20th Century Bluegrass Masters

20th Century Bluegrass Masters

20th Century Bluegrass Masters

ASIN: B000B5KRGG

Editorial Reviews
From the Artist
When the best Bluegrass musicians pick up their instruments and gather around a microphone, the result is pure magic. No slick production or overdubs to hide behind, the most talented players in Bluegrass offer an honest and refreshing musical experience. The ensemble sound of banjo, mandolin, guitar, fiddle, double bass and soaring vocal harmonies provide the foundation on which these 20th Century Bluegrass Masters seem to effortlessly create their musical art.

Product Description
Let the pioneers and innovators of this country's homegrown music take you on a journey into the heart of America with this collection of some of the greatest Bluegrass performances ever put on tape. Drawn primarily from CMH Records' vault of classic recordings, 20th Century Bluegrass Masters features the talents of the father of Bluegrass himself, Bill Monroe, innovators the Osborne Brothers and Tony Rice, as well as second generation Bluegrass giants Jimmy Martin, Charlie Waller and Peter Rowan among others. This unique set of the genre's most beloved songs will remind you why Bluegrass is the "people's music" - broadly appealing but intensely personal for performers and listeners alike.

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Vince Gill - Millennium Collection: 20th Century Masters (Eco-Friendly Packaging)
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Not the kind of Country I like
 Vince Gill - Millennium Collection: 20th Century Masters (Eco-Friendly Packaging)
Vince Gill
Manufacturer: MCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000MGBS8A
Release Date: 2007-03-13

Tracks:

  1. I Still Believe in You
  2. One More Last Chance
  3. What the Cowgirls Do
  4. You Better Think Twice
  5. High Lonesome Sound - Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, Union Station
  6. Pretty Little Adriana
  7. Little More Love
  8. If You Ever Have Forever in Mind
  9. My Kind of Woman/My Kind of Man - Vince Gill, Patty Loveless
  10. Feels Like Love
  11. Next Big Thing

Album Description

The 20th Century Masters series is the best-selling single-artist line in music history and is being re-released by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in its ground-breaking, environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable, continuing the company's long-standing commitment to being "green."

To further reduce the amount of paper in the Eco-Pack, the CD booklet will no longer be offered. Official liner notes are easily accessible on the Internet at http://www.ilovethatsong.com/green.

UMe is the first North American music company to replace the traditional jewel case with recycled paperboard sleeves and the plastic tray with trays made from PaperFoam®, a new packaging technology from Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, that is paper-recyclable and biodegradable. Shorewood Packaging is the first North American packaging supplier to produce disc trays from PaperFoam®.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Not the kind of Country I like.......2007-05-14

I bought this CD for one song I heard and saw Vince Gill interprete
on the fantastic Grand Ole Opry at Carnegie Hall DVD. This bluesy song
called "If You Ever Have Forever In Mind" seemed the "utmost" to me
with a Ray Charles touch. For that reason I wanted a CD where this song
was on. However the rest of the songs are like most country songs since
the early 90's: it ain't country, it's POP except for another two fine
songs and that's the reason why I finally give it 3 stars.
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Flat & Scruggs
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Best of Flat & Scruggs
  • Classic Flatt & Scruggs
 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Flat & Scruggs
Flatt & Scruggs
Manufacturer: Mercury Nashville
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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  5. Foggy Mountain Banjo

ASIN: B00005B7FD
Release Date: 2001-04-24

Tracks:

  1. Foggy Mountain Breakdown
  2. My Cabin In Caroline
  3. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
  4. Baby Blue Eyes
  5. Old Salty Dog Blues
  6. I'll Just Pretend
  7. Pike County Breakdown
  8. Doin' My Time
  9. God Loves His Children
  10. Farewell Blues
  11. Take Me In A Lifeboat
  12. We'll Meet Again Sweetheart

Amazon.com essential recording

Fresh off their pioneering stint with Bill Monroe, guitarist-vocalist Lester Flatt and banjo master Earl Scruggs waxed 28 seminal cuts for Mercury between 1948 and 1950. All 28 appeared on the Complete Mercury Sessions, which has been replaced by this far-less-generous 12-song collection. Still, the duo and their Foggy Mountain Boys attack this music with an urgency that even Monroe's Blue Grass Boys were hard-pressed to equal. Scruggs's three-fingered banjo technique is as important to bluegrass as any other innovation, possessing a rolling quality that keeps the songs moving. "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" and "Farewell Blues" are banjo tour de forces that will never be matched. Original gospel numbers find Scruggs applying his fingerpicking technique to guitar, à la Merle Travis, and feature sharp group harmonies. Most of the original secular songs have become bluegrass standards, even though the pair refused to call their refined mountain music bluegrass. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Best of Flat & Scruggs.......2007-01-16

If you are already a fan of Bluegrass, you probably don't need this review as you know these guys are amazing and you have most of these recordings somewhere else. If you are just getting started appreciating the music, this is a great cd to get. It has a good range of music and *all* pieces are absolutely stellar!
I got this for my kids as I know the material is good and they just love the positive energy of the music. "Flat & Scruggs", "Bill Monroe", "Old and In The Way", and Springsteen's "Seeger Sessions" are all big favorites in my house.

