VA - The Real Music Box 25 Years of Rounder Records [1995] + Bonus Disc (9 x CD's)

ROUNDERS REAL MUSIC BOX.
Previously posted June 1, 2019

VA - The Real Music Box 25 Years of Rounder Records [1995] + Bonus Disc (9 x CD's)
Since 1970, Massachusetts-based Rounder has been a stalwart sanctuary of various music 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. (AllMusic Review by Roch Parisien)

This is a great set of CDs. Good quality, and authentic. You can really sense the atmosphere of that time by listening to the music. The music is real.  It is a soundscape of incomparable depth and breadth - miles of music - full of surprises, listen to it again and again and find some new delight every time.

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Track lists

CD1 Deep Blue

01 Robert Nighthawk - Mr. Bell's Shuffle 1:37

02 J.B. Hutto & The Hawks - Jealous Hearted Woman 5:55

03 Jimmy Rogers With Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters - Left Me With A Broken Heart 5:14

04 Frank Hovington - Mean Old Frisco 3:27

05 Booker T. Laury - Blues With A Feeling 3:30

06 Johnny Shines & Robert Lockwood, Jr. - Lonesome Whistle 3:46

07 Guitar Junior - Ain't Treating Me Right 2:58

08 Tracy Nelson - I Feel So Good 3:41

09 Ted Hawkins - Peace And Happiness 2:32

10 The Holmes Brothers - Up Above My Head 3:35

11 Clarence “gatemouth” Brown - Sometimes I Slip 6:33

12 Bluestime - Full Court Press 3:15

13 Rory Block - Since You Been Gone 2:20

14 Professor Longhair - 501 Boogie 2:16

15 Champion Jack Dupree - Give Me Flowers While I'm Livin' 4:59

CD2 Deep Blue

01 Charles Brown - Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen 3:08

02 Duke Robillard And Roomfull Of Blues - Texas Flood 2:56

03 Ronnie Earl - Green Light 3:58

04 Larry Davis - Help The Poor 3:55

05 Ron Levy - Gimme A Break 4:51

06 Persuasions - My Jug And I 3:52

07 Marcia Ball - Red Beans 4:08

08 Smokin’ Joe Kubek Band Feat. B’nois King - You're My Brand 3:08

09 Ann Peebles With Little Jimmy King - Full Time Lover 4:31

10 Smokey Wilson - I Wanna Do It To Ya Baby 2:45

11 Michelle Willson With Sugar Ray Norcia - You Got What It Takes 4:27

12 Jimmy Mccracklin With Irma Thomas - Tomorrow 4:18

13 Preston Shannon Band - Beale St. Boogaloo 4:08

14 Johnny Nocturne Band - What A Way To Go 3:46

15 Lowell Fulson - Love Is The Bottom Line 5:12

CD3 Hand Picked

01 J D Crowe & The New South - Old Home Place, The 2:49

02 Joe Val - Along About Daybreak 3:20

03 Del McCoury - High On A Mountain 2:52

04 Country Cooking - Barrel Of Fun 2:52

05 Hazel Dickens - West Virginia, My Home 4:32

06 Bluegrass Cardinals - Blue Eyed Boston Boy 3:05

07 Ted Lundy - Old Swinging Bridge, The 2:20

08 Dry Branch Fire Squad - Golden Ring 4:21

09 Don Stover - Things In Life 3:07

10 Phillip Boyens - Last Old Shovel, The 2:23

11 Allen Shelton - Sourwood Mountain 0:35

12 Allen Brothers, The - When Someone Wants To Leave 2:24

13 David Grisman - I Ain't Broke (But I'm Badly Bent) 1:59

14 Bailey Brothers, The - Take Me Back To Happy Valley 2:40

15 Connie and Babe with The Backwoods Boys - Home Is Where The Heart Is 2:02

16 Boone Creek - Drifting Too Far From The Shore 4:00

17 Hazel & Alice - Montana Cowboy 2:20

18 Leon Morris & Buzz Busby - At The End 2:38

19 Wilma Lee Cooper - You Tried To Ruin My Name 2:29

20 Butch Robins - I'll Be On That Good Road Someday 2:56

21 Bill Keith - Crazy Creek 2:56

