anon-C327 Bean Blossom 1981
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys (with guests), The Goins Brothers, Mac Wiseman, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Bean Blossom Festival
Bean Blossom, IN
6/18/1981
Audio
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Source: SPPS Anonymous Collection Cassette #327 – Transfer by Keith Kreider – Maxell XLII90:Nakamichi CR-5A>Hydra cables>Lunatec V3>M-Audio Firewire 410>Wavelab 5.01b. Material taken from
6/18,19,20/1981
1. Instrumental (?) (some tape distortion)
2. Molly & Tenbrooks
3. Come Hither to Go Yonder
4. Cryin’ Holy Unto the Lord
5. The Road to Columbus
6. In the Pines
7. Foggy Mountain Breakdown
8. Melissa’s Waltz for J.B. (with Jesse McReynolds & Larry Sledge)
9. Will You Be Loving Another Man
10. Soldier’s Joy
11. White House Blues
12. Little Joe
13. Old Ebenezer Scrooge
14. Precious Memories
15. Grassy Fiddle Blues
16. Shuckin’ the Corn
17. Shenandoah Breakdown
1. (Talking)
2. Salty Dog Blues
3. Thinking About You
4. Billy in the Lowground
5. Toy Heart
6. Get Above Your Raisin’
7. Gone Home
8. You Can’t Judge a Book By Its Cover
9. Little Joe
10. They’ll Never Take Her Love From Me
11. It Rains the Same in Missouri
12. The Lonesome River
13. Happy on My Way
14. Yellow River
15. Your Love is Like a Flower
16. Put a Rainbow in the Clouds for Me
17. Train 45 (x)
Notes:
Side A (Disc One): Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
Side B (Disc Two): The Goins Brothers (1-7) Mac Wiseman (8-11), Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver (12-17)
Anonymous Collection Cassette #327 features recordings made at Bill Monroe’s Bean Blossom Festival, Bean Blossom, IN, June 18-20, 1981. Side A features Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys (in all likelihood, Wayne Lewis-guitar, Kenny Baker-fiddle, Butch Robins-banjo, & Mark Hembree-bass, although there are edits between tracks making it difficult to identify band members). Several guests appear, including mandolinists Jesse McReynolds (of Jim & Jesse fame) and Larry Sledge (who played and recorded with many people, including Monroe and Norman Blake’s Rising Fawn String Ensemble). Circulating recordings of Monroe in 1981 are relatively scarce. Monroe was diagnosed with cancer that year, and spent time away from the stage recovering from his treatment; thus, this tape should be quite appealing to Monroe collectors. For me, the most interesting tunes in the set are several relatively new-for-the-time instrumentals Come Hither To Go Yonder, The Road to Columbus, Melissa’s Waltz for J.B., Old Ebenezer Scrooge, Grassy Fiddle Blues (a fine Kenny Baker showpiece), and the mysterious first track. Side B of the tape features several partial sets by the tradition-minded Goins Brothers (Melvin Goins-guitar, Ray Goins-banjo, Art Stamper-fiddle, & Dan Jones-bass), Mac Wiseman (The Voice With a Heart, backed by an unknown band and singing a number of tunes seldom heard on other circulating tapes of this marvelous performer), and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver (Doyle Lawson -mandolin, Terry Baucom-banjo, Lou Reid-bass, & Jimmy Haley-guitar) with their always stellar vocal harmonies and instrumental work. –Mitchell Wittenberg
