Name: Newport Folk Festival: Best of Bluegrass 1959-1966
Brand: Vanguard
SKU: 59761
Price: 22.7 SGD
Availability: InStock

Newport Folk Festival

Rating

Hurry - Only 4 left in stock!

Album: Newport Folk Festival: Best of Bluegrass 1959-1966
#	Song Title	Time
1)	John Henry - (previously unreleased)
2)	Gathering Flowers From the Hillside - (previously unreleased)
3)	Love and Wealth - (previously unreleased)
4)	Orange Blossom Special - (previously unreleased)
5)	Prisoner Song, The - (previously unreleased)
6)	How Mountain Girls Can Love
7)	Man of Constant Sorrow
8)	Gathering Flowers For the Master's Bouquet
9)	Choo Choo Coming
10)	Salty Dog Blues
11)	Before I Met You
12)	Cabin on the Hill
13)	Jimmy Brown the Newsboy
14)	Border Ride
15)	Gosh I Miss You All the Time
16)	Dill Pickle Rag
17)	She Left Me Standing on the Mountain
18)	Pardon Me - (previously unreleased)
19)	Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes - (previously unreleased)
1)	Kansas City Railroad Blues - (previously unreleased)
2)	Rabbit Soup - (previously unreleased)
3)	Flint Hill Special - (previously unreleased)
4)	Earl's Breakdown - (previously unreleased)
5)	Why Did You Wander? - (previously unreleased)
6)	Bury Me Beneath the Willow - (previously unreleased)
7)	Billy in the Lowground - (previously unreleased)
8)	Little Annie - (previously unreleased)
9)	I Live On - (previously unreleased)
10)	Walls of Time
11)	Grey Eagle
12)	Cotton-Eyed Joe
13)	Shady Grove
14)	Blue Yodel #4
15)	Molly and Tenbrooks
16)	Bluegrass Breakdown
1)	Alabam'
2)	Memphis, Tennessee
3)	Airmail Special
4)	Better Times a-Coming
5)	Bill Cheatham
6)	Grave in the Valley, The
7)	Sugarfoot Rag
8)	Walking in My Sleep
9)	Tiny Broken Heart, A
10)	One I Love Is Gone, The
11)	Maiden's Prayer
12)	Will You Be Lonesome Too?
13)	Foggy Mountain Chimes
14)	Wabash Cannonball
15)	When the Saints Go Marching In
16)	Ballad of Jed Clampett (Theme From "The Beverly Hillbillies")

Album: Newport Folk Festival: Best of Bluegrass 1959-1966
#	Song Title	Time
1)	John Henry - (previously unreleased)
2)	Gathering Flowers From the Hillside - (previously unreleased)
3)	Love and Wealth - (previously unreleased)
4)	Orange Blossom Special - (previously unreleased)
5)	Prisoner Song, The - (previously unreleased)
6)	How Mountain Girls Can Love
7)	Man of Constant Sorrow
8)	Gathering Flowers For the Master's Bouquet
9)	Choo Choo Coming
10)	Salty Dog Blues
11)	Before I Met You
12)	Cabin on the Hill
13)	Jimmy Brown the Newsboy
14)	Border Ride
15)	Gosh I Miss You All the Time
16)	Dill Pickle Rag
17)	She Left Me Standing on the Mountain
18)	Pardon Me - (previously unreleased)
19)	Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes - (previously unreleased)
1)	Kansas City Railroad Blues - (previously unreleased)
2)	Rabbit Soup - (previously unreleased)
3)	Flint Hill Special - (previously unreleased)
4)	Earl's Breakdown - (previously unreleased)
5)	Why Did You Wander? - (previously unreleased)
6)	Bury Me Beneath the Willow - (previously unreleased)
7)	Billy in the Lowground - (previously unreleased)
8)	Little Annie - (previously unreleased)
9)	I Live On - (previously unreleased)
10)	Walls of Time
11)	Grey Eagle
12)	Cotton-Eyed Joe
13)	Shady Grove
14)	Blue Yodel #4
15)	Molly and Tenbrooks
16)	Bluegrass Breakdown
1)	Alabam'
2)	Memphis, Tennessee
3)	Airmail Special
4)	Better Times a-Coming
5)	Bill Cheatham
6)	Grave in the Valley, The
7)	Sugarfoot Rag
8)	Walking in My Sleep
9)	Tiny Broken Heart, A
10)	One I Love Is Gone, The
11)	Maiden's Prayer
12)	Will You Be Lonesome Too?
13)	Foggy Mountain Chimes
14)	Wabash Cannonball
15)	When the Saints Go Marching In
16)	Ballad of Jed Clampett (Theme From "The Beverly Hillbillies")

Performer Notes

Performers include: Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerrard, The Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, The Foggy Mountain Boys, Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys, Josh Graves, Don Stover.
Recorded between 1959 and 1966.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
This is part of Vanguard's Session Series.
These three discs present 51 tracks recorded at the Newport Folk Festivals between 1959 and 1966, including some giants of the genre: Flatt & Scruggs, Jim & Jesse, Bill Monroe, and the Stanley Brothers. There's a generous portion of material by most of the acts featured, including seven 1965 songs by Monroe, ten (from 1960 and 1966) by Flatt & Scruggs, and 13 (from 1963 and 1966) by Jim & Jesse. The Newport Folk Festivals were important events for the popularization of all facets of folk or folk-based music, and this set effectively encapsulates their contributions to bringing bluegrass to a wider (and often white and Northern) audience. No less than 16 of the cuts were previously unreleased, although with the exception of a couple 1963 Jim & Jesse performances, these are by the least well-known acts on the set: Hylo Brown and the Timberliners (with Earl Scruggs), Don Stover, and the Lilly Brothers (with Don Stover and Tex Logan). As for the most recognizable "hit" of the package, Flatt & Scruggs do a version of their famous Beverly Hillbillies theme, "The Ballad of Jed Clampett"; and Jim & Jesse do an unexpected cover of Chuck Berry's "Memphis, Tennessee." Most interesting are the three tunes by Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard. These have a sense of reaching for something and hunger that is not always heard in the always-accomplished, but flashily polished, performances on much of the rest of the package. ~ Richie Unterberger