Composer(s): Traditional
Ensemble(s): Little Grasscals
Label: Naxos World Music
Genre: World
Catalogue No: 76034-2
Barcode: 0636943703427
Release Date: 08/2002

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Little Grasscals (The): Bluegrass

Bluegrass is an original American art form, known and loved across the globe. On this CD you’ll hear some of Nashville’s finest bluegrass pickers of the newer generation: ace mandolin player Mike Compton; hot fiddlers Shad Cobb and Jason Carter; Scruggs disciple Dave Talbot on banjo; traditional bluegrass vocal stylists Terry Eldredge, Jamie Johnson, Mike Armistead and father Lester Armistead; resonator guitar virtuoso Rob Ickes; sure and steady string bassists Mike Bub and Terry Smith; and Booie Beach contributing the aggressive and exciting guitar runs. Here they dig into some of the music’s great traditional numbers and in the best bluegrass style find new nuggets of gold.

Tracklist

Traditional
1 Nine Pound Hammer 02:55
2 Lee Highway Blues 03:45
3 Gospel Plow 04:15
4 Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies 03:25
5 Cumberland Gap 01:40
6 Little Maggie 02:20
7 Lonesome Reuben 03:20
8 I Am The Man Thomas 03:05
9 Dusty Miller 03:00
10 Whoa Mule Whoa 02:00
11 Home Sweet Home 02:30
12 John Henry 02:55
13 Never Grow Old 04:00
14 Soldier's Joy 02:30
15 Darlin' Corey 03:10
16 Tennessee Wagoner 02:30
17 More Pretty Girls Than One 02:45
18 Sweet Sunny South 01:20

Total Playing Time: 51:25