anon-C303 Renfro Valley BG Fest 7-11-1971
Renfro Valley, KY
7/11/1971
Source: SPPS Anonymous Collection Cassette #303 – Maxell UL 120:Nakamichi ZX7>Nickspicks Silver Hydra’s>Lunatec V3 @ 24/48>M-Audio Firewire 410 – Transfer by Keith Kreider 04/16/07
1. Green Green Grass of Home
2. Going Up Cripple Creek…
3. …Going Up Cripple Creek
4. Fox on the Run
5. (Emcee Talk)…
6. Listening to the Rain
7. Nine Pound Hammer
8. My Favorite Memory/You Win Again
9. Georgia Piney Woods
10. Tennessee Hound Dog…(Band Intros)
11. Another Day, Another Dollar
12. Ribbon of Darkness
13. Black Mountain Rag
14. Never Grow Old (x)…(x) Never Grow Old
15. Cumberland Gap
16. Rocky Top
17. (Emcee Talk)
18. Wabash Cannonball
19. I Wonder How the Old Folks Are At Home
20. Me & Bobby McGee
21. All I Have to Offer You is Me
22. Liberty (x)
1. (Talking…Hal Smith Intro)
2. I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight
3. Four Walls Around Me
4. I’ll Still Write Your Name in the Sand
5. Jimmy Brown the Newsboy
6. Old Joe Clark
7. (Emcee Talk)
8. Durham’s Reel
9. Will You Be Loving Another Man
10. The Maiden’s Prayer
11. Await Me ‘Til It’s Over (?)
12. The Flatland Two-Step
13. Folsom Prison Blues
14. Shuckin’ the Corn
15. Footprints in the Snow…(enter Howdy Forrester)
16. Brilliancy
17. Twin Fiddle Tune (?)
18. Katy Hill
19. Six White Horses
20. Shady Grove…(enter Mac Wiseman)
21. Bluebirds Are Singing For Me
22. Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
23. Will You Be Loving Another Man
Notes:
Country Gentlemen (d1t1-5)
Osborne Brothers (d1t6-17)
Mac Wiseman, Shenandoah Cut-Ups, & Friends (d1t18-d2t7)
Lester Flatt & The Nashville Grass (d2t8-)
Anonymous Collection Cassette #303 features a number of classic recordings made on 7/11/71 at the Renfro Valley Bluegrass Festival, Renfro Valley, KY: 1) Country Gentlemen (Charlie Waller-guitar, Doyle Lawson-mandolin, Bill Emerson-banjo, & Bill Yates-bass), 2) Osborne Brothers (Sonny Osborne-banjo, Bobby Osborne-mandolin, Ronnie Reno-guitar, Ray Kirkland-bass, & Robbie Osborne-snare drum), 3) Mac Wiseman with marvelous backing from the Shenandoah Cut-Ups (Clarence “Tater” Tate-fiddle, Billy Edwards-banjo, Herschel Sizemore-mandolin, & John Palmer-bass), Harley Gabbard-Dobro, and fiddle maestros Chubby Wise and Big Joe Greene, and 4) Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass (Lester Flatt-guitar, Haskel McCormick-banjo, Roland White-mandolin, Paul Warren-fiddle, Uncle Josh Graves-Dobro, & Johnny Johnson-bass); fiddle great Howard “Howdy” Forrester and Mac Wiseman make guest appearances. –Mitchell Wittenberg

