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You will find the most recent issues (2009) here. Please follow the links to our Special CD Sets, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 CDs.

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CD Releases on Other Labels
		Ray Alden produced and/or appeared on the following CDs.

		CDROUN0319– Young Fogies Volume 1 $15 per disc This award-winning anthology includes over 100 musicians from every section of the United States, playing styles that range from Appalachian, Cajun, French Canadian, bluegrass, and Hank Williams-styled country all the way up to some songs with a fiercely contemporary sound. These 'young fogies' take an historical approach, beginning with the New Lost City Ramblers and following the thread until it stretches to the most contemporary visions of the music. --from the notes by Ray Alden Also included: the Highwoods String Band, Tommy Jarrell, the Chicken Chokers, Jay Ungar, Alice Gerrard, the Horseflies, Doc Watson and more. Twenty-nine tracks. Track list Sound clip

		CDROUN0369 – Young Fogies Volume 2 $15 per disc Ten years after the first volume of The Young Fogies (Rounder 0319) was issued, Volume II continues the exploration of the revival of old-time Appalachian string band and Cajun music as played and sung by a mostly new generation of musicians. Over one hundred musicians from all sections of the United States play 74 minutes of powerful traditional acoustic music with an astonishing development of technique and a new comprehension of style. Track list Sound clip

		CDROUN0379– American Fogies Volume 1 $15 per disc This is an anthology of the diverse and potent traditional music found in America. It includes Native American music, the music of the early Scotch-Irish settlers, the blues of African-Americans, Texas Polish songs and Italian songs. A Chicano song, a Tejano accordion piece, a Colombian Vallenato song and a New Mexican song written by an energetic 74 year old illustrate the Spanish influence. A Klezmer medley celebrates the Russian Jewish wedding tradition while Cajun and Creole music evokes Louisiana. These musicians are behind-the-times American fogies, playing and singing with a passion that broadcasts a powerful sound across our land. – Ray Alden, Producer Track list Sound clip
		CDROUN0389– American Fogies Volume 2 $15 per disc "The American Fogies, Volume II, continues to delve into the American spirit through blues, religious songs, fiddle tunes, women's song and songs about cowboys, cowgirls and the American landscape. It has solo a cappella singing as well as duets with husbands and wives, brothers and friends. Full bands celebrate some of America's ethnic diversity by exploring Cajun, Appalachian, Balkan, Texas Czech and klezmer styles." – Ray Alden, Producer Track list

		CD1011– The Humdingers $15 per disc Featuring the powerhouse fiddling of Brad Leftwich and fueled by the superb rhythm section of Bob Herring on guitar, Randy Marmouze on banjo and Linda Higginbotham on banjo uke, The Humdingers were a group of friends from Bloomington, Indiana, who also happened to be some of the finest old-time musicians in the country. After Brad won first-place fiddle and the band won first-place traditional band at the 1990 Appalachian String Band Festival in Clifftop, West Virginia, the group went on to play semi-professionally for several years joined by the incomparable Dirk Powell on bass. Included here are 12 newly mastered cuts from their only release, the 1992 cassette First Take (Yodel-Ay-Hee 007) along with 10 cuts recorded live in 1993 with banjo ace Ray Alden. This CD is dedicated to old-time music lovers everywhere with the assurance that every cut is a real humdinger! Track list Sound clip

		CD1005 – The World In Our Backyard $15 per disc "Congratulations! "The World In Our Backyard was just awarded the HOT PLATTER award from among the thousands of CDs we carry in our catalog." – David Kanistanaux, Sidestreet Music, 1998 "The ubiquitous Ray Alden, America's premier ethnographer-without-portfolio, has done it again! This time he's complied a delectable sampler of music from the ethnic neighborhoods in and around New York: Bulgarian wedding music with Yuri Yunakov, huayno music from Peru, some young guns of Irish music, and tunes from Jordan, Thailand, Portugal, Hungary, the Ukraine and elsewhere. A killer sampler and a remarkable document of our cultural diversity." – Elderly Instruments Mail Catalog Track list Sound clip

		CD1006– The Brandywine Mountain Music Convention $15 per disc This CD is an anthology of twenty years of recordings made at the Brandywine Mountain Music Convention, which each year focusing on a state such as West Virginia, or on a genre such as "old time radio." This CD gives a broad scope of old time (and early bluegrass) music from the original southern musicians barely found anywhere else in the recorded CD market. Track list Sound clip

		CD1001 – The Appalachian String Band Music Festival Clifftop WV $15 per disc "Ray Alden has done a superb job in assembling this 24-cut overview of old time string music today, as reflected by the groups who make the annual trek to a Mecca for the music in Clifftop, West Virginia. It includes many standouts, and I find myself going back repeatedly to tracks by the Ill-Mo Boys, Melvin Wine, the L-7s, Dan Gellert and Brad Leftwich. An all-around FINE job on this project." – Dave Freeman, County & Rebel records "This is the REAL thing! All collectors of traditional music should have this one!" – Disc Collector magazine, issue # 187 "Highly recommended! Especially fine for fiddlers and lovers of fiddle music."– Al Rock, Fiddler's Rag Magazine Track list Sound clip

		CD1008 – MountAiry.USA $15 per disc A homage to the great center of North Carolina old time music with two of its best singers, Mac Snow and Scotty East, and two of the best young fiddlers of the revival, Bruce Molsky and Brad Leftwich. On board are Ray Alden on fretless banjo and Meredith McIntosh on bass. Track list Sound Clip

		5SP05001– The Southern Schoolhouse Rascals – Old School, Mountain Style $15 per disc Old School, Mountain Style is the debut CD for this fine mid-atlantic band. This CD features lots of great singing and playing. The Southern Schoolhouse Rascals evolve from a combination of Gill Sayre's compelling West Virginia musical herritage, Dave Howard's stout string band background, Pat Plankey's solid bass planing and vocal harmonites, Ambrose Verdibello's vast exploration of fiddle tune repertoire and Ray Alden's thirty-year involvement with North Carolina's Round Peak region. Track list Sound clip 1 Sound clip 2
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