Music of Bill Monroe From 1936-1994

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It's the rare artist who virtually invents a genre single-handedly, and there's no artist in any genre whose work has remained as dominant a force as Bill Monroe. The songs here not only define bluegrass, they remain the core of any bluegrass band's repertoire. Monroe added a dose of sophistication to traditional hillbilly music--intricate group harmonies, expert musicianship--and he rehearsed his Blue Grass Boys for hours on end. MCA's lavish 4 CD set covers 60 years and 98 songs, adding detailed notes and anecdotes. Beginning with 1936 duets with brother Charlie, the list of Blue Grass Boys reads like a roster of legends: Flatt and Scruggs, Chubby Wise, Mac Wiseman, Jimmy Martin, Vassar Clements, Sonny Osborne, Bobby Hicks, Kenny Baker, Bill Keith, Del McCoury, Peter Rowan, and Richard Greene; the list goes on and on, as does the legacy of Monroe's music. --Marc Greilsamer

Music of Bill Monroe From 1936-1994,Bill Monroe,Mca Nashville,Bluegrass,Country,Country & Western,Pop

Average customer rating: Great western soundtrack a very memorable cd a very memorable cd a very memorable cd Truly Incredible

All the Pretty Horses (2001 Film) Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Film Scores | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: All the Pretty Horses The Straight Story: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Street Talk Think a Second Time Gladiator: Music from the Motion Picture ASIN: B000056KYJ Release Date: 2001-01-16

Tracks:

1. Cowboy's Dream
2. Canyon Sonata
3. All the Pretty Horses
4. Purty Dad Gum Good
5. After the Rain
6. Mild Cello Blues
7. Malarki Opus in D Major
8. John Grady's Angel
9. Edge of the World
10. Get My Boots
11. Strawberry Tango, Pt. 1-2
12. King of Horses
13. Far Away (Alejandra's Phone Call)
14. Porque
15. Love Montage
16. Ain't That a Drag
17. My Last Days on Earth/What's It Like to Be Dead?
18. Long Journey Home
19. Candles and Lies
20. Rainy Room
21. Far Away
22. Far Away (Reprise)
23. Cowboy's Dream/All the Pretty Horses [Medley]

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Novelist Cormac McCarthy's literary vision of the wild west is given wide-screen treatment by maverick director Billy Bob Thornton and a cast that includes Matt Damon, Penelope Cruz, and Bruce Dern. Professional country music journeyman Marty Stuart has performed with father-in-law Johnny Cash, Earl Scruggs, and Doc Watson, in addition to a successful solo career. In his soundtrack scoring debut, he provides short, meditative instrumental pieces that are subtly explosive--rife as they are with strains of old-school country and bluegrass. Cinematic strings and orchestral percussion add a welcome menacing edge, augmenting the rustic approach without crossing over into a compromised "countrypolitan" sound. If anything, it might be nice to hear these themes extended. As it stands, the 23 listed tracks are covered in a little under 50 minutes, with many of the cuts barely lasting more than a minute or two. They stand as a new genre of cinematic country minimalism. --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews:

Great western soundtrack.......2004-02-28

This is a must buy for fans of western soundtracks.It mixes beautifully symphonic music with Guitar music and spices it up all together with a south of the border flavor. Haunting music that will make you want to never take it out of your cd changer. It also
Features two vocal pieces, the first a spanish song sung by the very talented Raul Malo of the country group the mavericks, the second song is a beautiful ballad sung by Marty Stuart. Though I never owned any cd's of Marty Stuart he earns my respect with composing this film score.(cowboy hats off to you Mr.Stuart)

a very memorable cd.......2003-07-04

I thoroughly enjoyed this soundtrack cd. It soars high on ambiance, romance, and easy listening.

a very memorable cd.......2003-07-04

I thoroughly enjoyed this soundtrack cd. It soars high on ambiance, romance, and easy listening.

a very memorable cd.......2003-07-04

I thoroughly enjoyed this soundtrack cd. It soars high on ambiance, romance, and easy listening.

