Tis Sweet to Be Remembered

Tis Sweet to Be Remembered

Tis Sweet to Be Remembered

ASIN: B00008OM2F

Track Listings
 
1. 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered
2. As Long as I Live
3. Standing at the End of My World
4. Tennessee
5. Before I Met You
6. Cora Is Gone
7. Grin and Bear It
8. If You Need Me, I'll Be Around
9. I Couldn't Believe It Was True
10. I Hope You're Lonely
11. Mississippi Moon
12. She's Running Wild

Tis Sweet to Be Remembered,Jim & Jesse,Pinecastle,Bluegrass,Country,Pop,Traditional Bluegrass
The Essential Flatt & Scruggs: 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • great recording
  • Flatt & Scruggs timeless
  • A must have Flatt and Scruggs double CD
  • Best Domestic Set Available of Their Most Popular Recordings
  • What Fun!
 The Essential Flatt & Scruggs: 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered
Flatt & Scruggs
Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002AD3
Release Date: 1997-01-28

Tracks:

  1. Come Back Darling
  2. I'm Head Over Heels In Love
  3. I'm Workin' On A Road (To Glory Land)
  4. 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered
  5. Earl's Breakdown
  6. Flint Hill Special
  7. Foggy Mountain Chimes
  8. That Old Book Of Mine
  9. Til The End Of The World Rolls Round
  10. Foggy Mountain Special
  11. Randy Lynn Rag
  12. Shuckin' The Corn
  13. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
  14. I'll Never Shed Another Tear
  15. Big Black Train
  16. Crying My Heart Out Over You
  17. Cabin In The Hills

Tracks:

  1. Polka On A Banjo
  2. Just Ain't
  3. Go Home
  4. The Legend Of The Johnson Boys
  5. The Ballad Of Jed Clampett (Theme From The Beverly Hillbillies)
  6. New York Town
  7. Pearl Pearl Pearl
  8. My Saro Jane
  9. I'm Troubled
  10. You Are My Flower
  11. Petticoat Junction
  12. Workin' It Out
  13. I Still Miss Someone
  14. Nashville Cats
  15. California Up Tight Band
  16. Down In The Flood
  17. Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Theme From Bonnie And Clyde)

Amazon.com

With ample doses of talent, spirit, and charisma, Flatt and Scruggs rose to the popular peak of the bluegrass heap during their 17-year association with Columbia. With Lester Flatt's casual vocal style and Earl Scruggs's groundbreaking banjo technique, the Foggy Mountain Boys brought bluegrass into the country mainstream more so than either Bill Monroe or the Stanley Brothers. Disc one picks up where the legendary Mercury recordings left off. High-powered originals such as "Come Back Darling," "Head Over Heels," "Til the End of the World Rolls Round," and "I'll Never Shed Another Tear" add to their classic repertoire, while the spectacular instrumental rags and breakdowns showcase Scruggs's banjo prowess. Disc two finds the pair diversifying their portfolio, as it were, with readings of popular television themes and covers of everyone from the Carter Family, Woody Guthrie, and Johnny Cash to John Sebastian, Bob Dylan, Tom T. Hall, and even Shel Silverstein. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars great recording.......2005-10-22

Sound quality was excellent, even though some of these songs were recorded 50 years ago.

5 out of 5 stars Flatt & Scruggs timeless.......2005-08-26

This C.D. is excellent. Flatt & Scruggs are truley timeless performers.

5 out of 5 stars A must have Flatt and Scruggs double CD.......2004-01-28

All I can say is, if this were and old vinyl LP, I would have worn through it by now. These 2 CDs are my most played of the stack of bluegrass CDs lying around my home and car.

5 out of 5 stars Best Domestic Set Available of Their Most Popular Recordings.......2003-05-01

Over 30 years after their breakup, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs remain the most famous band to emerge from bluegrass. Brought together in Bill Monroe's band in 1945, they left three years later to form their own band - the Foggy Mountain Boys - and sign with Mercury Records.

