Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Un vieil album bluegrass (1972)  incontournable !

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Les Thompson (chant, mandoline); Jimmie Fadden (chant, harpe); Jim Ibbotson (chant, rythmes); Jeff Hanna (voix, planche à laver); John McEuen (banjo, mandoline).

+ Maybelle Carter (chant, guitare, autoharpe); Jimmy Martin, Doc Watson, Merle Travis (chant, guitare); Earl Scruggs (guitare, banjo); Vassar Clememts (guitar, violon); Randy Scruggs (guitare, autoharpe); Pete "Oswald", Norman Blake (dobro); Roy "Junior" Huskey, Ellis Padgett (basse).

Disque 1: Grand Ole Opry Song, Keep on the Sunny Side, Nashville Blues, You Are My Flower, Precious Jewel, Dark as a Dungeon, Tennessee Stud, Black Mountain Rag, Wreck on the Highway, End of the World, I Saw the Light, Sunny Side of the Mountain, Nine Pound Hammer, Losin' You (Might Be the Best Thing Yet), Honky Tonkin', You Don't Know My Mind, My Walkin' Shoes;
Disque 2: Lonesome Fiddle Blues, Cannonball Rag, Avalanche, Flint Hill Special, Togary Mountain, Earl's Breakdown, Orange Blossom Special, Wabash Cannonball, Lost Highway, Doc Watson and Merle Travis: First Meeting - Way Downtown, Down Yonder, Pins and Needles (In My Heart), Honky Tonk Blues, Sailin' on to Hawaii, I'm Thinking, Tonight of My Blue Eyes, I Am a Pilgrim, Wildwood Flower, Soldier's Joy, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Both Sides Now, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Warming up For "The Opry", Sunny Side, Remember Me

Dueling banjos

Bande orginale du film Délivrance (grâce à qui le banjo s'est fait connaître au delà des frontières américaines), 1973

Morceaux: Dueling Banjos; Little Maggie; Shuckin’ The Corn; Pony Express; Old Joe Clark; Eight More Miles To Louisville; Farewell Blues; Earl’s Breakdown; End Of A Dream; Buffalo Gals; Reuben’s Train; Riding The Waves; Fire On The Mountain; Eighth Of January; Bugle Call Rag; Hard Ain’t It Hard; Mountain Dew; Rawhide

Russ Barenberg - Cowboy Calypso

Russ Barenberg (guitare); 1979

Morceaux: Cowboy Calypso; Goodbye Eddy Street; Gimmicks Ahoy; Suave De Samba; Cooley's Reel; Walking With You; Flabston And Chubsby Go South; Stringsong; You Say You Care; You Left The Islands Laughing

Trischka - Keith & Fleck - Fiddle Tunes for Banjo

Trois maîtres du banjo réunis pour jouer de célèbres 'fiddle tunes'; 1981

Morceaux: Bill Cheatham; Dust On The Needle / Paddy Kelly's Jig; Fiddler's Dream; Barbara's Waltz; Salty; Clinging Vine; Black Mountain Rag; John Hardy; Mead Mountain Blues; Vanished; Silverbell; Christina's Jig / Plain Brown Jig; Jolly Waffle Man; Old Sandy River Belle; Panhandle Country; Salt Creek

Beppe Gambetta - Dialogs

1988; Beppe Gambetta, l'un des meilleurs guitariste européen, avec un grand sens de la technique et de l'interprétation

Morceaux: Slow Creek; Bully Of The Town; Model 400 Buckboard; The Arkansas Traveller; Home Sweet Home; Siegel's Candy Shop; Incredible; Gold Watch & Chain; Ragtime Annie; Scotland; The Storms Are On The Ocean; Randy Lynn Rag; All You Need Is Love;

Dan Crary - Thunderation

Dan Crary (guitares 6 et 12 cordes), Bill Oskay (violon, synthé), Cam Newton (guitare 12 cordes), Gregg Williams (percussion); 1991

Morceaux: Banderilla, Depoe Bay, West o' the Moon, Amsterdance, Song of Makoraka-o, Thunderation, Lady's Fantasy, Lime Rock, Andante in Steel, Denouement

Dan Crary a remporté le prix "Indie" pour "Best Instrumental Album" pour cet album.

John Hickman - Don't Mean Maybe

The Essential Flatt & Scruggs

Lester Flatt (Guitare), Earl Scruggs (Banjo); 1997

Tout le meilleur du plus célèbre duo de l'histoire du bluegrass !

Disque 1: Come Back Darling; I'm Head Over Heels In Love; I'm Workin' On A Road; 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered; Earl's Breakdown; Flint Hill Special; Foggy Mountain Chimes; That Old Book Of Mine; Til The End Of The World Rolls Round; Foggy Mountain Special; Randy Lynn Rag; Shuckin' The Corn; Don't Let Your Deal Go Down; I'll Never Shed Another Tear; Big Black Train; Crying My Heart Out Over You; Cabin In The Hills
Disque 2: Polka On A Banjo;  Just Ain't; Go Home; The Legend Of The Johnson Boys; The Ballad Of Jed Clampett; New York Town; Pearl Pearl Pearl; My Saro Jane; I'm Troubled; You Are My Flower; Petticoat Junction; Workin' It Out; I Still Miss Someone; Nashville Cats; California Up Tight Band; Down In The Flood; Foggy Mountain Breakdown

O Brother, Where Are Thou

BO du film du même nom dans une ambiance bluegrass-gospel; 2000

Gambetta & Crary - Synérgia

Beppe Gambetta (Guitare, Chant), Dan Crary (Guitare, Chant), Carlo Aonzo (Mandoline), 2001

Deux géants de la guitare se retrouvent sur ce superbe album live !

