Complete Vanguard Recordings

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Complete Vanguard Recordings
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Compilation album by Country Gentlemen
Released 2002
Recorded 2002
Genre Bluegrass
Progressive bluegrass
Label Vanguard Records
Producer Fred Jasper, Doyle Lawson, Maynard Solomon, Jack Lothorp
Country Gentlemen chronology
Crying In the Chapel
(2001)		Complete Vanguard Recordings
(2002)		 45 Years of Memories
(2002)
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Complete Vanguard Recordings is a compilation album by the progressive bluegrass band Country Gentlemen, which they recorded for the Vanguard Records label. [1]

The Country Gentlemen American bluegrass band

The Country Gentlemen were a bluegrass band that originated during the 1950s in the area of Washington, D.C., United States, and recorded and toured with various members until the death in 2004 of Charlie Waller, one of the group's founders who in its later years served as the group's leader.

Vanguard Records Record label

Vanguard Records is an American record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York City. It was a primarily classical label throughout its heyday in the 50s and 60s, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal jazz, folk, and blues musicians. The Bach Guild was a subsidiary label.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Travelling Kind (Young) 3:28
  2. Don Quixote (Lightfoot) 2:56
  3. One Morning in May (Carmichael, Keith, Rooney) 3:10
  4. Casey's Last Ride (Kristofferson) 4:16
  5. The Leaves That Are Green (Simon) 1:47
  6. Paradise (Prine) 3:30
  7. House of the Rising Sun (trad.) 3:27
  8. Catfish John (McDill, Reynolds) 2:31
  9. Mother of a Miner's Child (Lightfoot) 2:29
  10. Bringing Mary Home (Duffey, Kingston, Mank) 3:31
  11. Souvenirs Prine) 2:43
  12. City of New Orleans (Goodman) 3:02
  13. Willow Creek Dam (Drumm, Gobel) 2:44
  14. Remembrance of You (Roberts) 2:48
  15. Irish Spring (Skaggs) 3:12
  16. Billy McGhee (Drumm, Gobel) 2:57
  17. Home in Louisiana (Davis) 2:24
  18. King of Spades (Alexander) 3:03
  19. The Little Grave (Loudermilk) 2:18
  20. Delta Queen (Drumm, Gobel) 2:39
  21. Heartaches (Hoffman, Klenner) 4:25
  22. Welcome to New York (Emerson, Lawson) 2:50
  23. Lord Protect My Soul (Monroe) 2:34
  24. Circuit Rider (Drumm, Gobel) 2:31

Personnel

Charles Otis "Charlie" Waller was the lead singer and guitarist for the bluegrass band The Country Gentlemen. Waller was involved with The Country Gentlemen for 47 years. As a member of The Country Gentlemen, Waller was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1996 and the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame in 2009.

Mike Auldridge musician

Mike Auldridge was a Dobro player and a founding member of the bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. The New York Times described Auldridge as "one of the most distinctive dobro players in the history of country and bluegrass music while widening its popularity among urban audiences". He also worked as a graphic artist.

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References

  1. 1 2 Complete Vanguard Recordings at AllMusic
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