While their Mercury recordings (1948 - 1950) are held in higher esteem critically, Flatt & Scruggs' work for Columbia (1951 - 1968) was far more popular at country radio. Disc one contains their most pure bluegrass offerings, such as "Tis Sweet To Be Remembered," "Cabin In The Hills," and "Crying My Heart Out Over You." Lester's easy going, high tenor voice is the featured "instrument" on these recordings.

Disc two finds Flatt & Scruggs at their commercial peak, led by their 1962 chart-topping theme for The Beverly Hillbillies. This smash led to several appearances on the show (including a performance of "Pearl, Pearl, Pearl," their top-ten ode about Jethro Bodine's mother) as well as the Petticoat Junction theme assignment (a top 20 hit). These recordings featured Earl's extraordinary "three-finger-banjo" accompaniment far more prominently.

Flatt & Scruggs' top 20 toetapper "California Uptight Band" (not included on 16 GREATEST HITS) and the 1967 remake of their "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" (originally cut for Mercury in 1949 and repopularized in the film Bonnie & Clyde) conclude this set on a high note. In 1969, the duo split up due to differences over musical direction. Flatt's death in 1979 would end any chance of a reunion.

This 34-track, double-disc set captures all of Flatt & Scruggs' charting singles and most choice album tracks from the Columbia years and is the best domestic collection available. For a more extensive look at this period, check out the THREE box sets from Germany's Bear Family Records.

5 out of 5 stars What Fun!.......2003-03-15

This 2-CD set is a bargain and a joy. Jam packed with some of the best pickin' ever produced, guaranteed to tap your toes and warm your soul. Currently garnering many repeated listenings around these parts.
'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered: Complete Recordings 1951-1964
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Mixed Bag
 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered: Complete Recordings 1951-1964
Mac Wiseman
Manufacturer: Bear Family
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000TG9D8
Release Date: 2003-11-25

Tracks:

  1. Little White Church
  2. I'm a Stranger
  3. 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered
  4. Are You Coming Back to Me
  5. I'll Still Write Your Name in the Sand
  6. Four Walls Around Me
  7. Georgia Waltz
  8. Dreaming of a Little Cabin
  9. You're the Girl of My Dreams
  10. Six More Miles
  11. I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home
  12. Going to See My Baby
  13. It's Goodbye and So Long to You
  14. Fire in My Heart
  15. Waiting for the Boys
  16. (I'd Rather Live) By the Side of the Road
  17. Shackles and Chains
  18. Goin' Like Wildfire
  19. You're Sweeter Than Honey
  20. Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die
  21. Crazy Blues
  22. You'd Better Wake Up
  23. When I Get the Money Made
  24. Rainbow in the Valley
  25. I'd Rather Die Young (Than Grow Old Without You)
  26. Remembering
  27. My Little Home in Tennessee
  28. Let Me Borrow Your Heart for Just Tonight

Tracks:

  1. Kenny, Charles/
  2. I Haven't Got the Right to Love You
  3. Keep on the Sunny Side
  4. Reville in Heaven
  5. Dreams of Mother and Home
  6. Waltz You Saved for Me
  7. Paradise Valley
  8. I Saw Your Face in the Moon
  9. You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover
  10. I Love You Best of All
  11. Wabash Cannonball
  12. Don't Blame It All on Me
  13. I Didn't Know
  14. Little Old Church in the Valley
  15. When the Roses Bloom Again
  16. Wabash Cannonball
  17. Fireball Mail
  18. Darlin' How Could You Forget So Soon
  19. I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland
  20. Smilin' Through
  21. Ballad of Davey Crockett
  22. Danger! Heartbreak Ahead
  23. Kentuckian Song
  24. I Hear You Knockin'
  25. Camptown Races
  26. Dark as a Dungeon
  27. I Want to Be Loved
  28. These Hands
  29. I'm Eatin' High on the Hog

Tracks:

