Reunion, released in 1994, is a project from Bill Emerson, the Washington DC-area banjo player who was among the most technically accomplished and stylistically versatile instrumentalists of his generation. Emerson had recorded and performed with the Country Gentlemen in their formative years and with numerous other groups, accumulating a reputation as a musician's musician whose playing was always in service of the ensemble rather than self-display. A reunion project at this stage implied a gathering of collaborators from across that long history, a revisiting of repertoire and relationships that had shaped the Potomac Valley scene.
Tracklist
- 1 We’ll Meet Again Sweetheart alt version 3:17
- 2 The Gunfighter's Lament 4:14
- 3 My Smoky Mountain Home 2:35
- 4 On Whiskey Mountain 2:23
- 5 The Last Song 2:47
- 6 Don't Wake Me 2:29
- 7 Teach Your Children alt version 2:26
- 8 It Takes One to Know One alt version 4:18
- 9 When We Look on His Face 2:19
- 10 High Lonesome 3:38
- 11 I Don't Know Why 2:38
- 12 Old Salty Dog Blues alt version 2:28
- 13 The Old Home alt version Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys