Anonymous Collection 1 Cassette #132

Lester Flatt & The Nashville Grass + James Monroe & The Midnight Ramblers

Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival Bean Blossom, IN

6/1/1978



Source: Transfer by Keith Kreider 6/24/2006 Scotch C-45:Nakamichi ZX7>M-Audio Firewire 410>Wavelab 5.01b



Side A: Lester Flatt & The Nashville Grass (end of set; continued from C131):

1. (x) Great Big Woman (and Little Bitty Bottle of Wine)

2. Moonlight On My Cabin...(talking)

3. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke

4. Black Mountain Blues (Rag)

5. Soldier's Joy

6. (Emcee Announcements)



Side B: James Monroe & The Midnight Ramblers (first portion of set):

1. (Emcee Announcements)

2. (Introduction)

3. Bringing in the Georgia Mail

4. (Band Intros)

5. Smoky Mountain Memories

6. Panhandle Country

7. Little Maggie

8. Love, Please Come Home

9. Blue Grass Stomp

10. Bonnie (x)



Anonymous Collection 1 Cassette #132 picks up where Cassette #131 leaves off, with the tail end of the Bean 

Blossom Bluegrass Festival, Bean Blossom, IN, June 1978 set by Lester Flatt & The Nashville Grass (Lester 

Flatt-guitar, Charlie Nixon-Dobro, Marty Stuart-mandolin, guitar, Blake Williams-banjo, Clarence "Tater" 

Tate-fiddle, Curly Seckler-guitar, & Pete Corum-bass).  The first portion of an early set by James Monroe & The 

Midnight Ramblers (James Monroe-guitar, Alan O'Byrant-banjo, James Bryan-fiddle, Larry Sledge-mandolin, & David 

Bowlin-bass) follows; O'Bryant would later help establish the famed Nashville Bluegrass Band, while Bryan and 

Sledge performed with Norman Blake's Rising Fawn String Ensemble in the early-1980's.



--Mitchell Wittenberg