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  Wilkesboro, USA - MerleFest Records, distributed exclusively by Welk Music
Group, has announced a May 11, 2004 street date for MerleFest Live!: The Best
of 2003. The audio compact disc assembles a “who’s who” of acoustic music
recorded live at MerleFest 2003 on a generous 18 tracks. MerleFest host Doc
Watson’s two contributions reflect both his bluegrass (“Roll in My Sweet Baby’s
Arms”) and blues/rockabilly (“Match Box Blues”) influences. From Asleep at the
Wheel’s classic western swing on “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” to the hard
driving bluegrass of Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder with “How Mountain Girls
Can Love” to Guy Clark’s wry troubadour twang on “Black Diamond Strings” and Don
Edward’s traditional cowboy music heard on “Master’s Call” to the jam band
fusion of Donna the Buffalo’s “Conscious Evolution,” this live compilation
includes something for everyone who appreciates Americana music.
Merlefest Live: The Best of 2003 also features live cuts by artists
including Dr. Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, Doyle Lawson &
Quicksilver, the Whites, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Hot Rize, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band,
Mountain Heart, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, and the Red Stick Ramblers. The CD
also presents a glimpse into Vassar Clements’ 75th Birthday Jam at MerleFest
2003 with “Orange Blossom Special” featuring Vassar, Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Tony
Rice, Bryan Sutton, Mark Schatz, and Peter Rowan.
MerleFest has also released Fresh Faces at MerleFest 2004. This compilation of
previously released tracks features The Waifs, Mindy Smith, Savoy Doucet Cajun
Band, Hot Tuna, Ann Rabson, and many others.
Wilkes Community College will present MerleFest 2004, the 17th annual festival
in celebration of the music of the late Merle Watson and his father Doc Watson,
on its campus in Wilkesboro, NC on April 29 – May 2, 2004. Those joining Doc
Watson and Merle’s son Richard Watson for MerleFest 2004 will include the Sam
Bush Band, Rosanne Cash, John Cowan Band, the Derailers, Donna the Buffalo, Dry
Branch Fire Squad,
Béla
Fleck & Edgar Meyer, Vince Gill, the Gourds, David Grisman Quintet, Hot
Tuna, Indigo Girls, Jeannie Kendall, the Kruger Brothers, Patty Loveless,
Natalie MacMaster, Nickel Creek,
Tim
O'Brien, Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing Trio, Old Crow Medicine Show, Reeltime
Travelers, Tony Rice Unit, Savoy Doucet Cajun Band, Earl Scruggs with Family &
Friends, the WAiFS, Gillian Welch, and Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison.
MerleFest Information: 800-343-7857 or
www.merlefest.org.
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