5 out of 5 stars Classic Flatt & Scruggs.......2002-02-10

Even if you're only a casual fan of bluegrass music, this is essential listening. After playing their last dates with Bill Monroe in early 1948, Flatt and Scruggs began a two-year relationship with the independent Mercury Records. Between October, 1948 and October, 1950, they recorded 28 tracks over four separate sessions. The twelve tracks presented here include such originals as "My Cabin in Caroline," "We'll Meet Again Sweetheart" and the banjo showcase "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"--all of which have become classics. Unfortunately, this disc omits other originals like "Down the Road," "So Happy I'll Be," "I'll Never Love Another" and "Is It Too Late Now," among others. [1992's "The Complete Mercury Sessions" included their entire recorded output for the label, but it has since gone out of print.] The Foggy Mountain Boys at various times included guitarist Mac Wiseman, mandolinist Curly Seckler and former Monroe sidemen bassist Cedrick Rainwater and fiddler Art Wooten. Unlike on their recordings with Monroe, Scruggs' innovative three-finger style picking was pushed to the forefront on these recordings. In addition to being a stellar banjo player, Scruggs was a gifted guitar player as well. Listen to his Merle Travis-inspired playing on "God Loves His Children," for example. While Flatt and Scruggs would have greater commercial success after their switch to Columbia, these are essential recordings. And unless you want to shell out some big bucks for the Bear Family box sets, this--for now--is the disc to own. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bill Monroe
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The best Bill Monroe CD ever with his F-Style Mandolin!!!
  • Classics
  • Every track a gem
  • Bill Monroe - High (Lonesome) Art
 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bill Monroe
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Manufacturer: Mca Nashville
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00002MYY8
Release Date: 1999-11-02

Tracks:

  1. Bue Moon Of Kentucky
  2. Footprints In The Snow
  3. New Mule Skinner Blues
  4. Uncle Pen
  5. In The Pines
  6. I'm Working On A Building
  7. Gotta Travel On
  8. Scotland
  9. Molly & Tenbrooks
  10. I'm Sitting On Top Of The World
  11. I Saw The Light
  12. My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin'

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The best Bill Monroe CD ever with his F-Style Mandolin!!!.......2003-01-08

That's probably the only CD I like, I guess or I might like other ones, never know.

Well, I like this one called "The Best of Bill Monroe" & he plays an F-Style Mandolin with the fancier scroll & he wears a cowboy hat.

Bill Monroe is a bluegrass mandolin player & I like him.

This is Bill Monroe's Greatest Hits CD saying "The Best of Bill Monroe".

The songs I like are:

1. Blue Moon of Kentucky
2. Footprints in the snow
4. Uncle Pen
5. In the pines
6. I'm working on a building
7. Gotta Travel on
8. Scotland
10. I'm Sitting on top of the world &
12. My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin' (with Ricky Skaggs)

Ricky Skaggs sings with Bill Monroe on song 12.

I hope everybody likes Bill Monroe & his mandolin picking?

I enjoyed it.

I loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 out of 5 stars Classics.......2002-04-05

These are classic songs. This is a great album to help anyone appreciate musical history, and a great introduction to blugrass music. It's not as rich sounding as modern bluegrass recordings, but it has a nice feel to it. It has a similar feel/sound to '30s Bob Wills.

5 out of 5 stars Every track a gem.......2000-08-02

If you're already a Bill Monroe afficianado, then chances are you aren't looking for collections like this one (unless you want to take advantage of the clear sound resulting from the remastering on this disc -- not a bad reason to acquire this disc even if you already have all the tracks on it from other collections), but rather hunting down obscure recordings and rare tracks wherever you can find them, so I'll gear my remarks here towards the Bill Monroe neophyte. This collection is an excellent starting point, since every track on it is a gem. Bill Monroe is universally acknowledged as the father of bluegrass (which proposition is an understatement; he is also its grandfather, midwife, crazy uncle, and country cousin) and this collection lays out the reason why -- so if you don't like these songs, bluegrass ain't fer you. The version of Mule Skinner Blues on this track, something of a signature song for ol' Bill, has some of his best yodeling (if you can't like that track then _music_ ain't fer you); Uncle Pen is a real foot-stomper; these versions of the old traditionals I'm Working on a Building and I'm Sitting on Top of the World belong in every folk collection; and you won't find a better version of My Sweet Blue Eyed Darlin' anywhere else either.

