Buzz Busby and Leon Morris

Honkytonk Bluegrass released on Rounder Records (031) in 1974

Can anybody out there tell me how to decipher originals from reissues on Rounder?

"…he responded to the line peddled by an FBI recruiter who visited his local high school. WHile working in Washington, D.C. for the FBI for a year, Buzz also attempted to attend classes at George Washington University in addition to the FBI training courses. When the schedule finally proved too much, Buzz dropped out into a more-or-less full-time commitment to bluegrass, probably the only really continuous part of his life."

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Larry Richardson & Red Barker and The Blue Ridge Boys

"Blue Ridge Bluegrass" released on County Records (702) in 1965.

I'm assuming this is a reissue and the cover with "County 702" on a transparent background, as seen at Bluegrass Discography, is the original... can anyone out there confirm that for me? And, does that (black vs. transparent) rule apply to all County Records releases?

"For every expert singer, virtuoso banjo-picker, or accomplished mandolinist who has captured the public's fancy, there are likely to be several others heard fleetingly at fiddle contests or not at all, who play the music just as well, if not better… … authentic mountain music is today saturated with modern pseudo-country music. Old-time music is receding even further into the hills, while Bluegrass struggles to maintain an oasis in the electrified desert of country-pop music even as its most prominent performers suffer loss of energy and conviction."

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Joe Pancerzewski

The Fiddling Engineer released by Voyager Recordings (VRLP 306S) in 1972

"...got my first fiddle February 1915. About fourteen fiddlers in a 50-mile square area, six of them very good. I had heard them from babyhood up, so old time fiddling was all I knew." -Joe Pancerzewski

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The Stanley Brothers

The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys Volume 2

Released in Japan by CBS Sony (20AP14) in 1976

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The Stanley Brothers

The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys Volume 1

Released in Japan by CBS Sony (20AP13) in 1976

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Emerson & Waldron - Bluegrass Country

released on Rebel Records (SLP 1489) in 1970

Cover Photo by Edwin G. Hoffman

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The Kentuckians (Red Allen, Bill Emerson & The Yates Brothers)

"The Solid Bluegrass Sound Of" released on Melodeon (MLP 7325) in 1966

Cover design by Louisa Spottswood

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Ola Belle Reed

released on Rounder Records (021) in 1973

Cover design by Millea Kenin. Front cover photo by Gei Zantzinger. Back cover photos by Ken Jacobs & Ruth Zantzinger.

"Ola Belle has come to deplore many of the recent tendencies of country musicians to become "ardently chauvinistic about their tastes in old-timey, bluegrass, etc. to the exclusion of all other music. This development runs directly counter to Ola Belle's affirmations of music as a unifying and comradely tie among people."

Old Belle Reed & Family

released on Rounder Records (077) in 1977 

Photography by Carl Fleischhauer. Notes by David Whisnant. Design by Pat Alger.

"At the Brandywine Mountain Music Convention in the Summer of 1976, Ola Belle sat under a tree and talked for an hour with s fourteen-year-old boy raised to the sounds of rock, who was attending his first traditional festival. His jaw dropped when she told him she had been playing forty years, as if that were an incomprehensible span of time." - David Whisnant

Red Allen & The Kentuckians

Live & Let Live, released by Folkways (FTS 31065) in 1979

Album Notes by Tom Teepen

"Red Allen started trying to get out of his native Pigeon Roost Hollow in the hills of East Kentucky around Hazard when he was 14. 'We was raised so hard back in that country that I knew I was going to leave as soon as I could,' he told an interviewer in recent years." -Tom Teepen

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The Goins Brothers

self-titled LP released by Rebel Records (SLP 1543) in 1975

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The Shady Mountain Ramblers with Gary Patton

"All Smiles Tonight" released in 1981 on Heritage Records

"The use of piano in a string band is certainly a part of Blue Ridge tradition and this recording proves the resulting blend remains successful and beautiful today." - Blanton Owen

Photography by Dennis Kegley

Cover design by Andy Cahan

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David Lambeth and the High Lonesome Ramblers

"Standing in the Shadows" released by King Bluegrass (KB 541) in 1975

"I have the privilege and honor of seeing and announcing a lot of good bands. The High Lonesome Ramblers happen to be one of these bands" - Hillard Jones (MC, Fiddle and Banjo Club, Roanoke, Virginia)

Liner notes by Hillard Jones

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