Bluegrass Taylor-Made (Capitol Records T 2090) is a studio album from Earl Taylor and His Stony Mountain Boys, the Kentucky-born mandolinist whose connection to the foundational bluegrass tradition — and his role in introducing the music to the urban folk revival audience through Mike Seeger's 1959 Folkways album and liner notes — gave him one of the genre's most historically significant recording identities. Taylor plays mandolin and sings; Benny Martin plays fiddle; Frankie Short plays guitar and sings; and Vernon McIntyre holds the bass. Martin's fiddle — among the most technically distinctive in the genre, with the rhythmic intensity and melodic boldness he had developed through his years with Flatt & Scruggs — gives the Capitol recording the instrumental authority that suited Taylor's driving mandolin approach and the hard-core traditional bluegrass that the album presented to Capitol's commercial country audience.
Tracklist
- 1 We live in two different worlds 2:11
- 2 Cabin home on the hill 2:25
- 3 Earl’s Breakdown alt version 2:59
- 4 I’ve Lived A Lot in My Time alt version 2:13
- 5 Foggy Mountain Chimes alt version 2:52
- 6 Little Maggie alt version 2:44
- 7 Bury Me Beneath the Willow alt version 2:43
- 8 Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong alt version 3:33
- 9 Shuckin’ the Corn alt version 2:07
- 10 Uncle Pen alt version 2:43
- 11 Pan handle country 1:58
- 12 Jesse James alt version 2:39