The Award Winning Country Gentlemen

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The Award Winning Country Gentlemen
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Studio album by
Released1972
Recorded1972
Genre Bluegrass
Progressive bluegrass
Length38:13
Label Rebel Records
Producer Charles R. Freeland
Country Gentlemen chronology
Sound Off
(1971)
The Award Winning Country Gentlemen
(1972)
Going Back To The Blue Ridge Mountains
(1973)
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The Award Winning Country Gentlemen is an album by the progressive bluegrass band Country Gentlemen, recorded in 1972. This album features the 2nd classic lineup of the band with Charlie Waller, Doyle Lawson, Bill Emerson and Bill Yates on bass.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Walkin' Down the Line (Dylan) 2:06
  2. The Legend of the Rebel Soldier (Moore) 2:56
  3. Redwood Hill (Lightfoot) 2:38
  4. The Fields Have Turned Brown (Stanley) 3:00 *(bonus track)
  5. C.G. Express (Lawson) 2:24
  6. Little Bessie (trad.) 3:35
  7. Old Pine Tree (Grant) 3:06
  8. The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp (Frazier) 2:31
  9. Take Me Home, Country Roads (Danoff, Denver, Nivert) 2:32
  10. Secret of the Waterfall (Landers) 3:06
  11. Breakin' It Down (Emerson) 2:24
  12. The Girl Behind the Bar (Stanley) 3:01 *(bonus track)
  13. Get in Line Buddy (Yates) 2:14
  14. New Freedom Bell (Osborne) 2:40

Personnel

with Mike Auldridge - Dobro

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