Jul 27
Rural Rhythm Records Launches New Archive Series “Rural ROOTS Music”
Rural Rhythm Records is proud to announce they are launching the new Rural Roots Music Series that takes classic albums and tracks from the Rural Rhythm master library and reissues them with new liner notes by Country Music Historian and Grammy™ Award winner Colin Escott, additional artist photos, and re-mastered from the original master tapes by famed Hi-End audio engineer Steve Hoffman.
The first release in the series is a two-CD package titled, The Legendary J.E. Mainer & His Mountaineers - “40 Classics: Old-Time Mountain Music“ scheduled for release August 28, 2007. This 40th Anniversary 2-CD set comprises the first two albums that J.E. recorded for Rural Rhythm in 1967. It is a very accurate depiction of what you would have heard at a J.E. Mainer concert from the 1930’s until his death in 1971. There were some mountain ballads, vaudeville and minstrel songs, blues together with Celtic-rooted fiddle tunes. We’ll never know where he first heard most of these songs. He changed them and sometimes renamed them, but that was how music was handed down in the pre-download, pre-phonograph era. It was part of J.E.’s skill to make a song written hundreds of years ago sound much like one written within recent memory.
The second in the series, “24 Bluegrass Classics, Vintage 70’s“ by Bluegrass Legends Earl Taylor & Jim McCall with the Stoney Mountain Boys is scheduled for release September 25, 2007. Earl Taylor began his career in the 40’s and worked with other legends including Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Jimmy Martin and many more before embarking on a career that led him to become a pioneer of bluegrass music himself. Taylor and his band were so popular in the late 50’s, they hold the honor of being the first bluegrass band to perform at Carnegie Hall in 1959.
Jim McCall is the father of Rural Rhythm artist Dwight McCall who’s new album released this year, Never Say Never Again and current single Blue Eyed Boston Boy has received great reviews and very solid radio airplay.
Many more titles in this new archive series are scheduled for release in 2008 including classic albums by Vassar Clements, more titles by J.E. Mainer, Mac Martin, Raymond Fairchild, Tater Tate, Jim Eanes, Lee Moore and many more.
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