Nobody’s Business

The Country Gentlemen recorded it on 13 May 1959 at Ben Adelman’s Empire Studio in Takoma Park, Maryland, with John Duffey singing lead and Pete Kuykendall singing tenor and playing banjo; the record is credited to Duffey and appeared on Starday’s Bluegrass at Carnegie Hall in 1962. The Stanley Brothers cut it in July 1959 at radio station WNER in Live Oak, Florida, with Carter Stanley singing lead, Ralph Stanley on banjo, Bill Napier on mandolin and Chubby Anthony on fiddle, and Blue Ridge issued it in 1962 as the flip side of “Meet Me Tonight.” Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys performed it on the Grand Ole Opry in 1959.

Don Reno and Bill Harrell recorded it in February 1967 for Rural Rhythm, and Larry Sparks recorded it on 16 March 1978 at Lemco Sound Studio in Lexington, Kentucky, for the Rebel album John Deere Tractor (1980), with Tommy Boyd on banjo, Kirk Brandenberger on fiddle and Mike Carter on bass.