Kentucky Bluegrass Gospel

J.D. Jarvis & Rusty York - Rural Rhythm - Blue Grass Gospel Songs

J.D. Jarvis saw combat in WWII (including taking part in Normandy on D-Day) and won three purple hearts before returning to Clay Co. Kentucky to record somewhere in the ballpark of 45 records.

Rusty York plays all over this thing. He's from Harlan Co. and I guess ended up with some bigger success in the Rockabilly world but eventually ended up focusing on Bluegrass and Country and later formed Jewell Records run out of Cincinnati. Guessing he's behind the dobro on this - which really rounds this thing out.

Almost Home ...

There are some very nice songs on this one and Im still trying to find more.

Local Paper Story

J.D. Jarvis & Rusty York - Rural Rhythm - Blue Grass Gospel Songs
http://www.mediafire.com/download/fx9phe6t1ixuxfi/J.D.+Jarvis+%26+Rusty+York.zip


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Ernest Martin - Road Of No Return

This isnt the first album Ive posted of Martin - his Pine Tree LP is on here as well and is so good.

My friend Cassie Lopez lives in Lexington KY and when I found out a copy of this was in the University Library there I asked her if she could check it out and rip it for me - so thanks Cassie!
This record is less bluegrass then the other stuff Ive heard - and the tunes that have Martin on the Organ are particularly nice.  Living Where The Milk And Honey Flow - has been on my stereo for a week now.

Thanks for liberating this from that cold basement Cassie.

Ernest Martin - Road Of No Return
http://www.mediafire.com/download/sk3xmncyhn9k646/Ernest+Martin+-+Road+Of+No+Return.zip

Virginia Traditions - Virginia Work Songs

http://www.mediafire.com/download/dnvezigc0t1cvpq/Virginia+Work+Songs.zip

Charlie Monroe Live

Finally opened this guy up.  Nice live show.  Back cover reads 

December 7 1974 was one of the great days for bluegrass fans.  Price Enterprises, Inc. gave a benefit show for Charlie Monroe, One of the founders of bluegrass music and also brother to Bill Monroe.  The benefit took place at Lake Norman Music Hall in Terrel North Carolina.

Charlie Had been in very poor health so it was quite a shock when he appeared on the stage.  To the surprise and amazement of the audience Brother Burch Monroe also made an appearance.  The response was unbelievable. People were crying, cheering, and laughing because the sound of the original Monroe Brothers was being seen and heard once again.  

I called Bob Davis of Davis Sound Productions in Charlotte and asked him if he would come an tape the show.  After convincing Bob that it was the "real" Charlie Monroe he hurried up to Terrel and set up the equipment.  This album is a result of that taping session.  

People came from all over to see and hear these old time greats.  Paul "Moon" Mullins of WPFB in Middletown, Ohio and Grant Turner of WSMN Nashville were a great help in promoting the show.  Many thanks to them and also the other bands to donated their time and talent to make the show a success.

Charlie was born in Rosene, Kentucky and now resides in Reidsville North Carolina with his lovely wife Martha and his pack of fine fox hounds.  He plays some show and Bluegrass festivals.  His great rapport with an audience comes through even on record.  Im sure that after this listening to this album you'll agree with me.  

Yours for Bluegrass,

Bill Price 

http://www.mediafire.com/download/lj83q6an56tomc8/Charlie+Monroe++Live.zip

Bluegrass Gospel #1

This stuff is really all I want to put on these days.  For about a year Ive been trying to dig through everything and find the stuff that I really like and here is a little bit of that in 20 songs.

For whole album rips or anything else just ask me - hope you like it.


http://www.mediafire.com/download/za69zxzyxaf56t9/Bluegrass_Gospel_#1.zip

Joe Bussard Tape - Unknown Artist 1927 ?

