I'm sorry I don't have a jacket scan of this album. I don't know much about it either except that he is being backed up by L.W. Lambert's band which would be L.W. on banjo and Ray Cline on guitar, but the rest are unknown to me. It's a good record though, so I hope you'll enjoy it.
Here's a link to some good info on Shumate: http://www.nativeground.com/jimshumate.asp
Katy Hill
Paddy on the Turnpike
Mean Old Ramblin Blues
Lost Train Blues
Bound for Sugar Hill
Going Back
Lost Indian
Lee Highway Blues
Smith's Breakdown
Billy in the Lowground
Red Apple Rag
Goin' to Town
Cincinnati Rag
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Great album. He played at times with both Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs. Thanks for the fine post.
ReplyDeleteLabel: Anvil
Release #: RSR 1152
Release Date: 1980
A small cover picture is here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/hillwilliam/BGdiscography/?keyword=Jim+Shumate&search=Search&stype=keyword&v=sresults
Great stuff ... thanks!
ReplyDeleteJim Shumate said during the Blue Grass Boys reunion at MerleFest in 2005 that he set up the audition for Earl Scruggs to replace Stringbean in the group. He told Bill Monroe that even though Scruggs' style wasn't anything like "String's," Scruggs could play a whole lotta banjo. Of course the pairing of Scruggs and Monroe had a lot to do with creating the "modern" bluegrass sound.
Someone else (Peter Rowan, I think) also mentioned that when Flatt & Scruggs broke off from Monroe and formed the Foggy Mountain Boys, they took Shumate with them as their first fiddler.
Shumate played the heck out of the fiddle during the set, which featured some heavyweight fiddlers -- Bobby Hicks and Richard Greene -- along with Scruggs, Del McCoury, Roland White and others.
A tape of that set is around if you can find it. Recommended!