Jim and Jesse (Double J DJ 1003) is a studio album from Jim and Jesse McReynolds, the Coeburn, Virginia brothers whose split-string mandolin technique and tight sibling harmony defined one of the most influential approaches to ensemble bluegrass since their earliest professional recordings, presented here on the brothers' own Double J label. Jim McReynolds plays guitar and sings lead; Jesse McReynolds plays mandolin and sings tenor; Allen Shelton plays banjo; Carl Jackson plays guitar; and Junior Huskey holds the bass. Double J allowed the brothers to record and release material outside the Epic Records contract that had given them their widest commercial reach, preserving the ensemble in a format controlled by the principals and free from the production compromises that label recording sometimes required.
Tracklist
- 1 East Bound Freight Train alt version 2:40
- 2 Dreaming of a little cabin
- 3 Give me your love and I'll give you mine
- 4 Worried Man Blues alt version
- 5 Faded love and winter roses
- 6 Jimmie Brown the Newsboy alt version 3:20
- 7 The end of memory lane
- 8 No letter in the mail today
- 9 Keep on the sunny side of life
- 10 I'll be an angel too
- 11 My time is running out
- 12 Long Journey Home alt version 3:04
