Across the Blueridge Mountains with Harley Allen

Folkways Records – FTS 31076

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: United States
Released: 1983
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 Carolina in the Pines (2:45)
A2 Dirt in My Face (2:54)
A3 Wildwood Flower Blues (2:40)
A4 Letters Have No Arms (2:49)
A5 Loving Another Man (2:24)
B1 Hey (2:58)
B2 Are You From Dixie? (3:15)
B3 Mandolin Man (3:03)
B4 Across the Blue Ridge Mountains (2:31)
B5 Things Have Changed (3:20)
[Credits]
Harley Allen (guitar/mandolin/vocals) Mike Lilly (banjo/vocals) Scott Adams (mandolin) Steve Bryant (electric bass) J.D. Crowe (banjo) Vassar Clements (fiddle) Josh Graves (dobro) Larry Nager (acoustic bass) Kathy Chiavoh (vocals) Jr. Bennett (fiddle)
Producer: Red Allen, Designer: Ronald Clyne, Engineer: Jr. Bennett
[Notes]
Harley Allen, son of prominent bluegrass singer (and Folkways recording artist) Red Allen, strikes out on his own in this inaugural recording. He is ably assisted by nine bluegrass musicians, including J.D. Crowe (banjo), Vassar Clements (fiddle), and Josh Graves (dobro). Red produced the recording. Like his father, Harley Allen is an exponent of the "high lonesome sound," a highly regarded vocal technique in mountain music, whether traditional or bluegrass. Harley explains his approach to bluegrass music in the following way: "Even though my brothers and I have experimented with the boundaries of bluegrass music, I wanted my first solo effort to be fairly straight 'grass.' I feel this album is."

Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall

Columbia – CS 8845

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1963
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country, Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 Salty Dog Blues (1:57)
A2 Durham's Reel (1:04)
A3 Hot Corn, Cold Corn (2:21)
A4 Footprints In The Snow (2:37)
A5 Flint Hill Special (2:23)
A6 Dig A Hole In The Meadow (2:00)
B1 The Martha White Theme (1:13)
B2 I Wonder Where You Are Tonight (1:39)
B3 Mama Blues (1:25)
B4 Take This Hammer (2:06)
B5 Fiddle And Banjo (1:26)
B6 Yonder Stands Little Maggie (1:48)
B7 Let The Church Roll On (2:01)
[Credits]
Lester Flatt (guitar/vocals) Earl Scruggs (banjo/guitar/vocals) Josh Graves (dobro) Paul Warren (fiddle) Billy Powers (guitar) Cousin Jake (bass)
[Notes]
Recorded live at Carnegie Hall, New York, New York on December 8, 1962. Originally released on Columbia (8845). Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs were big news at the height of the late '50s/early '60s folk revival. New York City was essentially ground zero for a mania that extended to all things musical and Southern. So something of a love-fest occurred when Flatt and Scruggs and their polished bluegrass band rolled into town on one December night in 1962 to play no less a venue than Carnegie Hall. There are screams from the crowd for "Martha White" (the theme song from the band's radio sponsor), and Scruggs has no choice but to encore the banjo showpiece "Flint Hill Special." To know what the Foggy Mountain Boys sounded like in their natural habitat, you'd have to go to transcripts of the band playing a school auditorium or radio hour somewhere south of the Jersey Turnpike. CARNEGIE HALL still gives you a taste of how Flatt and Scruggs put together a show before their original band disintegrated under the weight of the revival itself. As you might expect from a live recording of this era, the sound favors the top end. Vocals, fiddle, and banjo breaks come through best, especially as the band performs with only two microphones among its six performers.

