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Early 50’s Radio Broadcasts: Kings of Bluegrass, Vol. 2

Flatt & Scruggs

Album · 1975 · Kings of Bluegrass LPS 651

Early ’50s Radio Broadcasts: Kings of Bluegrass, Vol. 2 is a 1975 LP on the Kings of Bluegrass label (LPS 651) with seventeen radio performances by Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. Every track is credited to the same four players: Flatt on guitar, Scruggs on banjo, Curly Seckler on mandolin and Paul Warren on fiddle. Seckler joined the Foggy Mountain Boys in 1949 and Warren in 1954.

Four tracks are instrumentals: “Leather Britches,” “Rueben,” “Earl’s Breakdown” and “Billy in the Low Ground.” The vocal numbers include “Will You Be Loving Another Man?,” “Salty Dog Blues,” “Blue Ridge Cabin Home,” “Somebody Else Will,” “I’m Getting Ready to Go,” “I’m Waiting to Hear You Call Me Darling” and “Love and Wealth.”

Tracklist

  1. 1 John Henry alt version 3:12
  2. 2 Flint Hill Special alt version 2:45
  3. 3 Girl In The Blue Velvet Band 2:58
  4. 4 Love and Wealth alt version 3:04
  5. 5 Earl’s Breakdown alt version 2:59
  6. 6 Gathering Flowers From The Hillside alt version 2:42
  7. 7 Prisoner’s Song alt version 2:43
  8. 8 Cumberland Gap alt version 3:06
  9. 9 Salty Dog Blues 2:14
  10. 10 Before I Met You alt version 2:27
  11. 11 Cabin in the Hills alt version 2:29
  12. 12 Jimmie Brown the Newsboy alt version 3:20
  13. 13 Orange Blossom Special alt version 2:56
  14. 14 Will You Be Lonesome Too alt version 2:58
  15. 15 Foggy Mountain Chimes alt version 2:52
  16. 16 Wabash Cannonball alt version 2:36
  17. 17 When The Saints Go Marching In 2:12
  18. 18 Ballad Of Jed Clampett (Theme From The Beverly Hillbillies) 2:23

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