anon-C379 Carlton Haney’s Second Bluegrass Festival Cantrell’s Horse Farm, Fincastle, VA September 2, 1966
Buck White & The Down Home Folks, Don Reno, Red Smiley, & The Shenandoah Cut-Ups, Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys (special guest: Kenny Baker), Jim & Jesse and The Virginia Boys
Carlton Haney’s Second Bluegrass Festival
Cantrell’s Horse Farm, Fincastle, VA September 2, 1966
Anonymous Collection Cassette #379
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Side A, Buck White & The Down Home Folks:
1. (Carlton Haney Introduction)
2. Jesse James
3. Bill Cheatum
4. John Henry
5. Working on a Building
6. Blue Letters
Reno & Smiley and the Shenandoah Cut-Ups:
7. (Reno & Smiley Reunion Introduction)
8. Are You Waiting Just for Me
9. Won’t You Kiss Me One More Time
10. I’m Blue, I’m Lonesome
11. He Will Set Your Fields on Fire
12. I Know You’re Married (But I Love You Still)
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys:
13. Uncle Pen
14. Can’t You Hear Me Calling
15. Big Sandy River (enter Kenny Baker)
16. Roanoke
17. Careless Love
18. The Grey Eagle
19. My Little Georgia Rose
Side B, Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys (continued):
1. Lighthouse (Shine on Me)
2. Paddy on the Turnpike
3. True Life Blues
4. Used to Be
5. Sitting on Top of the World
6. Little Joe
Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys:
7. Fire on the Mountain
8. Ole Slew Foot
9. I’m Going Back to Alabama
10. Sugar Foot Rag
11. I Wish You Knew
12. Swinging Doors
13. Fiddle Tune (?)
14. Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes
15. It’s a Long, Long Way to the Top of the World
16. Border Ride
17. Don’t Let Nobody Tie You Down (x)
Notes:
Anonymous Collection Cassette #379 is simply put, one fine bluegrass tape. Classic! This cassette takes the bluegrass time traveler back to Carlton Haney’s Second Annual Bluegrass Festival at Cantrell’s Horse Farm, Fincastle, VA on 9/2/66. Leading things off on Side A is a short but well-received set by Buck White & The Down Home Folks (Buck White and his wife, Pat, along with Arnold and Peggy Johnston), who at the time of this performance had yet to release a commercial recording; Buck later went on to greater fame in country music circles when the group added his daughters Sharon and Cheryl, and they changed their name to The Whites in 1979. Next up is a Reno & Smiley reunion performance with Don Reno, Red Smiley, Ronnie Reno, and members of the Shenandoah Cut-Ups(Clarence ‘Tater’ Tate-fiddle, Billy Edwards-banjo, and John Palmer-bass. Straddling Sides A and B is a marvelous set by Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys (Peter Rowan-guitar, Lamar Grier-banjo, Richard Greene-fiddle, & James Monroe-bass) who are joined for much of the set by famed fiddler and Blue Grass Boy, Kenny Baker, for some sweet twin-fiddling. Rounding out Side B is a wonderful performance by Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys (Jim McReynolds-guitar, Jesse McReynolds-mandolin, Bobby Thompson-banjo, Jim Buchanan fiddle, & Dickie Mauldin-bass); Thompson and Buchanan were featured on many of Jim & Jesse’s classic recordings, and it is a special treat to hear Thompson burning up the frets on ‘Sugar Foot Rag’; banjo picking doesn’t get much better. –Mitchell Wittenberg
