Back In the Day, 2012
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, Flatt & Scruggs, The Carter Family
Heroes of the Big Country Music
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Sounds that reverbated across the South in decades before Marion Keisker assisted Sam at the Memphis Recording Service rose from churchly worshippers, clapboard sharecropper houses, county fairs, and rip-snorting barn dance affairs. The rustic folks who harmonized and picked guitars, banjos, and mandolins weren't somehow above the people. They were the people. Voices told of Christian faith's promised reward, man-woman turbulence, and life's simple yet all-important pleasures. In their hands, passed-down European airs were blended and made new. American. Rapt youths like Cash, Perkins, and Presley absorbed it all, eventually fashioning their own works. Traditions fed ensuant issue. So it has ever been. So it shall ever be.
Recommended: Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys - "Blue Grass Special," "Y'all Come," "Were You There Whe They Crucified My Lord?," "Remember the Cross," "It's Mighty Dark To Travel," "I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky," "Alabama Waltz," "Can't You Hear Me Calling?"
Recommended: Flatt & Scruggs - "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," "Pike County Breakdown," "So Happy I'll Be," "Foggy Mountain Special," "I'll Be Going To Heaven Sometime," "My Cabin In Caroline," "Earl's Breakdown," "Old Salty Dog Blues," "I'll Never Shed Another Tear," "Farewell Blues," "Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms," "Get In Line Brothers," "Foggy Mountain Chimes"
Recommended: The Carter Family - "Wabash Cannonball," "Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow Tree," "Little Darling Pal of Mine," "John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man," "Keep On the Sunny Side," "No Depression In Heaven," "Diamonds In the Rough," "Worried Man Blues"
Videos: "It's Mighty Dark To Travel" (Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys)
"Foggy Mountain Special" (Flatt & Scruggs)
"Little Darling Pal of Mine" (The Carter Family)
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