Feb 25
Skaggs CD pays homage to Monroe, music’s roots
Ricky Skaggs “Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass Tribute to 1946 and 1947″Over the past several years, it would be difficult to read a Ricky Skaggs interview without him paying homage to “Mr. Monroe.” Yes, that would be Bill, as in the Father of Bluegrass music.
Now, Skaggs is immortalizing his love and great respect for Monroe — as well as bluegrass music in general — in a new CD, “Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947.”
It’s due for release on March 25 on the Skaggs Family Records label, but pre-orders at a special price and the prospects of obtaining a copy with Skaggs’ autograph are spelled out on the label’s Web site, SkaggsFamilyRecords.com.
The CD is Skaggs’ tribute to Bill Monroe’s first trail-blazing bluegrass band, which included a couple of guys by the name of Flatt and Scruggs, fiddler Chubby Wise and bass player Howard Watts. In the two-year span that Skaggs’ CD covers, Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys literally forged the foundation of the genre.
Skaggs’ own head-turning group of musicians, known collectively as Kentucky Thunder, are featured throughout the album. It also includes two former Bluegrass Boys — that fellow named Scruggs playing banjo on “Going Back to Old Kentucky” and Del McCoury on “The Old Crossroads.”
The CD package also includes a booklet with several vintage photographs.
Here’s the track lineup:
- Going Back to Old Kentucky (with Earl Scruggs)
- When You’re Lonely
- Toy Heart
- It’s Mighty Dark to Travel
- Mother’s Only Sleeping
- Bluegrass Breakdown
- Little Cabin Home On the Hill
- Mansions for Me
- Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
- Why Did You Wander
- Remember the Cross
- The Old Crossroads (with Del McCoury)
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