Mountain Music Bluegrass Style (Smithsonian Folkways SF 40038) is a studio album from Earl Taylor and the Stony Mountain Boys, originally recorded in 1959 as the companion album to Mike Seeger's landmark liner-note essay on bluegrass and reissued by Smithsonian Folkways as one of the foundational documents in the academic presentation of the genre to the urban folk revival audience. Taylor plays mandolin and sings; Curtis Cody plays guitar and sings; Sam Hutchins plays banjo; Vernon McIntyre holds the string bass; and Walter Hensley plays guitar. The album introduced bluegrass to thousands of urban listeners through Seeger's explanatory notes and Taylor's direct traditional performance style, making it one of the most pedagogically significant recordings in the genre's history — the record that first explained bluegrass from the inside to the folk-revival audience.
Tracklist
- 1 Katy Hill alt version 2:41
- 2 Katy Cline 2:38
- 3 Short Life of Trouble alt version 2:21
- 4 The Philadelphia lawyer 3:23
- 5 Little Willie alt version 2:56
- 6 Leather Britches alt version 3:45
- 7 Natchez under the hill 2:20
- 8 Old Joe Clark alt version 2:34
- 9 Ain’t Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone alt version 2:51
- 10 White House Blues alt version 2:12
- 11 They’re at Rest Together alt version 2:13
- 12 Foggy Mountain Top alt version 3:10
- 13 Nine Pound Hammer alt version 2:55
- 14 Cricket on the Hearth alt version 2:49
- 15 New River Train alt version 3:26
- 16 Fox chase 1:58
- 17 Rabbit in the Log alt version 2:40
- 18 Snow dove 3:19
- 19 Drifting Too Far From the Shore alt version 3:11
- 20 Rocky run 2:45
- 21 Bile 'em cabbage down 2:11
- 22 All the good times have passed & gone 2:55
- 23 Sally Ann alt version 3:01