Name: Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza
Brand: Acoustic Disc
SKU: 762153
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Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza

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Album: Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Blue Moon of Kentucky
2)	Old Joe Clark
3)	Cakewalk, The
4)	Wayfaring Stranger
5)	I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky
6)	McCoury Blues
7)	Cherokee Lady
8)	Down Home Waltz
9)	Blue Grass Special
10)	Miss Izzie
11)	Catnip
12)	Panhandle Country
13)	One-Legged Man
14)	East Tennesse Blues
15)	B Natural
16)	No You Stand Back
17)	I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
1)	Roanoke
2)	Cattle in the Cane
3)	Dixie Hoedown
4)	Ashokan Farewell
5)	Cumberland Gap
6)	Sassyfrass
7)	Golden Slippers
8)	Say Old Man
9)	Westphalia Waltz
10)	Play It Pretty, Me
11)	Mexican Stomp
12)	Dusty Miller
13)	Cajun Mandolin
14)	Boston Boy
15)	Who at My Door Is Standing
16)	Blue Moon of Kentucky
17)	World's Shortest Rawhide

Album: Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Blue Moon of Kentucky
2)	Old Joe Clark
3)	Cakewalk, The
4)	Wayfaring Stranger
5)	I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky
6)	McCoury Blues
7)	Cherokee Lady
8)	Down Home Waltz
9)	Blue Grass Special
10)	Miss Izzie
11)	Catnip
12)	Panhandle Country
13)	One-Legged Man
14)	East Tennesse Blues
15)	B Natural
16)	No You Stand Back
17)	I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
1)	Roanoke
2)	Cattle in the Cane
3)	Dixie Hoedown
4)	Ashokan Farewell
5)	Cumberland Gap
6)	Sassyfrass
7)	Golden Slippers
8)	Say Old Man
9)	Westphalia Waltz
10)	Play It Pretty, Me
11)	Mexican Stomp
12)	Dusty Miller
13)	Cajun Mandolin
14)	Boston Boy
15)	Who at My Door Is Standing
16)	Blue Moon of Kentucky
17)	World's Shortest Rawhide

Performer Notes

Bluegrass Mandolin Ensemble: Sam Bush, David Grisman, Ronnie McCoury, Jesse McReynolds, Bonny Osbourne, Ricky Skaggs, Frank Wakefield, Buck White (mandolin).
Additional personnel: Del McCoury (acoustic guitar).
Recorded at Cowboy Arms Hotel & Recording Spa, Nashville, Tennessee from January 19-22, 1998. Includes liner notes by Ronnie McCoury, David Grisman, Tony Williamson and Neil V. Rosenberg.
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
BLUEGRASS MANDOLIN EXTRAVAGANZA was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.
Recording information: Cowboy Arms Hotel & Recording Spa, Nashville, TN; Dawg Studios, Mill Valley, CA.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Frank Wakefield; Jesse McReynolds; Ricky Skaggs; Sam Bush; Bobby Osborne; Buck White.
This ambitious undertaking is the project of Ronnie McCoury, son of bluegrass great Del McCoury, and mandolinist in his dad's band. On this historic two-disc set, he's arranged a summit meeting of some of bluegrass's greatest living mandolin players. The eight mandolinists perform in various combinations, and on a few cuts they even gather together in one giant mandolin orchestra for some heavenly sounding picking en masse.
A wide spectrum of styles is represented here, from the old-school approach of Jesse McReynolds (of famed duo Jim & Jesse) to the "newgrass" style of pioneer David Grisman. Despite the presence of Grisman and relative young buck Sam Bush, the focus here is on traditional tunes rendered in the classic style, with concise solos and humbly perfect ensemble work. Listening to this once-in-a-lifetime event captured for posterity, one has to wonder why nobody ever thought of it before. Let's just be glad someone did. MANDOLIN EXTRAVAGANZA is recommended not only to mandolin enthusiasts, but to anyone with even the slightest inclination toward traditional bluegrass.