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Keep On Going

Red Allen and Frank Wakefield

Album · 2004 · REB-CD-1127

Keep On Going: The Rebel & Melodeon Recordings (Rebel REB-CD-1127) was released on 18 May 2004. The 23 tracks gather Red Allen’s mid-1960s recordings from the Washington, D.C., area: the masters he made for Rebel, several of them previously unissued, and the songs from his 1965 Melodeon album The Solid Bluegrass Sounds of the Kentuckians.

The first six tracks pair Allen with the mandolinist Frank Wakefield. Four were cut in April 1963 at Wynwood Studio in Falls Church, Virginia, with Ralph “Robby” Robinson on banjo and Jim Cox on bass. “Little Birdie” and “Faded Memory” were recorded there on 2 October 1963 with Bill Emerson on banjo, Billy Baker on fiddle and Tom Morgan on bass.

Thirteen tracks come from a session at the same studio on 14 January 1965 by Allen and the Kentuckians: Wayne Yates on mandolin, Bill Yates (and on some tracks Pete Kuykendall) on bass, and Bill Emerson on banjo. Chubby Wise adds fiddle on “Hello City Limits.” Several of the songs are Kuykendall originals, among them “Journey’s End” and “No Blind Ones There.” The last four tracks, recorded in 1965 at Recordings, Inc. in Baltimore, feature Scotty Stoneman on fiddle and Porter Church on banjo, with Wayne and Bill Yates, and include Allen’s own “Keep on Going,” “Froggy Went a-Courtin’” and Bill Monroe’s “Close By.”

Tracklist

  1. 1 Don’t Lie to Me alt version 2:34
  2. 2 Lonesome weary heart 2:38
  3. 3 Sad & lonesome day 2:49
  4. 4 I don't believe you'd do me wrong 1:47
  5. 5 Little Birdie alt version 1:59
  6. 6 Faded memory 2:08
  7. 7 Froggy went a-courtin' 2:09
  8. 8 Sad and lonesome day 2:55
  9. 9 Journey's end 3:18
  10. 10 Those "gone & left me" blues 2:11
  11. 11 No blind ones there 2:56
  12. 12 The family who prays 2:58
  13. 13 If That’s the Way You Feel alt version 2:21
  14. 14 Worry my life away 2:09
  15. 15 Down Where the River Bends alt version 3:03
  16. 16 Hello City Limits alt version 2:39
  17. 17 Out on the Ocean alt version 2:54
  18. 18 I don't know why 1:58
  19. 19 Plant some flowers by my graveside 2:35
  20. 20 Close By alt version 2:32
  21. 21 Froggy went a-courtin' 1:59
  22. 22 Purple heart 3:18
  23. 23 Keep on going 2:30

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