Reviewed by Tony May

No less than 49 tracks of some of the hottest picking and spine-shredding singing ever to lift off from the planet Earth. Packed with wonderful vocal harmonies and unspeakable things done to guitars, mandolins, banjos and fiddles, this here's a feast of all the great sounds that bluegrass offers. Gospel tracks abound, gems such as "Drifting Too Far From The Shore" (Boone Creek), "The Model Church" (Bluegrass Album Band), "Every Knee Must Bow" (Nashville Bluegrass Band), "When God Dips His Pen Of Love In My Heart" (Cox Family), "Rivers Of Jordan" (Ricky Skaggs) etc. Some of the great names of the genre excel, giants such as JD Crowe, Hazel Dickens, David Grisman, Tony Rice, all the gang are here, giving their all and at a budget price. Wonderful!

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