The Nashville Grass with Curley Seckler

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.

Lester Raymond Flatt

Flying Fish FF-015

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1975
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 Come Back Darling (2:43 )
A2 The Wreck Of The Old 97 (3:30)
A3 Remarks (0:40)
A4 Some Old Day (2:49 )
A5 Listen To The Mockingbird (4:03)
A6 When It's Time For The Whippoorwill To Sing (2:40)
A7 Remarks (0.40)
A8 Down The Road (2:01)
B1 I Won't Care (2:23)
B2 It Was Only The Wind (3:09)
B3 Remarks (0.20)
B4 My Cabin In Caroline (3:43)
B5 Remarks (0:28)
B6 Sleep With One Eye Open (3:14)
B7 Foggy Mountain Chimes (2:11)
B8 That Old Book Of Mine (3:08)
[Credits]
Lester Flatt (guitar/vocals) Curley Seckler (mandolin/vocals) Kenny Ingram (banjo/vocals) Paul Warren (fiddle/vocals) Charlie Nixon (dobro) Marty Stuart (guitar/mandolin) Jack Hicks (bass) Buddy Spicher (fiddle)
[Notes]
Bluegrass Musician. A native of the Cumberland Plateau in East Tennessee, he ranks as one of the all-time preeminent lead singers of Bluegrass music. Born in Sparta, Tennessee, he left school in 1931 at an early age to work in the local textile mills. While working in the mill, he got a partime job at radio station WDBJ to perfom with "The Charlie Scott Harmonizers". Later he would team up with Clyde Moody and perform a few shows in and around Burlington,North Carolina. It was then in 1943 that he realized that he may have a hopeful career in music and quit textiles to join full time with Charlie Monroe's "The Kentucky Partners". His wife, Gladys, also joined and toured with the group. Lester Flatt and his wife moved to Nashville in 1944 and was soon hired by Bill Monroe to play in his "Bluegrass Boys Band" for the next four years. In 1948, he would form a partnership with Earl Scruggs, which would last for twenty one years as the most popular duo Bluegrass act. "Flatt and Scruggs" would breakup over musical differences in 1969. Durning the early 70's, Lester Flatt teamed with "The Foggy Mountain Boys" to record and perform live shows, including the Grand Ole Opry. In 1975, his health began to decline; however, he still remained fairly active up until November 1978 when he experienced some serious health problems. He returned to the Opry in March 1979 and would fall ill again and die two months later in May. "Flatt and Scruggs" will always be remembered as one of the greatest duos in Bluegrass music.