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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 2202
Released: July 3, 2001 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology Track Listing:
1. Short Trip Home
2. Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier
3. 1B
4. Appalachia Waltz
5. Soldier's Joy
6. Sliding Down
7. BT
8. Butterfly's Day Out
9. College Hornpipe
10. Fancy Stops and Goes
11. Old Tyme
12. Emily's Reel
13. Slumber My Darling
14. Death by Triple Fiddle
15. Amazing Grace
16. Song of the Liberty Bell (folk version)
Editorial Review:
The likes of Yo-Yo Ma, Sam Bush, Edgar Meyer, Joshua Bell, and Mark O'Connor can be heard on Heartland, a compilation featuring the best tracks from Sony's ongoing Appalachian-themed series of CDs. Individually, these folk and classical stars have little in common, but when they meet to play these new bluegrass-meets-chamber-music arrangements, the results are pure magic. It's hard to pinpoint these Americana-tinged tunes--they could fit in either Carnegie Hall or a grange hall--but they're all great; this is as much Aaron Copland's version of roots music as it is Bill Monroe's. Whether on fast-and-furious breakdowns such as "Death by Triple Fiddle" or on mellow, almost New Agey instrumentals such as "Sliding Down" (featuring Bela Fleck on the banjo), these musicians excel. Guest vocals by James Taylor and Alison Krauss break up the instrumentals, though instrumental virtuosity is the real highlight of this disc. If you like what you hear on this sampler, check out the Grammy Award-winning Appalachian Journey next. --Jason Verlinde
Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology Reviews:
Yo Yo Ma, Bela Fleck, and Alison Krauss? 
2009-03-31 - I've got them all individually in my collection, but collectively? I had to listen to the CD, then I had to buy it. You've got traditionals from anonymous donors and Foster. You've got some of the finest pickers and strummers around and it's just great stuff.
Favorites: James Taylor's rendition of "Johnny has gone for a soldier". You'd think I'd tire of this song, I've got a dozen covers of it, but no.
"Death by Triple Fiddle" is a fast-paced fiddle song that'd have you dizzy if you got up and tried to dance, but your foot's going to be tapping and you might as well try!
Rebecca Kyle, March 2009
Beautiful? Yes. Appalachian? Not where I'm from. 
2009-01-12 - To be sure, this is a beautiful compilation, with rich sounds and familiar tunes. But I'm afraid that it's a bit too "clean" to be anything close to the Appalachian music tradition I'm familiar with. It's sterile, it's perfectly rendered, there's no messy strings and gritty heart. I just am not sure that Joshua Bell and Yo-Yo Ma really "get" the intonations and imperfections of Appalachian music. The cover is deceiving, with its distressed and grungy typography and sepia photo of a person in the hills. This CD has nothin' to do with all that, the style of which you're likely to hear in some bar deep in the hills of Appalachia. To me, THAT is "heartland" music.
This is beautiful, make no mistake, but it's very simply too rehearsed, too pristine, to be an "Appalachian Anthology." It sounds...well, it sounds like a classical violinist playing traditional Appalachian tunes. If that's what you're looking for, then this is your CD. If not, I'd recommend something closer to Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular, etc.
A piece of heaven 
2006-02-01 - Heartland is a haven and a piece of heaven. I was transported.
Great CD
2004-03-16 - Great violin, appalachian music, brings out your country roots, beautiful song by Allison Krauss, good mix of slow and up beat songs, excellent cd!
A bit of a yawn-er
2003-04-22 - If you are planning to open up a high-end gift shop specializing in handcrafted wind chimes and micro-bakery scone mixes and the like, then you must have this CD playing for your customers. It might have a certain appeal there that it did not find in my living room. Not to say that the musicianship is not utterly outstanding, which it is most certainly. Aside from Short Trip Home, which is why I purchased this CD in the first place, I found the rest of the pieces somewhat vapid considering the caliber of the artists. Again, it has its appeal in an easy listening realm, but this was not what I was looking for.
