Also, recently at the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association's Membership Day, good friends and very talented musicians Too Blue gave us an outdoor concert.

Here's one of their sets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nL14Utq3WI

Recently, the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association presented the Lonesome River Band.

The show was fantastic, to say the least. But on top of that, Sammy Shelor graciously allowed me to record and post the entire show!

Here it is for your enjoyment...

Set 1

Set 2

Note, as Sammy mentions during the show, Brandon Rickman had another schedule commitment for the weekend and Ashby Frank sat in for him.

With JD Crowe's "retiring" and last show at the Birchmere tonight, I thought I'd share my memories of JD...

Hi Folks,

Ken Landreth surprised me this evening with a whole new bunch of wonderful music; and I posted it as soon as I could.

Have a listen to Christmas on the Radio 1958

All the best!
Fred

OMG that Christmas series from Landreth is breath taking. Even Monroe doing EARLY morning radio with Joe Drumwright just busting it! Wonderful wonderful!

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Originally posted by robbif

Hi Folks,

Ken Landreth surprised me this evening with a whole new bunch of wonderful music; and I posted it as soon as I could.

Have a listen to Christmas on the Radio 1958

All the best!
Fred

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Oh WOW!!!
Thanks Fred and Ken!!

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Originally posted by robbif

Hi Folks,

Ken Landreth surprised me this evening with a whole new bunch of wonderful music; and I posted it as soon as I could.

Have a listen to Christmas on the Radio 1958

All the best!
Fred

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Beautiful recordings, Fred and Ken.  Thank you.  BTW, I think that Connie Gately is the guitar player and vocalist on the recordings of Bill Monroe, who sounds as though he might be playing an A model mandolin or perhaps an F4.

Michael

Great 1958 Radio.

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Originally posted by corcoran

Beautiful recordings, Fred and Ken.  Thank you.  BTW, I think that Connie Gately is the guitar player and vocalist on the recordings of Bill Monroe, who sounds as though he might be playing an A model mandolin or perhaps an F4.

Michael

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I've had the Monroe 1958 show in my collection for years, and I've heard that t it was indeed the F4 that Bill used to record Monroe's Hornpipe, Gotta Travel On etc.. (which were incidentally recorded in 1958) on this recording.
Connie Gately, really? The singer and guitar player for Connie & Babe / Connie & Joe? WOW THANKS!

Matt.

The correct personnel for the 1958 Bill Monroe recording is:

Bill Monroe-mandolin
Charlie Smith-fiddle
Joe Drumright-banjo
Connie Gately-guitar
Tommy Vaden-bass
Announcer- T.Tommy Cutrer

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Originally posted by KLandreth

The correct personnel for the 1958 Bill Monroe recording is:

Bill Monroe-mandolin
Charlie Smith-fiddle
Joe Drumright-banjo
Connie Gately-guitar
Tommy Vaden-bass
Announcer- T.Tommy Cutrer

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Thanks, Ken. I just updated the web page.

Just thought I'd summarize my YouTube playlists in case you're interested...

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Originally posted by KLandreth

The correct personnel for the 1958 Bill Monroe recording is:

Bill Monroe-mandolin
Charlie Smith-fiddle
Joe Drumright-banjo
Connie Gately-guitar
Tommy Vaden-bass
Announcer- T.Tommy Cutrer

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Thanks a lot, Ken.
Now, what about that second fiddle that can be heard in a couple of the songs (Scotland, if I remember correctly, is one).
I've always wondered why it can be heard just in a few songs...do you know more?

And thanks James for that Charlie Moore show, never heard of that!
Matt.

Here's an excerpt from the Christmas on the Radio 1958...

Sonny Osborne - Jingle Bells

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Originally posted by robbif

I'm thrilled to announce my biggest friend's collection yet, the Ivor Trueman Collection.

 

Just a couple of weeks ago, Ivor contacted me from England offering a DVD of MP3s he'd 

downloaded from a website where they no longer exist. 

 

On Christmas Eve the DVD arrived at the post office and I went to work assembling over 

800 individual song MP3s (!) and building 50 web pages. I haven't even had time to listen

to many of the songs.

