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ANCIENT TONES won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.
Make no mistake about it, ANCIENT TONES is an homage. Impossibly talented picker Ricky Skaggs pays his respects to bluegrass legends Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs and the Stanley Brothers--with excellent results.
From the opening mandolin-and-fiddle-driven Bill Monroe dirge "Walls of Time," Skaggs sounds right at home singing the songs he learned as a child prodigy. Among the other classics on ANCIENT TONES are Monroe's "Mighty Dark to Travel" and the Stanley Brothers' "Pig in a Pen." However, among all the first-rate songs on ANCIENT TONES, it's a new one, "Coal Minin' Man" by Jim Mills, that shows bluegrass' potential to continue as an important, homemade music in the sped-up modern world.
Includes liner notes by Ricky Skaggs.
Personnel: Ricky Skaggs (vocals, guitar, mandolin, bodhran); Darrin Vincent (vocals, baritone); John Cowan, Paul Brewster (tenor); Jerry Douglas , Bryan Sutton (guitar); Jim Mills (banjo); Mary Alice Hoepfinger (harp); Stuart Duncan, Bobby Hicks (fiddle).
Audio Mixers: Tye Bellar; Graham Lewis; Al Schulman; King Williams; Brent King.
Recording information: MCA Recording Studios.
Photographer: Tony Baker.
Personnel: Ricky Skaggs (vocals, guitar, mandolin, bodhran, spike hammer); Paul Brewster (guitar, background vocals); Jerry Douglas, Bryan Sutton (guitar); Jim Mills (banjo); Stuart Duncan, Bobby Hicks (fiddle); Mary Alice Hoepfinger (harp); Mark Fain (bass); John Cowan, Darrin Vincent, Sharon White, Cheryl White (background vocals).
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Dirty Linen (6-7/99, p.51) - "...he searches for those distinctive tones and inflections that make bluegrass so dark and lonesome for those that love it..." Ancient Tones Music | List Price | $9.98 (You save $1.69) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Country CDs, Soundtrack Collections, HDCD, Bluegrass, Enhanced CD | | Label | Skaggs Family | | Orig Year | 1999 | | All Time Sales Rank |  9094  | | CD Universe Part number | 1213321 | | Catalog number | 901001 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jan 26, 1999 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Ricky Skaggs | | Engineer | Tye Bellar; Graham Lewis; King Williams; Brent King | | Recording Time | 41 minutes | | Personnel | Bryan Sutton - guitar
Ricky Skaggs - vocals, guitar, mandolin, bodhran
John Cowan
Sharon White
Mark Fain - bass
Darrin Vincent - vocals, baritone
Cheryl White - background vocals
Mary Alice Hoepfinger - harp
Jim Mills - banjo
Bob "Barbecue Bob" Hicks - fiddle
Paul Brewster - tenor
Also: Stuart Duncan, Jerry Douglas |
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