Artist: Various Artists
Title Of Album: The Real Music Box, 25 Years of Rounder Records
Year Of Release: 1995
Label: Rounder Records
Genre: Blues
Quality: ape
Art: scans
Notes:
Within the discount, ugly-duckling packaging of The Real Music Box: 25 Years of Rounder Records lie nine CD swans worth several hundred times their weight in superficial music-industry gold records. Since 1970, Massachusetts-based Rounder has been a stalwart sanctuary of various musics at the root of what has recently been labeled "Americana." The retrospective is segmented into four thematic two-disc sets, each offering a staggering 30 to 50 tracks where legendary names rub shoulders with bright young Rounder talent. On Hills of Home (folk), Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly hang out with Rory Block and Alison Krauss; while Hand-Picked (bluegrass) highlights the likes of J.D. Crowe & The New South, Tony Trischka and Bela Fleck. Deep Blue (blues) captures a wide range of shades, from Professor Longhair and Champion Jack Dupree to Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and the Holmes Brothers. Louisiana Spice stews up a gumbo of New Orleans R&B, cajun and zydeco, including Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Zachary Richard, and Boozoo Chavis. A final bonus disc captures 23 random Rounder samples, including psych-folk from The Holy Modal Rounders, Brave Combo's polka party, Jonathan Richman's childlike whimsy, and the Chicano rock of The Blazers. In some respects, this disc is the most satisfying of all just for its sheer breadth of scope. In all, a living, breathing, vibrant roots music encyclopedia. ~ Roch Parisien
Tracklist:
1. Do-Re-Mi - Woody Guthrie
2. Where The Old Red River Flows - Whitstein Brothers
3. Church Street Blues - Norman Blake
4. Worried Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
5. Joliet Bound - Rory Block
6. J'Etais Au Bal - LeJeune/Menard/Smith
7. Annie Is My Darling Medley/The Red Shoes - Joseph Cormier
8. Sly Old Crow/Old Blair Store - John McCutcheon
9. Midnight On The Stormy Deep - The Tony Rice Unit
10. Corazon Viajero - Tish Hinosa
11. Come All You Fair and Tender Maidens - David Bromberg
12. Sweet Lucy - Michael Hurley & The Holy Modal Rounders
13. One Dime Blues - Etta Baker
14. Talk About Sufferin' - Ricky Scaggs
15. Troubles, Trials, Tribulations - E.C. & Orna Ball
16. Silver Bell - Country Cooking
17. The Memory Of Your Smile - Mike Seeger/Maria Muldaur/David Grisman
18. Never Will Give Up - Alison Krauss & The Cox Family
19. Reels: The Pure Drop/The Flax In Bloom - Pierre Bensusan
20. Night Herding Song - Skip Gorman
21. John Hardy - Lead Belly
22. Duncan & Brady - Johnson Mountain Boys
23. Old Country Stomp - Jody Stecher/Kate Brislin
24. College Hornpipe - Mark O'Connor
25. Looking For Money - Chicken Chokers
26. Going Back To Old Virginia - Crowe & McLaughlin
27. Hills Of Home - Hazel Dickens
28. I'm Out On The Ocean A-Sailing - Leslie Riddle
29. She Did You A Favor - Roy Book Binder
30. My Babe - Mississippi Fred McDowell/Johnny Woods
31. Racetrack Blues - Nashville Jug Band
32. Aloha Means I Love You - Tau Moe Family
33. Bill Cheatham - Bela Fleck/Bill Keith/Tony Trischka
34. High On A Mountain - Ola Belle Reed
35. I Caught A Keeper - Barry & Holly Tashian
36. I Ride An Old Paint - Riders In The Sky
37. Baby Please Don't Go - Bill Morrissey/Greg Brown
38. Killing The Blues - Woodstock Mountain Revue
39. I'll Never Go Back - Louvin Brothers
40. Who Will Watch The Home Place - Laurie Lewis
41. Mardi Gras In New Orleans - Dirty Dozen Brass Band
42. That's Enough of that Stuff - Marcia Ball
43. Three Keys - James Booker
44. Tee Nah Nah - Tuts Washington
45. Shoo-Fly - Bo Dollis/Monk Boudreaux/Rebirth Brass Band
46. On The Prowl - Walter 'Wolfman' Washington
47. Back on Track - Dalton Reed
48. Hold To God's Unchanging Hand - Irma Thomas
49. Hometown New Orleans - Champion Jack Dupree
50. Down That Lonely Lonely Road - Johnny Adams
51. Tipitina - Professor Longhair
52. Coconut Milk - Bo Dollis & Wild Magnolias
53. Hard Times - Eddie Bo
54. Meet Me At the Station - Chuck Carbo
55. J'ai vu le loup, le renard et la belette - The Balfa Brothers
56. Pere et garcon zydeco - John Delafose And The Eunice Playboys
57. The Mistake I Made - Eddie LeJeune
58. Chere toute-toute - Jimmy C. Newman
59. Lula Lula Don't You Go To Bingo - Boozoo Chavis
60. Bayou Pon Pon - Le Trio Cadien (Eddie LeJeune/D.L. Menard/Ken Smith)
61. Les flammes d'enfer - Beausoleil
62. La Danse de Mardi Gras - Steve Riley And The Mamou Playboys
63. Wildwood Flower - D.L. Menard
64. La valse de chere bebe - Jo-El Sonnier
65. C'est pas la peine brailler (There's No Need To Cry) - Geno Delafose
66. Laissez faire (Let It Be) - Bruce Daigrepont
67. T'en as eu - David Doucet
68. File Gumbo - Zachary Richard
69. Outside People - Nathan And The Zydeco Cha Chas
