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COMPACT DISCS ALAN JACKSON The Bluegrass Album The wildly popular country star goes native! Some originals with the chestnuts, top-notch production, and all-star sidemen Rob Ickes, Don Rigsby, Adam Steffey, Samy Shelor, Ronnie Bowman and more. CAPN-CD191070 NICKEL CREEK A Dotted Line They set the world on fire as teenagers; now Nickel Creek has issued their first joint album in nine years! Mandolin demigod Chris Thile, fiddler/singer Sara Watkins and her guitar-playing brother Sean. NONE-CD541944 THE DAVID GRISMAN BLUEGRASS EXPERIENCE Muddy Roads A limited-edition tribute to Doc Watson, Clarence “Tom” Ashley and Ralph Rinzler from mandolin pioneer Grisman and his `grassified outfit: Chad Manning, Keith Little, Jim Nunnally, and Samson and Tracy Bigelow Grisman. ACOUST-CD80 OLD & IN THE WAY Live At the Boarding House (4 CDs) Limited Edition! Recordings of the shows held on October 1973 at the popular club in San Francisco, 14 cuts which have never been released in any format. Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Peter Rowan, Vassar Clements and John Kahn. ACOUST-CD81 THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS Let It Go The cutting edge of 21st-century post-bluegrass acoustic Americana! Guitarist Andy Falco, Andy Hall on Dobro, banjo ace Chris Pandolfi, fiddler Jeremy Garrett and Travis Book on upright bass. HIGHCO-CD003 THE BOXCARS It’s Just a Road Third album from this supergroup and reigning IBMA “Instrumental Group of the Year!” Original songs from Ron Stewart and Keith Garrett plus “When Sorrows Encompass Me ‘Round,” the Carter Family’s “Coal Miner’s Blues” and more. MOUH-CD1462 THE SELDOM SCENE Long Time... Seldom Scene First album since 2007 from this long-lived, modernist DC-area bluegrass institution! Original members Tom Gray and John Starling with Emmylou Harris, fiddler Rickie Simpkins, guitarist Chris Eldridge and banjoist Ben Eldridge. FOLKW-CD40199 EARL SCRUGGS The Essential Earl Scruggs (2 CDs) 40 classic tracks spanning the long career of bluegrass banjo’s late patriarch, including sides with Bill Monroe’s band, plenty of Flatt & Scruggs sides, more. COLU-CD90858 BANJOS NOAM PIKELNY Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe The latter-day 5-string adventurer in a tribute to the 1973 classic LP that served as his “instrumental bluegrass bible!” All 12 tracks in the same sequence as the original, with Bryan Sutton, Ronnie McCoury and Mike Bub. COMPASS-CD4616 STEVE MARTIN & THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS FEAT. EDIE BRICKELL Live (CD/DVD Set) All the music from their PBS “Great Performances” special, jewels from the Steve-and-Edie collaboration “Love Has Come for You” & funnyman banjoist Steve’s “Crow” & “Rare Bird Alert” sets. ROUN-CD8846 TERRY BAUCOM Never Thought of Looking Back 12 hard-driving tracks with banjo ace Baucom and a knockdown roster of guests including Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Wyatt Rice, Steve Bryant, Aubrey Haynie and singers Marty Raybon, John Cowan, Tim Stafford and more. KNEE-CD2 VARIOUS ARTISTS The Patuxent Banjo Project (2 CDs) VARIOUS ARTISTS Classic Banjo From Smithsonian Folkways 30 tracks plus a 44-page booklet, the cream of five-string banjo from Folkways’ deep and formidable catalog: Pete Seeger, Hobart Smith, Dock Boggs, Mike Seeger, Tony Trischka, Bill Evans, Ola Belle Reed, Doc Watson, many more. FOLKW-CD40209 VARIOUS ARTISTS Banjo Gathering (2 CDs) “100% pure old-time banjo; unobscured, unaccompanied and unadulterated!” A 5-string feast of solo banjo from a galaxy of today’s finest players. TALLTR-CD07 KRUGER BROTHERS Remembering Doc Watson Dazzling trio from Switzerland (now residing in North Carolina) in a heartfelt tribute to their old friend, neighbor and Merlefest cohort, the late Doc Watson. DTM-CD025 BRYAN SUTTON Into My Own The dean of latter-day bluegrass guitarists, fleet, bluesy and harddriving; in an eclectic program with guests Noam Pikelny, Bill Frisell, Stuart Duncan, Ronnie McCoury, Sam Bush and more. SUGA-CD4105 R.D. LUNCEFORD Drop-Thumb: 21 Clawhammer Banjo Solos One of our most enduringly popular banjo CDs! An engaging musical feast with nothing but the man and his banjo, no sidemen, no overdubs, no nothin.’ There’s an accompanying book, too (sold separately as 158-24). CBM-CD82498 BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn Sparrow Quartet bandmates and 5-string world ambassadors in a “front-porch" duo for the 21st century! With Fleck's resonator banjo, Washburn's openback, cello banjo, banjo-uke, baritone uke & more. ROUN-CD3626 5-string blowout from Maryland’s top-shelf indie bluegrass label! 40 tracks from bluegrassers Tom Adams, Murphy Henry, Bill Emerson, clawhammer stylists Reed Martin, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Joe Herrmann, legends Roni Stoneman & Eddie Adcock and lots more! PATUX-CD250 NATE LEATH & FRIENDS Volume 2 A second go-round of eclectic tuneifying with NC fiddle wiz Leath and his boundary-busting friends: cellist Rashad Eggleston, fiddlers Tatania Hargreaves, Duncan Wickel and Nancy Sluys, guitarists David Grier and Danny Knicely, banjo man Sammy Shelor & more. PATUX-CD244 DIRK POWELL Walking Through Clay Sugar Hill-label debut from this multi-instrumentalist and renaissance man of indigenous American music! “Some Sweet Day,” “Abide With Me,” “That Ain’t Right, 12 in all. SUGA-CD4099 BOB WILLS & HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS Riding Your Way: The Lost Transcriptions for Tiffany Music, 1946-47 (2 CDs) 50 songs that have never been reissued! These recently discovered Tiffany sides were some of the most electric, freewheeling and spontaneous recordings extant of the King of Western Swing. RGM-CD00244 BRUCE MOLSKY If It Ain’t Here When I Get Back Self-produced solo outing from this multi-instrumentalist, singer, and world ambassador of old-time southern Appalachian music. Fiddle, banjo and guitar on an array of tunes and songs from the mountain tradition and beyond. TFM-CD1301 ALASDAIR FRASER & NATALIE HAAS Abundance More Scottish and Celtic tunifying from fiddle Olympian Fraser and all-world cellist Haas; with Donald Shaw on keys, percussionist James McIntosh and Cory DiMario on bass. 16 tracks of Gaelic glory including the “Connie Suite.” CULB-CD124 MIKE COMPTON & JOE NEWBERRY Live Longtime pickin’ buddies Compton on mandolin and mandola and Newberry on banjo and guitar - they both sing, too! - live at Brandywine Friends in Newark, DE in Feb. of 2012. TBM-CD012 SUTPHIN & LEVY Two Peas In a Pod “This recording is an imaginative look at the Round Peak music of Surry County, NC & the surrounding Piedmont region.” Fiddler Sutphin, Levy on banjo and concertina, with singer Eddie Bond. BLMP-CD5 JIMMY HEFFERNAN & JIM MITCHELL The Old Road to Home: The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers Singer Mitchell teams up with Heffernan on banjo, Dobro, mandolin, guitars and more (plus an array of guests) on a slate of 12 timeless classics. JHEFF-CD0331 VARIOUS ARTISTS Sacred Harp & Shape Note Singing 1922-1950s (4 CDs) Early recordings of the distinctive southern Appalachian church harmony known as “shape-note singing,” “The Sacred Harp.” “Canaan’s Land,” “Wondrous Love,” 81 devotional jewels. JSP-CD77175 95 www.elderly.com Toll-Free (USA only) 888-473-5810 or 517-372-7890

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