  1. Meanest Blues in the World
  2. Be Good Baby
  3. I'm Waiting for Ships That Never Come In
  4. One Mint Julip
  5. Mey Mister Bluesman
  6. Step It Up and Go
  7. Sundown
  8. Gone
  9. Teenage Hangout
  10. Because We Are Young
  11. Shame, Shame, Shame
  12. I'll Still Write Your Name in the Sand
  13. 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered
  14. Promise of Things to Come
  15. Thinkin' About You
  16. Put Me in Your Pocket
  17. When the Work's All Done This Fall
  18. Beside the Still Waters
  19. How Great Thou Art
  20. Just a Closer Walk With Thee
  21. Standing Somewhere in the Shadows
  22. When God Dips His Love in My Heart
  23. Hold Fast to the Right
  24. Did You Stop to Pray This Morning
  25. Whispering Hope
  26. Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown
  27. Does Jesus Care?
  28. It Is No Secret
  29. Each Ring of the Hammer

Tracks:

  1. Jimmy Brown, The Newsboy
  2. Driftwood on the River
  3. When It's Lamplighting Time in the Valley
  4. Little Moses
  5. Baggage Catch Ahead
  6. Girl in the Blue Velvet Band
  7. I've Got No Use for the Women
  8. Barbara Allen
  9. Preacher and the Bear
  10. Just Tell Them That You Saw Me
  11. Wildwood Flower
  12. Wreck of the Old '97
  13. Ballad of Davy Crockett
  14. Darling Nellie Gray
  15. Old Lamlighter
  16. Tom Dooley
  17. He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
  18. Old Shep
  19. Sixteen Tons
  20. I'm Movin' On
  21. Fool
  22. Paso
  23. Running Bear
  24. Three Bells
  25. There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere
  26. Lewt the Lower Lights Be Burning
  27. In the Sweet By and By

Tracks:

  1. I Like This Kind of Music [#]
  2. Now That You Have Me (You Don't Want Me)
  3. I'm the Talk of the Town [#]
  4. Glad Rags
  5. Prisoner's Song
  6. There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight [#]
  7. Tell Mother I'll Be There
  8. Beautiful Garden of Prayer
  9. Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
  10. Peace in the Valley
  11. I Heard My Mother Call My Name in Prayer
  12. Bringing the Sheaves
  13. Where Is My Baby Tonight
  14. If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again
  15. Shall We Gather at the River
  16. Lord I'm Coming Home
  17. Footprints in the Snow
  18. Just Outside
  19. Pistol Packin' Preacher
  20. What's Gonna Happen to Me
  21. Ballad of the Little Box of Pine
  22. When the Snowflakes Fall
  23. I'll Remember You, Love, In My Prayers
  24. Free from the Old Chain Gang
  25. Two More Years and I'll Be Free
  26. Bluegrass Fiesta
  27. Cotton Fields
  28. Sing Little Birdie

Tracks:

  1. Are You Missing Me
  2. Freight Train
  3. Have a Drink on Me
  4. Just a Strand from a Yellow Curl
  5. 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered
  6. Goin' Like Wildfire
  7. I Like Good Bluegrass Music
  8. Scene of the Crime
  9. Your Best Friend and Me
  10. What a Waste of Good Corn Likker [#]
  11. When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain Cap
  12. Mother Knows Best [#]
  13. Old Pair of Shoes
  14. Mole [#]
  15. If I Could Live That Way [#]
  16. Heads You Win Tails I Lose
  17. Bluegrass Music's Really Gone to Town [#]
  18. Dark Hollow [#]
  19. Brother Joe [#]
  20. Katie Waits for Me [#]
  21. Sweet Summer's Gone Away [#]
  22. Brush It Off (It's All in Your Mind) [#]
  23. They're All Going Home But One [#]

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Mixed Bag.......2006-06-01

Mac Wiseman is the wonderful bluegrass singer who sang with Bill Monroe's group in the late 1940s, and according to Monroe, was the 'strongest singer I ever had'. These recordings feature Wiseman's invigorating, majestic, and truly unique voice and are largely impossible to find. The reason I can't give the set 5 stars is that towards the end of Disc 2, and continuing through Disc 4, the music shifts to rock and rockabilly and also contains some unlistenable garbage that is as commercial as one can get. For those of you who have been disappointed by the inclusion of electrified and drum-heavy bluegrass on other Bear Family sets, this stuff is different and far worse. Bear Family is not to blame, but the record companies of the time felt the pressure of the rock music explosion and pressed performers like Wiseman to sell out. The music on Discs 5 and 6 recovers the bluegrass flavor, though they do not resemble the purist bluegrass instrumentation featured on Disc 1 and most of Disc 2 and are not as spectacular. The latter, by the way, is incredibly beautiful and is exactly why I pursued this purchase - if the whole set were like this we'd be blessed.

