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Mad About Bluegrass

Various Artists

Album · 2009 · Golden Stars GS S 5637

Mad About Bluegrass is a multi-artist compilation on the European label Golden Stars (GS S 5637), listed with a release date of 28 July 2009. Its tracks are drawn from commercial recordings by many of the best-known groups in the music, among them the Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, Jimmy Martin, the Country Gentlemen, the Osborne Brothers, Don Reno and Red Smiley, the Louvin Brothers, Mac Wiseman, and Jim and Jesse.

The Dillards contribute “Shady Grove” and “Dooley.” Where recording dates are given for individual tracks, they run from 1951 (Monroe’s “Angels Rock Me to Sleep,” at Castle Studio in Nashville) to 1960 (the Country Gentlemen’s “Poor Ellen Smith,” made in Washington, D.C.).

Tracklist

  1. 1 Dooley alt version 2:04
  2. 2 Gathering Flowers for the Master’s Bouquet alt version 2:29
  3. 3 Poor Ellen Smith alt version 2:16
  4. 4 Me and the Juke Box 1:58
  5. 5 Banjo Whiz 1:23
  6. 6 I'll Never See You Anymore 2:32
  7. 7 Old Man at the Mill alt version 1:55
  8. 8 Rock Bottom 2:52
  9. 9 Lonesome Wind alt version 2:48
  10. 10 Rollin' Stone 2:39
  11. 11 When You're Out of My Arms 2:10
  12. 12 Country Strings 2:15
  13. 13 Flint Hill Special alt version 2:45
  14. 14 My Main Trial is Yet to Come alt version 2:53
  15. 15 One Track Mind 2:30
  16. 16 High Lonesome 2:30
  17. 17 Bury Me Beneath the Willow alt version 2:43
  18. 18 Where Will This End 2:20
  19. 19 Will There Be a Rainbow 2:07
  20. 20 Take Me Back 1:59
  21. 21 Talking Banjo 1:40
  22. 22 Tragic Highway 2:33
  23. 23 Hills and Home alt version 2:21
  24. 24 Shady Grove alt version 1:35

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