Product Details

• Actors: Various Artists
• Format: Color, Compilation, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Time Life Records
• DVD Release Date: August 29, 2006
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000GDI2KG
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #29,655 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Bluegrass Country Soul captures the sights, sounds, and magic of this three-day outdoor festival, the first of its kind, featuring bluegrass veterans and future stars alike sharing the primitive wood and cinder block stage. This documentary does more than just capture on of the largest bluegrass festivals of that decade, it's also an interesting mixture of live performances, interviews, impromptu jam sessions and crowd footage of live music set in a small town surrounded by the now long gone red clay and tobacco shacks of North Carolina.

Track Listings:
Black Mountain Rag-- Lilly Brothers, Tex Logan & Don Stover
Man Of Constant Sorrow -- Ralph Stanley & His Clinch Mountain Boys
Train 45 -- J.D. Crowe & the Kentucky Mountain Boys
Freeborn Man -- Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys
White House Blues -- Blue Mountain Boys
White House Blues -- Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals
Matterhorn -- The Country Gentlemen
Fox On The Run -- The Country Gentlemen
Matterhorn (onstage) -- The Country Gentlemen
Roanoke (rehearsal) -- The New Deal String Band
Love Potion No. 9 -- The New Deal String Band
Rocky Top -- Osborne Brothers
Ruby, You Are Mad -- Osborne Brothers
Fuji Mountain Breakdown -- Bluegrass 45
Mocking Banjo -- Bluegrass 45
Four Walls Around Me -- Mac Wiseman & Blackwell & Collins & the Dixie Bluegrass Boys
Sally Goodin -- Festival fiddle players
Wabash Cannonball -- Roy Acuff & His Smokey Mountain Boys
Listening To The Rain -- Osborne Brothers
One Tin Soldier -- The Bluegrass Alliance
New River Train -- Lilly Brothers, Tex Logan & Don Stover
Orange Blossom Special -- Chubby Wise with Mac Wiseman
Country Comfort -- Earl Scruggs Revue
Take Me Home, Country Roads -- Osborne Brothers
Foggy Mountain Breakdown -- Earl Scruggs & festival banjo players
Dear Old Dixie -- Earl Scruggs & festival banjo players

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for bluegrass lovers, September 8, 2006

By	Zach Miller (Santa Barbara, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This ranks with the all-time best concert movies--"Woodstock," "The Last Waltz," and "Stop Making Sense." The fact that it's a bluegrass film is a plus for fans of the genre.

Almost any chapter of the dvd is worth the entire price, but the Earl Scruggs banjo finale is breathtaking.

A beautiful piece of work, lovingly crafted and a one-of-a-kind experience.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All Hail - The King Of Bluegrass DVDs, December 1, 2006

By	Matteo Ringressi "Bluegrass banjoist" (Forlì, Italy) - See all my reviews

I'm a huge bluegrass DVDs and VHS collector, but I never saw anything like this in my whole collection. This is a serious must-have. If you ever been to a festival in the 70s (wich I haven't) you'll enjoy this DVD much more, it will bring back uncountable memories. It opens with a great footage of the Lilly Brothers & Don Stover with Tex Logan (wich is worth the price alone!) and it keeps going with Mac Wiseman, Earl Scruggs, the Bluegrass Alliance, JD Crowe, Blackwell & Collins and many many many more. It has a great quality, both video and audio, plus there's a great commentary by Fred Bartenstein (who actually was one of the organisers of the festival, when he sold Muleskinner News...). What are you waiting for? Buy it for they might be over soon :)

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bluegrass Soul, January 9, 2007

By	P. Isaacson (Columbus, OH USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The DVD has many of the real pioneers of Bluegrass music performing in their prime, it is a treat to watch, especially for a johnny-come-lately bluegrass fan as I am. There is a sense of something wholesome going on there, not like other musical festivals like Woodstock, where there is a sense of something perverse going on. I love it when rockers come to bluegrass, produce one of something worth listening to and then vanish, because they don't understand the culture of the men who make their living palying music they love. This CD does an excellent job of telling a story and showcasing some truly legendary acts.