70. Give Him Cornbread - Beau Jocque And The Zydeco Hi-Rollers
71. Think It Over One More Time - Buckweat Zydeco
72. Snap Bean - Li'l Brian And The Zydeco Travelers
73. Mr. Bell's Shuffle - Robert Nighthawk
74. Jealous Hearted Woman - J.B. Hutto
75. Left Me With A Broken Heart - Jimmy Rogers/Ronnie Earl/the Broadcasters
76. Mean Old Frisco - Frank Hovington
77. Blues with a Feeling - Booker T. Laury
78. Lonesome Whistle - Johnny Shines/Robert Jr. Lockwood
79. Ain't Treating Me Right - Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson
80. I Feel So Good - Tracy Nelson
81. Peace and Happiness - Ted Hawkins
82. Up Above My Head - Holmes Brothers
83. Sometimes I Slip - Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
84. Full Court Press - Bluestime
85. Since You Been Gone - Rory Block
86. 501 Boogie - Professor Longhair
87. Give Me the Flowers While I'm Livin' - Champion Jack Dupree
88. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen - Charles Brown
89. Texas Flood - Roomful Of Blues with Duke Robillard
90. Green Light - Ronnie Earl
91. Help The Poor - Larry Davis
92. Gimme A Break - Ron Levy
93. My Jug and I - Persuasions
94. Red Beans - Marcia Ball
95. You're My Brand - Smokin' Joe Kubek Band/Bnois King
96. Full Time Lover - Ann Peebles/Little Jimmy King
97. I Wanna Do It To You baby - Smokey Wilson
98. You Got What It Takes - Michelle Willson/Sugar Ray Norcia
99. Tomorrow - Jimmy McCracklin/Irma Thomas
100. Beale St. Boogaloo - Preston Shannon Band
101. What A Way To Go - Johnny Nocturne Band
102. Love is the Bottom Line - Lowell Fulson
103. The Old Home Place - J.D. Crowe & The New South
104. Along About Daybreak - Joe Val
105. High On A Mountain - Del McCoury
106. Barrel of Fun - Country Cooking
107. West Virginia, My Home - Hazel Dickens
108. Blue Eyed Boston Boy - Bluegrass Cardinals
109. The Old Swinging Bridge - TED LUNDY
110. Golden Ring - Dry Branch Fire Squad
111. Things In Life - Don Stover
112. The Last Old Shovel - Phyllis Boyens
113. Sourwood Mountain - Allen Shelton
114. When Someone Wants To Leave - The Allen Brothers
115. I Ain't Broke (But I'm Badly Bent) - David Grisman
116. Take Me Back To Happy Valley - Bailey Brothers
117. Home Is Where The Heart Is - Connie and Babe & The Backwoods Boys
118. Drifting Too Far FromThe Shore - Boone Creek
119. Montana Cowboy - Hazel And Alice
120. At The End - Leon Morris/Buzz Busby
121. You Tried To Ruin My Name - Wilma Lee Cooper
122. I'll Be On That Good Road Someday - Butch Robins
123. Crazy Creek - Bill Keith
124. When Springtime Comes Again - Vern Williams
125. Old Train - Tony Rice
126. Ragtime Annie - Byron Berline
127. Blue Days, Black Nights - Tasty Licks
128. The Model Church - The Bluegrass Album Band
129. Leavin' - James King
130. Lonesome River - HERE TODAY
131. Hard Hearted - Jim And Jesse
132. My Better Years - The Johnson Mountain Boys
133. Second Wind - Claire Lynch
134. New Faces in the Field - IIIrd Tyme Out
135. New York Chimes - Tony Trischka
136. Is The Blue Moon Still Shining? - Laurie Lewis/Kathy Kallick
137. Flop Eared mule - David Grier/Mike Compton
138. Every Time You Say Goodbye - Alison Krauss
139. Cold on the Shoulder - Tony Rice
140. Who's That Knocking At My Door? - Dreadful Snakes
141. Mr. Engineer - J.D. Crowe
142. You'll Get No More of Me - Lynn Morris
143. Every Humble Knee Must Bow - Nashville Bluegrass Band
144. Mamma's Hand - Hazel Dickens
145. Sleepy Eyed John/Tom and Jerry - Laurie Lewis/Tom Rozum
146. Whitewater - Bela Fleck
147. You're That Certain Someone - Warrior River Boys
148. I Feel the Blues Moving In - Del McCoury
149. When God Dips His Pen of Love in My Heart - The Cox Family
150. River of Jordan - Ricky Skaggs
151. We Believe in Happy Endings - Dry Branch Fire Squad
152. Short Holler - Leonard Emmanuel
153. C & NW Railroad Blues - Snuffy Jenkins/Pappy Sherill
154. Just Because - George Pegram
155. Happy Wanderer - Brave Combo
156. La Zenaida - Sol Y Canto
157. Stagger Lee - Sleepy LaBeef
158. Homesick Boy - George Thorogood And The Destroyers
159. Winter Sun - Breakfast Special
160. Synergy - Holy Modal Rounders
161. Dos Keshenever Shtikele - Klezmer Conservatory Band
162. Just A Strand From A Yellow Curl - Blue Sky Boys
163. Since She Started to Ride - Jonathan Richman
164. If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again - Joseph Spence
165. Cumbia Del Sol - The Balzers
166. El Cool Dude/La Pierdrera - Los Pinkys/Isidro Samilpa
167. Who Borke The Lock? - Highwoods String Band
168. All Around the Kitchen - Mike & Peggy Seeger
169. Sala Noki Pascal - Tabu Ley Rochereau
170. Lady Be Good - John Miller
171. Mama's Last Stand - Last Roundup
172. Cowboy Calypso - Russ Barenberg
173. Too Much Fun - Cowboy Jazz
174. Tuning The Kora - Alhaji Bai Konte
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