22 Vern Williams - When Springtime Comes Again 2:52

23 Tony Rice - Old Train 2:11

24 Byron Berline - Ragtime Annie 3:26

25 Tasty Licks - Blue Days, Black Nights 2:22

26 Bluegrass Album Band, The - Model Church, The 4:14

CD4 Hand Picked

01 James King - Leavin' 3:01

02 Here Today - Lonesome River 4:07

03 Jim & Jesse - Hard Hearted 1:52

04 The Johnson Mountain Boys - My Better Years 3:26

05 Claire Lynch - Second Wind 3:05

06 IIIrd Tyme Out - New Faces in the Field 4:16

07 Tony Trishka - New York Chimes 3:04

08 Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick - Is the Blue Moon Still Shining? 4:07

09 David Grier and Mike Compton - Flop Eared Mule 1:59

10 Alison Krauss - Every Time You Say Goodbye 3:18

11 Tony Rice - Cold on the Shoulder 2:35

12 The Dreadful Snakes - Who's That Knocking at My Door? 3:53

13 J D Crowe - Mr. Engineer 4:19

14 Lynn Morris - You'll Get No More of Me 3:06

15 Nashville Bluegrass Band - Every Humble Knee Must Bow 2:32

16 Hazel Dickens - Mama's Hand 4:32

17 Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum - Sleepy Eyed John + Tom and Jerry 3:51

18 Bela Fleck - Whitewater 3:10

19 Warrior River Boys - You're That Certain Someone 2:38

20 Del McCoury - I Feel the Blues Moving In 3:40

21 The Cox Family - When God Dips His Pen of Love in My Heart 4:28

22 Ricky Skaggs - River of Jordan 2:33

23 Dry Branch Fire Squad - We Believe in Happy Endings 2:51

CD5 Hills of Home

01 Woody Guthrie - Do-Re-Mi 2:42

02 Whitstein Brothers - Where The Old Red River Flows 3:04

03 Norman Blake - Church Street Blues 2:53

04 Mississippi John Hurt - Worried Blues 4:44

05 Rory Block - Joliet Bound 3:12

06 Le Trio Cadien - J'Etais Au Bal 3:33

07 Joseph Cormier - Annie Is My Darling Medley - The Red Shoes 2:35

08 John McCutcheon - Sly Old Crow - Old Blair Store 3:40

09 The Tony Rice Unit - Midnight On The Stormy Deep 4:05

10 Tish Hinojosa - Corazon Viajero 3:35

11 David Bromberg - Come All You Fair And Tender Maidens 3:52

12 Michael Hurley & Holy Modal Rounders - Sweet Lucy 4:03

13 Etta Baker - One Dime Blues 2:33

14 Ricky Skaggs - Talk About Sufferin' 2:24

15 E.C. & Orna Ball - Troubles, Trials, Tribulations 2:48

16 Country Cooking - Silver Bell 1:59

17 Mike Seeger, Maria Muldaur & David Grisman - The  Memory Of Your Smile 2:59

18 Alison Krauss & The Cox Family - Never Will Give Up 3:44

19 Pierre Bensusan - Pure Drop, The  Flax In Bloom 3:18

20 Skip Gorman - Night Herding School 3:57

CD6 Hills of Home

01 Lead Belly - John Hardy 3:20

02 Johnson Mountain Boys - Duncan and Brady 3:18

03 Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin - Old Country Stomp 4:47

04 Mark O'Conner - College Hornpipe 1:50

05 Chicken Chokers - Looking For Money 2:47

06 Crowe & McLaughlin - Going Back To Old Virginia 2:35

07 Hazel Dickens - Hills Of Home 4:14

08 Leslie Riddle - I'm Going Out On The Ocean A-Sailing 2:51

09 Roy Book Binder - She Did You A Favor 4:13

10 Mississippi Fred McDowell & Johnny Woods - My Babe 3:27

11 Nashville Jug Band - Racetrack Blues 3:49

12 Tau Moe Family - Aloha Means I Love You 2:40

13 Bela Fleck, Bill Keith, Tony Trischka - Bill Cheatham 3:15

14 Ola Belle Reed - High On A Mountain 2:32

15 Barry & Holly Tashian - I Caught A Keeper 3:01

16 Riders In The Sky - I Ride An Old Paint 2:11

17 Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown - Baby Please Don't Go 2:04