In June 2011 I went to Joe Bussards house with my buddy Van.  We stayed the whole day - went to lunch - watched a couple hours of Laurel and Hardy / W. C. Fields / and a documentary about UFOs.
After that we listened to records and Van eventually asked Joe if he would make him a tape of this unknown artists he had the masters for that he played for us.  Van ripped it for me and Im gonna put that up here - hope you enjoy it - only 6 tracks of the man - sometimes two women singing spirituals.  Thanks van!

http://www.mediafire.com/download/hqdqpavwow27dww/Joes+Tape.zip

V/A - Preachin' Prayin' Shoutin' And Singin' & Jim Eanes and his Shenandoah Valley Quartet

Got a better set up for ripping records so these will sound better.

First record is a compilation from Starday that came out in 1959 called V/A - Preachin' Prayin' Shoutin' And Singin'.  Covers real fucked up but it still plays.  Some real nice stuff scattered on here.  

Second record is on the Outlet Label out of Rocky Mount Virginia (If anyone has any of the weirder stuff on Outlet let me know I wanna track that shit down) My Dude Jim Eanes and his Shenandoah Valley Quartet 1977.  Seems like Jim took some of Red Smileys band members after his retirement and used the same band name for this record.  Like the cover.

Jim

V/A - Preachin' Prayin' Shoutin' And Singin'

http://www.mediafire.com/download/geb7xqcgq6762fb/VA_-_Preachin'_Prayin'_Shoutin'_And_Singin'.zip

Jim Eanes and his Shenandoah Valley Quartet

http://www.mediafire.com/download/078me3q9263ycc7/Jim_Eanes_&_The_Shenandoah_Valley_Quartet_.zip

Early Upchurch and the Friendly Quartet - Everybody Will Be Happy Over There

First - Thanks for Matt for getting me a copy of this.  One of my favorites.  I posted one of Early's records a couple months ago - this one is significantly weirder. . .  His then 9 year old daughter sings on a lot of the album - "I wont be an orphan in glory" is an especially heavy one.  Back jacket reads...

"This album includes Kath Upchurch's favorites.  Lots of these songs are recited by Kathy.  In 1966, she won the trophy for the most promising talent.  She is loved by the young and old.  She has had three records to reach the top in many states.  Such songs as: God Forgive Me When I Whine, Jordan River, and Phone Call To Heaven.  We believe that some of these songs will repeat.  Kathy is now nine (9) years old.  She Sincerely hopes that everyone will enjoy this album.

Matthew Rigney, is well know through many states for his guitar picking.  Also Matthew sings bass or alto sometimes soprano.  Matthew is loved by all because of his fine hospitlity (sic).  You will hear his electric guitar, which takes many leads in this album.  Matthew Rigney, Mount Airy, North Carolina.

Early Upchurch, has been recording gospel records for eight (8) years.  Some of his great songs has been : Paul's Ministry, Where the Shades of Love Lie Deep, and I just Dropped By.  This particular song was in the top twenty in the month of september 1968.  Doris Kidd of Monticello, Kentucky was helping Early on this particular song.  Early and Kathy Upchurch travels many thousands of miles each year throughout the country and cities singing the gospel songs.  To people that enjoy country hymns, we sincerly hope you people that hear this album get a great blessing from them.

Early Upchurch

Route 3

Mount Airy, N.C."

Musician List

Early Upchurch and the Friendly Quartet backed up by; The Border Mountain Boys

Jimmy Holder

Box 53, Clemmons, N.C.

Plays mandolin and is the manager of the Border Mountain Boys

Carl Grey Joyner 

Route 2, Yadkinville, N.C.

Plays the Fiddle

Bobby Kiger

Route 2, Rural Hall, N.C.

Plays Guitar

F.G. Buck Arrington

Route1, Winston-Salem, N.C.

Bass

Cullen Galyean

Route 1, Low Gap, N.C.

