That High Lonesome Sound
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That High Lonesome Sound is the second live release of bluegrass music
by Old and in the Way
. Like the first one, Old and in the Way
, it was recorded at the Boarding House in San Francisco in October, 1973.
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...
by Old and in the Way
Old and in the Way
Old & in the Way was a bluegrass supergroup in the 1970s. The group performed traditional tunes such as "Pig in a Pen" as well as bluegrass-flavoured versions of The Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" and Peter Rowan's "Panama Red"....
. Like the first one, Old and in the Way
Old and in the Way (album)
Old and in the Way is the self-titled first album by the bluegrass band Old and in the Way. It was recorded 8 October 1973 at the Boarding House in San Francisco by Owsley Stanley and Vickie Babcock utilizing eight microphones mixed live onto a stereo Nagra tape recorder...
, it was recorded at the Boarding House in San Francisco in October, 1973.
Track listing
- "Hard Hearted" (Jesse McReynoldsJesse McReynoldsJesse Lester McReynolds is an American bluegrass musician. He is known for his innovative crosspicking and split-string styles of mandolin playing, and is a forty two year member of the Grand Ole Opry...
, Jim McReynolds) – 2:46 - "The Great Pretender" (Buck RamBuck RamBuck Ram was an American songwriter, and popular music producer and arranger.-Biography:...
) – 3:38 - "Lost" (Buzz Busby, Cindy Davis) – 3:25
- "Catfish John" (Bob McDillBob McDillRobert Lee "Bob" McDill is an American country music songwriter. Active from the 1960s until 2000, he has written several songs for country music artists, including more than thirty Number One hits...
, Allen Reynolds) – 4:05 - "That High Lonesome Sound" (Peter Rowan) – 3:40
- "Lonesome Fiddle Blues" (Vassar ClementsVassar ClementsVassar Clements was a Grammy Award- winning American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical...
) – 3:06 - "Love Please Come Home" (Leon Jackson) – 3:29
- "Wicked Path of Sin" (Bill MonroeBill MonroeWilliam Smith Monroe was an American musician who created the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader...
) – 2:18 - "Uncle Pen" (Monroe) – 2:57
- "I'm on my Way back to the Old Home" (Monroe) – 2:54
- "Lonesome L.A. Cowboy" (Rowan) – 4:22
- "I Ain't Broke (But I'm Badly Bent)" (H. Payne) – 2:51
- "Orange Blossom Special" (Ervin Rouse) – 3:31
- "Angel Band" (Jefferson Hascall, W.B. Bradbury) – 4:37
Old and in the Way
- Vassar ClementsVassar ClementsVassar Clements was a Grammy Award- winning American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical...
– fiddleFiddleThe term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
, vocals - Jerry GarciaJerry GarciaJerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
– banjoBanjoIn the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
, vocals - David GrismanDavid GrismanDavid Grisman is an American bluegrass/newgrass mandolinist and composer of acoustic music. In the early 1990s, he started the Acoustic Disc record label in an effort to preserve and spread acoustic or instrumental music.-Biography:Grisman grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey...
– mandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
, vocals - John KahnJohn KahnJohn Kahn was an American rock bass player. For a period of about twenty five years Kahn was Jerry Garcia's principal collaborator outside of the Grateful Dead.-Biography:...
– bassDouble bassThe double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2... - Peter Rowan – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, vocals
Production
- Recording engineers – Owsley StanleyOwsley StanleyOwsley Stanley also known as Bear, was an essential and transitional personality in the development of the San Francisco Bay counter-culture. Spanning the Beat-era years of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters scenes, he was equally pivotal to the explosion of 1960's Psychedelia culture...
, Victoria Babcock - Producer – David Grisman
- Production coordination – Craig Miller
- Mastering – Paul Stubblebine
- Liner notes – Neil V. Rosenberghttp://www.crookedstovepipe.com, Richard Loren, Owsley Stanley
- Design, layout – D. Brent Hauseman
- Photography – Neil V. Rosenberg, Nobuharu Koboriya, Susana Millman, Sheldan Collins