anon-C383 Bean Blossom 6-18-1982
Anonymous Collection Cassette #383
1) Jim & Jesse McReynolds and The Virginia Boys
2) Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
3) The Wildwood Pickers
Bean Blossom Festival
Bean Blossom, IN June 18, 1982
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Side A:
Jim & Jesse and The Virginia Boys:
1. (Talking)
2. Sally Goodin
3. Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes
4. Cash on the Barrelhead
5. Ole Slewfoot
6. Midnight Train>(Emcee Talk)
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys:
7. In Despair>(Band Intros)
8. Truck Driving Man
9. Shuckin’ the Corn
10. You’ll Find Here Name Written There
11. It’s Might Dark to Travel
12. Dark as the Night, Blue as the Day
13. Come Hither to Go Yonder
14. Crying Holy Unto the Lord
Side B:
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys (continued):
1. The Road to Columbus
2. Blue Night (w/ Julia LaBella-vocals)
3. Where Would Bluegrass Be (w/ Damon Black-vocals)
4. Tall Pines (w/ Damon Black-vocals)
5. Watermelon Hanging on the Vine
The Wildwood Pickers:
6. She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain
7. Wicked Path of Sin
8. Little Joe
9. Blue Moon of Kentucky
10. Ragtime Annie
11. Molly & Tenbrooks
Transfer by Keith Kreider:
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Anonymous Collection 001 Cassette #383 takes us to Bill Monroe’s Bean Blossom Festival, Bean Blossom, IN, June 18, 1982. Side A leads off with the tail end of a set by Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys (with Tim Crouch on fiddle). A set by Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys (Wayne Lewis-guitar, Blake Williams-banjo, Kenny Baker-fiddle, & Mark Hembree-bass) follows. Notable is a guest vocal appearance by Julia LaBella (The Texas Rose) who, despite their 44 year age difference, began a relationship with Monroe in 1976 (when she was 21 y.o. and he was 65) that lasted through the late-fall of 1982. A short set by the all-girl bluegrass band, the Wildwood Pickers (Ma Koskela-bass, Kim Koskela-banjo, Susie Koskela-mandolin, Robin Koskela-vocals, Holly (Hollis) Brown-fiddle, and Muriel Anderson-guitar), rounds out the tape. Muriel Anderson went on to significant fame in the guitar world-she is a renowned classical fingerstylist, and won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship in 1989.
–Mitchell Wittenberg
