Bill Monroe ---- East Tennessee Blues

This is a very nice and very rare version of East Tennessee Blues

The info I have is that it was recorded on 20/06/1966 at Tex Logans home in Madison, New Jersey.
There are quite a few well known musicians there and apparently they played untill 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning. Around 54 songs in total with different musicians at different times during the evening.

Dave Grisman - mandolin
Bill Monroe - mandolin, vocals
Tex Logan - fiddle
Pete Rowan or Jim Rooney - guitar
Bill Keith or Don Lineburger - banjo
Gene Lowinger or Richard Greene - fiddle
James Monroe - bass

Some or all of the above musicians played during this song.

Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys with Guests
06/20/1966
Tex Logan's Home
Madison, New Jersey

SBD

DISC ONE

Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys

Peter Rowan - guitar
Don Lineburger - banjo
James Monroe - bass
Gene Lowinger - fiddle
Tex Logan - fiddle
Richard Greene - fiddle

01. // Sally Goodin
02. John Henry
03. Bluegrass Part I
04. Just Because
05. Back Up and Push
06. True Life Blues
07. White House Blues
08. Bluegrass Breakdown
09. Paddy on the Turnpike*
10. Midnight on the Stormy Deep
11. Brown County Breakdown
12. Rawhide
13. Wayfaring Stranger
14. Moonlight Waltz
15. Willow Garden
16. Tall Timber
17. Can't You Hear Me Calling
18. I Live in the Past
19. Live and Let Live
20. The Hills of Roane County

*- tape change during t09

DISC TWO

01. Medley (Wandering Boy, Brand New Pair of Shoes, Love Come Home, Little Maggie, Pretty Polly, Georgia Rose, Nine Pound Hammer)
02. Mansions for Me
03. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
04. I Am a Pilgrim
05. Life's Railway to Heaven
06. Monroe's Hornpipe
07. Monroe sign-off; Rinzler intro of next band

Jody Stecher - guitar
Winnie Winston - banjo
Dave Grisman - mandolin
Peter Rowan - bass
Richard Greene - fiddle

08. Love Come Home
09. Lonesome Road Blues
10. Little Glass of Wine
11. Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On?
12. Fanny Hill
13. Peggy Walker Blues

Bill Monroe - mandolin
Gene Lowinger - fiddle
Tex Logan - fiddle
Mike Seeger - bass
Peter Rowan - guitar

14. Intro
15. Bill Cheatham
16. Sitting on Top of the World
17. Paddy Won't You Drink Some Good Old Cider*
18. Dusty Miller
19. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Richard Greene - fiddle)

*- tape change during t17

DISC THREE

Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard
with Bill Monroe, Tex Logan, Lamar Grier, and Mike Seeger

01. Hazel and Alice intro; Lonesome Road Blues
02. The One I Love is Gone
03. Darling Nellie Across the Sea
04. Cripple Creek (Mike - banjo, James Monroe - bass)
05. I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling (Alice and Hazel - guitars, Grisman - mando, Lamar, Tex)
06. I Bowed My Head and Cried Again
07. Blue, Sad, and Lonesome (Hazel and Mike duet)
08. T.B. Blues (Mike, Hazel, Richard, Bob Yellin)
09. Old Joe Clark (Pete Wernick - banjo, Johnny Carlini - guitar)

Source tape notes that the following set begins at 4:45 AM

Musicians:

Hazel Dickens - vocals
Dave Grisman - mandolin
Bill Monroe - mandolin, vocals
Tex Logan - fiddle
Pete Rowan or Jim Rooney - guitar
Bill Keith or Don Lineburger - banjo
Gene Lowinger or Richard Greene - fiddle
James Monroe - bass

10. Somebody Touched Me (Bill, Hazel, Grisman - bass, Bluegrass Boys)
11. Lonesome Valley
12. Shine on Me
13. Crying Holy Unto the Lord
14. East Tennessee Blues

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• East
• Tennessee
• Blues

[fiddlethis1]

Richard Greene - 1st fiddle break

Tex Logan - 2nd fiddle break

Lamar Grier - banjo

3rd fiddle break - twin fiddles Richard & Tex

Guitar - Pete Rowan

I know, I was there playing the 1st fiddle break!!

PS: Monroe was a genius..

[bry8tiyze]

Thanks for the line notes Richard!

PS you were/are a genius too!

[banjajohn]

Old-time is a Good-time! John

[FenderNashvilleTele]

@BanjoBandit1200 Are you the only one having this recordings or can I buy them on the internet? This is my Favourite version of east TN blues!

[casey8899]

@imanexxpoupei -No BLUEGRASSSSSS!

[imanexxpoupei]

Countryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[darbyviola]

This is great. . I was a friend of the Logan girls and was at those parties from the age of 11 on up. . . do you have more of these? Tex is great. . still is and I still love hearing him play, and he's got some great stories. . . Thank you for this!!!

[rainharper62]

@fiddlethis1 richard, thanks for posting this-love that fiddle and banjo too-your one lucky person, wish i

had of been there ! i also liked the twin fiddling too!! i wish i heard more of it, seems most bands can't afford

two fiddlers i guess?

[vcp430]

@fiddlethis Right you are, sir! Tex Logan, wasn't he the one who wrote Christmas Time's a-comin? Thanks for the liner notes, Richard!

[Doctorbluegrass]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I just found this. It is beautiful.

Campbell

[conmaesta]

@fiddlethis1 Man, if you are the Richard Greene who played with Seatrain, I saw you play in Toronto in the late 60's at an outdoor festival. You were fantastic. I listen to that first Seatrain album with Song of Job and Orange Blossom Special. Fantastic. I played in a few bands in which we covered those two songs in particular. And, I've never heard a better version of OBS yet.

Love you guys. Rowan too btw.

[Jimala3]

pete tex and lamar were with mitterhoff and carlini the free mex airforce in 1980