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Country Bluegrass

Various Artists

Compilation · 1996 · MCA MCAC 20976

Country Bluegrass is an eight-track cassette of Osborne Brothers recordings, issued by MCA Special Products on 5 November 1996 (MCAC-20976). The tracks were cut between 1965 and 1974, after Bobby and Sonny Osborne signed with Decca in 1963 and into their years on MCA. Seven were recorded at Bradley’s Barn in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee; “Up This Hill and Down” was recorded on 7 October 1965 at the Columbia studio in Nashville.

The set includes “Rocky Top,” recorded on 16 November 1967; “Roll Muddy River” (March 1967); the Cousin Emmy song “Ruby, Are You Mad at Your Man” (1969); Paul Craft’s “Blue Heartache” (May 1972); and the Bryants’ “Lizzie Lou” (December 1972). Sonny plays banjo and Bobby mandolin on every track, with Nashville studio players around them: Ray Edenton on guitar and Hargus “Pig” Robbins on piano throughout, plus drums and, on the later tracks, steel guitar. The third voice in the vocal trio changed over the years: Dale Sledd on “Up This Hill and Down” (1965), “Rocky Top” (1967), “Ruby” (1969) and a 1974 session; Benny Birchfield in 1966 and early 1967; and Ronnie Reno on both 1972 tracks.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Roll Muddy River alt version 2:29
  2. 2 Ruby, Are You Mad At Your Man? - Edit 3:02
  3. 3 The Kind Of Woman I Got 2:27
  4. 4 Blue Heartache 2:08
  5. 5 Don’t Let Smokey Mountain Smoke Get in Your Eyes alt version 2:14
  6. 6 Rocky Top alt version 2:40
  7. 7 Lizzie Lou 2:40
  8. 8 Up This Hill and Down Source Recording Darrell Statler · key C · 99 bpm 2:23
  9. 9 Georgia Pineywoods 2:11
  10. 10 My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine And Dandelion Wine) 2:27

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