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1	Old Crow Medicine Show (2004) more music like this by Old Crow Medicine Show add to wishlist Old Crow Medicine Show is an all-acoustic quintet from four states whose members met in New York City and currently reside in Nash Vegas. Their storied beginnings include a North American cross-continent ramble while they learned their instruments and how to play together, eventually ending up playing on the street in front of the Grand Ole Opry ... see all copies from £8.71! new only from £8.71!
2	Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways (2002) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist While bluegrass samplers are by no means rare, it's unusual to encounter one as well thought-out as this generous (and mid-priced) package from Smithsonian Folkways, the folk label known more for its ethnomusicological field recordings than its bluegrass albums. Cynics will point out that this collection comes hot on the heels of the success of ... see all copies from £8.75! new only from £8.75!
3	People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938 (2007) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist This three-disc, 70-track (30 of them new to the CD era) collection of murder ballads and disaster songs originally released on commercial 78s between 1913 and 1938 is, in spite of the archaic song structures and often crude sonic qualities on display, strangely contemporary in tone and feel, maybe because we've always been drawn to the scene of ... see all copies from £26.73! new only from £26.73!
4	Classic Mountain Songs (2002) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist From the time of its inception in the middle of the 20th century, the Folkways label recorded plenty of traditional folk music from the Southern Appalachians. This well-chosen collection, oriented mostly though not totally toward tracks with vocals, has a couple of dozen examples from the Folkways catalog. Though it's not always totally clear when ... see all copies from £8.75! new only from £8.75!
5	Original Folkways Recordings: 1960-1962 (1994) more music like this by Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley add to wishlist This important release documents the rediscovery of banjoist and comedian Clarence (Tom) Ashley in the early '60s, and the simultaneous introduction of a young and then-unknown guitar picker, the astounding Doc Watson. Ashley was one of the many musicians of the '20s and '30s whose early work appeared briefly on Harry Smith's 1952 Anthology of ... see all copies from £15.92! new only from £15.92!
6	Ireland in Song (1999) more music like this by Frank Patterson add to wishlist see all copies from £30.42!
7	Songs of Inspiration (1999) more music like this by Frank Patterson add to wishlist see all copies from £24.44! new only from £24.44!
8	God Bless America: An Irish Salute (2000) more music like this by Frank Patterson add to wishlist Frank Patterson's God Bless America: An Irish Tribute collects interpretations of some of Ireland and America's best-known songs, including "God Bless America," "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," "The Rose of Tralee," and "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling." Patterson's warm, heartfelt tenor adds extra sincerity to this album of unofficial Irish and ... see all copies from £4.76!
9	Down Home Girl (2006) more music like this by Old Crow Medicine Show add to wishlist By 2006, more than two years after Old Crow Medicine Show released its self-titled debut, the band's popularity had catapulted to one of most highly regarded neo-traditional folk acts of the 21st century. The group had toured with some of the finest names in bluegrass and folk music, and was well on its way to becoming a household name for fans of ... see all copies from £3.37! new only from £3.37!
10	Greatest Hits (1990) more music like this by Jim Kweskin Jug Band add to wishlist Washboards, kazoos, novelty songs, and general hilarity combine to make some of the most delightful, foolish music of the 60s. The jug-band craze was small and short-lived, but Kweskin and his band, which included Maria D'Amato, soon to marry bandmember Geoff Muldaur, were its premier act, and this double-disc set captures much of their whimsical ... see all copies from £7.47! new only from £11.59!
11	Dona Got a Ramblin Mind (2006) more music like this by Carolina Chocolate Drops add to wishlist To say that Carolina Chocolate Drops are an anomaly in the 21st century would be a huge understatement. Here are three twenty-something African-Americans playing a brand of acoustic, banjo- and fiddle-driven string band music that is nearly extinct today, and in fact peaked in the pre-WWII era. Although a number of Southern-bred black string bands ... see all copies from £9.37! new only from £9.37!
12	Mountain Tracks, Vol. 4 (2006) more music like this by Yonder Mountain String Band add to wishlist Since its inception, the Yonder Mountain String Band, which releases its own records through its Frog Pad label, has alternated studio releases with successive volumes of live albums all called Mountain Tracks. This time, Mountain Tracks, Vol. 4 follows Mountain Tracks, Vol. 3 without an intervening studio album. And that's fine. The group has ... see all copies from £11.73! new only from £11.73!
13	Yonder Mountain String Band (2006) more music like this by Yonder Mountain String Band add to wishlist see all copies from £11.59! new only from £11.59!
14	Mountain Tracks, Vol. 3 (2004) more music like this by Yonder Mountain String Band add to wishlist This double-disc set collects the highlights from a two-night concert by the Yonder Mountain String Band held at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons, CO, on September 12 and 13, 2003, at the Kinfolk Celebration the band throws each year for its fans. A bluegrass/jam band hybrid, Yonder Mountain is certain proof that the two genres have as many similarities ... see all copies from £9.44! new only from £11.14!
