Rounder Records Story - Various Artists (4-Audio CD - 2010) - Box set [Collectible]

For forty years, Rounder Records has been on a singular mission to record the magnificent range of American roots music styles-- bluegrass, New Orleans R&B, old time fiddling, singer-songwriter, blues, country, rockabilly, roots rock, Cajun and a few that cross enough boundaries to be genres of their own.

The 87 songs they selected for this 4 CD set show the true breadth of the label's catalog, from the old time folk music of Ola Belle Reed to the Grammy sweeping triumph of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.

The discs are arranged by decade, and it is fascinating to hear both the underlying consistencies and the ongoing evolution of the label's vision, while the list of musicians includes many of the defining names in roots music. Includes extensive notes by Washington Post journalist Geoff Himes.
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TRACK LISTINGS

Disc 1
1 Old Home Place / J.D. Crowe & the New South 2:48
2 Take Me Back to Happy Valley / The Bailey Brothers 2:41
3 Armadillo Breakdown / Country Cooking 2:14
4 High on a Mountain / Ola Belle Reed 2:36
5 Killing the Blues / Woodstock Mountains Revue 3:53
6 Johnson's Old Gray Mule / George Pegram 2:15
7 Cherry River Rag / Ed Haley 2:53
8 Sweet Lucy / Michael Hurley 4:04
9 Parlez-Nous à Boire / The Balfa Freres 3:44
10 Mrs. Scott Skinner/The Smith's a Gallant Fireman/The Earl of Seafield's / Joseph Cormier 3:39
11 Tom and Jerry / Mark O'Connor 2:15
12 Down Home Summertime Blues / Norman Blake 3:40
13 Memory of Your Smile / Boone Creek 2:33
14 Things in Life / Don Stover 3:06
15 Kitty Puss / Buddy Thomas 2:23
16 Who Broke the Lock? / The Highwoods Stringband 2:53
17 Don't Put Her Down You Helped Put Her There / Hazel & Alice 3:46
18 Jula Jekere / Alhaji Bai Konte 5:04
19 The Only Way / Tony Trischka 4:17
20 Fluxology / Jerry Douglas 3:08
21 La Porte Dans Arriere / D.L. Menard & The Louisiana Aces 3:26
22 I Ain't Broke But I'm Badly Bent / David Grisman 1:59
23 Sparkling Brown Eyes / Joe Val & The New England Bluegrass Boys 3:06
24 Who Do You Love / George Thorogood & the Destroyers 4:19

Disc 2
1 Frosty / Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 3:45
2 Watch Your Step / Ted Hawkins 2:14
3 New Kind of Neighborhood / Jonathan Richman 2:44
4 I Never Go Around Mirrors / Keith Whitley 3:17
5 Cold on the Shoulder / Tony Rice 2:34
6 Mama's Hand / Hazel Dickens 4:30
7 A Freylekhe Nakht in Gan Eydn / Klezmer Conservatory Band 1:49
8 Babylon's Big Dog / Culture 3:58
9 Ya Ya / Buckwheat Zydeco 3:35
10 Tipitina / Professor Longhair 4:23
11 Zydeco Gris-Gris / Beausoleil 3:39
12 Cowboy Jubilee / Riders in the Sky 1:44
13 Let the Whole World Talk / The Johnson Mountain Boys 2:42
14 Happy Wanderer / Brave Combo 2:30
15 Classified / James Booker 3:15
16 Got to Have You Be My Man / Rory Block 2:22
17 Electricity / Sleepy LaBeef 2:20
18 Everybody Wants a Piece of Me / Johnny Copeland 2:57
19 Whitewater / Béla Fleck 3:10
20 Once in a Very Blue Moon / Nanci Griffith 2:35
21 My Blue Ridge Cabin Home / The Bluegrass Album Band 3:10
22 Howjadoo / John McCutcheon 2:42
23 Viva Seguin / Flaco Jiménez 2:18
24 Me and the Boys / The Whole Wheat Horns 3:25

Disc 3
1 Birches / Bill Morrissey 3:20
2 Baby, Now That I've Found You / Alison Krauss 3:49
3 One Endless Night / Jimmie Dale Gilmore 3:47
4 Sing It / Tracy Nelson 4:19
5 Do Whatcha Wanna, Pt. 3 / Rebirth Brass Band 4:30
6 A Virus Called the Blues / Charles Brown 6:50
7 Only One Shoe / Carrie Newcomer 3:14
8 There Is Always One More Time / Johnny Adams 3:42
9 Something in the Rain / Tish Hinojosa 5:02
10 Bed by the Window / James King 4:57
11 Give Him Cornbread / Beau Jocque 4:55
12 Valse de Kaplan / Ken Smith 3:18
13 High Lonesome / Longview 4:04
14 In the Palm of Your Hand / The Cox Family 3:25
15 False Friend Blues / Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 4:26
16 Carnival Time / Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias 2:42
17 Standing Here at the Cross Roads / Roomful of Blues 4:17
18 It's Harder Now / Wilson Pickett 3:42

Disc 4
1 Don't Wait Too Long / Madeleine Peyroux 3:10
2 Down to the Wire / Son Volt 4:19
3 More Than a Name on a Wall / Dailey & Vincent 2:57
4 Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms / Three Pickers 3:08
5 Man with the Blues / Willie Nelson 2:18
6 Rebel Rouser / Jimmy Sturr 1:54
7 Versatile Heart / Downtown Silver Band 3:24
8 In the Middle of It All / Irma Thomas 4:47
9 Please Read the Letter / Robert Plant 5:53
10 Through the Window of a Train / Blue Highway 3:09
11 Resist / Rush 4:27
12 Small Swift Birds / Cowboy Junkies 3:40
13 Basement Apt. / Sarah Harmer 4:09
14 I Have a Need of Solitude / Mary Chapin Carpenter 3:43
15 Lonesome Wind Blues / Rhonda Vincent 3:04
16 Me and John and Paul / The Grascals 3:14
17 The Crow / Steve Martin 3:23
18 The Only Sound That Matters / Robert Plant 3:44
19 Trashcan / Delta Sprit 3:37
20 Fibber Island / They Might Be Giants 2:11
21 Back to Me / Kathleen Edwards 3:29