Essential Bluegrass Cardinals [Original recording reissued]

Bluegrass Cardinals | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 5, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Cmh Records
• ASIN: B00006RY5T
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #180,556 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for every Bluegrass collection!, July 3, 2007

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D. Thies (Belvidere, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essential Bluegrass Cardinals (Audio CD)

This was my first Bluegrasss CD purchase, and I was not disappointed. This collection of classic bluegrass songs, by the masterful Bluegrass Cardinals will appeal to every fan of Bluegrass.

3.0 out of 5 stars Hardly "definitive", November 29, 2011

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Carter Adler "cmadler" (Ypsilanti, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Essential Bluegrass Cardinals: The Definitive Collection (MP3 Download)

There are certainly some great tracks on this CD, including some of the gospel songs for which the Bluegrass Cardinals are known (e.g. "Shine Hallelujah Shine") as well as secular songs ("I Wonder Where You Are Tonight", "The Old Man in the Park"). Unfortunately, this compilation entirely ignores the band's first two albums, "Bluegrass Cardinals" and "Welcome to Virginia", omitting several of their best-known songs, such as "Ridin' on the L & N", "Blue Eyed Boston Boy", "Plant Some Flowers", and "Roll On, Muddy River". These omissions are all the more painful because their second album, "Welcome to Virginia" has never been released digitally (CD or MP3), and Rounder has no plans to do so; the only way to hear many of the Bluegrass Cardinals' best songs is still on LP!