Vintage Bluegrass Power Picks: 30 Traditional Classics is a thirty-track compilation from Rural Rhythm Records, released in 2014 (RUR-411). It draws on eleven acts from the label’s catalog. Earl Taylor & Jim McCall and Ernie & Mack have five tracks each; Don Reno & Bill Harrell have four; Red White has three; and the Frosty Mountain Boys, the Log Cabin Boys, Roy Ross, the Blue Ridge Mountaineers, Jim Greer and Red Smiley have two apiece, with a single track by Mac Martin.
Reno and Harrell are heard on “Poor Ellen Smith,” “Hot Corn, Cold Corn,” “Nobody’s Business” and “Long Journey Home.” Taylor and McCall’s five are “Lonesome Road Blues,” “Little Maggie,” “Wandering Boy,” “Worried Man Blues” and “Gathering Flowers from the Hillside.” Red Smiley sings “900 Miles” and “Banks of the Ohio,” and the Blue Ridge Mountaineers play “Earl’s Breakdown” and “Down the Road.”
Tracklist
- 1 Lonesome Road Blues alt version 2:28
- 2 Tragic Romance alt version 2:37
- 3 Poor Ellen Smith alt version 2:16
- 4 Get Along Home Cindy alt version 3:19
- 5 I Ain't Gonna Work Here Tomorrow 2:19
- 6 Reuben alt version 2:53
- 7 Little Maggie alt version 2:44
- 8 I Wonder How the Old Folks are at Home alt version 3:03
- 9 East Virginia Blues alt version 2:35
- 10 Hot Corn, Cold Corn alt version 2:31
- 11 All the Good Times Are Past and Gone alt version 2:35
- 12 Earl’s Breakdown alt version 2:59
- 13 Wondering Boy 2:27
- 14 The Weeping Willow 2:02
- 15 Way Down Town 1:42
- 16 Reuben’s Train alt version 3:34
- 17 Rabbit in the Log alt version 2:40
- 18 Patty On The Turnpike 2:27
- 19 Worried Man Blues alt version 4:02
- 20 Love Oh Careless Love alt version 3:29
- 21 Handsome Molly alt version 2:03
- 22 Are You Missing Me alt version 2:27
- 23 Nobody’s Business alt version 1:58
- 24 Blue Ridge Breakdown 2:21
- 25 Gathering Flowers From The Hillside alt version 2:42
- 26 Broken Vows 2:03
- 27 Down the Road alt version 2:40
- 28 Banks of the Ohio alt version 4:12
- 29 Long Journey Home alt version 3:04
- 30 Mississippi Sawyer alt version 2:04