Plays the Banjo

Early Upchurch - Everybody Will Be Happy Over There
hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download/i3dbwsa13bq3edn/E.U._-_Everybody_Will_Be_Happy_.zip

Peter Green - End Of The Game / In The Skies

Snow day Peter Green.  Melody Maker magazine said in 1970 that this record was “certainly the most disturbing album release this year”  End Of The Game - kills and it has a pretty progressive font for early 70's.  Greens first solo record after leaving Fleetwood Mac and recorded a couple years after he took the dose of acid in munich that did him in.  Album is a total improvisation with some random jazz musicians he met who were recording at the studio.   Got this record at Red Onion in DC thanks Josh.  Bottoms up.  

In The Skies - some spanish pressing.  Came out in 79 and not as strange or intriguing as end of the game but has some real good songs on it.  Fool No More is great.  His pic on the back is real good too.  

End Of The Game

 In The Skies

End Of The Game - 

hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download/191r4o8dkt6g45o/P.G._-_End_Of_The_Game.zip

In The Skies - 

hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download/ni61axgc4hvd2ha/P.G._-_In_The_Skies.zip

Traditional Fiddle Music Of Mississippi Vol.1 and Vol.2

Got Vol. 1(Mississippi Breakdown) and Vol. 2 (Dont You Remember The Time) of Traditional Fiddle Music Of Mississippi.  Picked em up in Durham at Bull City and in San Francisco.  Both jackets have to say - 

"Mississippi's place in the history of Country music has been well established, largely through the recognition of Jimmie Rodgers, its most famous native son, as the single most influential figure in rural American music.  Moreover, no state is more prominent in the development of American Blues, having produced such musicians as Charley Patton, Son House, Skip James and John Hurt.  However, another rich heritage of the Magnolia state has been, until recently, largely overlook; the fiddle band tradition.

To an ear attuned to the currently more popular string band styles of Virginia, North Caronlina and the Ozarks on one hand, and the more intricate and stylized Texas sound on the other, the fiddle bands of Mississippi may at first seem somewhat dry or plain.  However, the subtlety and charm of the Mississippi tuens and styles are quickly appreciated after spending a little time with the music.

Because so few string bands from Mississippi actually recorded it, it would be a mistake to try and draw many conclusions from records about a "Mississippi style," or to generalize about certain features which at first seem noteworthy, for example, the absence of 5 string banjo and the relative scarcity of vocals.  What can definitely be noted, though, is the great variety of individual styles and tunes that marked pre-World War II old time music in Mississippi, as in all other rural areas of the South and the Southwest.  The music on County 528 and 529 ranges from the light and disciplined sound of the Leake County Revelers to the bluesy, deliverate and yet highly charged music of Floyd Ming & His Pep-Steppers; from the archaic and wild sounds of the Carter Brothers & Son to the haunting strains of Freeny's Barn Dance Band.  The music on these two albums offers a fascinating glimpse into a great and colorful part of America's history.  Most of all, it is a document of human expression that is as exciting today as it was when the original recordings were made some 45 to 50 years ago."

 Mississippi Breakdown

 Dont You Remember That Time

Vol.1

hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download/gvnr6mgnxkfu19o/Mississippi_Vol.1.zip

Vol.2

hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download/gxdcv9ndemvt89x/Mississippi_Vol.2.zip

B.S. Huffman - Sourmash Birthmark

This is one of my best buds Shanes song from 2006 maybe?  I've been listening to it a lot lately so I thought Id put it up.  We did a shit load of driving around a couple years ago and Ive always loved this song.  I hope he is not mad at me for putting it on a blog.

Sourmash Birthmark

Jim Eanes - Bluegrass Ballads

I like Jim Eanes.  Ill put up more of his stuff later - but I like this record almost more than the early Blue Ridge Label stuff.  The Legend Of The Girl On The Cliff kills it.  Recorded in 76 through 79 in Roanoke and Salem VA but released in 86 by Rebel Records.  Man they have a killer logo.  Some real tear jerkers on this one.  Found it in Flagstaff AZ in March - the saving grace of the day spent in higher elevation with headaches and bloody nose.  

hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download/o9exrzaz336mmr1/Jim_Eanes_-_Bluegrass_Ballads.zip

Charlie Tweddle - The Midnight Plowboy

I was in Chicago for a couple days in January and Brian Piñeyro played this record one morning when I was getting ready to leave - he played the song 
Turkey Club and I liked it so much that he gave it to me.  Thank you Brian and happy birthday dude.  

