Saturday, Dec, 25th — RollingStone magazineJ.D. Crowe, a pioneering banjo player with his progressive bluegrass group the New South, died Friday morning, according to a post on the musician’s Facebook page. He was 84.
“This morning at around 3 a.m. our dad, JD Crowe, went home,” Crowe’s family wrote. “Prayers needed for all during this difficult time.”
Cassette Tape #349 features a kick-ass August 15, 1975 performance by the classic incarnation of J.D. Crowe & The New South (J.D. Crowe-banjo, Tony Rice-guitar, vocals, Ricky Skaggs-mandolin, fiddle, vocals, Jerry Douglas-Dobro, & Bobby Slone-bass), at McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA, soon after the release of their groundbreaking Rounder LP, "The New South". While the tape is labeled as also containing a 1963 performance by Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, this material is not found.
Bluegrass/Newgrass doesn't get much better than heard here.
"This recording was originally made available by The Steam Powered Preservation Society, 501(c)3 at www.thespps.org." Tapes of the two-show kick-ass August 15, 1975 performance at McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA:
Internet Archive source here
Bluegrass Archive source here
J.D. Crowe & The New South
McCabe's Guitar Shop - Santa Monica, CA
August 15, 1975
SPPS Anonymous Cassette Tape #349
Transfer by Keith Kreider 02/05/2019
Source Info:
Unknown Cassette:Nakamichi ZX-7 > Sound Devices Mixpre-6 @ 24/96
Side A:
01. (x) Old Home Place
02. You Don't Know My Mind
03. Salt Creek
04. God's Own Singer
05. Some Old Day
06. Flint Hill Special
07. Dark Hollow
08. I'm Walkin'
09. Nine Pound Hammer
10. Nashville Skyline Rag
11. Devil In Disguise (end of first set)
12. (Ricky Skaggs Talk)(start of second set)
13. Sally Goodin
Side B:
01. East Virginia Blues
02. The Wild Horse of Stony Point (Skaggs-Crowe fiddle-banjo duet)
03. Freeborn Man
04. Sin City
05. Beaumont Rag
06. Why Don't You Tell Me So
07. Take This Hammer (Flatt & Scruggs Imitation)
08. You Are What I Am
09. Fireball Mail
10. Flying South To Dixie
11. Train 45
12. Born To Be With You
13. Bugle Call Rag (x)
Cassette Tape #349 features a kick-ass August 15, 1975 performance by the classic incarnation of J.D. Crowe & The New South (J.D. Crowe-banjo, Tony Rice-guitar, vocals, Ricky Skaggs-mandolin, vocals, Jerry Douglas-Dobro, & Bobby Slone-bass), at McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA, soon after the release of their groundbreaking Rounder LP, "The New South". While the tape is labeled as also containing a 1963 performance by Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys, this material is not found.
Bluegrass/Newgrass doesn't get much better than heard here.
--Mitchell Wittenberg
L - R: Tony Rice, Curtis Burch, Dan Crary, J.D. Crowe, John Cowan, Sam Bush
(photo taken at Bickel's place Dec, 2008 during our rendezvous celebration)
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