The
Bluegrass Alliance alumni are alive and kickin'. They are some of the best players to ever pick and sing Bluegrass and Newgrass Music:
Dan Crary, Tony Rice, Sam Bush and the Newgrass Revival, Lazy River, Vince Gill - just to name several of them. The list is vast and impressive. It dates back to 1968.
Bluegrass AllianceGreat Midwestern Bluegrass Music Hall
Louisville, KY
September 23, 1975
SBD mixed and taped by Monte Barry
transferred and remastered by Monte Barry on September 8, 2008
Source:
SBD > Nakamichi 550 w/ Dolby NR > Advent Chromium Dioxide C-120 cassette tape
Lineage:
MR cassette > Nakamichi 550 > Lexicon Alpha > Samplitude 24-bit at 48 KHz
down-converted and down-sampled in Samplitude > 16-bit at 44.1 KHz
Vince Gill - lead and tenor vocals, rhythm and lead guitar, dobro
Bill Millet - lead and baritone vocals, banjo, rhythm guitar
Al White - lead vocals, mandolin, rhythm guitar
Lonnie Peerce - tenor vocals, fiddle
Marshall Billingsley - bass fiddle
Please "name these tunes" in your comments/reviews
Set 1
d1t01 name this tune
d1t02 East Virginia Blues
d1t03 Don't Cry Blue
d1t04 name this instrumental
d1t05 Leaves That Are Green
d1t06 Slewfoot
d1t07 You Don't Know My Mind
d1t08 name this instrumental
d1t09 Long Black Veil
d1t10 Sittin' on Top of the World
d1t11 500 Miles Away from Home
d1t12 Green Sleeves
d1t13 Paradise
d1t14 Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Set 2
d1t15 //Doin' My Time
d1t16 Tennessee Blues
d1t17 //Blue Moon of Kentucky
d1t18 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere//
d2t01 //name this tune
d2t02 Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
d2t03 Fox on the Run
d2t04 Good Woman's Love
d2t05 Sweetheart of Mine
d2t06 Take Me Back to Tulsa
d2t07 Black Mountain Rag
d2t08 Ghost Riders in the Sky
d2t09 Louise
d2t10 Amy
d2t11 //name this tune
d2t12 Orange Blossom Special
Set 3
d2t13 Dark Hollow
d2t14 Panhandle Rag
d2t15 name this tune
d2t16 Black Mountain Rag//
notes:
track changes are seamless
tracks are normalized to 100%
tape was transferred "as is" w/EQ set flat
tape was edited raw (paused) on-the-fly during taping
recorded on a single 120-minute cassette
reel-flip cut-off at end of d1t18
tape ends before end of show
Vince Gill is 18 yrs old
Bill Millet breaks banjo string in d1t14 Foggy Mtn Breakdown at 2:40
Al White does a cool Bob Dylan imitation at 1:55 into d1t18
- day/date calc reveals this is a Tuesday night
- which explains why the crowd is nil in 3rd set
Vince Gill joins
Boone Creek spring of 1976 -
Thayne Bradford replaces him
Boone Creek - SBD - 1976-03-20w/
Ricky Scaggs, Jerry Douglas, and Vince Gill on The Internet Archive
torrent for this showBluegrass AllianceLonnie Peerce, Robert Pool, Thayne Bradford, Bob Briendenbach, John Jump, Bill Millet
Bluegrass Alliance - Vince is back
Million Dollar Cowboy Bar - Jackson Hole, Wyoming - July, 1976
Bluegrass AllianceLonnie Peerce, Robert Pool, John Jump, Vince Gill, Bob Briedenbach, Bill MilletMonte Barry is the soundman for Bluegrass Alliance and Lazy River
The Boys dump Lonnie Peerce and form
Lazy River - summer 1976
Lazy River w/ Vince Gill - SBD on The ArchiveTorrent for this SBDVince Gill
Lazy RiverJohn Jump, Robert Pool, Vince Gill, Bill Millet, Bob Briedenbach
Cowboy Song performed live by
Lazy RiverMonte's favorite original tune - written and sung by
John JumpLazy River w/ Mark O'Connor - SBD on The ArchiveTorrent for this SBDMark O'Connor
Sam, Ebo, Curtis, & Courtney dump Lonnie Peerce in 1971
They leave
Bluegrass Alliance and form the legendary
Newgrass RevivalNewgrass Revival - SBD - 1975-09-28 on The Internet Archive
torrent for this showCurtis Burch is off-camera playing his dobro
Sam Bush, Ebo Walker & Courtney Johnson - Hamilton, Ontario 1973
Courtney JohnsonMr. Banjo
1939 - 1996
John CowanThe Evansville Songbird
Curtis BurchDr. Dobro
Sam & Curtis
Curtis, Courtney & Sam
Newgrass Revival
Béla Fleck
Countless Thousands of us love You Boys
Thankyou for your amazing Newgrass MusicNewgrass RevivalCourtney Johnson, Curtis Burch, Sam Bush, John Cowan
The King is on the left -- The Godfather is on the rightSam Bush and
John Hartford -- Telluride Festival very early years
According to
Sam Bush,
"
Without John's AereoPlane album, there would be no ‘newgrass’ music."
John Hartford, Sam Bush, Pete Wernick
John Hartford collection torrent —
16 shows 1970 to 1990John Hartford1937 - 2001
Sam Bush receives State of Kentucky Honor - March, 2008
former Taper, soundman, and roommate Monte Barry was at this Reunion
gathering and celebration - Harry Bickel's place - Dec 14, 2008 - Louisville, KY
Tony Rice, Curtis Burch, Dan Crary, J.D. Crowe, John Cowan, Sam BushRudyard Kipling club - Louisville, KY Dec 14, 2008
Dan Crary, Sam Bush, John Cowan, J. D. Crowe, Tony Rice - Curtis Burch is off-camera
Also circulating on this Forum
Monte's Newgrass music pageMonte's tapes on The Internet Archive 
Listening to:
Cowboy Song
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