VA - Celebrating 50 Years of Del McCoury (2009) (5CD Box Set + Bonus CD) Genre: Bluegrass | Label: MCCOURY MUSIC | 6CD | MP3 320 kbps | 425 MB

From classics that he first sang back in the late 1950s to such stunning originals as High On A Mountain, Are You Teasing Me, Dark Hollow, Bluest Man In Town, Rain And Snow, Good Man Like Me, Rain Please Go Away, as well as Nothin Special and Never Grow Up Boy from the Grammy-winning, The Company We Keep, it s truly a life s work being handed down. Del gives hope to everybody fifty years is a long time to be playing music in any field, says Elvis Costello. But to keep the purity that you need to do this kind of music, and the drive and energy, that takes a special kind of guy. Elvis words are echoed by other master musicians and fans alike whose support for Del has only intensified over the years. The onetime Bill Monroe sideman is now the music s spiritual and artistic heir. Since the early 90 s, Del s popularity has soared. In addition to countless awards, including a Grammy and 3 dozen IBMA s (and an unprecedented 9 Entertainer of the Year trophies), Del s influence reaches well beyond his Bluegrass disciples, from 2008 Grammy Album of the Year winner Alison Krauss, to Dierks Bentley, Steve Earle, Vince Gill, and jamband fav s Phish, Leftover Salmon and Yonder Mountain String Band. CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF DEL MCCOURY was recorded in a marathon session that lasted only a few days. As befits a living legend, and a lively one at that, he brings a fresh and inspired take to all the tracks, particularly those that have been part of his repertoire since the beginning. We went through the songs pretty quickly, says son Ronnie, who plays mandolin. Take after take, it was just great. Dad sounds better than ever on here. We had a list of songs that the three of us made, with fifteen or twenty songs from each of the decades and the albums that he made before he started owning his own recordings, and he would just pick some things to record on each session and then we just went in and knocked them out. So they all have a real live feel to them. Track Listing CD 1: 01 - I Wonder Where You Are Tonight - 3:28 02 - Remembering - 2:24 03 - Rain & Snow - 3:01 04 - Are You Teasin' Me? - 2:18 05 - Dreams - 3:43 06 - White House Blues - 2:15 07 - Dark Hollow - 2:54 08 - You're The Girl Of My Dreams - 3:07 09 - Don't Stop The Music - 3:28 10 - The Prisoner's Song - 3:08Track Listing CD 2: 01 - Big Rock In The Road - 2:11 02 - High On The Mountain - 3:05 03 - Rain Please Go Away - 2:45 04 - Pick Me Up On Your Way Down - 2:41 05 - Good Man Like Me - 2:36 06 - I've Endured - 2:27 07 - Bluest Man In Town - 3:30 08 - Don't You Call My Name - 2:20 09 - Evil Hearted Woman - 3:06 10 - Loggin' Man - 2:08Track Listing CD 3: 01 - Loneliness & Desperation - 2:29 02 - I Feel The Blues Movin' In - 3:54 03 - Don't Let My Love Get In The Way - 2:32 04 - Who Showed Who? - 3:21 05 - Undone In Sorrow - 2:33 06 - Take Me To The Mountains - 3:31 07 - Eli Renfro - 3:21 08 - Queen Anne's Lace - 3:36 09 - Nashville Cats - 3:42 10 - Beauty Of My Dreams - 2:39Track Listing CD 4: 01 - Cold Hard Facts - 2:49 02 - Black Jack County Chains - 3:29 03 - A Far Cry - 2:37 04 - Backslidin' Blues - 3:28 05 - 50/50 Chance - 2:57 06 - City Of Stone - 3:59 07 - Never Grow Up Boy - 3:22 08 - Asheville Turnaround - 2:35 09 - Learnin' The Blues - 3:23 10 - Cheek To Cheek With The Blues - 2:27Track Listing CD 5: 01 - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - 4:02 02 - Let An Old Racehorse Run - 3:29 03 - Same Kind Of Crazy As Me - 2:48 04 - I'm Afraid I Forgot The Feeling - 3:16 05 - All Aboard - 3:59 06 - It's Just The Night - 4:01 07 - Nothin' Special - 3:12 08 - Unequal Love - 3:23 09 - Mill Towns - 3:27 10 - My Love Will Not Change - 4:14Bonus CD: Del McCoury Band - Bluegrass Gospel Hits - 2009 01 - Led By The Master's Hand - 2:55 02 - I Never Knew Life - 3:58 03 - I'll Put On A Crown - 3:10 04 - Recovering Pharisee - 2:51 05 - Get Down On Your Knees And Pray - 3:44 06 - I Believe - 2:22 07 - Five Flat Rocks - 2:57 08 - Don't Put Off Until Tomorrow - 2:48 09 - I Can Hear the Angels Singing - 2:35 10 - The Land of Canaan - 3:08Personnel: Del McCoury (guitar); Bela Fleck (vocals); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Rob McCoury (banjo); Ronnie McCoury (mandolin); Jason Carter , Stuart Duncan (fiddle).