Festival Favorites Revisited gathers Alan Munde, the banjoist whose long tenure with Country Gazette helped define progressive bluegrass through the 1970s and 1980s, around a survey of the standards that traveled the festival circuit during his most active years. Munde's approach — melodic, rhythmically supple, drawn equally from the Scruggs lineage and the melodic-style innovations of Bill Keith and Bobby Thompson — anchors arrangements that lean on a small supporting cast of veteran sidemen. The repertoire moves through the bluegrass tunes that became festival fixtures across the decades when Munde was performing them in front of those audiences, the material reframed through the eye of a musician who had played most of them hundreds of times. Released on the Rounder-adjacent specialist labels that supported this kind of catalog work in the early 1990s, the album functions as both performance document and oral-tradition record-keeping.
Tracklist
- 1 Hot Burrito Breakdown 2:14
- 2 Molly Bloom Source Recording 3:13
- 3 Clinch Mountain Backstep alt version 3:27
- 4 Doug's Tune 2:03
- 5 Shenandoah Breakdown alt version 3:13
- 6 Santa Claus 2:21
- 7 Buffalo Gals alt version 3:16
- 8 Liberty alt version 4:12
- 9 John Hardy alt version 3:29
- 10 Salt Creek alt version 3:49
- 11 Sally Goodin alt version 3:19
- 12 The Girl I Left Behind 2:28
- 13 Bill Cheatem 2:33
- 14 Cripple Creek alt version 2:18
- 15 Devil’s Dream Source Recording 2:36
- 16 Little Rock Getaway Source Recording 2:46
- 17 Dusty Miller alt version 3:19
- 18 No Title Yet Blues 3:40
- 19 Earl’s Breakdown alt version 2:59
- 20 Billy Boy 2:17