Country Gentlemen, Osborne Brothers, Mac Wiseman, Shenandoah Cut-Ups, Lester Flatt & The Nashville Grass

Renfro Valley Bluegrass Festival

Renfro Valley, KY   

7/11/1971



Source: SPPS Anonymous Collection Cassette #303 - Maxell UL 120:Nakamichi ZX7>Nickspicks Silver Hydra's>Lunatec V3 @ 24/48>M-Audio Firewire 410 - Transfer by Keith Kreider 04/16/07



1. Green Green Grass of Home

2. Going Up Cripple Creek...

3. ...Going Up Cripple Creek

4. Fox on the Run

5. (Emcee Talk)...

6. Listening to the Rain

7. Nine Pound Hammer

8. My Favorite Memory/You Win Again

9. Georgia Piney Woods

10. Tennessee Hound Dog...(Band Intros)

11. Another Day, Another Dollar

12. Ribbon of Darkness

13. Black Mountain Rag

14. Never Grow Old (x)...(x) Never Grow Old

15. Cumberland Gap

16. Rocky Top

17. (Emcee Talk)

18. Wabash Cannonball

19. I Wonder How the Old Folks Are At Home

20. Me & Bobby McGee

21. All I Have to Offer You is Me

22. Liberty (x)



1. (Talking...Hal Smith Intro)

2. I'll Be All Smiles Tonight

3. Four Walls Around Me

4. I'll Still Write Your Name in the Sand

5. Jimmy Brown the Newsboy

6. Old Joe Clark

7. (Emcee Talk)

8. Durham's Reel

9. Will You Be Loving Another Man

10. The Maiden's Prayer

11. Await Me 'Til It's Over (?)

12. The Flatland Two-Step

13. Folsom Prison Blues

14. Shuckin' the Corn

15. Footprints in the Snow...(enter Howdy Forrester)

16. Brilliancy

17. Twin Fiddle Tune (?)

18. Katy Hill

19. Six White Horses

20. Shady Grove...(enter Mac Wiseman)

21. Bluebirds Are Singing For Me

22. Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong

23. Will You Be Loving Another Man



Notes:

Country Gentlemen (d1t1-5)

Osborne Brothers (d1t6-17)

Mac Wiseman, Shenandoah Cut-Ups, & Friends (d1t18-d2t7)

Lester Flatt & The Nashville Grass (d2t8-)



Anonymous Collection Cassette #303 features a number of classic recordings made on 7/11/71

at the Renfro Valley Bluegrass Festival, Renfro Valley, KY:  1) Country Gentlemen (Charlie

Waller-guitar, Doyle Lawson-mandolin, Bill Emerson-banjo, & Bill Yates-bass), 2) Osborne

Brothers (Sonny Osborne-banjo, Bobby Osborne-mandolin, Ronnie Reno-guitar, Ray

Kirkland-bass, & Robbie Osborne-snare drum), 3) Mac Wiseman with marvelous backing from

the Shenandoah Cut-Ups (Clarence "Tater" Tate-fiddle, Billy Edwards-banjo, Herschel

Sizemore-mandolin, & John Palmer-bass), Harley Gabbard-Dobro, and fiddle maestros Chubby

Wise and Big Joe Greene, and 4) Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass (Lester Flatt-guitar,

Haskel McCormick-banjo, Roland White-mandolin, Paul Warren-fiddle, Uncle Josh Graves-Dobro,

& Johnny Johnson-bass); fiddle great Howard "Howdy" Forrester and Mac Wiseman make guest

appearances. Please send any updates, comments, etc. to info@thespps.org --Mitchell Wittenberg