As for the exorbitant price, the reason is that every aspect of the packaging is a step up from other Bear Family sets I've seen. The booklet is hardback, and features great color reproductions of the old album covers. Sound quality is perfect. If you have a gift certificate like I did, or you just want to hear those early 1950s recording on the Dot label that are virutally impossible to find and don't care about the price, go for it. (note-same review appears under the other listing for this box set under 'Mac Wiseman' that has a slightly cheaper price from Amazon)

'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered: Complete Recordings 1951-1964
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered: Complete Recordings 1951-1964
Mac Wiseman
Manufacturer: Bear Family
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000C66BH
Release Date: 2003-09-15

Tracks:

  1. Little White Church
  2. I'm a Stranger
  3. 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered
  4. Are You Coming Back to Me
  5. I'll Still Write Your Name in the Sand
  6. Four Walls Around Me
  7. Georgia Waltz
  8. Dreaming of a Little Cabin
  9. You're the Girl of My Dreams
  10. Six More Miles
  11. I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home
  12. Going to See My Baby
  13. It's Goodbye and So Long to You
  14. Fire in My Heart
  15. Waiting for the Boys
  16. (I'd Rather Live) By the Side of the Road
  17. Shackles and Chains
  18. Goin' Like Wildfire
  19. You're Sweeter Than Honey
  20. Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die
  21. Crazy Blues
  22. You'd Better Wake Up
  23. When I Get the Money Made
  24. Rainbow in the Valley
  25. I'd Rather Die Young (Than Grow Old Without You)
  26. Remembering
  27. My Little Home in Tennessee
  28. Let Me Borrow Your Heart for Just Tonight

Tracks:

  1. Kenny, Charles/
  2. I Haven't Got the Right to Love You
  3. Keep on the Sunny Side
  4. Reville in Heaven
  5. Dreams of Mother and Home
  6. Waltz You Saved for Me
  7. Paradise Valley
  8. I Saw Your Face in the Moon
  9. You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover
  10. I Love You Best of All
  11. Wabash Cannonball
  12. Don't Blame It All on Me
  13. I Didn't Know
  14. Little Old Church in the Valley
  15. When the Roses Bloom Again
  16. Wabash Cannonball
  17. Fireball Mail
  18. Darlin' How Could You Forget So Soon
  19. I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland
  20. Smilin' Through
  21. Ballad of Davey Crockett
  22. Danger! Heartbreak Ahead
  23. Kentuckian Song
  24. I Hear You Knockin'
  25. Camptown Races
  26. Dark as a Dungeon
  27. I Want to Be Loved
  28. These Hands
  29. I'm Eatin' High on the Hog

Tracks:

  1. Meanest Blues in the World
  2. Be Good Baby
  3. I'm Waiting for Ships That Never Come In
  4. One Mint Julip
  5. Mey Mister Bluesman
  6. Step It Up and Go
  7. Sundown
  8. Gone
  9. Teenage Hangout
  10. Because We Are Young
  11. Shame, Shame, Shame
  12. I'll Still Write Your Name in the Sand
  13. 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered
  14. Promise of Things to Come
  15. Thinkin' About You
  16. Put Me in Your Pocket
  17. When the Work's All Done This Fall
  18. Beside the Still Waters
  19. How Great Thou Art
  20. Just a Closer Walk With Thee
  21. Standing Somewhere in the Shadows
  22. When God Dips His Love in My Heart
  23. Hold Fast to the Right
  24. Did You Stop to Pray This Morning
  25. Whispering Hope
  26. Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown
  27. Does Jesus Care?
  28. It Is No Secret
  29. Each Ring of the Hammer