The Earl Scruggs Revue

Columbia KC-32426

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1973
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk Rock, Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 If I'd Only Come And Gone (2:55)
A2 Tears (2:12)
A3 Some Of Shelley's Blues (2:57)
A4 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (4:25)
A5 Step It Up And Go (2:25)
A6 Back Slider's Wine (2:33)
B1 Down In The Flood (2:38)
B2 Love In My Time (3:43)
B3 Holiday Hotel (2:07)
B4 Come On Train (5:30)
B5 Salty Dog Blues (2:10)
B6 Station Break (1:59)
[Credits]
Earl Scruggs (banjo) Gary Scruggs (bass/harmonica/vocals) Randy Scruggs (guitar/vocals) Josh Graves (dobro/guita/vocals) Andy McMahon (piano/organ/vocals) Tracy Nelson (vocals) Chip Young (vocals) Jody Maphis (drums/vocals) Carl Himmel (drums)
Producer: Ron Bledsoe, Photographer: Slick Lawson, Engineer: Stan Hutto
[Notes]
Red and yellow Columbia label. Track A6 is listed on sleeve as "Back Slider's Wine" and on label as "Black Slider's Wine." The correct title of the song, a composition by Michael Martin Murphey that appeared on the 1972 Michael Murphey - Geronimo's Cadillac, is "Backslider's Wine."

Foggy Mountain Banjo: Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys

Columbia CS-8364

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1961
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 Ground Speed
A2 Home Sweet Home
A3 Sally Ann
A4 Little Darlin', Pal Of Mine
A5 Reuben
A6 Cripple Creek
B1 Lonesome Road Blues
B2 John Henry
B3 Fire Ball Mail
B4 Sally Goodwin
B5 Bugle Call Rag
B6 Cumberland Gap
[Credits]
Earl Scrugg (banjo) Lester Flatt (guitar) Paul Warren (fiddle) Josh Graves (dobro) Cousin Jake (bass) Buddy Harman (drums)
Artwork: Thomas B. Allen, Liner Notes: Rich Kienzle
[Notes]
The album that secured Flatt & Scruggs standing among folk music enthusiasts in the 1960s, Foggy Mountain Banjo focuses on Earl Scruggs' instrumental prowess as well as his sharp interplay with dobroist Josh Graves, fiddler Paul Warren and Lester Flatt's flat-picking guitar. The album also features drummer Buddy Harman, whose appearance shocked purists.

Earl Scruggs And The Earl Scruggs Revue: Live At Kansas State

Columbia KC-31758

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: United States
Released: 1972
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass, & Progressive country
[Tracklist]
A1 T For Texas
A2 Bound In Jail All Night Long
A3 Rambling 'Round Your City
A4 Sally Gooding
A5 Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
B1 Carolina Boogie
B2 Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
B3 You Ain't Going Nowhere
B4 Both Sides Now
B5 Good Woman's Love
B6 Bugle Call Rag
B7 Foggy Mountain Breakdown
[Credits]
Earl Scruggs (banjo) Gary Scruggs (bass/harmonica/vocals) Randy Scruggs (guitar) Vassar Clements (fiddle) Josh Graves (dobro) Bob Wilson (piano) Jody Maphis (drums)
Producer: Ron Bledsoe
[Notes]
日本盤「アール・スクラッグス・レビュー・ライブ！」（CBSソニー SOPL-147）1972年

Lester Flatt & Mac Wiseman: On the South Bound

RCA Victor – LSP 4688

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: United States
Released: 1972
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 Salty Dog Blues (2:09)
A2 Just A Strand From (2:51)
A3 Mama's And Daddy's Little Girl (2:33)
A4 How Lonely Can You Get? (2:28)
A5 I'm Waiting To Hear You Call Me Darling (2:42)
B1 On The Southbound (2:16)
B2 Are You Coming Back To Me (2:16)
B3 You Can't Trust A Friend Anymore (2:25)
B4 Me & Your Memory (2:31)
B5 When You Are Lonely (2:47)
[Original Version]
RCA Victor LSP-4688 (US) 1972
[Credits]
Lester Flatt (guitar/vocals) Mac Wiseman (guitar/vocals) Josh Graves (dobro) Roland White (mandolin/vocals) Haskel McCormick (banjo) Victor Jordan (banjo) Howdy Forrester (fiddle) Paul Warren (fiddle) Hargus Robbins (piano) Don Smith (bass) E.P. Tullock Jr (bass)