15	The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (2006) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist For anyone who's collected 78-rpm records, enjoyed Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, or expressed interest in the great missing old-time and blues records of yesteryear, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of will be the Holy Grail. Whereas it isn't unusual for Yazoo to place a rarity on a new collection by Blind Blake or Blind Lemon ... see all copies from £12.79! new only from £16.25!
16	Southern Banjo Sounds (1998) more music like this by Mike Seeger add to wishlist With this collection, Mike Seeger's intention is to illustrate the wide variety of banjo sounds heard in the rural South before 1950. Each of the 26 tracks employs a different style, using a range of techniques, many in the clawhammer, two-finger, and three-finger style; "Come My Little Pink," for instance, specifically emulates Earl Scruggs' ... see all copies from £11.14! new only from £11.14!
17	Live at the Newburyport Firehouse (2005) more music like this by Dry Branch Fire Squad add to wishlist It would be way too simple to call Dry Branch Fire Squad a bluegrass band. They play bluegrass, certainly, but they infuse it with mountain gospel harmonies and an intimate knowledge of Appalachian folk melodies until it would seem to be something else again, a sort of natural extension of the old-time string bands, not slick and showy like most ... see all copies from £10.69! new only from £14.12!
18	Hazel & Alice (1973) more music like this by Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard add to wishlist Although Dickens and Gerrard had recorded a couple of albums as a duo in the mid-1960s, those were more traditional-minded bluegrass recordings than this 1973 effort. Several of the songs documented women's experiences in personal terms that struck a chord in many listeners involved in the women's movement, a constituency that the performers were ... see all copies from £7.38! new only from £10.99!
19	You Ain't Talkin' to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music (2005) more music like this by Charlie Poole add to wishlist First, a word about what You Ain't Talkin' to Me is not: it is not a box set of Charlie Poole's complete recorded work. He recorded some 110 songs for the Columbia, Paramount, and Brunswick labels between 1925 and 1931, and 43 of those tracks are collected here, with the balance of this three-disc set given over to sides by Poole's stylistic ... see all copies from £23.97! new only from £23.97!
20	Old Time Music (1994) more music like this by The New Lost City Ramblers add to wishlist The New Lost City Ramblers were instrumental in bridging the gap between the young urban folk musicians of the early '60s, who embraced the form and feel of old-time American music, and the last of the great rural singers and players who had actually grown up with the music in its original incarnation. The Ramblers were careful to stay true to the ... see all copies from £9.09! new only from £12.66!
21	Thirtieth Anniversary Special (2007) more music like this by Dry Branch Fire Squad add to wishlist This companion piece to Rounder's 1988 Dry Branch Fire Squad compilation Tried & True celebrates the mercurial bluegrass ensemble's Thirtieth Anniversary with 21 tracks culled from the last twenty years, a few which have never seen the light of day until now. Like Tried & True, which collected cuts from the group's first five albums, this latest ... see all copies from £7.03! new only from £11.59!
22	Wild Hog in the Red Brush (1996) more music like this by John Hartford add to wishlist John Hartford would just grin crookedly at you if you brought up the subject of virtuosity in his presence. Half the charm of his music is his loopy sense of humor -- he often counts a tune in by grunting rhythmically or by singing the title, and his fiddling is always just a hair away from wobbling off the side of the road. But his knowledge of ... see all copies from £8.38! new only from £10.99!
23	Grandfather's Greatest Hits (1991) more music like this by David Holt add to wishlist David Holt was one of the main old timey revivalists of the '80s and Grandfather's Greatest Hits is his finest achievement. With this release, Holt constructed a set list of classic country songs -- from "John Henry" and "Fire on the Mountain" to "Wabash Cannonball," "Pretty Polly," and "Wreck of the Old '97" -- drafted in a handful of superstar ... see all copies from £5.35! new only from £10.70!
24	Can't You Hear Me Callin' - Bluegrass: 80 Years of American Music (2004) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist The title pretty much says it on this deluxe four-disc package from Sony's Legacy imprint. Here on four discs are 109 performances that cover the spectrum of American bluegrass, beginning with its pre-birth roots in Appalachian country string band music via the recordings of Gid Tanner, Charlie Poole & the Blue Ridge Ramblers, and the Carters in ... see all copies from £24.05! new only from £24.05!
25	Back Roads to Cold Mountain (2004) more music like this by Various Artists add to wishlist Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain, is a powerful, widely celebrated novel that takes places during the Civil War. But Frazier's book is not about the war itself so much as the life lived n the rural American South during its long dark night. Back Roads to Cold Mountain is a collection of music assembled by ethnomusicologist and roots musician ... see all copies from £11.14! new only from £11.14!

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