Copper Blue

Putting this in the CD player and just closing your eyes
takes you back almost sixty years and you can just get a real feeling for the time, place and context of the music even if you were not around at the time.

Tracks:

Amazing Grace
Alabama
Two Little Rosebuds
Hop Light Ladies
B-I-B-L-E
Sweetest Mother
I Wish I Had Never Seen a Sunshine
Just a Little Talk With Jesus
Unloved and Unclaimed
East Tennessee Blues
Beautiful
Will You Miss Me?
Nine Pound Hammer
Chapel in the Hills
Lonesome Road Blues
Whispering Hope
Take Me Back to Tennessee
Evening Light
Going Round This World, Baby Mine
Short Life of Trouble
Royal Telephone
Old Joe Clark

Customer Reviews:

Real history and great music........2002-01-27

These transcriptions of early radio shows are now becoming hard to find even on CD.

Much of the recorded output of the Blue Sky Boys was of a serious or religious nature and it is from these recordings that most people remember them.

The radio shows show a lighter side complete with comedy in the shape of "Uncle Josh".

Also on many of the songs Bill and Earl Bolick are joined by Curly Parker or Leslie Keith so many of the songs here are actually performed by a trio not a duo.

The peroid atmosphere is further enhanced by the announcements and advertisements from the original radio broadcasts.

There is no such thing as a bad Blue Sky Boys album and it seems a shame that no one has yet put together a comprehensive boxed set of arguably the best of all of the bluegrass brother duos.

For fans of old-time,bluegrass or country this album is a must have along with the others in the series.

It will also have appeal to the social historian but above all should be purchasd to enjoy to mighty talants at heir peak.

Real history and great music........2002-01-27

These transcriptions of early radio shows are now becoming hard to find even on CD.

Much of the recorded output of the Blue Sky Boys was of a seriuos or religious nature and it is from these recordings hat most people remember them.

The radio shows show a lighter side complete with comedy in the shape of "Uncle Josh".

Also on many of the songs Bill and Earl Bolick are joined by Curly Parker or Leslie Keith so many of the songs here are actually performed by a trio not a duo.

The peroid atmosphere is futther enhanced by the announcements and advertisements from the original radio broadcasts.

There is no such thing as a bad Blue Sky Boys album and it seems a shame that no one has yet put together a comprehensive boxed set of arguably the best of all of the bluegrass brother duos.

For fans of old-time,bluegrass or country this album is a must have along with the others in the series.

Tracks:

Sally Goodin
Used To Be
Colleen Malone
Faded Love
If I Needed You
Carolina Blue
Love Me Tonight
Samantha
When You Are Lonely
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
Dark Hollow
East Tennessee Blues

Album Description

There is power in Bill Monroe's music, but even he probably had no idea that in 1974 it would have life-changing effects on young Maro Kawabata, watching him on Japanese television, or that it would launch Maro on a quest for musical meaning and excellence. Maro's story is one of persistence and determination, leading him to school in the United States, back home to Japan where he met and married his American bride, Sandra, and then to return to the USA to raise his family in the midst of his musical Odyssey.

Now an Ohio resident, you can hear Maro's commitment to heart-to-heart communication through music here on CAROLINA BLUE, the CD that is the culmination of a lifetime of thinking, planning, refining and sharpening his musical ideas and skills.

To bring his vision to light Maro has called on several gifted musicians for assistance; some are friends he has known from his travels around the country, while others are people whose talents he has admired, but whom he never met until first getting together for the recording sessions. His list of friends and pickers is impressive, indeed: Bobby Hicks, Sammy Shelor, Keith Little, Ron Stewart, Missy Raines, Jim Hurst, Butch Baldassari, Kazuhiro Inaba, and Raymond McLain.

On this CD you will hear some old music as well as some new tunes. The old ones are included because they are beautiful, certainly; but also out of respect — they represent the underlying traditions on which Maro has based his own musical philosophy. Though they are familiar, through these sensitive performances Maro pays homage.

The new tunes are here for many of the same reasons — CAROLINA BLUE was composed as Maro was traveling through the mountains of western North Carolina, struck by the natural beauty surrounding him and the sense of the connection between that “place” and the music in his heart. SAMANTHA was named for his daughter, who must surely be pleased to share her name with such a lovely melody.

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