Tracks:

  1. Jimmy Brown, The Newsboy
  2. Driftwood on the River
  3. When It's Lamplighting Time in the Valley
  4. Little Moses
  5. Baggage Catch Ahead
  6. Girl in the Blue Velvet Band
  7. I've Got No Use for the Women
  8. Barbara Allen
  9. Preacher and the Bear
  10. Just Tell Them That You Saw Me
  11. Wildwood Flower
  12. Wreck of the Old '97
  13. Ballad of Davy Crockett
  14. Darling Nellie Gray
  15. Old Lamlighter
  16. Tom Dooley
  17. He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
  18. Old Shep
  19. Sixteen Tons
  20. I'm Movin' On
  21. Fool
  22. Paso
  23. Running Bear
  24. Three Bells
  25. There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere
  26. Lewt the Lower Lights Be Burning
  27. In the Sweet By and By

Tracks:

  1. I Like This Kind of Music [#]
  2. Now That You Have Me (You Don't Want Me)
  3. I'm the Talk of the Town [#]
  4. Glad Rags
  5. Prisoner's Song
  6. There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight [#]
  7. Tell Mother I'll Be There
  8. Beautiful Garden of Prayer
  9. Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
  10. Peace in the Valley
  11. I Heard My Mother Call My Name in Prayer
  12. Bringing the Sheaves
  13. Where Is My Baby Tonight
  14. If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again
  15. Shall We Gather at the River
  16. Lord I'm Coming Home
  17. Footprints in the Snow
  18. Just Outside
  19. Pistol Packin' Preacher
  20. What's Gonna Happen to Me
  21. Ballad of the Little Box of Pine
  22. When the Snowflakes Fall
  23. I'll Remember You, Love, In My Prayers
  24. Free from the Old Chain Gang
  25. Two More Years and I'll Be Free
  26. Bluegrass Fiesta
  27. Cotton Fields
  28. Sing Little Birdie

Tracks:

  1. Are You Missing Me
  2. Freight Train
  3. Have a Drink on Me
  4. Just a Strand from a Yellow Curl
  5. 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered
  6. Goin' Like Wildfire
  7. I Like Good Bluegrass Music
  8. Scene of the Crime
  9. Your Best Friend and Me
  10. What a Waste of Good Corn Likker [#]
  11. When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain Cap
  12. Mother Knows Best [#]
  13. Old Pair of Shoes
  14. Mole [#]
  15. If I Could Live That Way [#]
  16. Heads You Win Tails I Lose
  17. Bluegrass Music's Really Gone to Town [#]
  18. Dark Hollow [#]
  19. Brother Joe [#]
  20. Katie Waits for Me [#]
  21. Sweet Summer's Gone Away [#]
  22. Brush It Off (It's All in Your Mind) [#]
  23. They're All Going Home But One [#]

Album Details

Six CD Box Set and Hard Cover Book.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Mixed Bag.......2005-11-22

Mac Wiseman is the wonderful bluegrass singer who sang with Bill Monroe's group in the late 1940s, and according to Monroe, was the 'strongest singer I ever had'. These recordings feature Wiseman's invigorating, majestic, and truly unique voice and are largely impossible to find. The reason I can't give the set 5 stars is that towards the end of Disc 2, and continuing through Disc 4, the music shifts to rock and rockabilly and also contains some unlistenable garbage that is as commercial as one can get. For those of you who have been disappointed by the inclusion of electrified and drum-heavy bluegrass on other Bear Family sets, this stuff is different and far worse. Bear Family is not to blame, but the record companies of the time felt the pressure of the rock music explosion and pressed performers like Wiseman to sell out. The music on Discs 5 and 6 recovers the bluegrass flavor, though they do not resemble the purist bluegrass instrumentation featured on Disc 1 and most of Disc 2 and are not as spectacular. The latter, by the way, is incredibly beautiful and is exactly why I pursued this purchase - if the whole set were like this we'd be blessed.

