The Osborne Brothers' self-titled 1971 Decca release comes from the band's commercial peak — the post-Rocky Top stretch when the Nashville production they had been building toward had translated into country-radio traction. Bobby Osborne's high lead and Sonny's banjo continue at the front, but the arrangements lean into the polished session work — steel guitar, drums, occasional electric instruments — that purists would deride and the country market embraced. The repertoire mixes mainstream country material with reworked bluegrass standards, all framed by the brothers' signature high-trio harmony. It belongs to the run of late-Decca Osborne albums that defined the band as the most commercially successful bluegrass act of the era.
Tracklist
- 1 I Can Hear Kentucky Calling Me 2:28
- 2 You Are My Flower alt version 3:09
- 3 Dusty Miller alt version 3:19
- 4 Each Season Changes You 2:10
- 5 Fourteen Carat Mind 2:22
- 6 Where Did The Sunshine Go? 3:15
- 7 Cherokee Lady 2:36
- 8 Kentucky Waltz alt version 3:15
- 9 Last Letter 4:28
- 10 Bluegrass Concerto 4:29
- 11 Fair and Tender Ladies alt version 2:54
- 12 Georgia Piney Woods Source Recording 2:05
- 13 I've Always Wanted To Sing In Renfro Valley 3:19
- 14 Jesse James alt version 2:39
- 15 We Could 2:49
- 16 Some Old Day alt version 2:31
- 17 Sure-Fire 2:11
- 18 Paper Rosie 4:21
- 19 Take Me As I Am - Or Let Me Go 3:03
- 20 Rutland's Reel 2:06
- 21 Midnight Flyer alt version 2:00
- 22 Tennessee Stud alt version