Holiday in Japan (Towa TWA 106-S, 1976) is a live LP by J.D. Crowe and the New South, recorded at Kubo Hall in Tokyo on 30 August 1975. J.D. Crowe plays banjo, Tony Rice guitar, Ricky Skaggs mandolin and fiddle, Jerry Douglas Dobro and Bobby Slone bass and fiddle. The same five had recorded J.D. Crowe & the New South (Rounder 0044) at Track Recorders in Silver Spring, Maryland, in January 1975.
The LP has thirteen tracks. Rice sings lead, Skaggs tenor and Crowe baritone on “East Virginia Blues,” “You Don’t Know My Mind,” “I’m Walking,” “Take This Hammer” and “Born to Be with You”; Rice sings “Free Born Man” alone and Skaggs sings “Molly and Tenbrooks.” The instrumentals include Earl Scruggs’s “Flint Hill Special,” Bob Dylan’s “Nashville Skyline Rag,” “Bugle Call Rag,” Crowe’s “Train 45” and the fiddle tunes “Drag in the Bow” and “Fire on the Mountain.” On those last two the instruments change round: Skaggs plays guitar, Slone fiddle and Rice bass.
Tracklist
- 1 East Virginia Blues alt version 2:35
- 2 Bugle Call Rag alt version 2:45
- 3 Honey You Don’t Know My Mind alt version 3:39
- 4 Flint Hill Special alt version 2:45
- 5 Free Born Man alt version 5:48
- 6 Nashville Skyline Rag alt version 2:42
- 7 Molly and Tenbrooks alt version 3:07
- 8 I'm walking 2:59
- 9 Drag in the bow 1:58
- 10 Fire on the Mountain alt version 2:03
- 11 Take This Hammer alt version 4:30
- 12 Born to Be With You alt version 1:58
- 13 Reuben alt version 2:53
