The Bluegrass Touch (Vetco Records LP 3017, 1973) is a studio album from Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys, recorded February 27, 1969, at Lange's Recording Studio in Azusa, California, and released four years later on the Ohio-based Vetco label. Taylor plays mandolin and sings; Sandy Rothman plays banjo; Jack Carter plays fiddle; Charlie Hoskins plays guitar; and Vernon "Boatwhistle" McIntyre holds the string bass. Taylor, a Maryland-born mandolinist who led the Stoney Mountain Boys to a major-label deal at United Artists in the early 1960s, brought the ensemble's traditional approach to this California session, with Rothman — later associated with Jerry Garcia and the Bay Area acoustic scene — in the banjo chair. The album was reissued on Crosscut Records and reviewed in Bluegrass Unlimited in March 1974.
Tracklist
- 1 Rubber dolly
- 2 Beautiful Brown Eyes alt version 1:57
- 3 Ho honey ho
- 4 I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes alt version 3
- 5 Molly and Tenbrooks alt version 3:07
- 6 Plant some flowers
- 7 Poor Ellen Smith alt version 2:16
- 8 Fox chase
- 9 Katy Hill alt version 2:41
- 10 Six Months Ain’t Long alt version
- 11 Knoxville Girl alt version 3:48
- 12 Katy Kline
- 13 Cotton Eyed Joe alt version 2:32
- 14 Rosewood casket
- 15 Love Oh Careless Love alt version 3:29
- 16 Prisoner’s Song alt version 2:43
