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Collector’s Special

Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals

Album · 1976 · Grassound GR 102

Collector’s Special was issued by Grassound in 1976, but its twelve tracks were recorded years earlier, on 9 August 1971 in Nashville. Del McCoury sings lead and plays guitar, with John Farmer on banjo, Dick Staber on mandolin, Buddy Spicher and Jimmy Buchanan on fiddles and Dewey Renfro on bass.

McCoury had joined Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in 1963 as a banjo player, and Monroe moved him to guitar and lead vocals. He went back to Pennsylvania in the mid-1960s, worked in logging, and formed the Dixie Pals, the band under whose name the album was credited. The program includes the instrumentals “Cluck Old Hen” and “Golden Slippers” alongside vocal numbers such as “Lonesome Hobo,” “The Bluest Man in Town,” “How Long Blues,” “Don’t Let Your Sweet Love Die” and “I Still Write Your Name in the Sand.”

Tracklist

  1. 1 Lonesome hobo 1:53
  2. 2 Don't stop the music 2:20
  3. 3 Farmer John 2:02
  4. 4 How long blues 2:15
  5. 5 The bluest man in town 3:25
  6. 6 Cluck Old Hen alt version 2:34
  7. 7 Livin' on the mountain 1:54
  8. 8 I Hope You’ve Learned alt version 3:00
  9. 9 Don’t Let Your Sweet Love Die alt version 2:04
  10. 10 I Still Write Your Name in the Sand alt version 2:25
  11. 11 Golden Slippers alt version 2:44
  12. 12 Mothers prayer 3:12

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