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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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

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

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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

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Frank Wakefield w/ Country Cooking on Rounder (0007)

This self-titled record was originally released by Rounder Records in 1972... unfortunately, the "more modern" Rounder record label on this particular copy suggests I have a reissue.

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