Contemporary Bluegrass
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- The Basics
It took the GQ-friendly face of George Clooney to drag bluegrass out of the hills and back onto the pop charts, eclipsing the memory of Deliverance if not entirely erasing it. Leave it to the honeysuckle-voiced fiddler Alison Krauss (and her band, Union Station) to split the difference between country and folk, marrying the best of both in the title track from Every Time You Say Goodbye. It's Union Station's Dan Tyminski supplying the high-lonesome whine of George Clooney's "voice" in the Soggy Bottom Boys' CMA Single of the Year version of "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow." And to show how far the music's traveled, Canada's the Duhks bring a little backwoods Tennessee to the Manitoba plains in "Mountains O' Things." In Next Steps, the world's best banjo player and bluegrass for the whole family — literally.
$23.67 The Basics
Name Artist Time Price 1 Every Time You Say Goodbye Alison Krauss & Union Station 3:15 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 The Lighthouse's Tale Nickel Creek 5:01 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow (Band Version) The Soggy Bottom Boys 4:16 $1.29 View In iTunes 4 Tortured, Tangled Hearts Dixie Chicks 3:38 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Steady As the Rain Dolly Parton 3:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 The Sinister Minister Béla Fleck & The Flecktones 4:36 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 Country Boy Ricky Skaggs 3:49 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Mountains O' Things The Duhks 3:49 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 You Don't Know What Love Is Cherryholmes 3:19 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 All American Bluegrass Girl Rhonda Vincent 3:10 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 The Cold Hard Facts The Del McCoury Band 2:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Viva Las Vegas The Grascals 3:11 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 You Gotta Dig a Little Deeper Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver 2:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 The Last Goodbye Uncle Earl 3:38 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 While the Getting's Good (Live) Mountain Heart 3:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 I Would Be Sad The Avett Brothers 3:44 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 I've Just Seen a Face The Dillards 1:59 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 The Wild Rumpus Jerry Douglas 4:02 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 Dawg's Bull David Grisman 4:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Callin' Baton Rouge New Grass Revival 2:40 $1.29 View In iTunes 21 Howlin' At the Moon Sam Bush 2:58 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 40 Miles from Denver Yonder Mountain String Band 3:46 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 Baby, Now That I've Found You (Live) Alison Krauss & Union Station 5:02 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 23 Songs - Next Steps
Whatever you think you know about the banjo, Béla Fleck will change your mind. Like Coltrane and Hendrix, he completely rewrote the book on how to approach his instrument; check out his range, from "The Yee-Haw Factor" to his version of Bach's "Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin, BWV 1006: Prélude." Wow. The family that plays together can amaze together, as the six-member Cherryholmes clan proves in "How Long," its home-style harmonies tight as a fiddle string. And Nickel Creek (two-thirds of which is composed of siblings) locks into a groove located somewhere between Crosby Stills & Nash-esque Americana and the Hot Club's Gypsy jazz in "Reasons Why" from their debut album, produced by Alison Krauss. In Deep Cuts, a blind man makes the fiddle sing, a massively talented duo puts the "blue" in bluegrass, and more.
$24.96 Next Steps
Name Artist Time Price 1 Reasons Why Nickel Creek 4:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 I Hear Them All Old Crow Medicine Show 3:03 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 I'll Fly Away Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch 3:57 $1.29 View In iTunes 4 Uncle Pen Ricky Skaggs 2:26 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 The Yee-Haw Factor Béla Fleck & The Flecktones 6:58 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 How Long Cherryholmes 3:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 Heartbreaker's Alibi Rhonda Vincent 3:00 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver 3:09 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 When In Rome Nickel Creek 4:15 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 Mists of Down Below The Duhks 4:23 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 The Old Home Place J.D. Crowe & The New South 2:49 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin, BWV 1006: Prélude Béla Fleck 3:46 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Blue Night Hot Rize 2:23 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 2 Good 2 Last Cadillac Sky 3:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 No More to Leave You Behind The Infamous Stringdusters 4:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Here You Are The Greencards 3:57 $1.29 View In iTunes 17 Cold Blue Day Newfound Road 2:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 Train Long Gone Claire Lynch 3:12 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 Down to the River to Pray Alison Krauss 2:55 $1.29 View In iTunes 20 Shady Grove David Grisman, Jerry Garcia & Tony Rice 4:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 Thanks Again Ricky Skaggs 3:37 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 Outrageous Byron Berline 3:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 Perfume, Powder and Lead Lonesome River Band 3:53 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 Gentle On My Mind John Hartford 4:37 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 24 Songs - Deep Cuts
Where would bluegrass be if not for the occasional fingers-on-fire Mach 3 instrumental breakdown? Blind fiddler Michael Cleveland does everything but melt the strings in the steam-powered speed demon "Lee Highway Blues" from his debut album, Flame Keeper. Clearly, former Clinch Mountain Boy (and latter-day attorney) Charlie Sizemore didn't find enough twang in Randy Travis' #1 country hit "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart," so he gave it the mountain treatment on 2007's Good News. And awesomely all-over-the-map banjo and slide-guitar genius Tony Furtado sops up some whiskey-soaked blues with Delta music devotee Kelly Joe Phelps on "False Hearted Lover."
