I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home

10. Love Letters in the Sand

11. Little Footsteps in the Snow

12. Way Downtown

13. Maggie Walker Blues

14. That Girl I Loved in Sunny Tennessee

15. Lee Highway Blues

16. Flint Hill Special

17. Earl's Breakdown

18. Cunberland Gap

19. Salty Dog Blues

20. You Give Me Your Love and I'll Give You Mine

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction to bluegrass music., June 29, 2001

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6XERVANTES (Dortmund, Ruhr Valley, Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bluegrass At Newport: Recorded Live At The Newport Folk Festivals 1959, 60 & 63 (Audio CD)

24 tracks recorded live in the late 50s/ early 60s, but sounding as fresh and fiery as if they had been performed yesterday. What these musicians (among them Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Clarence Ashley, Doc Watson) do is truly amazing, the sound quality is very good, too. If you like the fiddle and the banjo, you will love this collection. My favourite songs on this collection are the haunting 'Train 45' by the New Lost City Ramblers and the 'Maggie Walker Blues' by Clarence and Doc, but there's lots more to thrill you.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You Must Have This CD, June 12, 2001

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T. Burke (PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bluegrass at Newport 1959-60 & 1963 (Audio Cassette)

I am amazed at how well this stuff has stood up over time. This CD contains some of the best bluegrass I've ever heard, particularly the selections by Jim and Jesse. And half of this CD (the better half, actually) is not bluegrass but old-time mountain music. Some of the selections by Ashley and Watson are haunting. Overall, for both vituosity and sheer energy, the music on this CD is head and shoulders above anything produced today.