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20 Bluegrass Favorites 2
20 Bluegrass Favorites 2
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Remembering a little bit of this very important era of bluegrass history, we recall that Red Smiley and Don Reno we partners in Don Reno, Red Smiley and The Tennessee Cuts from 1951-1964. While they were together, they created a distinctive sound and memorable songs which are now an important part of bluegrass history.
At the time of the recording in 1967, with Red fronting his own Blue Grass Cut-Ups, we find that the band was a bit different than with Red and Don were together. Red no longer has Don Reno s writing skills from which he could draw material and we also find that Red s band was somewhat more traditional in its songs and presentation of bluegrass music. Indeed, Reno had written over 400 tunes in his career. The conventional tunes the Blue Grass Cut-Ups we re doing is represented on this recording when it originally came out as a vinyl LP record album. Here Red and his band do standards such as Ain t Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I m Gone , Take Me In The Lifeboat , I ll Be No Stranger There , A Beautiful Life and many others we, forty years later, can recite from memory. With this band, Red Smiley and Gene Burris did most of the lead singing: Tater Tate did much of the baritone and bass signing.
Even though this band is a little different that the Tennessee Cut-Ups, it didn t suffer at all from an inferior sound or lesser musicians. With Tater Tate on fiddle, Billy Edwards on banjo and sounding very much like Reno, John Palmer on bass and Gene Burris (a.k.a. Gene Burrows) on mandolin and guitar, they were among the best bluegrass bands the late 1960 s had to offer.
Product details
Release Date:
1990-06-30
Publication Date:
1990-06-30
Publisher:
Rural Rhythm
Languages:
Published:
English,
Original:
English
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
36 g
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