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Showing posts with label 1976. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1976. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The White Brothers (aka The New Kentucky Colonels)


"Live In Sweden, 1973" was released by Rounder Records (0073) in 1976

"Unfortunately, jobs for bluegrass groups were scarce, and by 1966 the Kentucky Colonels were forced to disband." - Jack Tottle

Design: Doug Parker
Photography: Kalman Zabarsky, Peter Winblad, Jan Lindgren







Thursday, January 27, 2011

Al Jones, Frank Necessary & The Spruce Mountain Boys

Released by Rounder Records (0050) in 1976.

Album design by Doug Parker. Photography by Phil Straw.

"All the numbers, save 'No One But You' and 'How the Story Had to End' which Al Composed, are classic, though not overdone country and bluegrass numbers." -Kathy Kaplan, WBAI, New York







Wednesday, January 19, 2011

John Hartford's "Mark Twang"

Released in 1976 by Flying Fish Records (FF 020)

"The seeming technical imperfections in this record which may be indescernible to the listener were included at the request of the artist" -Claude Hill (album engineer)