J.D. Crowe And The New South - The New South (Vinyl LP - 2025 - Original)
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Virtually no other album anywhere in history is
known to its audience by its label number. Not Kind
of Blue, nor Pet Sounds, Glenn Gould’s Goldberg
Variations, none.
Except this one. Rounder 44. Probably the most
seminal bluegrass album of all time. Notice we
didn’t say modern bluegrass, though it originally
came out in 1975. That’s because, unlike, say, Aereo
Plain by John Hartford (who contributed notes to
the original package, reproduced here), The New
South didn’t reinvent bluegrass. It perfected it.
Bandleader and banjoist supreme J.D. Crowe got
his start as a teenager in Jimmy Martin’s Sunny Mountain Boys, before
returning to Kentucky and forming The Kentucky Mountain Boys. That
band morphed over the years to become The New South, boasting
probably the most formidable line-up any American band of any genre
has enjoyed. Bassist Bob Sloane (of The Kentucky Colonels) was the first
to join, followed by one legend after another: fiddle and mandolin player
Ricky Skaggs, dobroist Jerry Douglas, and guitarist/vocalist Tony Rice.
Together, they were pure magic: technically brilliant but soulful, inventive
but disciplined, each a virtuoso but still part of the unit. And, oh, those
harmonies! The New South is the cornerstone of any bluegrass collection.
Of course, a group this talented wasn’t destined to last long. Within a
year, each member went their own way, pioneering progressive bluegrass
with each successive project. But the one album they recorded together, Rounder 44,
is THE ONE. Our Real Gone reissue of The New South features two sets of added liner notes, one
by guitarist Skip Heller and one by mandolinist Jarrod Walker, along with the bonus tracks “Why Don’t You
Tell Me So” and “Cryin’ Holy” with Emmylou Harris. We’re pressing 1000 copies of this classic in root beer
vinyl…don’t you dare miss it!
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