 

I'm still in the process of cleaning up everything and have had help from Ivor and a handful

of other friends. I had wanted to wait a few more days to announce, but when I realized there are 

some tracks with Mike Auldridge (see links below), I thought I'd do it now in Mike's tribute.

 

Here's some idea of the content of this collection...

 

- Dates ranging from 1954 to 1976

 

- Artists include...

Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Jimmy Martin, the Osborne Brothers, Don Reno, 

Red Smiley, Clyde Moody, Mac Wiseman, the Stanley Brothers, Buzz Busby, 

Red Allen, Bill Emerson, the Country Gentlemen, Norman Blake, Tut Taylor, 

Roy Acuff, Al Wood, the Bluegrass Alliance, the Bluegrass Buddies, 

Blackwell/Collins, Bluegrass 45, JD Crowe, the Lewis Family,

Del McCoury, Roy McMillan, New Deal String Band, Shenandoah Valley Cut-Ups, 

Virginia Cut-Ups, Frank Wakefield, Cliff Waldron, Wilson Brothers

 

- Venues such as... 

New River Ranch, Old Time Picking Parlor, Brown County Jamboree,

Fincastle 1965, Camp Springs 1971 (over 25 artists!) 

 

Here's the collection... http://frobbi.org/truemancollection.html

 

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Mike Auldridge Tribute

 

Here are two sets of Mike with Cliff Waldron...

 

http://frobbi.org/audio/ivor/Camp_Springs_71/waldron+nsog/index.html

http://frobbi.org/audio/ivor/Camp_Springs_71/waldron+nsog2/index.html

 

Now that I've added a Google Custom Search (which is still not complete),

from my Ken Landreth Collection, I just found a whole bunch of sets with Mike...

 

http://frobbi.org/audio/landreth/Reidsville1969/69ReidsvilleEmersonWaldron01.html

http://frobbi.org/audio/landreth/Berryville1969/BerryvilleBGStory1969PART2DNR.html

http://frobbi.org/audio/landreth/Berryville1969/BV69101EmersonWaldron03.html

http://frobbi.org/audio/landreth/Berryville1969/BV69101EmersonWaldron01.html

http://frobbi.org/audio/landreth/Berryville1969/BV69101EmersonWaldron02.html

http://frobbi.org/audio/landreth/BeanBlossom1971/BB71Reel82Waldron.html

http://frobbi.org/audio/landreth/BeanBlossom1971/BB71Reel81Waldron.html

http://frobbi.org/audio/landreth/BeanBlossom1971/BB71Reel83Waldron.html

 

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My sincere thanks to Ivor for taking the time to gather these historic recordings and

make them available to me so we can share them with all of you.

 

Happy New Year!

Fred

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That looks like an amazing collection! Thanks for sharing.

I spent a lot of this afternoon going through (and picking along with) 
a lot of the recordings mentioned above.  I don't utilize them enough.
Every last one of them is solid gold and a HUGE resource for pickers.

Thanks for all you do Fred, finding these performances and posting them!  

I now have a free "Google Custom Search" for my recordings. It still has growing pains but seems to be working pretty well.
There are still some things I have to do to make it complete.

Please give it a try. Search for festival names, people names, band names, etc.
Short text seems to work better, e.g. Crowe, Monroe, Berkshire.

I'd appreciate any feedback.

As noted, since the search is free, Google throws an ad into the results; but it's not bad, and an obvious different color.

http://frobbi.org/pickingsearch.html

There's also a link to it on my main Picking Page: http://frobbi.org/picking.html

Fred

Thanks to James Stiltner, I've just added J.E. Mainer, Ed May's Home Studio, Kelsa, VA, 1958

Reminder: My latest series of recordings, the Ivor Trueman Collection, has well over 800 MP3s dating from 1954 to 1976!

Please check it out.

Note all of my files are downloadable. If you need help, go HERE.

And don't forget to try my new Search Feature. a work in progress that is about 95% complete so far.

Another great one here.

Doc Hamilton has just given me a super-classic recording of his, and I've added it to my Doc Hamilton Collection.

It's JD Crowe & the New South at the Holiday Inn, Lexington, KY in 1975.

JD - banjo, Tony Rice - guitar, Ricky Skaggs - mandolin, Jerry Douglas - dobro, Bobby Slone - bass