Rounder Records was founded in 1970 by three friends in Somerville Mass. For the next few weeks on the program, we celebrate this important folk music label with a selection of classic Rounder Bluegrass recordings. We’ll hear The Monroe Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, Ricky Skaggs, Alison Krauss and many more. Happy 50th Birthday Rounder Records … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Mike Compton & David Grier / “Black Mountain Rag” / Climbing the Walls / Rounder
George Pegrum / “Mississippi Sawyer” / George Pegram / Rounder
The Dry Brance Fire Squad / “Economical Talk” / Live at Least / Rounder
The Dry Branch Fire Squad / “John Henry” / Live at Last / Rounder
The Monroe Brothers / “New River Train” / What Would You Give… / Rounder

J.D. Crowe and the New South / “Old Home Place” / J.D. Crowe and the New South / Rounder
The Kentucky Colonels / “Nine Pound Hammer” / Appalachian Swing / Rounder
Skyline with Tony Trischka / “Stranded in the Moonlight” / Ticket Back: A Retrospective /
              Flying Fish
The Nashville Bluegrass Band / “Old Devil’s Dream” / Idle Time / Rounder
Mike Compton & David Grier / “Flop Eared Mule” / Climbing the Walls / Rounder

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs / “Cora Is Gone” / The Mercury Sessions Vol.1 / Rounder
Ricky Skaggs / “Lost and I’ll Never Find the Way” / Family & Friends / Rounder
Crowe & McLaughlin / “All I Have to Do is Dream” / Going Back / Rounder
Alison Krauss & Union Station / “New Fool” / Ever Time You Say Goodbye / Rounder

The Cox Family / “Cowboy’s Dream” / Beyond the City / Rounder
The Bluegrass Album Band / “Devil in Disguise” / The Bluegrass Compact Disc / Rounder
Vassar Clements / “Beats Me” / Grass Routes / Rounder
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
              Smithsonian Folkways