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Live and Let Live (Folkways FTS 31065) was issued in 1979 under the name Red Allen & the Kentuckians. Allen produced it himself and recorded it in spring 1978 at Jack Casey Studio in Columbus, Ohio.

Allen plays guitar. His son Greg Allen plays banjo and sings harmony, and Harley Allen Jr. plays guitar on some tracks. Dorsey Harvey and Jerry Butler share the mandolin chair, Buddy Griffin plays fiddle, and Danny Milhoun and Ron Messing play Dobro. The bass is played by Red Hartley on some tracks and Larry Nager on others. Butler also sings: he takes the tenor part on “It’s Only the Wind” and the lead on “I Don’t Love Nobody.”

The twelve tracks include two Louvin Brothers songs, “Are You Teasing Me?” and “The Christian Life,” the title song (credited to G. Sullivan and W. Walker), Allen’s own “Troubles ’Round My Door” and two instrumentals, “Billy in the Lowground” and “Home Sweet Home.” “Troubles ’Round My Door” was recorded again for the 1981 album Family and Friends.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Doing My Time - Live 5:40
  2. 2 It's Only the Wind - Live 2:59
  3. 3 Are You Teasing Me? - Live 2:31
  4. 4 Angel Band alt version 2:15
  5. 5 Troubles around My Door - Live 1:49
  6. 6 Billy in the Lowground - Live 2:47
  7. 7 Live and Let Live alt version 2:46
  8. 8 B.J. and D.J. - Live 3:44
  9. 9 I'm Confessing - Live 2:27
  10. 10 The Christian Life - Live 2:50
  11. 11 Home Sweet Home alt version 3:30
  12. 12 I Don’t Love Nobody alt version 2:11

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