Bluegrass Breakdown [ Various Artists } [Live]

Byron Berline (Performer), The Greenbriar Boys (Performer), The Dillards (Performer), Clayton McMichen (Performer), Bill Monroe (Performer), Peter Rowan (Performer), Fiddling Arthur Smith (Performer), The Stanley Brothers (Performer), The New York City Ramblers (Performer), David Grisman (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 3, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Vanguard Records
• ASIN: B000000EGS
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #397,957 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. New Broom

2. Old Logan

3. Crazy Creek

4. Dusty Miller

5. How Mountain Girls Can Love

6. A Man of Constant Sorrow

7. Big Tilda

8. Orange Blossom Special

9. Leather Britches

10. Blackberry Blossom

11. Levee Breakin' Blues

12. At the End of a Long Lonely Day

13. Old Joe Clark

14. Ground Hog

15. Banjo in the Hollow

16. Polly Vaughn

17. Dueling Banjos

18. Alabama Jubilee

19. Sourwood Mountain

20. You Better Get Right Little Darlin'

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible!!! Five Stars and three and a half more!!!, April 25, 2007

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Charles Jackson "Chip" (Ellettsville, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bluegrass Breakdown [ Various Artists } (Audio CD)

Oh to have been alive when this blessed event occured!! The cross section of musicians, acts and music on this disc is one of the most comprehensive representations of what The Newport Folk Music Festival was capable of producing one can ever imagine.

The side men alone listed here is like a who's who of the era:
A young Bill Kieth playing with an equaly youthful Byron Berline before they began picking with "Dad."
A 19 year old David Grisman with the vaunted New York City Ramblers shoulder to shoulder with Gene Lowinger and Winnie Winston.
Monroe on stage with not one but THREE fiddlers and some red-headed kid named Rowan.
John Herald's Greenbriar Boys cutting down on an old Delta blues tune turned on it's head and played bluegrass style followed by a Marty Robbins song complimented by some of the most tasteful muted banjo anyone could ever hope to hear.
Carter Stanley also proves what made him the worlds greatest emcee.
And of course no visit to this era would be complete without The Dillards.

If there is any complaint with this compilation it is two fold: One that it's not long enough, even at clocking in at a little over an hour. The other is that some of the crowd noise has been overdubbed and repeated throughout the disc. But if that's all anyone could find wrong I'll take three more just like it.

Order this disc. Do not hesitate.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The WWF of Bluegrass, March 6, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Bluegrass Breakdown [ Various Artists } (Audio CD)

These were the lean years of bluegrass, when only the REALLY talented and committed were willing to play for small audiences and smaller returns. Many survived by slipping in under the mantle of "folk music" and playing venues like Newport. Folk fans in those years heard the best of the best in bluegrass, and many of these are included here. This fine collection includes veterans like Monroe and the Stanleys when they were still at their peak musically as well as some of the earliest members of the new wave, like the Dillards and fiddler Berline. Own a piece of history!