February 10, 2022

The Nashville Grass with Curley Seckler

Folkways Records – FTS 31095
China Grove, My Hometown
Folkways Records – FTS 31095

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1983
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 China Grove My Hometown (2:34)
A2 Little Marrowbone Creek (2:17)
A3 Cold Cold Loving (2:36)
A4 I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer (3:11)
A5 Reuben (2:33)
B1 Dixie Holiday (2:30)
B2 Mother Is Gone (2:28)
B3 Old Joe (1:50)
B4 Till the End of the World Rolls Round (2:19)
B5 I Found the Way (2:21)
[Credits]
Curley Seckler (guitar/vocals) Kenny Ingram (banjo/vocals) Willis Spears (guitar/vocals) Johnny Warren (fiddle/vocals) J.T.Gray (bass) Gene Wooten (dobro)
Producer: Kenny Ingram & Red Allen, Photographer: Jim McGuire, Engineer: Frank Evans
[Notes]
Bluegrass pioneer Curly Seckler (1919-2017) was born in China Grove, North Carolina, into "a musically inclined family." He began his professional career in 1935 as a tenor singer and mandolin player. In 1949 he joined Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs' Foggy Mountain Boys, remaining with them until 1962. In 1979, Seckler joined Flatt's Nashville Bluegrass band, assuming leadership of the band following Flatt's death in 1979. Seckler was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Hall of Fame in 2004.

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