“Secret of the Waterfall” is a bluegrass story song recorded by the Country Gentlemen, the Washington, D.C., band, for their 1972 album “The Award Winning Country Gentlemen.”
The Country Gentlemen had a particular gift for narrative songs, and “Secret of the Waterfall” is a moody example — a tale of a dark secret bound up with a waterfall and a pair of lovers who vanished there, the kind of haunted, mysterious story the band liked to set against its bright instrumentation and crisp harmony.
The song was a well-received part of the band’s early-1970s repertoire and has been recorded by other bluegrass acts since. It remains a representative example of the literate, story-driven material that helped make the Country Gentlemen one of the most admired bands in bluegrass.
