The Final Chapter, released in 1986, is a posthumous Don Reno album — Reno had died in October 1984, and the album represents one of the late projects assembled from his last working sessions with the Tennessee Cut-Ups. Reno had been one of the founding banjo voices of bluegrass, his three-finger style developing independently of Earl Scruggs's in the late 1940s; his single-string innovations let him play melodic and fiddle-tune material note for note on the banjo, an approach that influenced generations of players. The album sits as a closing document of a career that had stretched from his early-1950s King Records work with Red Smiley through the Reno-Harrell partnership and into his final solo years.
Tracklist
- 1 Drifting With the Tide alt version 2:37
- 2 Whispering
- 3 Tennessee ride
- 4 Limehouse Blues alt version 1:20
- 5 I Wouldn’t Change You If I Could alt version 2:59
- 6 Charlotte breakdown
- 7 Emotions
- 8 The world is waiting for the sunrise
- 9 Don’t Cheat in Our Hometown alt version
- 10 Dueling banjos
- 11 I Know You’re Married alt version
- 12 I’m Blue I’m Lonesome alt version 2:50
