構成数 | 1枚

合計収録時間 | 00:41:20

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). Includes liner notes by Ricky Skaggs. All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology. ANCIENT TONES won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. 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 . 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.