Blazing Bluegrass

BLAZING BLUEGRASS puts us in touch with Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, The Stanley Brothers, Jim & Jesse, Reno & Smiley and a number of other ambassadors of a genre of music that survives and continues to blossom in the 21st century. From the day the Pilgrim Fathers traversed the Atlantic Ocean in the early 17th Century, European folk music continued heading westwards for several centuries. The early settlers moved out into the Carolinas, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee and took their music with them, composing new songs about their everyday life to the old tunes that they had brought with them. The music became entrenched in the rural areas of these states and eventually became known as "mountain music" or "country music". It was played on stringed instruments, mainly the fiddle and guitar and provided entertainment at home and at weekends when folks gathered together for dances. And there the music stayed until the advent of the gramophone and 78 rpm records as well as radio in the early part of the 20th century. Disc 1: Bill Monroe (25 tracks 1941-1954) Disc 2: Flatt & Scruggs (25 tracks 1951-1954) Disc 3: Stanley Brothers (25 tracks 1949-1954) Disc 4: Various (28 tracks 1937-1954) Artists Include: Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, Jimmie Skinner, The Bailey Brothers, Reno & Smiley and many others. The guitar-and-fiddle sounds of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas survived swing, R&B, rock ’n’ roll…bluegrass lives, and this low-priced 4-CD set brings you 103 tracks that helped spread its beauty: Blue Moon of Kentucky; Toy Heart Bill Monroe; ’Tis Sweet to Be Remembered; Foggy Mountain Special Flatt & Scruggs; Little Birdie; Hey Hey Hey Stanley Brothers; Crazy Finger Blues Reno & Smiley; Air Mail Special Jim & Jesse; Blue Eyed Darling Jimmy Martin & Osborne Brothers, and more!, ISBN13:B000BAY4FG ISBN10:B000BAY4FG Material Type:audioCD