GRASS ANYONE?

For Christmas I got "Bluegrass at Newport 1959-1965". Its got 2 sets by Bill Monroe,Flatt and Scruggs,Jim and Jesse and single sets with The Stanley Brothers,Don Stover and the Lily Brothers.
Also Mezmo was right about Rebel Records,home of the best Ralph Stanley recordings.Checkout "Ralph plays requests". Ralph really knows how to get a banjo to ring.

david, lotsa good stuff here. "will the circle be unbroken" & "old & in the way" are definitely vinyl classics. and ya ya *gotta* get that skip-hop-wobble one - it's a killer. jerry douglas is on it, btw - not bela fleck. also, another great album is "bourbon & rosewater", a kind of east-meets-west thing, where jerry douglas plays a mean acoustic guitar in accompanying vishna bhatt on indian stringed instruments. blue-grass, indian-style. great sonics on both these cd's also. the douglas/bhatt one is on the well-respected water-lily acoustics label...these have been seeing lotsa playing-time on the rig, lately, w/my new art di/o dac! :>)

doug s.

oh, also great fun is jerry garcia & dave grisman's "not for kids only" - it's *not*! ;~)

Yep! Gillian Welch. I love "Little Black Bird".

Some great recommendations,... here is one more that you all try ..." Positive Friction" by Donna the Buffalo, a blend of bluegrass, zydeco reggae rock and country. Trust me, it really works! Great band.

Every album by The Revival was and is a most wonderful thing. John Cowan has the best voice in bluegrass not counting Mac Weisman. Sammy, Bela and others followed the lead of John Hartford and other pioneers to fashion "newgrass" as a distinct branch or subspecies of blugrass and roots music. Ditto Winoguy's and the Buffalo...they rule! Jeb,Tara, Jim and the rest are the next Revival...the next Dead...unbelievable...try all their music for free at their site.