Cool, Blue and Lonesome: Bluegrass for the Broken-Hearted

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 5, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sugarhill
• ASIN: B000060OXF
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #502,287 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice sampler of heartfelt bluegrass, April 13, 2002

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J. Ross "a-music_fan" (Roseburg, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cool, Blue and Lonesome: Bluegrass for the Broken-Hearted (Audio CD)

I am the kind of person who really likes music samplers with various artists. In our hectic world today, the clock only has so many hours each day for listening to music. It is with open arms that I welcome products like Sugar Hill's second installment in their Cool, Blue compilation series. As one of the premier bluegrass music labels, Sugar Hill features some of the best artists around. For a nice tasting of some wonderful songs full of heartbreak, pick up this album. You certainly won't be sorry. In fact, hearing all these sad and blue, "you've been untrue" songs actually make me happy. You'd think that "love-gone-bad" and "so-lonely-I'm-mad" songs would have the opposite effect, but those that know bluegrass music realize that it's highly emotional music that often makes you feel better about your own cards that you've been dealt in life. It was Bill Monroe who once referred to bluegrass music as heartfelt music, and this album includes four songs written by the father of this genre (one of the fastest growing in popularity at present). This album includes 18 wonderful cuts of bluegrass (an excellent value!) from artists like Larry Cordle, Doyle Lawson, Nashville Bluegrass Band, Boone Creek, Alan Bibey, Don Rigsby, Hot Rize, Kathy Kallick, Laurie Lewis, Seldom Scene, Lonesome River Band, Ricky Skaggs, Tony Rice, Osborne Brothers, Jerry Douglas, Peter Rowan, Jim Mills, Tim and Mollie O'Brien, Mike Auldridge. It makes me want to run out and pick up every single individual album that has been sampled here.
--by Joe Ross, moderator/reviewer for "Nwbluegrass"

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great compilation of bluegrass, March 7, 2002

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"debbie-n-va" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cool, Blue and Lonesome: Bluegrass for the Broken-Hearted (Audio CD)

I actually bought this CD without knowing who the various artists were on it. I liked the titles of some of the songs on the back cover. I literally opened up a treasure trove of songs. While all of the songs tell of broken hearts, lost loves, some are "lonesome and blue", some at a faster pace. Never does this CD drag. All the cuts are absolutely wonderful with a wide array of bluegrass greats. All accoustic, all bluegrass. It is one of my very favorite CD's and I highly recommend it to bluegrass nuts like myself and people who are just getting interested in the bluegrass sound. If you've followed bluegrass for any length of time, you will recognize most of these voices. My favorite cuts: Mis'ry River, Close By, Walk the Way the Wind blows, Used to be, and the hauntingly beautiful 18th cut "Another Lonesome Day". Kick back and enjoy.

5.0 out of 5 stars Blue and Lonesome, November 12, 2008

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R. Algee "Musicman" (Memphis, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cool, Blue and Lonesome: Bluegrass for the Broken-Hearted (Audio CD)

The project awesome and everything that my friend, Jeannie Gentry, said was right on!

I drove from Memphis to Nashville, Tn recently and played it all the way there and back. A 400 mile roundtrip.