Live and Let Live (Folkways FTS 31065, 1979) finds Red Allen leading a later edition of the Kentuckians centered on family: his son Greg Allen sings baritone and plays guitar, making father-son harmonies a featured element throughout. Buddy Griffin plays fiddle and Dorsey Harvey plays mandolin. Recorded at Jack Casey Studios in Columbus, Ohio, in spring 1978, the album documents Allen's ability to sustain a working bluegrass band outside Nashville and the D.C. hub, drawing on the Ohio bluegrass community. Allen's voice — warm but edged with road-worn authority — remains the anchor, and the record demonstrates the durability of his distinctive blend of Kentucky hard-country feeling and sophisticated vocal arranging across more than two decades as an independent bandleader.
Tracklist
- 1 Doing My Time - Live 5:40
- 2 It's Only the Wind - Live 2:59
- 3 Are You Teasing Me? - Live 2:31
- 4 Angel Band - Live 4:08
- 5 Troubles around My Door - Live 1:49
- 6 Billy in the Lowground - Live 2:47
- 7 Live and Let Live - Live 2:46
- 8 B.J. and D.J. - Live 3:44
- 9 I'm Confessing - Live 2:27
- 10 The Christian Life - Live 2:50
- 11 Home Sweet Home - Live 2:48
- 12 I Don't Love Nobody - Live 3:04
- 13 Live and Let Live alt version