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Lester Flatt’s Bluegrass Festival

Various Artists

Album · 1977 · CMH CMH 9009

Lester Flatt’s Bluegrass Festival is a two-record live set issued by CMH (CMH 9009) in 1977. It was recorded in June 1977 at Flatt’s own festival, held at the foot of Pilot Mountain near Pinnacle, North Carolina. Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass play most of the program. The lineup the Bluegrass Discography lists is Flatt on guitar, Kenny Ingram on banjo, Clarence “Tater” Tate on fiddle, J. R. “Curly” Seckler on guitar, Marty Stuart on mandolin, Charlie Nixon on resonator guitar and Jarvis “Pete” Corum on bass.

Two other acts take turns. The Pinnacle Boys, with Bud Brewster on guitar, Larry Mathis on banjo, Rob Mashburn on bass, Randall Collins and Jerry Moore on fiddles and Jim Smith on mandolin, have their own set of songs, and the Lewis Family appears with Little Roy Lewis on banjo, Wallace Lewis on guitar and Travis Lewis on bass, plus vocals from Polly, Miggie and Janis Lewis. The Nashville Grass numbers include “Why Did You Wander,” “Columbus Stockade,” “Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms,” “Hot Corn, Cold Corn” and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” and Earl Scruggs’s “Randy Lynn Rag” is played as an instrumental. Flatt had formed the Nashville Grass after he and Scruggs parted in 1969; he died on 11 May 1979.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Why Did You Wander alt version 2:43
  2. 2 Columbus Stockade alt version 3:19
  3. 3 Down the Road alt version 2:40
  4. 4 Jimmie Brown the Newsboy alt version 3:20
  5. 5 Before I Met You alt version 2:27
  6. 6 Backin' to Birmingham 3:25
  7. 7 Martha White theme 1:00
  8. 8 Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms alt version 2:37
  9. 9 She’s My Little Georgia Rose alt version 2:11
  10. 10 Tennessee mountain home 3:20
  11. 11 Panhandle country
  12. 12 When I stop dreaming 1:54
  13. 13 Georgia cotton 2:28
  14. 14 The ugly girl 3:25
  15. 15 I Don’t Love Nobody alt version 2:11
  16. 16 I Know What it Means to Be Lonesome alt version 2:16
  17. 17 We’ll Meet Again Sweetheart alt version 2:41
  18. 18 Joshua 1:40
  19. 19 Little Lewis' Wildwood flower 1:20
  20. 20 Dim Lights, Thick Smoke alt version 3:06
  21. 21 Goin' up Cripple Creek 2:25
  22. 22 Till the End of the World Rolls Round alt version 2:33
  23. 23 Randy Lynn Rag alt version 2:03
  24. 24 Hot Corn Cold Corn alt version 2:35
  25. 25 Get in Line Brother alt version 2:15
  26. 26 Will the Circle be Unbroken alt version 3:22

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