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The Real Music Box: 25 Years of Rounder Records

Various Artists

Initial release : 1995

Rounder (AN16 + AN18 + AN20 + AN22 + ANBD25)

This 9 CD box set includes at least 5 tracks that include David Grisman. The set is made up of 4 double CD sets that were released separately (bluegrass, folk, blues and zydeco) and one bonus CD which is only available as part of this set.

Tracks / Musicians

The tracks and performers on this compilation are;

  • Do-Re-Mi - Woody Guthrie
  • Where The Old Red River Flows - Whitstein Brothers
  • Church Street Blues - Norman Blake
  • Worried Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
  • Joliet Bound - Rory Block
  • J'Etais Au Bal - LeJeune/Menard/Smith
  • Annie Is My Darling Medley/The Red Shoes - Joseph Cormier
  • Sly Old Crow/Old Blair Store - John McCutcheon
  • Midnight On The Stormy Deep - The Tony Rice Unit
  • Corazon Viajero - Tish Hinojosa
  • Come All You Fair and Tender Maidens - David Bromberg
  • Sweet Lucy - Michael Hurley & The Holy Modal Rounders
  • One Dime Blues - Etta Baker
  • Talk About Sufferin' - Ricky Skaggs
  • Trials, Troubles, Tribulations - E.C. & Orna Ball
  • Silver Bell - Country Cooking
  • The Memory Of Your Smile - Mike Seeger with Maria Muldaur & David Grisman
  • Family Never Will Give Up - Alison Krauss & The Cox
  • Reels: The Pure Drop/The Flax In Bloom - Pierre Bensusan
  • Night Herding Song - Skip Gorman
  • John Hardy - Leadbelly
  • Duncan & Brady - Johnson Mountain Boys
  • Old Country Stomp - Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin
  • College Hornpipe - Mark O'Connor
  • Looking For Money - Chicken Chokers
  • Going Back To Old Virginia - Crowe & McLaughlin
  • Hills Of Home - Hazel Dickens
  • I'm Out On The Ocean A-Sailing - Leslie Riddle
  • She Did You A Favor - Roy Bookbinder
  • My Babe - Mississippi Fred McDowell & Johnny Woods
  • Racetrack Blues - Nashville Jug Band
  • Aloha Means I Love You - Tau Moe Family
  • Bill Cheatham - Bela Fleck/Bill Keith/Tony Trischka
  • High On A Mountain - Ola Belle Reed
  • I Caught A Keeper - Barry & Holly Tashian
  • I Ride An Old Paint - Riders In The Sky
  • Baby Please Don't Go - Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown
  • Killing The Blues - Woodstock Mountain Revue
  • I'll Never Go Back - Louvin Brothers
  • Who Will Watch The Home Place - Laurie Lewis
  • Mr. Bell's Shuffle - Robert Nighthawk
  • Jealous Hearted Woman - J. B. Hutto
  • Left Me With A Broken Heart - Jimmy Rogers with Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters
  • Mean Old Frisco - Frank Hovington
  • Blues with a Feeling - Booker T. Laury
  • Lonesome Whistle - Johnny Shines & Robert Jr. Lockwood
  • Ain't Treating Me Right - Luther Guitar Junior Johnson
  • I Feel So Good - Tracy Nelson
  • Peace and Happiness - Ted Hawkins
  • Up Above My Head - Holmes Brothers
  • Sometimes I Slip - Clarence Gatemouth Brown
  • Full Court Press - Bluestime
  • Since You Been Gone - Rory Block
  • 501 Boogie - Professor Longhair
  • Give Me the Flowers While I'm Livin' - Champion Jack Dupree
  • Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen - Charles Brown
  • Texas Flood - Roomful Of Blues with Duke Robillard
  • Green Light - Ronnie Earl
  • Help The Poor - Larry Davis
  • Gimme A Break - Ron Levy
  • My Jug and I - Persuasions
  • Red Beans - Marcia Ball
  • You're My Brand - Smokin' Joe Kubek Band featuring Benois King
  • Full Time Lover - Ann Peebles with Little Jimmy King
  • I Wanna Do It To You Baby - Smokey Wilson
  • You Got What It Takes - Michelle Willson with Sugar Ray Norcia
  • Tomorrow - Jimmy McCracklin with Irma Thomas
  • Beale St. Boogaloo - Preston Shannon Band
  • What A Way To Go - Johnny Nocturne Band
  • Love is the Bottom Line - Lowell Fulson
  • Mardi Gras In New Orleans - Dirty Dozen Brass Band
  • That's Enough of that Stuff - Marcia Ball
  • Three Keys - James Booker
  • Tee Nah Nah - Tuts Washington
  • Shoo-Fly - Bo Dollis, Monk Boudreaux, Rebirth Brass Band
  • On the Prowl - Walter Wolfman Washington
  • Back on Track - Dalton Reed
  • Hold To God's Unchanging Hand - Irma Thomas
  • Hometown New Orleans - Champion Jack Dupree
  • Down That Lonely Lonely Road - Johnny Adams
