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Prominent essayist Stanley Crouch said Burns had not sufficiently emphasized the role of race in jazz history...
...They slashed their inventories and their payrolls, and now many are even beating Wall Street's (much lowered) expectations. That's great, but listen for a moment to Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach. "Five of the last six U.S. recessions have had a double dip, in which we've seemed to come into a recovery and then had a relapse," he says. "It takes that second dip to purge the economy of excesses...
...least four generations are represented (along with voices from much further in the past): bluegrass patriarch Ralph Stanley, veterans such as Norman Blake and John Hartford, neo-trad practitioners like Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch, and the Munchkin-voiced Peasall Sisters (average age eight and a half). But the years fade away as the artists converge on an old-timey repertoire of sparsely arranged, vocally oriented songs that hark back to a pre-commercial time when singing was as integral an element of people's lives as work, love and religion, all of which it encompassed. This isn't folk...
...include multiple versions of "Man of Constant Sorrow," "Man of Constant Sorrow," particularly those by the Soggy Bottom Boys (actually, varying configurations of Union Station and friends); Chris Thomas King's bluesy "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"; "I'll Fly Away," by Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch; and Ralph Stanley's a cappella version of "O Death," a stark, primordial Appalachian apparition. But even such an unvarnished evocation of mortality doesn't cast a shadow over the collection's - and the film's - overall mood of sweet melancholy, encapsulated by Harry McClintock's 1928 recording of "Big Rock Candy Mountain...
...anyone was qualified for the job of assembling a Bill Monroe tribute, it was Ricky Skaggs. A virtuoso mandolinist and multi-instrumentalist who was playing with Ralph Stanley by the age of 16, Skaggs shared the stage with Monroe when still a child, and has been delivering on that promise ever since. For "Big Mon," Skaggs has reached well beyond the predictable bluegrass circles, and the success of the enterprise is a testament to the unassailable quality of Monroe's craft as much as the contributions of the individual performers...