Laurie Lewis

Heavy doses of nostalgia and high-lonesome harmonies play on a compilation that reads like a who's who of bluegrass. Del McCoury's boy-voice on "High on a Mountain" bleeds into Hazel Dickens' raw rendering of "West Virginia, My Home"; JD Crowe's "Old Home Place" seals it all up. But the lesser-knowns, like Country Cooking's "Barrel of Fun," bring breadth.