Little Mare on this record is a good good country tune.  Charlie also makes custom cowboy hats you can

check out here on his website.  There are pictures of three flying saucers on the cover.  

Charlies Custom Cowboy Hats

hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download/bbh5mfp844w135a/Charlie_Tweddle_-_The_Midnight_Plowboy.zip

Early Upchurch - The Great Reaping Day

First time I heard this stuff was in Cleveland during a pretty heavy snowstorm in January at my friend Matt's house.  He gave us pretty strong drinks and we sat around and zoned out.  Was pumped to find this in the country rows at Academy in NY.   If I ever get a dog Im going to name it Randy - and when that dog dies Ill get another and name it Early.  

Cabin on the cover is of Early's birthplace in Lambsburg VA - back the back cover there is a nice personalized letter from WPAQ owner Ralph Epperson and notes on the side by his daughter talking about growing up singing with her dad.  

hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download/1de66mv1sn3pevy/Early_Upchurch-The_Great_Reaping_Day.zip

Evan Miller - Transfigurations on Lap-Steel Guitar

I saw Evan Miller Open for Raccoo-oo-oon in like 2006 in DC at the Black Cat.  Hadnt really heard solo guitar stuff before that -he just played a nice 6 string set.  I found this Record at Permanent in Chicago a couple years ago.  Its great.  Four longer tunes all spread out - I think mostly made with lap steel and synthesizer - B side is a great listen.

hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download/5efuq1hn39f3cnk/Evan_Miller-Transfigurations_on_Lap-Steel_Guitar.zip

Duane & Greg Allman - Duane & Greg Allman

Check out Duane and Gregs magnificent hairdos on this one.  Recorded 1968 released 4 years later.  In The Morning When Im Real man . . . . Found it at Amoeba in LA. 

hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download/224k3d0crfkdq49/Duane_%26_Greg_Allman_-_Duane_%26_Greg_Allman.zip

Nathan Abshire - Pine Grove Blues

Nathan Abshire had forearms as thick as my neck.  Recored this after he got back from WWII.  Found it at Great Escape Records in Nashville.  

hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download/7g0d0c1n2rpwa7w/Nathan_Abshire-Pine_Grove_Blues.zip

Jeffrey Cain - For You

For a couple years the only song I heard from this record is the first one on the A side - found a copy in Rochester but my buddy got it first.  Finally found one last month when I was in the UK.  This came out on the Raccoon - that was Jesse Colin Youngs label for Warner Brothers - Havent heard a lot of the other releases and not into Youngbloods - but they did put out Hurleys Armchair Boogie and Hi Fi Snock so thats cool.  I like this record.  Some guy named Banana played pedal steel on it.  Its kinda all over the place.

"Dont never trust no houndog round your turkey."

hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download/h7yb5vtghp54yro/Jeffrey_Cain_-_For_You.zip

Ernest Martin - That Last Inauguration

I got the chance to go to the County/Rebel Records offices right outside of Charlottesville VA in April. Fun day looking through everything and talking.  Around the time when we we're leaving we started looking through a box of LPs that were going up for sale and I asked about this one and bought it up from him.  Ernest was from Powell Co. Ky and recorded 6 songs for Rich R Tone Records in the late 40's then turned his attention towards evangelism - 65 years in service and had a radio ministry for 55 years called Highway to Heaven.  He passed at home in June of 2002 at the age of 88.

Killer hot shit bluegrass gospel record.  Just A Rose Will Do is on repeat - if anyone has more of his records Id love to hear them!

hxxp://www.mediafire.com/download/fqtyvqvqs7hrdxh/Ernest_Martin_-_That_Last_Inauguration.zip