  • Tipitina - Professor Longhair
  • Coconut Milk - Bo Dollis & Wild Magnolias
  • Hard Times- Eddie Bo
  • Meet Me At the Station - Chuck Carbo
  • J'ai vu le loup, le renard et la belette - The Balfa Brothers
  • Pere et garçon Zydeco- John Delafose and the Eunice Playboys
  • The Mistake I Made - Eddie LeJeune
  • Chere toute-toute - Jimmy C. Newman
  • Lula Lula Don't You Go To Bingo - Boozoo Chavis
  • Bayou Pon Pon - Le Trio Cadien (Eddie LeJeune, D.L. Menard & Ken Smith)
  • Les flammes d'enfer - Beausoleil
  • La Danse de Mardi Gras - Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys
  • Wildwood Flower - D.L. Menard
  • La valse des chere bébé - Jo-El Sonnier
  • C'est pas la peine brailler (There's No Need To Cry) - Geno Delafose
  • Laissez faire (Let It Be) - Bruce Daigrepont
  • T'en as eu - David Doucet
  • Filé Gumbo - Zachary Richard
  • Outside People - Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas
  • Give Him Cornbread - Beau Jocque and the Zydeco Hi-Rollers
  • Think It Over One More Time - Buckwheat Zydeco
  • Snap Bean - Li'l Brian and the Zydeco Travelers
  • The Old Home Place - J.D. Crowe & the New South
  • Lonesome River - Here Today
  • Hard Hearted - Jim & Jesse
  • Barrel of Fun - Country Cooking
  • West Virginia, My Home - Hazel Dickens
  • Blue Eyed Boston Boy - Bluegrass Cardinals
  • The Old Swinging Bridge - Ted Lundy
  • Golden Ring - Dry Branch Fire Squad
  • Flop Eared Mule - David Grier & Mike Compton
  • Every Time You Say Goodbye - Alison Krauss
  • Cold on the Shoulder - Tony Rice
  • Who's That Knocking At My Door? - Dreadful Snakes
  • Mr. Engineer - J.D. Crowe
  • You'll Get No More of Me - Lynn Morris
  • Every Humble Knee Must Bow - Nashville Bluegrass Band
  • Mama's Hand - Hazel Dickens
  • Sleepy Eyed John/Tom and Jerry - Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum
  • Whitewater - Bela Fleck
  • You're That Certain Someone - Warrior River Boys
  • I Feel the Blues Moving In - Del McCoury
  • When God Dips His Pen of Love in My Heart - The Cox Family
  • River of Jordan - Ricky Skaggs
  • We Believe in Happy Endings - Dry Branch Fire Squad
  • Ragtime Annie - Byron Berline
  • Blue Days, Black Nights - Tasty Licks
  • The Model Church - Bluegrass Album Band
  • Leavin' - James King
  • Along About Daybreak - Joe Val
  • High On A Mountain - Del McCoury
  • My Better Years - Johnson Mountain Boys
  • Second Wind - Claire Lynch
  • New Faces In The Field - IIIrd Tyme Out
  • New York Chimes - Tony Trischka
  • Is The Blue Moon Still Shining? - Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick
  • Things In Life - Don Stover
  • The Last Old Shovel - Phyllis Boyens
  • Sourwood Mountain - Allen Shelton
  • When Someone Wants To Leave - The Allen Brothers
  • I Ain't Broke (But I'm Badly Bent) - David Grisman
  • Take Me Back To Happy Valley - Bailey Brothers
  • Home Is Where The Heart Is - Connie & Babe & the Backwoods Boys
  • Drifting Too Far From - The Shore Boone Creek
  • Montana Cowboy - Hazel & Alice
  • At The End - Leon Morris & Buzz Busby
  • You Tried To Ruin My Name - Wilma Lee Cooper
  • I'll Be On That Good Road Someday - Butch Robins
  • Crazy Creek - Bill Keith
  • When Springtime Comes Again - Vern Williams
  • Old Train - Tony Rice
  • Short Holler - Leonard Emmanuel
  • C & NW Railroad Blues - Snuffy & Pappy
  • Just Because - George Pegram
  • Happy Wanderer - Brave Combo
  • La Zenaida - Sol y Canto
  • Stagger Lee - Sleepy LaBeef
  • Homesick Boy - George Thorogood & the Destroyers
  • Winter Sun - Breakfast Special
  • Synergy - Holy Modal Rounders
  • Dos Keshenever Shtikele - Klezmer Conservatory Band
  • Just A Strand from a Yellow Curl - Blue Sky Boys
  • Since She Started to Ride - Jonathan Richman
  • If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again - Joseph Spence
  • Cumbia Del Soul - The Blazers
  • El Cool Dude/la Piedrera - Los Pinkys with Isidro Samilpa
  • Who Broke the Lock? - Highwoods String Band
  • All Around the Kitchen - Mike & Peggy Seeger
  • Sala Noki Pascal - Tabu Ley Rochereau
  • Lady Be Good - John Miller
  • Mama's Last Stand - Last Roundup
  • Cowboy Calypso - Russ Barenberg
  • Too Much Fun - Cowboy Jazz
  • Tuning the Kora - Alhaji Bai Konte
David Grisman plays on the following tracks.