5 out of 5 stars Bill Monroe - High (Lonesome) Art.......2000-06-15

Listen to Mr. Monroe attack the vocal as the band comes out of the first instrumental break on "Footprints In The Snow" - the clarity, the energy, the staggering mastery and the resulting sense of joyous freedom, and you'll wonder for a brief second how anyone else would dare call themselves a singer of songs. This collection is where the old wierd America (to paraphrase Greil Marcus) meets the last exhalations of the Jazz Age. A rare synthesis of post WWII bouancy and hard scrabble life in green, remote hills. Amazing.
20th Century Masters: Country Gospel
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    		20th Century Masters: Country Gospel
    Various Artists
    Manufacturer: Umvd Import
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Country | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music
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    GospelGospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
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    ASIN: B000CZ0S1O
    Release Date: 2006-01-30

    Tracks:

    1. Will the Circle Be Unbroken
    2. I Heard My Saviour Call - Kitty Wells
    3. (There'll Be) Peace in the Valley (For Me) - Red Foley
    4. How Great Thou Art - Loretta Lynn
    5. Blessed Be - The Statler Brothers
    6. Lord Protect My Soul
    7. I Saw the Light - Ernest Tubb
    8. Tell It to Jesus - Willie Nelson
    9. Who Will Pray for Me - Conway Twitty
    10. Just a Little Talk with Jesus - Clinch Mountain Boys, The Stanley Brothers
    11. Shall We Gather at the River
    20th Century Bluegrass Masters
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		20th Century Bluegrass Masters
      Various Artists
      Manufacturer: Cmh Records
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Country | Styles | Music
      BluegrassBluegrass | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B000B5KRGG
      Release Date: 2005-10-25

      Tracks:

      1. Why Did You Wander - Lester Flatt
      2. Follow The Leader - Don Reno
      3. I Ain't Got No Home - Peter Rowan
      4. How Mountain Girls Can Love - Ralph Stanley
      5. With Body And Soul - Bill Monroe
      6. Another Lonesome Morning - Tony Rice Unit
      7. Jimmy Brown The Newsboy - Mac Wiseman
      8. Free Born Man - Jimmy Martin
      9. The Old Songs - Charlie Waller
      10. I Am A Pilgrim - Grandpa Jones
      11. The Midnight Train - Jim & Jesse
      12. Alabama Jubilee - Johnny Gimble
      13. Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die - Osborne Brothers
      14. Crossing Of Jordan - Bluegrass Cardinals
      15. Rock Away - Josh Graves
      16. Rumble - Robin & Linda Williams
      17. Columbus Stockade Blues - Joe Maphis
      18. Angel Band - Carl Story And His Rambling Mountaineers

      Product Description

      1. Why Did You Wander - Lester Flatt
      2. Follow The Leader - Don Reno
      3. I Ain’t Got No Home - Peter Rowan
      4. How Mountain Girls Can Love - Ralph Stanley & Jeanie Stanley
      5. With Body and Soul - Bill Monroe
      6. Another Lonesome Morning - Tony Rice Unit
      7. Jimmy Brown the Newsboy - Mac Wiseman
      8. Free Born Man - Jimmy Martin
      9. The Old Songs - Charlie Waller
      10. I Am a Pilgrim - Grandpa Jones
      11. The Midnight Train - Jim & Jesse
      12. Alabama Jubilee - Johnny Gimble
      13. Don’t Let Your Sweet Love Die - Osborne Brothers with Mac Wiseman
      14. Crossing of Jordan - Bluegrass Cardinals
      15. Rock Away - Josh Graves
      16. Rumble - Robin & Linda Williams
      17. Columbus Stockade Blues - Merle Travis & Joe Maphis
      18. Angel Band – Carl Story and His Rambling Mountaineers

      Format: CD
      The Best of the Stanley Brothers: 20th Century Masters/The Millennium Colle
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • A quick sample of some classic bluegrass
      • A quick sample of some classic bluegrass
      		 The Best of the Stanley Brothers: 20th Century Masters/The Millennium Colle
      The Stanley Brothers
      Manufacturer: Mercury Nashville
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B00006K09L
      Release Date: 2002-10-01

