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Country Songs, Old and New

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Released
  
1960, reissued in 1991

Length
  
44:05

Release date
  
1960

Label
  
Smithsonian Folkways

Recorded
  
1960

Artist
  
The Country Gentlemen

Producer
  
The Country Gentlemen

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Country Songs, Old and New (1960)
  
Folk Songs & Bluegrass (1961)

Genres
  
Bluegrass, Progressive bluegrass

Similar
  
Folk Songs & Bluegrass, Going Back to the Blue Ridge Mo, Bluegrass at Carnegie, Folk Session Inside, Sit Down - Young Stranger

Country Songs, Old and New is the debut album by the progressive bluegrass band Country Gentlemen, recorded in 1960 and reissued in 1991.

Contents

Track listing

Side 1
  1. "Roving Gambler" – 3:07
  2. "The Little Sparrow" – 3:31
  3. "Drifting Too Far" – 3:27
  4. "Weeping Willow" – 2:01
  5. "Tomorrow's My Wedding Day" – 2:09
  6. "The Story of Charlie Lawson" – 3:03
  7. "Turkey Knob" (Eddie Adcock) – 2:18
  8. "Paul and Silas" – 2:26
Side 2
  1. "Ellen Smith" (Peter De Graff) – 2:13
  2. "The Long Black Veil" (Danny Dill, Marijohn Wilkin) – 3:35
  3. "Honkey Tonk Rag" (John Duffey) – 2:26
  4. "Jesse James" – 2:35
  5. "Have Thine Own Way" – 2:51
  6. "A Good Woman's Love" (Cy Coben) – 3:25
  7. "The Double Eagle" – 2:54
  8. "Darling Alalee" – 2:04

Personnel

  • Charlie Waller - guitar, vocals
  • John Duffey - mandolin, vocals
  • Eddie Adcock - banjo, vocals
  • Jim Cox - bass, vocals

    • Songs

    1Roving Gambler3:11
    2The Little Sparrow3:35
    3Drifting Too Far3:31

    References

    Country Songs, Old and New Wikipedia
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