| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Best CDs? | | Date: | Monday, January 21, 2008 21:34:08 (+0000) | | From: | bluegrassrick <bluegrassrick @.......net>
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This is a great list. I would add, if no else has, Carrie Hassler and Hard Rain
with Josh Swift on the slide. He is now with Doyle Lawson.
Slide on,
Rick Randol
> Carl and all:
> Assuming the Resoguit archives are fully searchable, there are at least two
> past threads with great responses on this topic that I would recommend
> finding: one called "CD List" that was a 2005 thread started by Wayne
> Langdon, and one called "Albums that give great dobro". Here's my own list
> of "20 best" from the "CD List" thread, with a few update notes:
>
> Any "must have" CD list is going to have egregious omissions, but here's my
> list of classics, largely but not entirely bluegrass:
>
> Josh Graves: [Note: If you can afford it, get the Bear Family boxed set of
> Flatt & Scruggs 1948-1959. I would also highly recommend Marty Stuart's
> Live at the Ryman CD which captures Josh playing late in life, with a
> spectacular version of Great Speckled Bird plus a few other songs.]
>
> 1. Flatt & Scruggs, "Foggy Mountain Jamboree" (now out with 3 bonus
> tracks on Columbia/Legacy) (originally released 1957, with recordings
> from 1951-57; Uncle Josh is on 6 of the tracks). This is a superb
> album -- almost unbelievable how many F&S classics are on this
> release. Some great dobro stuff on this one!
>
> 2. Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall (recorded live in 1962;
> re-released on the Koch label in 1998).
>
> 3 & 4. Kenny Baker & Josh Graves, "The Puritan Sessions" (with Kenny
> Baker mostly on guitar, not fiddle; originally released as two CDs --
> "Something Different" and "Bucktime!"; recorded in 1972 and 1973).
>
> Mike Auldridge: [I second the Eight-String Swing recommendation; plus:]
>
> 5 & 6. "Dobro" (1972) and "Blues and Bluegrass" (1974); these two are
> available one one CD labeled "Mike Auldridge - Takoma-Plus One," and
> can be ordered from Mike Auldridge's web site, along with many other
> of Mike's fine CDs.
>
> 7. Mike A. with the Seldom Scene -- lots of CDs to choose from here,
> but for this list, I'm picking "Live at the Cellar Door." (Rebel
> 1103, released 1975)
>
> Mike has lots of list-worthy recordings in more recent times, but
> these are classics.
>
> Jerry Douglas:
>
> 8. J.D. Crowe & the New South (Rounder 0044, released 1975; also
> available with an extra track on Cracker Barrel's label, CB103). A
> good case can be made that this record changed the world.
>
> 9. Boone Creek, "One Way Track" (1977 release, reissued as Sugar Hill
> 3701).
>
> 10. The Tony Rice Unit, "Manzanita" (Rounder 0092, recorded 1978,
> released 1979). Another record that changed the world, in my opinion.
> And worth buying just for the band photograph.
>
> Note: although I highly recommend Jerry's "Fluxology" (1979) and
> "Fluxedo" (1982),available on a single CD as "Everything Is Going to
> Work Out Fine," the difficult-to-find "Changing Channels" and "Plant
> Early," and also "Snakes Alive" by The Dreadful Snakes (1983, Rounder
> 0177) I'm leaving them off this list in favor of:
>
> 11, 12 & 13. The Bluegrass Album Band, Vol. 3 (1983), Vol. 4 (1985) &
> Vol. 5 (1989). Two decades later, these still set the standard for
> contemporary bluegrass excellence (in my opinion, of course). (Jerry
> isn't on vols. 1 or 2, and I'm not sure how much he plays on Vol. 6,
> which is all-instrumental.)
>
> 14. "Slide Rule," Jerry's 1992 release.
>
> 15. Alison Krauss & Union Station: lots to choose from here, but I
> would pick one of these three: "New Favorite," "Forget About It," or
> the "Live" CD (or better yet, the DVD). Dream pairing of voice
> (Alison) and dobro.
>
> 16. And finally for my Jerry list, I would at this moment choose
> "Lookout for Hope" over "The Best Kept Secret," but that's probably
> because it's had longer to grow on me...
>
> And yes, I realize my list includes 9 CDs with Jerry, but looking at
> it another way, that means I left off about 1491...
>
> Rob Ickes [Note: I would have to add Three Ring Circle AND the
> Merle Haggard "Bluegrass Sessions" CD to this list, both of which
> came out after I compiled this list, and also Blue Highway's Wondrous
> Love, Marbletown, and the forthcoming Through the Window of a Train,
> release date Feb. 12]:
>
> 17 and 18. Of the solo CDs, I would pick "Hard Times" and "What It
> Is" but would probably sneak in "Big Time" also.
>
> 19. Blue Highway: Lots to pick from here, so perhaps I would pick
> "It's A Long, Long Road" from the 20th century, and "Still Climbing
> Mountains" from the 21st. If I were limited to one, I'd have to go on
> Rhapsody and make my own compilation from a lot of different Blue
> Highway albums.
>
> 20. And for my 20th and final pick, I'm going out on a limb and
> choosing one that isn't out yet -- The Missy Raines Band, featuring my
> favorite dobro player, Michael Witcher. What I heard at IBMA was
> stunning, to borrow the word everyone around me was using. [NOTE: It's
> almost unbelievable to me that this listing STILL doesn't
> need updating, more than 2 years after I wrote it. Missy, get that
> CD released NOW! I've heard the promo tracks from it, and it's
> awesome...some of them are on Missy's MySpace page]
>
> This is a highly subjective list that omits lots of excellent dobro
> players, but I can't include them without making the list too huge,
> and the young ones have their best recordings ahead of them.
>
>
> Betty
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