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Treasury of Rare Song Gems

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If you are only thinking about buying one CD from this geat duo then this is probably the one.

A great mixture of light and dark, religious and secular giving an excellent cross-section of the Blue Sky Boys recorded output including tracks not currently available elsewhere.

A classic collection worth the purchase price for "Mary of the Wild Moor".

Very traditional and exceptionally well done by two great exponents of the genre.

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Track Listings:
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1. The Sunny Side Of Life
2. As Long As I Live
3. Nine Pound Hammer
4. The Longest Train I Ever Saw
5. Golden Slippers (Inst.)
6. Mary Of The Wild Moor
7. I Have Found A Way
8. Tugboat (Inst.)
9. Get Along Home
10. The Last Letter
11. Black Mountian Blues (Inst.)
12. A Picture From Lifes Other Side
13. There's Been A Change
14. Row Us Over The Tide
15. Dust On The Bible
16. Turn Your Radio On

Here it is! These are directly taken from those famous old best selling 78's and nothing much has been done to them in the way of "sweetening." The tinny frequency response takes some getting used to, and so does the content of some of the material. You have to think of it as a sort of time machine taking you back to those times. I hadn't realized what great pickers these guys were until I listened to these. It makes a great companion to the Rounder release in which they re-recorded some of their favorites. The Blue Sky Boys had a sound that influenced many, particularly Bill and Charlie Monroe. Their careers faded when honky tonk music came up. It was just not the sort of music they were comfortable playing. Simple country gospel was more to their taste.