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Take a Step Over

Dan Crary

Album · 1989 · Sugar Hill SH 3770

Take a Step Over was released on Sugar Hill in 1989 (SH 3770, LP; also on CD) and produced by Dan Crary and Jim Emrich. Crary, born in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1939, was a co-founder of the Bluegrass Alliance in Louisville in 1968, and his 1970 album Bluegrass Guitar was one of the first bluegrass albums built around the acoustic guitar. By the time of this record he had also recorded and toured since the late 1970s as part of Berline, Crary and Hickman, with fiddler Byron Berline and banjoist John Hickman, who play on several of its tracks.

The nine tracks are a mix of guitar features and songs. Crary plays with Berline and Hickman on “Bugle Call Rag”; the title song, which he wrote, is a vocal with Herb Pedersen, with Berline, Hickman and bassist Jerry Scheff. Béla Fleck on banjo, Sam Bush on mandolin and fiddle and John Cowan on bass join him on Bill Monroe’s “Come Hither,” “Hot Canary” and the “Great Tunes/Dumb Names” medley, and the “Traditional Suite in E” medley is Crary on guitar alone. Crary and Pedersen sing “Raleigh and Spencer” and “Willie, the Wandering Gypsy,” with Tom Sauber on banjo for the first of these, and Skip Conover adds dobro and a vocal part to the closing “Lord Build Me a Cabin.”

Tracklist

  1. 1 Bugle Call Rag alt version 2:45
  2. 2 Take A Step Over 2:38
  3. 3 Crazy Creek alt version 2:57
  4. 4 Raleigh and Spencer alt version 4:14
  5. 5 Come Hither Go Yonder Source Recording Bill Monroe · key A · 137.81 bpm 3:19
  6. 6 Willie, The Wandering Gypsy & Me 4:11
  7. 7 Hot Canary 3:34
  8. 8 Fishin' Creek Blues 5:02
  9. 9 Lord Build Me a Cabin alt version 3:51

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