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Northern California Bands
Artist Recording Year
Bluegrass Intentions Old As Dirt 2002
Crooked Jades Seven Sisters 2000
Crooked Jades Unfortunate Rake 2001

David Thom Band

Plays Bluegrass

2000
Dix Bruce & Jim Nunally Brothers At Heart 2003
Kathy Kallick My Mother's Voice 2001
Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum Winter's Grace 1999
MacRae Brothers Old Country Church 2003
The Stairwell Sisters The Stairwell Sisters 2003
StrungOver Avocado Shakedown 2003
True Blue Years Gone By 2003

The David Thom Band:

The Thief 2004
The Waybacks Devolver 2000
Beyond Northern California
Artist Recording Year
Alan Bibey

In the Blue Room

2000

Andy Leftwich

Ride

2003

Aubrey Haynie The Bluegrass Fiddle Album 2003
Auldridge, Bennett, and Gaudreau This Old Town 2000
Austin Lounge Lizards Never an Adult Moment 2000
Ben Rudnick and Friends Emily's Song 2000
Ben Rudnick and Friends Fun and Games 2000
Bela Fleck Natural Bridge 2000
Big Country Bluegrass Tomorrow I'll Be Gone 2000
Big Country Bluegrass My Old Virginia Home 2002

Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys:

Live at Mechanics Hall 2004
Bill & Libby Hicks South of Nowhere 2001
Billy Joe Foster & Special Edition Before The Prairie Met The Plow 2000
Bob Bovee and Gail Heil When the Cactus is in Bloom 2000
The Bluegrass Cardinals Sunday Mornin' Singin 2003
Brad Davis I'm Not Gonna Let My Blues Bring Me Down 2003
Bray Brothers & Red Craven Prairie Bluegrass 2000, reissue
Bryan Bowers Friend For Life 2000
Bryan Sutton Bluegrass Guitar
Carroll Best Say Old Man 2002
Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer Say Old Man, Can You Play the Banjo 2002
Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer Bon Appetit 2002
Charlie Sizemore The Story Is..The songs of Tom T. Hall
Chris Stuart Angels of Mineral Springs
Claire Lynch Out In The Country reissued, 2000
Clay Hess Red Haired Boy 2002
Continental Divide Pathway of Time 2002
Dan Tyminski Carry Me Across the Mountain 2000
Dave Evans Bad Moon Shining 2000
Dave Grisman Life of Sorrow 2003
Del McCoury Del and the Boys 2001
Dick Kimmel Fishing Creek Blues 2000
Doc Watson Trouble in Mind
Dolly Parton The Grass Is Blue 1999
Dolly Parton Little Sparrow 2001
Don Reno Founding Father of the Bluegrass Banjo 2002
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Just Over in Heaven 2000
Due West These Boots 2003
Eddie & Martha Adcock Twograss

Fragment:

Meant to Be 2003
Front Range Silent Ground 2000
Gary Brewer & Kentucky Ramblers Home Brew 2002
George Shuffler, James Alan Shelton The Legacy Continues: George Shuffler, James Alan Shelton 2000
Gerald Evans and Paradise Headin' Home 2003
Gayle Schmitt Toodala Front Porch Favorites 2002
Gibson Brothers Bona Fide 2003

Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz:

Draw Closer 2004
Ginny Hawker & Tracy Schwartz Good Songs for Hard Times 2000
Glen Duncan Glen Duncan 2003
The Grasshoppers The Grasshoppers 1999
Hazel Dickens Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song 2000
Herschel Sizemore My Style 2000
Hot Rize So Long of a Journey 2002
James Reams Walter Hensley: Barons of Bluegrass 2003

Janie Fricke:

The Bluegrass Sessions 2004
Jenni Lyn Band Jenni Lyn Band 2002
Jesse Brock Kickin' Grass 2002
Jim Lauderdale and Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys Feel Like Singing Today 1999
Jim & Jesse American Pride 2002 Reissue
Jim & Jesse 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered 2003
Jimmy Martin Songs of a Freeborn Man 2003
John Cowan John Cowan 2000
John Cowan Always Take Me Back 2000
Jones & Leva Vertie's Dream 2000
Josh Graves Memories of Foggy Mountain 2002
Junior Barber and Gary Ferguson

Stuff That Works

2003

Karl Shiflett and Big Country Show Full Color 2000
Kenny Baker and Bobby Hicks: Darkness on the Delta 2004
Keith Little Distant Land to Roam 2000
Kruger Brothers Up18North 2002
Larry Sparks Show The Coldest Part of Winter 2003
Laura Lind and Adam Miller Wild Birds 2001
Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass The Essential Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass 2003
Lonesome River Band Talkin' To Myself 2000
Longview Lessons in Stone 2002
Lou Reid & Carolina Blue Heartache 2000
Lynn Morris Band

Shape of a Tear

2003

Mark Newton Follow Me Back to the Fold 2000
Maro Kawabata Carolina Blue 2000
Marty Raybon Full Circle 2003

Melonie Cannon

Melonie Cannon

2004
Melvin Goins & Windy Mountain Bluegrass Blues 1999
Michelle Nixon & Drive It's My Turn 2003
Mike Marshall and Chile Thile Into the Cauldron
Mountain Laurel It's About Time
The Mysterious Redbirds 1992-1998 2000
Nickel Creek Nickel Creek 2000
On the Loose Know Better Than To Know 2003
Open Road Bluegrass Band Open Road 2000
Open Road Bluegrass Band Cold Wind 2002
Osborne Brothers Detroit to Wheeling 2003
Patent Pending Through the Window 2001
Peter Feldmann and The Very Lonesome Boys Tough and Wild 2002
Perfect Strangers Perfect Strangers 2003

Peter Rowan and Tony Rice:

You Were There For Me 2004
Paul Brewster Everybody's Talkin' 2002
Ralph Stanley While The Ages Roll On 2000
Ralph Stanley II Stanley Blues 2002
Ralph Stanley II City Lights, Pretty Girls 2000
Rhonda Vincent The Storm Still Rages 2001
Rhonda Vincent One Step Ahead

Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder:

Brand New Strings 2004
Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder Live at the Charleston Music Hall 2003

Rock County

Rock County 2002
Ron Stanley Joy Bells 2003
Ronnie McCoury Heartbreak Town 2000

Ross Nickerson

Blazing the West 2003

Russ & Becky Jeffers

Smoky Mountain Sunshine 2003
Sally Love and Gary Ferguson Our Old Home 2002
Sam Bush Ice Caps: Peaks of Telluride 2000
Sam Hill Haunted by a Memory 2001
Sean Watkins Let It Fall 2000
Seldom Scene Scene It All 2000
Shawn Lane All For Today 2003
Silverado Bluegrass Band All Doors Will Open 2002
Steve Spurgin Tumbleweed Town 2002
Tom, Brad & Alice We'll Die in the Pig Pen Fighting 2001
Tony Rice Unit Unit of Measure 2000
Wayne Benson An Instrumental Anthology 2003
Western Lights Favorites of Ours 2000

Windy Ridge Bluegrass Band:

Old Windows 2004
Wildfire Where Roads Divide 2003
Valerie Smith Turtle Wings 2000
(Various) The Legend Lives On: A Tribute to Bill Monroe 2003
(Various) American Gothic: Bluegrass Songs of Death and Sorrow 2003
(Various) Bluegrass Hall of Fame 2002
(Various) Cool, Blue & Lonesome, Bluegrass for the Brokenhearted 2002
(Various Accutab sessions) Kneedeep in Bluegrass 2000
(Various) Masterworks of American Bluegrass 2002
(Various) Dueling Banjos 2002
(Various) American Fiddle Tunes 2000
(Various) More Sacred Songs From Hay Holler 2000
(Various) Transatlantic Sessions 2000
White Dove The Bluegrass Gospel Collection 2000
Wyatt Rice, David Grier, Kenny Smith (on DVD) Live in Concert 2000
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