The Old Home Place: Bluegrass and Old-Time Mountai

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First, an expression of small irritation: The subtitle notwithstanding, there is no, or at least hardly any, "old-time mountain music" here, unless you count the Nashville Bluegrass Band's version of the Carter Family's "My Native Home." That, however, is resurrected in a more or less contemporary bluegrass setting. The selections here are not, with a couple of exceptions, those 19th-Century home-sweet-home songs that found their way to the Southern mountains and other parts of rural America, to be rediscovered as "old-time" folk music. It is obviously true, of course, that without that background this particular genre of bluegrass wouldn't exist.The songs and arrangements here mostly represent state-of-the-art bluegrass as it explores the once-staple subject of home, otherwise missing from nearly all popular music these days. What's "old time" here is the sense that where you come from and dream of going back to one day matter even now. The "home place" is always rural or...Read more