Truly Incredible.......2003-03-12

This album is a masterpiece. Within the first strums of the guitar, you feel as though you are among the southwestern hills. It has immediately become one of my favorites of all-time. The songs are filled with beautiful imagery, enchanting tunes, and haunting melodies. The shortness of the songs in unnoticable, as each song blends into the next, and the album itself serves as one epic journey. It is not meant to be listened to a song at a time, but as a whole. As I said, it is truly incredible. I would recommend it to absolutely anyone.

Average customer rating: Selectively Worthwhile Monstrously good!

Bach >> Beatles >> Bluegrass Manufacturer: Soundart Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: All The Rage - Mandolin Ensemble Music From 1897-1924 Mandolin Hymns Mandolin Magic Bach to the Beatles Beatles for Harp ASIN: B0001Z232C Release Date: 2004-06-01

Tracks:

1. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
2. Sleepers Awake (Cantata 140)
3. Arioso
4. Eleanor Rigby
5. Here, There And Everywhere
6. With A Little Help From My Friends
7. As Far As I Can See
8. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
9. Nuages
10. Rite Of Strings
11. Stardust
12. Happy Birthday Bill Monroe
13. Jack Rabbit Trail
14. Soldier's Night Out
15. Two Girls From Galax

Customer Reviews:

Selectively Worthwhile.......2006-01-22

This chestnut from Butch Baldassari's Nashville Mandolin Ensemble is a mixed bag. Parts of it are very much worth a listen. I particularly like their rendition of the Allman Brothers classic "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," and while their take on Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" isn't transcendent, it's pretty sharp. It's especially noteworthy how much sound the ensemble is able to get out of only six instruments with a fairly narrow range of sound.

But not all of it bears up to repeated listening. The "Bluegrass" section of the album is worthwhile, but the "Bach>>Beatles" part is awkward. The renditions of "Sleepers Awake" and "With a Little Help From My Friends" sound really thin, and the "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring," one of the more enduringly moving pieces from Bach's body of work, comes across as kind of sleepy. The sound the ensemble gets out of their instruments is big, but not varied, and especially on the three classical pieces that kick of the album, the effect is an unearned sense of being almost tepid.

Because it's fairly inexpensive, this album is probably worth getting for the second half of the playlist, which is very much listenable. But if you're going to play the album more than once you need to be selective in your listening. Worthwhile but spotty, this album is a valiant addition to the canon of mandolin music, but not something that will rest permanently in your CD changer.

Monstrously good!.......2005-05-25

Playing Time - 50:51 -- With over a decade under their belts, The Nashville Mandolin Ensemble has now trimmed down to a tight-knit and lean sextet for their fourth album, a presentation of 15 numbers recorded live at Vanderbilt University. The group features mando-family instruments (mandolins, mandola, mandocello) supplemented with 5-string viola, guitar and bass. The artists include Butch Baldassari, Stephan Dudash, Walter Carter, John Hedgecoth, Van Manakas, and David Spicher. In keeping with the program and album's title ("Bach, Beatles, Bluegrass"), the album opens with three neat classical Bach compositions, followed by three meaty selections from John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

The "bluegrass" is much more than just that with tunes from the genres of jazz, Gypsy, swing, Dawg, new acoustic and old-time music. Contempoary compositions from mandolinist Charlie Provenza and guitarist Roger Hudson are first-rate-and-a-half. It's amazing to hear what these hot pickers do with a number like "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," written by Dickey Betts, who was lead guitarist with the Allman Brothers in the sixties and seventies. Then, they can also evoke images of a moonlit evening at a café in Paris with their simply dee-lish appeteaser, "Nuages" from Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. It's a joy to hear musicians of this caliber take on a wide range of material from "Stardust" to "Happy Birthday, Bill Monroe." Ensemble member Butch Baldassari contributes a bouncy original "Jack Rabbit Trail," which provides some icing for this mandocake. Not losing sight of their roots, two traditional numbers close out the album. Walter Carter, mandola player, is deserving of special recognition for his quality and classy arranging of seven of the songs. For a live recording, the sound quality is excellent and fortunately no annoying audience applause is included. This album is monstrously good, and it is further proof that Nashville currently sports one of the finest mandolin ensembles in the world. (Joe Ross, staff writer, Bluegrass Now)

Average customer rating: A wonderful group and a great CD!