18 Woodstock Mountain Revue - Killing The Blues 3:52

19 Louvin Brothers - I'll Never Go Back 2:39

20 Laurie Lewis - Who Will Watch The Home Place 5:26

CD7 Lousiana Spice

01 Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Mardis Gras In New Orleans 5:27

02 Marcia Ball - That's Enough Of That Stuff 4:30

03 James Booker - Three Keys 3:21

04 Tuts Washington - Tee Nah Nah 1:57

05 Bo Dollis, Monk Boudreaux, Rebirth Brass Band - Shoo-Fly 6:12

06 Walter 'Wolfman' Washington - On The Prowl 4:05

07 Dalton Reed - Back On Track 3:29

08 Irma Thomas - Hold To God's Unchanging Hand 3:10

09 Champion Jack Dupree - Hometown New Orleans 4:23

10 Johnny Adams - Down That Lonely Lonely Road 5:22

11 Professor Longhair - Tipitina 4:25

12 Bo Dollis & Wild Magnolias - Coconut Milk 3:11

13 Eddie Bo - Hard Times 2:37

14 Chuck Carbo - Meet Me At The Station 3:23

CD8 Lousiana Spice

01 The Balfa Brothers - J'ai Vu Le Loup, Le Renard Et La Belette 3:23

02 John Delafose & The Eunice Playboys - Pere Et Garcon Zydeco 4:59

03 Eddie LeJeune - The Mistake I Made 3:22

04 Jimmy C. Newman - Chere Toute-Toute 2:37

05 Boozoo Chavis - Lula Lula Don't You Go To Bingo 3:44

06 Le Trio Cadien - Bayou Pon Pon 3:17

07 Beausoleil - Les Flammes D'enfer 4:36

08 Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys - La Danse De Mardi Gras 3:55

09 D.L. Menard - Wildwood Flower 2:40

10 Jo-El Sonnier - La Valse De Chere Bebe 4:29

11 Geno Delafose - C'est Pas La Peine Brailler (There's No Need To Cry) 3:28

12 Bruce Daigrepont - Laissez Faire (Let It Be) 2:29

13 David Doucet - T'en As Eu 3:06

14 Zachary Richard - File Gumbo 3:30

15 Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas - Outside People 3:46

16 Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers - Give Him Cornbread 4:57

17 Buckwheat Zydeco - Think It Over One More Time 3:33

18 Li'l Brian & The Zydeco Travelers - Snap Bean 2:36

CD9 Bonus

01 Leonard Emmanuel - Short Holler 0:45

02 Snuffy Jenkins and Pappy Sherrill - C & NW Railroad Blues 2:09

03 George Pegram - Just Because 2:25

04 Brave Combo - Happy Wanderer 2:32

05 Sol Y Canto - La Zenaida 5:00

06 Sleepy LeBeef - Stagger Lee 5:04

07 George Thorogood and the Destroyers - Homesick Boy 3:12

08 Breakfast Special - Winter Sun 2:35

09 Holy Modal Rounders - Synergy 3:40

10 Klezmer Conservatory Band - Dos Keshenever Shtikele 2:42

11 Blue Sky Boys - Just a Strand from a Yellow Curl 2:14

12 Jonathan Richman - Since She Started to Ride 2:35

13 Joseph Spence - If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again 3:20

14 The Blazers - Cumbia Del Sol 5:03

15 Los Pinkys with Isidro Samilpa - El Cool Dude and La Piedrera 4:16

16 Highwoods String Band - Who Broke the Lock 2:54

17 Mike and Peggy Seeger - All Around the Kitchen 1:12

18 Tabu Ley Rochereau - Sala Noki Pascal 2:28

19 John Miller - Lady Be Good 1:59

20 Last Roundup - Mama's Last Stand 2:47

21 Russ Barenberg - Cowboy Calypso 3:51

22 Cowboy Jazz - Too Much Fun 3:40

23 Alhaji Bai Konte - Tuning the Kora 1:04

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