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I can remember as a youngster playing records by "Mother" Maybelle Carter, what an incredible sound came from this wonderful entertainer, will never forget those early years of "Mountain Music"...now let's look at Ronda Vincent's "LONESOME WIND BLUES", digging into the roots of bluegrass...and the warm style of Lynn Morris singing "MAMA'S HAND", touches the heart of everyone who has left the nest...nobody does gospel like The Cox Family on "WILL THERE BE ANY STARS?", joined by Alison Krauss, takes us to them "Golden Gates", doesn't get any better than this.

Rounder Records deserves a lot of credit for having the insight in releasing bluegrass that has been considered America's early form of music...thanks to Rounder's vast vault of music we can now hear both versions by men and WOMEN!

Total Time: 55:49 on 19 Tracks ~ Rounder Records 11661-0499-2 ~ (2001)


O Sister!, you whoop up on Oh, Brother!   January 14, 2002
 19 out of 29 found this review helpful

Forget the thirty-eight versions of "Man of Constant Sorrow" on the soundtrack to that so-so movie with the great music, this sparkling, tongue-in-cheek, down-and-dirty bluegrass album featuring all women performers leaves "Oh, Brother! Where Art Thou" in a cloud of dust. Buy this album, then start buying all the albums of each and every woman singing here-- your blood will start running as blue as the grass they're singing about and you'll LOVE it!!


A record executive's impression of bluegrass   December 10, 2002
 17 out of 25 found this review helpful

I grew up singing with my grandfather in the living room of his house. He used to tell me stories of what it was like when he had his own radio show in the days before television. It wasn't until years later that I found out the songs we used to sing are what is now known as Bluegrass.
This album is not bluegrass. At least it is not what I grew up with. The bluegrass I know is intertwined with gospel and blues. You see glimpses of this in "Oh Brother" where the song "Man of Constant Sorrow" ends with the line "I'll meet you on that Golden Shore." In the mountains people would often write songs about real people and real events. Chrisitanity was a part of that life and so you hear references to it in non-gospel songs.
This album sounds like modern Country music that has had its electric guitar replaced by a banjo. I don't believe that the singers either experienced or identify with the events they are singing about. If the singer can not identify with the song writer, how can I as a listener? This album feels like an record executive's impression of what Bluegrass is supposed to sound like.