Bluegrass for me begins with the first recordings Bill Monroe made with Earl Scruggs. We’ll hear that initial tune and some additional music from Bill and the Bluegrass Boys, some classics from Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, and The Stanley Brothers. We’ll have a set of brother duets and some great instrumental tunes from Kenny Baker, Chubby Wise and other great players. Honoring bluegrass pioneers … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Ron Stewart / “Stewart’s Dream” / Time Stands Still / Rounder
Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys / “Heavy Traffic Ahead” / The Essential Bill Monroe & his
              Bluegrass Boys / Columbia
Bill Monroe / “Footprints in the Snow” / In The Pines / County
Bill Monroe & his Bluegrass Boys / “Blue Moon of Kentucky” / Grand Old Opry Live Classics /
              Cracker Barrel-Opry Classics

Junie Scruggs / “Sally Goodin-Sally Ann / American Banjo Scruggs and Three Finger Style /
              Smithsonian Folkways
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys / “Pike County Breakdown” / Best of Bluegrass
              Vol 1 / Mercury
Flatt & Scruggs / “Til the End of the World Rolls Round” / The Essential Flatt & Scruggs / Columbia
Flatt & Scruggs / “You Are My Flower” / Recorded Live a Vanderbilt University / Columbia
The Stanley Brothers / “Little Maggie” / Earliest Recordings-Rich-R-Tone / Revenant
The Stanley Brothers / “I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow” / The Stanley Brothers 1949-52 / Bear Family
Ron Stewart / “Whistling Rufus” / Time Stands Still / Rounder

The Blue Sky Boys / “Sunny Side of Life” / There’ll Come a Time / BSR
Jim & Jesse / “Are You Missing Me” / 1952-55 / Bear Family
The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover / “Little Annie” / Bluegrass at the Roots / Smithsonian Folkways
The Goins Brothers / “I’m Getting Ready to Go” / Run Satan, Run / Hay Holler
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / “Tiny Broken Heart” / Won’t You Come and Sing for Me /
              Smithsonian Folkways

Kenny Baker / “Brandywine” / Master Fiddler / County
Don Reno & Red Smiley / “Dixie Breakdown” / On The Air / Copper Creek
Chubby Wise / “Stone’s Rag” / An American Original / Pinecastle
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways