Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian Folkways

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Release Date: 2002

Label: Smithsonian Folkways

Extensive notes, photos, 65 minutes. Specially priced!

Original recordings released by Folkways Records (1956-1985) and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (1989-2001)

Track 1 (also known as "McKinley Blues") from "Mountain Music Bluegrass Style" (1959) Folkways 2318, reissued as (1991) SFW CD 40038.
Track 2 from "Folk Masters" (1993) SFW CD 40047; recorded at Wolf Trap Farm Park, Vienna, VA, 1992.
Tracks 3, 25 from "Off the Record, Vol. 1: Live Recordings, 1956-1969" (1993) SFW 40063.
Track 4 from "Won't You Come and Sing for Me?" (1973) Folkways 31034, reissued as "Pioneering Women of Bluegrass" (1996) SFW CD 40065.
Track 5 from "Bluegrass" (1964) Folkways 2408.
Track 6 from "Suzanne" (1985) Folkways 31049.
Track 7 from "China Grove, My Home Town" (1983) Folkways 31095.
Tracks 8, 21 from "The 37th Old Time Fiddler's Convention at Union Grove, North Carolina" (1962) Folkways 2434.
Tracks 9, 14, 23 from "American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style" (1956) Folkways 2314, reissued as SFW CD 40037 (1990).
Track 10 from "Live and Let Live" (1979) Folkways 31065.
Track 11 from "Progressive Bluegrass and Other Instrumentals: Vol. 1" (1963) Folkways 2370.
Track 12 from "Hello City Limits" (1986) Folkways 31108.
Track 13 from "Vol. 4: Going Back to the Blue Ridge Mountains" (1973) Folkways 31031.
Track 15 from "The Watson Family" (1963) Folkways 2366, reissued as SFW CD 40012 (1990).
Track 16 from "Out Standing in Their Field" (1993) SFW CD 40040.
Track 17 recorded 5 February 1961, University of Chicago.
Tracks 17, 18 from "Friends of Old Time Music" (1964) Folkways 2390.
Track 19 from "Bluegrass" (1983) Folkways 31056.
Track 20 from "The Virginia Mountain Boys, Vol. 4" (1983) Folkways 3829, recorded 1982, Woodlawn, VA.
Track 22 from "Don't Mourn Organize!: Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill" (1990) SFW CD 40026.
Track 24 from "The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover" (1962) Folkways 2433.
Track 25 recorded at the first Fincastle Bluegrass Festival on September 5, 1965 near Roanoke, Virginia.