Celebrating 50 Years Of Del McCoury
Rejoice all you Del-heads! McCoury Music is preparing to release a 5 disc, definitive collection of the music of Del McCoury on May 12.
Celebrating 50 Years Of Del McCoury will include 50 tracks marking Del’s five decades in bluegrass, plus a 12 page color booklet.
All of the music was recorded with The Del McCoury Band, the bulk of it in a recent set of marathon sessions. These involved recutting better than 30 songs from the first 40 years of Del’s long career, coupled with 18 top tracks from his recent recordings.
The box set will retail for $49.95, or as Chris Harris with McCoury Music put it, “50 years/50 songs/50 dollars.” This is one every McCoury fan will want to own, and any serious collector of bluegrass music should have in their library.
Track listing follows:
Disc 1:
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Disc 2:
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Disc 3:
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Disc 4:
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Disc 5:
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The booklet is said to contain photos from the McCoury family archives, many of which have never been published.
Performing on the set are Del McCoury on guitar and lead vocals, Ronnie McCoury on mandolin, Rob McCoury on banjo, Jason Carter on fiddle, and both Alan Bartram and Mike Bub on bass.
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Del’s 50th year in the business is well worth celebrating, but I can’t help but do the math. Each disk only has 10 songs on it…even if the songs are four minutes long each (which would be unusual in bluegrass, where the average times are more often between two and three minutes), that would mean each disk would be only forty minutes. Which means that this music could fit onto three disks with much less wasted packaging and (in theory) a lower list price…hmmm…
How is it 50 years of Del McCoury when it’s all been recorded in the last 5 or so?
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I have to concur with the first two comments above. I just made the deluxe purchase. And though from the pdfs, the box looks very nice, a 2-4 disc set at a lower pirce would have been more appealing. I understand the legalities of not including the earlier recordings, but I’d been interested to know if McCoury Music even tried to license the early efforts, vs. just offering re-recordings.
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