Morceaux: Huckleberry Hornpipe; Stories We Can Tell; Mozart In Hell; Nashville Blues; L’Iride;  Rollin’ In My Sweet Baby’s Arms; Thunderation;  Jimmie Brown The Newsboy; Creuza De Mä; Black Mountain Rag; Ain’t No California;  John Hardy; Banderilla; Incredible; Life’s Railway To Heaven/Soldier’s Joy;  Freeborn Man

Alison Brown and the Quartet Replay

Morceaux: Red Balloon, Lorelei, Late on Arrival, Daytime TV, My Favorite Marsha, Spiderman Theme, The Wonderful Sea Voyage (of Holy St. Brendan), Without Anastasia, The Inspector, Chicken Road, G Bop, Etouffee Brutus?, Shoot the Dog, Mambo Banjo, The Promise of Spring

De super solos de banjo, guitare et piano dans une ambiance jazzy.
JazzTimes : "...A deeply satisfying recording that is filled with intelligent, well-considered and very appealing music."

Alison Krauss + Union Sation Live

Disque 1: Let Me Touch You For Awhile; Choctaw Hayride; The Lucky One; Baby, Now That I've Found You; Bright Sunny South; Every Time You Say Goodbye; Tiny Broken Heart; Cluck Old Hen Stay; Broadway; Ghost In This House; Forget About It; Faraway Land
Disque 2: A Tribute To Peador O'Donnell / Monkey Let The Hogs Out; The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn; Take Me For Longing; Man of Constant Sorrow; Maybe; We Hide & Seek; But You Know I Love You; When You Say Nothing At All; New Favorite; Oh, Atlanta; Down To The River To Pray; There Is A Reason

Berline, Crary & Hickman - Chambergrass: A Decade Of Tunes From The Edges Of Bluegrass

Byron Berline (violon, mandoline), Dan Crary (guitare et guitare 12 cordes), John Hickman (banjo) + artistes invités; 2002

Berline, Crary et Hickman, qui ont mené trois de belles carrières solistes, se sont retrouvés pour un album bluegrass de choc! Dan Crary a remporté "Best Liner Notes for Recorded Project" en 2003 à l' "International Bluegrass Music Awards" grace à cet album Chambergrass.

Morceaux: Forked Deer, Big Dog, Fall Creek, Bonaparte's Retreat, Pistol Pete, Fisher's Hornpipe, Night Run, Turkey in the Straw, Under the Double Eagle, Henry's Hornpipe, Early Times, Storm Over, Oklahoma, The Dusty Miller, Old Time Medley, Cricket.

Bill Knopf - Begin The Beguine

2003 -- Des standards bluegrass, ragtime, jazz, et swing au banjo 5 cordes électrique.

Tony Rice - The Bluegrass Guitar Collection

Un des meilleurs si ce n'est le meilleur soliste du genre. Cet album rassembles ses plus beaux morceaux enregistrés avec de nombreux autres grands musiciens.

Tony Rice (guitar), avec Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, David Grisman, Doc Watson, Darol Anger, Norman Blake, Fred Carpenter, Vassar Clements, JD Crowe, Jerry Douglas...; 2003

Mojo (Publisher) : "As the greatest living bluegrass guitarist, Rice has stretched the limits of the genre to incorporate jazz and blues elements....Gorgeous examples of his genius abound here."

Morceaux: Tipper; Monroe's Hornpipe; Jerusalem Ridge; New Chance Blues; Blackberry Blossom; Medley: Fiddler's Dram/ Whiskey Before Breakfast; Whitewater; Lost Indian; Stoney Point; Misty Morning; Gold Rush; Foggy Mountain Creek; Stoney Creek; Home Sweet Home; Bill Cheatham; Stoney Lonesome; Soldier's Joy; Cheyenne; Big Mon; Birdland Breakdown

Men of Steel - Live: The Art of the Steel-String Guitar

Quatre des plus grands guitaristes folk de la planète ont combiné leur talent sur cet album impressionnant. Men of Steel se compose de Beppe Gambetta (Italie), Dan Crary (USA), Tony McManus (Ecosse), and Don Ross (Canada); 2004

Morceaux: L'Orient Est Grand; Loaded. Leather. Moonroof.; Bagpipe Tunes for Guitar; O'Carolan's Quarrel with the Landlady; The Titanic; In Flagrante; Reel De La Sauvagine; On the Road With Mama; Long Journey Home; Risky Bizz

Dave Higgs, Bluegrass Breakdown, Nashville Public Radio : It's a magnificent disc - well recorded, edited and paced and, of course, the music is simply mouth-wateringly sublime."