The Titan Manufacturer: Dorian Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Tribute Craigie Dhu ASIN: B000001Q6S Release Date: 1994-04-26

Tracks:

1. In The Csitari Mountain Foothills/Storm Warning
2. Jerusalem Ridge
3. French Schottische/One Summer's Morning/10th of December/Polka Suwanna From Rzeszow/Dick's Maggot...
4. Nova Scotia January/Waltz From Cape Breton
5. Traditional Bolivian/Columbito Tecumano
6. Mazurka Limousin/Bouree
7. The Athol Highlanders
8. Over The Stone/Maid From The Parish Of Penderyn
9. Shuffle Creek/The Old Brown Case/The Reconciliation
10. Jesu Babe Divine/Ganivelle/Jabadaw/The Titan

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A wonderful group and a great CD!.......2001-01-31

This CD is WONDERFUL! The content is inexplicable, but I will try. The band is made of 3 (or was it 4) guys who play a combination of diferent types of violin/fiddle, wood flute/ other types of flute, and a hammered dulcimer. They travel all around the world and "discover" old folk music, which they play. I saw them in concert about 5 years ago, (when I was 14 or 15) and the memory has stayed with me since. Their music is magical, and I am so glad that I have found it again as my old tape is quite worn out.

Average customer rating: Live and In Charge

Bill Monroe: Live From Mountain Stage Bill Monroe Manufacturer: Blue Plate ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Old-Time Country | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Traditional | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Bluegrass | Live Albums | Country | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Live Albums | Folk | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Bluegrass | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Live - Volume One ASIN: B00000IMYJ Release Date: 1999-05-11

Tracks:

1. My Sweet Blue Eyed Darlin'
2. Muleskinner Blues
3. Southern Flavor
4. Beautiful Life
5. My Blue Eyes From Heaven
6. Northern White Clouds
7. Uncle Pen
8. Blue Moon Of Kentucky
9. Sugar Loaf Mountain
10. The Old Hometown
11. I'm Working On A Building
12. Rawhide
13. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms

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When dealing with legendary musical pioneers--whether Louis Armstrong or the Beatles or Bill Monroe--all of their recorded work is worth hearing, to say the least. This rousing May 1989 date from Charleston, West Virginia, features the wily veteran Clarence "Tater" Tate on fiddle and hits all the essential stops of a Monroe show: glorious gospel harmonies ("Beautiful Life," "Working on a Building"), fierce mandolin showcases for the master ("Southern Flavor," "Rawhide"), and a selection of Monroe's signature tunes ("Uncle Pen," "Blue Moon of Kentucky"). Sure, Monroe's high tenor may not be what it was in his heyday--he was nearly 78 years old for god's sake--but try listening to his falsetto moans and wails on "Muleskinner Blues" without getting the gooseflesh. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Live and In Charge.......2000-05-02

Like a fine single-malt scotch, age has only made Bill Monroe better and better. Live From Mountain Stage is a great introduction to the work of this master of the high lonesome sound, and the way it captures the energy of his live shows makes it a valuable disc for longtime fans, too.

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Used To Be: Blues From The Pacific Delta, For Bill Monroe Various Artists Manufacturer: Undercover Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Delta Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Blues | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Bluegrass | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Bluegrass | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000003OZY Release Date: 1997-02-26

Tracks:

1. Used To Be - Beth Basile & Crackpots
2. Trailer Park Honey - Lisa MIller
3. 3 Sheets To The Wind - Jim Boyer
4. Self Abuse - Old Bloom Jack
5. Rag-Tag Devil - Lynn Connover
6. Edgar Casey Blues - Fernando
7. Nine Pound Hammer - Dickel Brothers
8. Kickitat County Blues - Cheap Love Affair - David 'Kid' Siegel
9. Lamentations - Kevin Richey
10. Hands Off - Lynnann Hyde
11. Shady Grove - Pete Krebs
12. Blackout - Richmond Fontaine
13. Drunk - Sunset Valley
14. Jolene - Becky Kapell
15. Get My Way - Capitol Hillbillies
16. I Have Seen It Worse - Belmont Street Octet
17. Little Sadie - Golden Delicious
18. Hussar's Dance - Prairie Dogs

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