"The Solid Bluegrass Sound Of" released on Melodeon (MLP 7325) in 1966
Cover design by Louisa Spottswood
Monday, January 16, 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012
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."
Saturday, October 15, 2011
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
Sunday, October 2, 2011
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
Monday, September 26, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
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
Sunday, September 11, 2011
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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