Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #152501 in Music
- Brand: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
- Model: SFW40004
- Released on: 1992-02-14
- Number of discs: 1
- Original language:
English - Dimensions: .45" h x
4.94" w x
5.50" l,
.21 pounds
Product Description
Here are the classic Country Gents in their first album-length release, produced by Mike Seeger in Washington D.C. studio toward the end of 1959, as their music was solidifying into the sound that would bring them enduring fame for the next several decades. Seeger had already introduced bluegrass to Folkways records via two albums of informally recorded music which had sold well enough to persuade Moses Asch that more was in order. And made to that order were these young savvy urban musicians who were just beginning to blend several elements of popular music into the traditional bluegrass mix in a sucessful effort to develop their own style.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.The Genuine Article
By A Customer
This is the way music should be..Clear, beautiful, and real. These guys were keeping it real, and sing beautifully. The vocal arrangements and strings and the songs work together to create something unimaginably terrific. This is a great study of American bluegrass.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.Best Bluegrass album EVER!
By Robert Lemos
I discovered this album when I was going to school at San Jose State COLLEGE in 1965. Yes, before it was a university! I had listened to lstened to a fair amount of Bluegrass (including the Dillards and of course the fabulous Greenbriar Boys). But, this particular album just blew me away!! This was the period when Eddie Adcock and John Duffey were perfecting their instrumental styles, and all three were perfecting their supernal vocal harmonies. Every song both intrumental and vocal are just excellent. To my way of thinking, the quintessential bluegrass album. I know you've heard this before, BUT if you are going to have only one bluegrass album Make it be this one! I'm serious.... BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM EVER!!!!
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