      Tracks:

      1. Who Will Call You Sweetheart
      2. Our Last Goodbye
      3. (Say) Won't You Be Mine
      4. I Long To See The Old Folks
      5. A Voice From On High
      6. I Worship You
      7. Baby Girl
      8. Just A Little Talk With Jesus
      9. Will He Wait A Little Longer
      10. Loving You Too Well
      11. Daybreak In Dixie (Instrumental)
      12. Angel Band

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars A quick sample of some classic bluegrass.......2003-05-15

      Weighing in at a mere 12 tracks, this is a slight, yet still quite sizzling budget-line introduction to one of the greatest bluegrass acts of all time. If you just want to get your feet wet, then this sampling of their mid-'50s work on the Mercury label is a fine place to start.

      4 out of 5 stars A quick sample of some classic bluegrass.......2003-05-15

      Weighing in at a mere 12 tracks, this is a slight, yet still quite sizzling budget-line introduction to one of the greatest bluegrass acts of all time. If you just want to get your feet wet, then this sampling of their mid-'50s work on the Mercury label is a fine place to start.
      20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: Women of Country
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        		20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: Women of Country
        Various Artists
        Manufacturer: Umvd Import
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

        Alt-Country & AmericanaAlt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music
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        ASIN: B0000ARBPH
        Release Date: 2006-03-27

        Tracks:

        1. Right in Time - Lucinda Williams
        2. Fear of Being Alone - Reba McEntire
        3. Better Things to Do - Terri Clark
        4. So Long, So Wrong - Alison Krauss & Union Station
        5. Wrong Side of Memphis - Trisha Yearwood
        6. Shut Up and Drive - Chely Wright
        7. Trail of Broken Hearts - K.D. Lang
        8. From a Distance - Nanci Griffith
        9. Little Past Little Rock - Jason Sellers, Lee Ann Womack
        10. Walking Away a Winner - Kathy Mattea
        11. Life Is Bad - Shelby Lynne
        12. You Go First - Jessica Andrews
        20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Men of Country
        Average customer rating: Not rated
          		20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Men of Country
          Various Artists
          Manufacturer: Umvd Import
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          GeneralGeneral | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music
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          ASIN: B0000ARBPI
          Release Date: 2006-03-27

          Tracks:

          1. I'm from the Country - Tracy Byrd
          2. Born Again in Dixieland - Jason McCoy
          3. O What a Thrill - The Mavericks
          4. Alibis - Tracy Lawrence
          5. I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Mark Chesnutt
          6. Smoke Rings in the Dark - Gary Allan
          7. If I Had a Boat - Lyle Lovett
          8. Calm Before the Storm - Paul Brandt
          9. Dust on the Bottle - David Lee Murphy
          10. Don't Go Near the Water - Sammy Kershaw
          11. One More Last Chance - Vince Gill
          12. Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
          Bluegrass - 20th Century Masters: Millennium
          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
          • Too short, but still pretty good.
          		 Bluegrass - 20th Century Masters: Millennium
          Various Artists
          Manufacturer: Hip-O Records
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          GeneralGeneral | Country | Styles | Music
          BluegrassBluegrass | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music
          GeneralGeneral | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music
          ASIN: B000068TO2
          Release Date: 2002-07-02

          Tracks:

          1. Hallelujah I'm Ready - Ricky Skaggs
          2. Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys
          3. Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
          4. Rocky Top - The Osborne Brothers
          5. Widow Maker - Jimmy Martin
          6. Who Will Call You Sweetheart - The Stanley Brothers
          7. In The Pines - Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys
          8. Shady Grove - The Stonemans
          9. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
          10. Angel Band - The Stanley Brothers
          11. Ruby, Are You Mad - The Osborne Brothers & Red Allen
          12. High Lonesome Sound Cover - Vince Gill

          Customer Reviews:

          4 out of 5 stars Too short, but still pretty good........2002-07-26

          A quick glance at the huge back catalog of fab bluegrass owned by the Universal corporation (which includes MCA-Decca, among other labels). As with many MCA-Universal reissues, this disc is a bit too short (only 12 tracks), but it's still full of good music, and could serve as an adequate introduction to the genre. The musicians range from old-schoolers Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs and the Stanley Brothers to young 'uns like Ricky Skaggs and Vince Gill. Also nice to see the Osbourne Brothers and the Stoneman family getting their propers. Good for anyone curious about this music, but a longer, more in-depth collection woudl also be nice..

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