For forty years, Rounder Records has been on a singular mission, recording a glorious range of American roots music, 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.
On 12th October, Rounder Records will release The Rounder Records Story, a 4 CD box set that includes 87 songs (see complete list below) selected to tell the label’s 40 year story and show the true breadth of their catalog. From the old time folk music of Ola Belle Reed to the Grammy sweeping triumph of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, it is fascinating to hear both the underlying consistencies and the ongoing evolution of the label’s vision.
The list of musicians includes many of the defining names in roots music. The discs are arranged by decade, and the package also includes extensive notes by Washington Post journalist Geoff Himes in a 100 page book.
| The 1970’s
1. Old Home Place / J. D. Crowe and the New South
2. Take Me Back to Happy Valley / The Bailey Brothers
3. Armadillo Breakdown / Country Cooking
4. High on a Mountain / Ola Belle Reed
5. Killing the Blues / Woodstock Mountains
6. Johnson’s Old Gray Mule / George Pegram
7. Cherry River Rag / Ed Haley
8. Sweet Lucy / Michael Hurley
9. Parlez-Nous A Boire / The Balfa Freres
10. Mrs. Scott Skinner/The Smith’s A Gallant Fireman/The Earl of Seafield’s Real / Joseph Cormier
11. Tom and Jerry / Mark O’Connor
12. Down Home Summertime Blues / Norman Blake
13. Memory of Your Smile / Boone Creek
14. Things in Life / Don Stover
15. Kitty Puss / Buddy Thomas
16. Who Broke the Lock? / Highwoods Stringband
17. Don’t Put Her Down You Helped Put Her There / Hazel and Alice
18. Jula Jekere / Alhaji Bai Konte
19. The Only Way / Tony Trischka
20. Fluxology / Jerry Douglas
21. La porte dans arriere / D. L. Menard and the Louisiana Aces
22. I Ain’t Broke But I’m Badly Bent / David Grisman
23. Sparkling Brown Eyes / Joe Val and the New England Bluegrass Boys
24. Who Do You Love / George Thorogood and the Destroyers |
The 1990’s
1. Birches / Bill Morrissey
2. Baby Now That I’ve Found You / Alison Krauss
3. One Endless Night / Jimmie Dale Gilmore
4. Sing It / Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas, Tracy Nelson
5. Do Whatcha Wanna, Pt. 3 / ReBirth Brass Band
6. A Virus Called the Blues / Charles Brown
7. Only One Shoe / Carrie Newcomer
8. There Is Always One More Time / Johnny Adams
9. Something in the Rain / Tish Hinojosa
10. Bed by the Window / James King
11. Give Him Cornbread / Beau Jocque
12. Valse de Kaplan / D. L Menard, Eddie LeJeune, and Ken Smith
13. High Lonesome / Longview
14. In the Palm of Your Hand / Alison Krauss and the Cox Family
15. False Friend Blues / Ruth Brown with Clarence Gatemouth Brown
16. Carnival Time / Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias
17. Standing Here at the Cross Roads / Roomful of Blues
18. It’s Harder Now / Wilson Pickett |
| The 1980s
1. Frosty / Clarence Gatemouth Brown
2. Watch Your Step / Ted Hawkins
3. New Kind of Neighborhood / Jonathan Richman
4. I Never Go Around Mirrors / Keith Whitley
5. Cold on the Shoulder / Tony Rice
6. Mama’s Hand / Hazel Dickens
7. A Freylekhe Nakht In Gan Eydn / Klezmer Conservatory Band
8. Babylon’s Big Dog / Culture
9. Ya Ya / Buckwheat Zydeco
10. Tipitina / Professor Longhair
11. Zydeco gris-gris / Beausoleil
12. Cowboy Jubilee / Riders in the Sky
13. Let the Whole World Talk / The Johnson Mountain Boys
14. Happy Wanderer / Brave Combo
15. Classified / James Booker
16. Got To Have You Be My Man / Rory Block
17. Electricity / Sleepy LaBeef
18. Everybody Wants A Piece of Me / Johnny Copeland
19. Whitewater / Bela Fleck
20. Once In A Very Blue Moon / Nanci Griffith
21. My Blue Ridge Cabin Home / Bluegrass Album Band
22. Howjadoo / John McCutcheon
23. Viva Seguin / Flaco Jimemez
24. Me and the Boys /NRBQ |
The 2000’s
1. Don’t Wait Too Long / Madeleine Peyroux
2. Down to the Wire / Son Volt
3. More than A Name on A Wall / Dailey & Vincent
4. Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms / The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, Ricky Skaggs
5. Man With The Blues / Willie Nelson
6. Rebel Rouser/ Jimmy Sturr
7. Versatile Heart / Linda Thompson
8. In the Middle Of It All / Irma Thomas
9. Please Read the Letter / Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
10. Through the Window Of A Train / Blue Highway
11. Resist / Rush
12. Small Swift Birds / Cowboy Junkies
13. Basement Apt. / Sarah Harmer
14. I Have a Need for Solitude / Mary Chapin Carpenter
15. Lonesome Wind Blues / Rhonda Vincent
16. Me and John and Paul / The Grascals
17. The Crow / Steve Martin
18. Robert Plant/ The Only Sound That Matters
19. Trashcan / Delta Spirit
20. Fibber Island / They Might Be Giants
21. Back To Me / Kathleen Edwards |
For forty years, Rounder Records has been on a singular mission, recording a glorious range of American roots music, 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.
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