Jimmy Gregg

Here are a few really nice sides by Jimmy Gregg. I don't really know anything about these recordings other than the obvious. It's just really nice old time 2-finger banjo picking and singing backed by piano. I assume that Jimmy Gregg is from east Tennessee since this record is on the Kingsport label. Maybe someone out there will know something about Mr. Gregg.

Special thanks to Tom for these recordings.

When the Roses Bloom Again

Sadie

Yesterday's Rainbow

You'll Never Know I Cried

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Greatest Old Time Gospel Hymns LP

Here's a really great album featuring the A.L. Phipps family and other artists. The Phipps family plays in a very similar style to the Original Carter Family, but the neat thing is that they perform a lot of different songs than the Carters did, so it's nice to hear these other songs in the style of the Original Carters. This album also features the Alton Delmore's Brown's Ferry Four, Carl Story, and the Original Carter Family.


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Alton Delmore's Brown's Ferry Four - mid 1950s

Peaceful Home

Gonna Row My Boat

The Devil Is Mounted

Gonna Fly Away With Christ

Phipps Family

Life's Evening Sun Is Sinking Low

Never Alone

Carl Story & his Rambling Mountaineers

Light at the River

Mighty Close to Heaven

The Carter Family - cuts from radio transcriptions

Death is Only a Dream

Farther On

Phipps Family

When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder

Shall We Gather At the River

Leaning On the Everlasting Arms

There's a Fountain Filled With Blood

Oh What Is We Fail To Get There

There a Deep Settled Peace in my Soul

I Won't Turn Back

Oh Why Not Tonight

There is Power in the Blood

Lily of the Valley

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The Home Folks - Last Chance LP

Here's a nice album by the Home Folks. This band was a regular at the Carter Family Fold's weekend dances in the 1970s and 1980s in Hiltons, VA. I hope y'all will enjoy this album!

Beachard Smith - fiddle and vocal

Will Keys - banjo

Paul Davis - lead guitar

Tom Bledsoe - rhythm guitar

Step Light Ladies

Eighth of January

Don't Let Your Deal Go Down

Cumberland Gap

Poor Ellen Smith

Moccasin Gap

Sally Anne

Train 45

Old Hen Cackled

Silver Bells

Sharecropper's Son

Rocky Road Blues

Black Dog

Sycamore Shoals

John Henry

Last Chance

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Wade Mainer - First Time in Stereo LP

Here's a Wade Mainer album that you don't see very often. I will assume that it was probably Wade's first album for Old Homestead. This album was recorded in November 1971. Interestingly, it is titled "First Time in Stereo," however that is not accurate because Wade and Julia Mainer's last session for King in 1961 that featured Red Wilson on fiddle was recorded in stereo, and it is one of Wade's best sessions in my opinion. It may be that the 1961 King session was never issued in stereo by 1971, but it was definetely recorded in stereo. This session is available on 2 cd set, Wade Mainer: I'm Not Looking Backward.

Mama You're Awful Mean to Me

Rubber Dolly

Little Pal

Dream of a Miner's Child

Worried Man Blues

Sally Goodwin

I'll Be a Friend to Jesus

Speckled Top Shoes

Lonesome Road Blues

Sparkling Blue Eyes

This World Is Not My Home

Wild Bill Jones

Sourwood Mountain

Clear Title To a Mansion

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Buddy Rose - Down Home Pickin

Here's a really great bluegrass banjo album by a really great not-so-well-known banjo picker, Buddy Rose. To my knowledge, Rose played with Carl Sauceman and Carl Story at the time this album was recorded. I don't have any personnel for this album at all. If anyone knows anything about it, please let me know. It was likely recorded in Salem, VA, because it is on the Dominion label which was Jack Mullins' label and they were based in Salem.

Bud's Tune

Florida Blues

Nashville Skyline Rag

Swanee River

Sally Goodwin

Flint Hill Special

Bud's Chimes

Sally Ann

Rueben

Careless Love

Fireball Mail

Farewell Blues

Foggy Mountain Breakdown

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The Country Gentlemen - Live 1961

Here is a live show of the Country Gentlemen at the Shamrock Room in the West End Shopping Center in Falls Church, VA on December 1, 1961. The interesting thing about this show is that the banjo player is Walter Hensley, not Eddie Adcock. I hope all you Gentlemen fans will enjoy this show. I'm sorry to say that most of the stage talk was not recorded, just the music.

Charlie Waller - guitar

John Duffey - mandolin

Walter Hensley - banjo

Tom Grey - bass

Miller's Cave

Foggy Mountain Chimes

Sunny Side of Life

Love Letters in the Sand

Weeping Willow

Two Lonely Hearts

Roanoke

Long Black Veil

That Was Before I Met You

Laura Lie

Jimmy Brown the Newsboy

Wildwood Flower

Nine Pound Hammer

Little Bessie

Aching Heart

Kentucky

Little Maggie

Save it, Save it

Daddy Don't Go to the Mine

Blue Moon of Kentucky

Panhandle Country

Could You Love Me One More Time

Two Little Boys

Theme

That's When I Miss You Most

New Freedom Bell

Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky

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Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mtn Boys 1967

Here's one of Ralph Stanley's first LP after the death of his brother Carter.

Ralph Stanley - banjo, fingerpicked mandolin

Larry Sparks - lead guitar

Curly Ray Cline - fiddle

Curley Lambert - mando

Melvin Goins - rhythm guitar

Jack Lynch - bass

Knoxville Girl

John Henry

Poor Ellen Smith

East Virginia Blues

Long Journey Home

Going Around this World

Chicken Reel

Mississippi Sawyer

Bonnie and Clyde Hop

Cacklin Hen

Going Down Town

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