As for the exhorbitant price, the reason is that every aspect of the packaging is a step up from other Bear Family sets I've seen. The booklet is hardback, and features great color reproductions of the old album covers. Sound quality is perfect. If you have a gift certificate like I did, or you just want to hear those early 1950s recording on the Dot label that are virutally impossible to find and don't care about the price, go for it.

5 out of 5 stars track listings.......2003-10-13

You know it would really help if you can please tell me what the track listings are on this box set before ordering it. There are 2 songs in p articular called Wildwood Flower and Preacher In The Bear that are my favorites. Are they on this great box set? Mac Wiseman is one of the greatest Bluegrass legends ever! My Email address is wick5894@rogers.com
Tis Sweet to Be Remembered
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Solid bluegrass from two masters and their band
  • A good recording!!
 Tis Sweet to Be Remembered
Jim & Jesse
Manufacturer: Pinecastle
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008OM2F
Release Date: 2003-04-15

Tracks:

  1. 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered
  2. As Long as I Live
  3. Standing at the End of My World
  4. Tennessee
  5. Before I Met You
  6. Cora Is Gone
  7. Grin and Bear It
  8. If You Need Me, I'll Be Around
  9. I Couldn't Believe It Was True
  10. I Hope You're Lonely
  11. Mississippi Moon
  12. She's Running Wild

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Solid bluegrass from two masters and their band.......2003-06-15

Jesse McReynolds' tremolo on mandolin opens this album with the Mac Wiseman title cut that sets the stage for the classic bluegrass to come, as well as to thank fans for many years of support and prayers. Although Jim McReynolds was not able to sing in the studio for this project, he offers his characteristically solid and adept rhythm guitar work. Guest artist Charles Whitstein sings harmony on "Standing at the End of My World," "If You Need Me, I'll Be Around," and "I Hope You're Lonely." The latter is a new uptempo song by Jesse, which calls for an ex-love to be haunted by memories of the past. Besides playing mandolin, Jesse plays mandodobro on that and four other cuts. Virginia Boys Matthew Allred and Luke McKnight harmonize with Jesse on a number of other tracks, such as the title cut, "As Long As I Live," "Before I Met You" and "Grin and Bear It." The song, "I Couldn't Believe it was True," features the same vocal trio and is given a full arrangement accentuated by a twin mandolin break (presumably played by Jesse and Luke), and a couple of twin fiddle breaks of Glen Duncan and Buddy Griffin. The lead vocals for a hard-driving rendition of "Mississippi Moon" are very ably handled by Luke McKnight (who also happens to be Jesse's grandson). Lloyd Douglas really tears that one up on banjo. The album's closer is a remixed and remastered "She's Running Wild," originally recorded in 1996 with Jim singing tenor. That's the classic Jim & Jesse sound we'll never forget. Jim eventually succumbed to cancer on December 31, 2002, and this album is only one small part of his extensive legacy that spans over five decades of performance, recording and other accomplishments with his brother.

Other guest artists on this album include Charlie Cushman, Monty Hall, Jimmy Melton, Blaine Sprouse, Jimmy Capps, Buddy Griffin, Vic Jordan, Weldon Myric, and Jimmy Whiting. Always professional in everything they've done, Jim & Jesse's final studio album together is another shining example of solid music from two masters and their proficient bluegrass band. (Joe Ross, staff writer, Bluegrass Now)

5 out of 5 stars A good recording!!.......2003-05-02

This is the last recording with Jim on it. I was really pleased with this cd. Jesse and Luke did the lead vocals. Matthew did some nice harmony with them. He did the parts as Jim would have. Jesse has a few original songs including "she's running wild" remastered. You can't have a Jim and Jesse cd without Jim's voice, so they remastered a couple of songs allowing us to hear Jim one last time. I highly recommend this cd. Every Jim and Jesse fan should have it, especially since it is the final "Jim and Jesse" recording.
Tis Sweet to Be Remembered-Complete
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    		Tis Sweet to Be Remembered-Complete
    Mac Wiseman
    Manufacturer: I-Serv Direct Commer
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    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0002B5RDM
    Release Date: 2003-10-07

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