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Side One (Rite 32767)

Travelin' Down The Road
New Ford Car
Whoop 'em Up Cindy
Tossing The Baby So High
Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel
Station Will Be Changed After Awhile

Side Two (Rite 32768)

The Bum Hotel
Peekaboo
Comin' Round The Mountain
Run, Nigger, Run
He Won the Heart of Sarah Jane
Honest Confession is Good For the Soul

Songs recorded between 1925 and 1938. Volume 1 is Vetco LP 101 (Dixie Dewdrop) and Volume 3 is Vetco LP 108 (From Heaven To Earth).


Uncle Dave Macon (October 7, 1870–March 22, 1952), born David Harrison Macon—also known as "The Dixie Dewdrop"—was an American banjo player, singer, songwriter, and comedian. Known for his chin whiskers, plug hat, gold teeth, and gates-ajar collar, he gained regional fame as a vaudeville performer in the early 1920s before going on to become the first star of the Grand Ole Opry in the latter half of the decade.

Macon's music is considered the ultimate bridge between 19th-century American folk and vaudeville music and the phonograph and radio-based music of the early 20th-century. Music historian Charles Wolfe wrote, "If people call yodelling Jimmie Rodgers 'the father of country music,' then Uncle Dave must certainly be 'the grandfather of country music'." Macon's polished stage presence and lively personality have made him one of the most enduring figures of early country music.

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This album was recorded 27-2-69 at Lange's Recording Studio, Azusa, CA. Released in 1973 on Vetco.

Personel:

Earl Taylor: Mandolin
Sandy Rothman: Five String Banjo
Charlie Hoskins: Guitar
Boatwhistle: Bass
Jack Carter: Fiddle

Side one

01 - Rubber Dolly
02 - Beautiful Brown Eyes
03 - Ho Honey Ho
04 - I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
05 - Molly & Tenbrooks
06 - Plant Some Flowers
07 - Poor Ellen Smith
08 - Fox Chase

Side two

01- Katy Hill
02 - Six Months Ain't Long
03 - Knoxville Girl
04 - Katy Kline
05- Cotton-Eyed Joe
06 - Rosewood Casket
07 - Careless Love
08 - The Prisoner's Song

Earl Taylor began playing professionally since 1953 around Baltimore, Maryland. Between 1955 and 1958 he played mandolin and sang tenor for Jimmy Martin, including recording "Hit Parade of Love" and other classics. During 1965 he performed with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs on both Harmonica and mandolin and has been associated with most of the finest bluegrass musicians at one time or another. In 1959 Earl and his boys became the first bluegrass band to play at Carnegie Hall, in a concert presented by Alan Lomax.

Earl Taylor Discography

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Side one - #38121

1. I'll Fly Away
2. God Put A Rainbow In The Clouds
3. You Go To Your Church
4. Just A Little Talk With Jesus
5. Sing Sing Sing

Side two - # 38122

1. Let Me Travel Alone
2. Camping In Canaan's Land
3. On The Jericho Road
4. I Like The Old Time Way
5. I'll Be Listening

This is a re-issue of the five singles issued by Kentucky Records (as by Virginia Trio) and by Alcar Records (as by James and Jesse McReynolds) issued by each label with the same release numbers : 509, 510, 514, 515, & 547.

In the late 1940s two young boys from the little town of Coeburn in southwestern Virginia were getting into music. Jim McReynolds played guitar and sang a lovely clear tenor. His brother Jesse sang and played the mandolin. They experimented freely in their music, searching constantly for a musical style that would suit them and yet be « different » from what had gone before.

Their varied influences pointed the McReynolds’ vocal style onto a path quite distinct from that simultaneously being explored by a couple of close neighbors – Carter and Ralph Stanley.

Just as the Stanleys did, Jim and Jesse first worked on their own in Norton, Virginia, and nearby West Virginia, calling their band « the McReynolds Brothers and the Cumberland Mountain Boys ». Around 1949 they went with Hoke Jenkins and Curly Seckler to Augusta, Georgia, where they tried a conventional Blue Grass format. In 1951, feeling a need to test something different, they put together a western-style band including steel guitar and went to Kansas. They did a « Sons of the Pioneers » type show featuring numbers like « Cool Water » and « Home on the Range ».

They would spend close to a year in 1951 working at WPFB in Middletown, Ohio. While there, they made their first commercial recording for the Kentucky label with Larry Roll. Uncertain as to how the whole thing would go, the boys decided to adopt the name « the Virginia Trio » in case things didn’t work out well.

As it turned out, the sessions were a great musical success. Joined by Larry Roll on the vocals and Dave Woolum on bass, the group produced a lovely collection of sacred trios. And there, one step behind some inspired vocal work, took place the stunning debut of Jesse’s original mandolin roll, later to be dubbed « crosspickin ».

(from the book The Bluegrass Reader, by Thomas Goldsmith)