anon-C202 – Country Gazette 8/1978 Lewiston, NY
Anonymous Collection Cassette #202
Country Gazette
Artpark, Lewiston, NY
August 1978
Side A:
1. Instrumental (?) (x)
2. Down, Down, Down
3. Medley: Love Please Come Home >
4. Nine Pound Hammer>
5. Shackles and Chains>
6. Down the Road>
7. Sitting on Top of the World
8. Never Ending Song of Love
9. Instrumental (?)
10. The Tracker
11. Well You Needn’t
12. Broken Wing
13. Another Rain Song
14. Dear Old Dixie (x)
Side B:
1. Dear Old Dixie
2. Instrumental (?)
3. Love Over Lonesome
4. Summertime
5. I’m Your Toy (Hot Burrito #1)
6. Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
7. Instrumental (?)
8. Eleanor Rigby
9. Foggy Mountain Breakdown
10. Devil in Disguise (Christine’s Tune)
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Anonymous Collection 1 Tape #202 Listed as “Country Gazette, 1978-Aug-xx, Art Park,New York”
Transfer by Keith Kreider 10/22/2006
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Anonymous Collection Cassette #202 features an interesting incarnation of the Country Gazette performing in August 1978 at Artpark in Lewiston, NY. The band, at this point in their career, included Roland White (mandolin), Alan Munde (banjo), Joe Carr (guitar), & Mike Anderson (bass). While the songs are faded between tracks on this tape, making identification of other band members difficult, I believe that the Gazette’s sound is filled out for this show by Slim Richey (jazz guitar), Tommy Spurlock (pedal steel), and Michael J. Dohoney (drums); the Gazette recorded an LP in 1978, “All This and Money Too!” (Ridge Runner 0017) that included these sidemen. Richey’s influence really helps take the band into “jazzgrass” turf–they even perform Thelonious Monk’s “Well You Needn’t”! Yet the Gazette still has one foot firmly planted in the bluegrass–their vocal harmonies sure pay homage to the Osborne Brothers. –Mitchell Wittenberg