$23.67 Deep Cuts
Name Artist Time Price 1 Life or Love Bradley Walker 2:27 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 Too Good to Be True Alecia Nugent 3:22 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 Forty Years of Trouble Aubrey Haynie 3:16 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Wondrous Love Blue Highway 3:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Lee Highway Blues Michael Cleveland 3:03 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 Duncan and Brady The Johnson Mountain Boys 3:19 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 I've Never Been So Lonesome Longview 2:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Love Someone Like Me New Grass Revival 2:45 $1.29 View In iTunes 9 Long Way to Go Railroad Earth 6:20 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 Farewell Blues Tony Trischka 4:00 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart The Charlie Sizemore Band 2:41 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Tipper Tony Rice 3:37 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Nowhere to Sleep Chatham County Line 2:43 $1.29 View In iTunes 14 We Are Many Hackensaw Boys 2:34 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 Wrecking Ball King Wilkie 3:50 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Sad Old Train Donna Hughes 2:33 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 This Is the Last Time I'm Ever Gonna Hurt Jim Lauderdale 3:01 $1.29 View In iTunes 18 Watch 'at Breakdown Chris Thile 4:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 Hogs on the Highway Bad Livers 3:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 One Foot In the Gutter Psychograss 5:44 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 Florida Rag Nancy Blake & Norman Blake 3:10 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 Everyday I Write the Book Alison Brown 3:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 Unwed Fathers Dry Branch Fire Squad 2:39 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 False Hearted Lover Tony Furtado & Kelly Joe Phelps 5:40 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 24 Songs - Complete Set
If, when you think of bluegrass, an image of a five-string-banjo-wielding, porch-bound mutant leaps to mind, wow, have you got another think comin'. Look: George Clooney played bluegrass. (Well, sorta . . . he was dubbed. But you get the idea.) And virtuoso hillbilly hottie fiddler Alison Krauss has won more GRAMMY® Awards (20, at last count) than any other female pop star ever. And Béla Fleck has been called "the Jimi Hendrix of the banjo." So ditch the corncob pipe and the Mr. Green Jeans overalls, set the way-back machine for "old time-y," and revel in the sounds of gold comin' out of them thar hills. From the Dixie Chicks to the Soggy Bottom Boys, the banjo to the mandolin, Nickel Creek to Yonder Mountain, just yodel and we got you covered.
$72.30 Complete Set
Name Artist Time Price 1 Every Time You Say Goodbye Alison Krauss & Union Station 3:15 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 The Lighthouse's Tale Nickel Creek 5:01 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow (Band Version) The Soggy Bottom Boys 4:16 $1.29 View In iTunes 4 Tortured, Tangled Hearts Dixie Chicks 3:38 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Steady As the Rain Dolly Parton 3:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 The Sinister Minister Béla Fleck & The Flecktones 4:36 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 Country Boy Ricky Skaggs 3:49 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Mountains O' Things The Duhks 3:49 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 You Don't Know What Love Is Cherryholmes 3:19 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 All American Bluegrass Girl Rhonda Vincent 3:10 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 The Cold Hard Facts The Del McCoury Band 2:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Viva Las Vegas The Grascals 3:11 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 You Gotta Dig a Little Deeper Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver 2:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 The Last Goodbye Uncle Earl 3:38 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 While the Getting's Good (Live) Mountain Heart 3:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 I Would Be Sad The Avett Brothers 3:44 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 I've Just Seen a Face The Dillards 1:59 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 The