The Memory Of Your Smile from Mike Seeger's Third Annual Farewell Reunion;

  • Mike Seeger
  • Maria Muldaur
  • David Grisman
Midnight on the Stormy Deep and Old Train are from the Tony Rice Unit release Manzanita. The musicians on the album are;
  • Tony Rice - guitar, vocals
  • Darol Anger - violin
  • Sam Bush - mandolin, violin, vocals
  • Jerry Douglas - dobro
  • David Grisman - mandolin
  • Todd Phillips - bass
  • Ricky Skaggs - mandolin, violin, vocals
The musicians on Lonesome River, which is taken from the Here Today LP, are;
  • Jim Buchanan - fiddle, vocals
  • Vince Gill - guitar, vocals
  • Emory Gordy - bass, vocals
  • David Grisman - mandolin, vocals
  • Herb Pedersen - banjo, guitar, vocals
I Ain't Broke (But I'm Badly Bent) is taken from the David Grisman Rounder Album. The musicians on that release were;
  • Vassar Clements - violin, violectra
  • Jerry Douglas - dobro
  • David Grisman - mandolin, mandola, mandocello, vocals
  • Bill Keith - banjo
  • Todd Phillips - bass
  • Tony Rice - guitar, vocals
  • Ricky Skaggs - violin, vocals
  • Tony Trischka - banjo
  • Buck White - mandolin
The Bill Keith track, Crazy Creek, features the following musicians;
  • Bill Keith - banjo, pedal steel
  • Vassar Clements - fiddle
  • Tom Gray - bass
  • David Grisman - mandolin
  • Kenny Kosek - fiddle, piano
  • Tony Rice - guitar
  • Jim Rooney - guitar, vocals
David Grisman also possibly plays on Bill Cheatham which is taken from the Bela Fleck release, Daybreak.

Credits

For the compilations;

  • Compiler, sequencer - Brad Paul, Frank Godbey, Laurie Flannery, Louisa Hufstader
  • Mastering - Toby Mountain at Northeastern Digital, Southborough, Mass.

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