Lonesome Valley [Import]

Lonesome Valley (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Manteca
• ASIN: B00005QBEK
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #333,740 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Can The Circle Be Unbroken - The Carter Family

2. Man Of Constant Sorrow - Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys

3. Blue Grass Breakdown - Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys

4. Don't Get Above Your Raisin' - Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & The Foggy Mountain Boys

5. Roving Gambler - Country Gentlemen

6. Down In The Valley To Pray - Doc Watson

7. The One I Love Is Gone - Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard

8. Old & In The Way - Angel Band

9. Sunny Side Of The Mountain - The Kentucky Colonels

10. Standing On The Mountain - Del McCoury & The Dixie Pals

11. Five Speed - The Johnson Mountain Boys

12. Little Cabin On The Hill - Ricky Skaggs

13. Mansion On The Hill - The Whitstein Brothers

14. When God Dips His Pen Of Love In My Heart - The Cox Family

15. Acony Bell - Gillian Welch

16. Keep On The Sunny Side - The Carter Family

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Roots Music, May 15, 2003

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This review is from: Lonesome Valley (Audio CD)

The liner notes describe this music as the roots of country rock, but this is music that is coming into its own. The host of a local radio program recently claimed that bluegrass is the fastest growing musical genre in America. It's growth that is no doubt helped by sales of the soundtrack mega-hit, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Well, if you liked that and have an appetite for more of the gritty, yearning, "high lonesome sound", here's another collection of Old-Timey music that you'll want to check out.
These recordings span every decade from the '40s to the '90s, but all are faithful to the earthy, traditional bluegrass sound. Credits for the earliest recording are for Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys in 1947. The compilation is arranged chronologically (roughly) with the Carter Family providing bookends.
There are a couple of pleasant surprises in here. Alison Krauss sings a wistful lead in her clear voice on, "When God Dips His Pen of Love in My Heart" and if you like Jerry Garcia and David Grissman together, you'll find them on, "Old & In the Way".
Good stuff.