Wild Rumpus Jerry Douglas 4:02 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 Dawg's Bull David Grisman 4:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Callin' Baton Rouge New Grass Revival 2:40 $1.29 View In iTunes 21 Howlin' At the Moon Sam Bush 2:58 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 40 Miles from Denver Yonder Mountain String Band 3:46 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 Baby, Now That I've Found You (Live) Alison Krauss & Union Station 5:02 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 Reasons Why Nickel Creek 4:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 25 I Hear Them All Old Crow Medicine Show 3:03 $1.29 View In iTunes 26 I'll Fly Away Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch 3:57 $1.29 View In iTunes 27 Uncle Pen Ricky Skaggs 2:26 $0.99 View In iTunes 28 The Yee-Haw Factor Béla Fleck & The Flecktones 6:58 $0.99 View In iTunes 29 How Long Cherryholmes 3:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 30 Heartbreaker's Alibi Rhonda Vincent 3:00 $0.99 View In iTunes 31 When I'm Knee Deep In Bluegrass Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver 3:09 $0.99 View In iTunes 32 When In Rome Nickel Creek 4:15 $0.99 View In iTunes 33 Mists of Down Below The Duhks 4:23 $0.99 View In iTunes 34 The Old Home Place J.D. Crowe & The New South 2:49 $0.99 View In iTunes 35 Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin, BWV 1006: Prélude Béla Fleck 3:46 $0.99 View In iTunes 36 Blue Night Hot Rize 2:23 $0.99 View In iTunes 37 2 Good 2 Last Cadillac Sky 3:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 38 No More to Leave You Behind The Infamous Stringdusters 4:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 39 Here You Are The Greencards 3:57 $1.29 View In iTunes 40 Cold Blue Day Newfound Road 2:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 41 Train Long Gone Claire Lynch 3:12 $0.99 View In iTunes 42 Down to the River to Pray Alison Krauss 2:55 $1.29 View In iTunes 43 Shady Grove David Grisman, Jerry Garcia & Tony Rice 4:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 44 Thanks Again Ricky Skaggs 3:37 $0.99 View In iTunes 45 Outrageous Byron Berline 3:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 46 Perfume, Powder and Lead Lonesome River Band 3:53 $0.99 View In iTunes 47 Gentle On My Mind John Hartford 4:37 $0.99 View In iTunes 48 Life or Love Bradley Walker 2:27 $0.99 View In iTunes 49 Too Good to Be True Alecia Nugent 3:22 $0.99 View In iTunes 50 Forty Years of Trouble Aubrey Haynie 3:16 $0.99 View In iTunes 51 Wondrous Love Blue Highway 3:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 52 Lee Highway Blues Michael Cleveland 3:03 $0.99 View In iTunes 53 Duncan and Brady The Johnson Mountain Boys 3:19 $0.99 View In iTunes 54 I've Never Been So Lonesome Longview 2:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 55 Love Someone Like Me New Grass Revival 2:45 $1.29 View In iTunes 56 Long Way to Go Railroad Earth 6:20 $0.99 View In iTunes 57 Farewell Blues Tony Trischka 4:00 $0.99 View In iTunes 58 Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart The Charlie Sizemore Band 2:41 $0.99 View In iTunes 59 Tipper Tony Rice 3:37 $0.99 View In iTunes 60 Nowhere to Sleep Chatham County Line 2:43 $1.29 View In iTunes 61 We Are Many Hackensaw Boys 2:34 $0.99 View In iTunes 62 Wrecking Ball King Wilkie 3:50 $0.99 View In iTunes 63 Sad Old Train Donna Hughes 2:33 $0.99 View In iTunes 64 This Is the Last Time I'm Ever Gonna Hurt Jim Lauderdale 3:01 $1.29 View In iTunes 65 Watch 'at Breakdown Chris Thile 4:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 66 Hogs on the Highway Bad Livers 3:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 67 One Foot In the Gutter Psychograss 5:44 $0.99 View In iTunes 68 Florida Rag Nancy Blake & Norman Blake 3:10 $0.99 View In iTunes 69 Everyday I Write the Book Alison Brown 3:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 70 Unwed Fathers Dry Branch Fire Squad 2:39 $0.99 View In iTunes 71 False Hearted Lover Tony Furtado & Kelly Joe Phelps 5:40 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 71 Songs
Customer Reviews
Eh...
Ok newgrass. Needs more bands like Yonder Mountain and less fake bluegrass like Nickel Creek.
TBT
They need to have Trampled By Turtles somewhere in that list
Very Pedestrian..
Awards are for people who win them, not for people who deserve them. I don't care how many Grammy's Alison Krauss has..Check out Trampled by Turtles, Old Crow Medicine Show or Chatham County Line for some REAL contemporary bluegrass. For deep cuts check out The Devil Makes Three.
