- 1. Uncle Pen - Blue Grass Boys, Bill Monroe 2. Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Lester Flatt, Foggy Mountain Boys, Earl Scruggs 3. This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweetheart) - Clinch Mountain Boys, The Stanley Brothers 4. Are You Missing Me? - Jesse McReynolds, Jim McReynolds, Virginia Boys 5. You Don't Know My Mind - Jimmy Martin 6. Rocky Top - Osborne Brothers 7. Blue Moon of Kentucky - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys 8. Orange Blossom Special - The Stanley Brothers 9. Ballad of Jed Clampett - Lester Flatt, Foggy Mountain Boys, Earl Scruggs 10. Dooley - The Dillards 11. Nine Pound Hammer - The Kentucky Colonels 12. Roving Gambler - The Country Gentlemen 13. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms - Del McCoury 14. Dueling Banjos - Steve Mandell, Eric Weissberg 15. Will the Circle Be Unbroken - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 16. Old Home Place - J.D. Crowe, New South 17. Little Cabin Home on the Hill - Ricky Skaggs 18. Love You in Vain - Alison Krauss
- Appalachian Stomp is an ideal starter disc for those just beginning to explore bluegrass. Mostly this is because its 18 selections are so immediately accessible. The "classics" here, in other words, are usually those infrequent bluegrass cuts to have gained radio recognition beyond a core bluegrass audience. That explains why along with timeless standards such as Flatt & Scruggs' "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" and the Osborne Brothers' "Rocky Top" we also get "Dueling Banjos" from the film Deliverance, a cut that is to classic bluegrass what Walter Murphy is to Beethoven. There are less immediately obvious choices too, though. If your previous exposure to bluegrass doesn't go beyond the Holy Trinity of Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, and the Stanley Brothers--for example, if you've never heard J.D. Crowe & the New South's stellar example of progressive bluegrass, "Old Home Place," or experienced Jimmy Martin lay down the law on his rousing "You Don't Know My Mind"--then you're in for a high-lonesome surprise.
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