''That High Lonesome Sound'' is the second live release of
bluegrass music by
Old & In the Way
Old & In the Way was a bluegrass group formed in 1973. It was composed of Peter Rowan (guitar, vocals), Vassar Clements (fiddle), Jerry Garcia (banjo, vocals), David Grisman (mandolin, vocals), and John Kahn (string bass). When the group was fo ...
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Old & In the Way
Old & In the Way was a bluegrass group formed in 1973. It was composed of Peter Rowan (guitar, vocals), Vassar Clements (fiddle), Jerry Garcia (banjo, vocals), David Grisman (mandolin, vocals), and John Kahn (string bass). When the group was fo ...
'', it was recorded at the Boarding House in
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
in October 1973. It was released in February 1996.
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Track listing
#"Hard Hearted" (Jesse McReynolds
Jesse Lester McReynolds (born July 9, 1929) is an American bluegrass musician. He is best known for his innovative crosspicking and split-string styles of mandolin playing.
Biography
McReynolds was born in Coeburn, Virginia. He and his brothe ...
, Jim McReynolds) – 2:46
#"The Great Pretender" (Buck Ram
Samuel "Buck" Ram (November 21, 1907 – January 1, 1991) was an American songwriter, and popular music producer and arranger. He was one of BMI's top five songwriters/air play in its first 50 years, alongside Paul Simon, Kris Kristofferson, Ji ...
) – 3:38
#"Lost" (Buzz Busby
Bernarr Graham Busbice (September 6, 1933 – January 5, 2003), known professionally as Buzz Busby, was an American bluegrass musician, known for his mandolin style and high tenor voice. He was nicknamed the "Father of Washington, D.C. Bluegra ...
, Cindy Davis) – 3:25
#"Catfish John" ( Bob McDill, Allen Reynolds
Allen Reynolds (born August 18, 1938) is an American record producer and songwriter who specializes in country music. He has been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum.
Biography
Ear ...
) – 4:05
#"High Lonesome Sound" (Peter Rowan
Peter Rowan (born July 4, 1942) is an American bluegrass musician and composer. Rowan plays guitar and mandolin, yodels and sings.
Biography
Rowan was born in Wayland, Massachusetts to a musical family. From an early age, he had an interest ...
) – 3:40
#"Lonesome Fiddle Blues" (Vassar Clements
Vassar Carlton Clements (April 25, 1928 – August 16, 2005) was an American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and ...
) – 3:06
#"Love Please Come Home" (Leon Jackson) – 3:29
#"Wicked Path of Sin" (Bill Monroe
William Smith "Bill" Monroe (; September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter, who created the bluegrass music genre. Because of this, he is often called the " Father of Bluegrass".
The genre take ...
) – 2:18
#"Uncle Pen" (Monroe) – 2:57
#"I'm On My Way Back to the Old Home" (Monroe) – 2:54
#"Lonesome L.A. Cowboy" (Rowan) – 4:22
#"I Ain't Broke (But I'm Badly Bent)" (H. Payne) – 2:51
#" Orange Blossom Special" (Ervin Rouse) – 3:31
#"Angel Band" (Jefferson Hascall, W.B. Bradbury) – 4:37
Credits
Old & In the Way
*Vassar Clements
Vassar Carlton Clements (April 25, 1928 – August 16, 2005) was an American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and ...
– fiddle
* Jerry Garcia – banjo, vocals
* David Grisman – mandolin, vocals
*John Kahn
John Kahn (June 13, 1947 – May 30, 1996) was an American electric and acoustic bassist. From 1970 to 1995, Kahn was Jerry Garcia's principal musical collaborator outside of the Grateful Dead.
Biography
John Kahn was born in Memphis, Tennessee ...
– acoustic bass
The acoustic bass guitar (sometimes shortened to acoustic bass or initialized ABG) is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually larger than a steel-string acoustic guitar. Like the traditional electric bass guitar ...
*Peter Rowan
Peter Rowan (born July 4, 1942) is an American bluegrass musician and composer. Rowan plays guitar and mandolin, yodels and sings.
Biography
Rowan was born in Wayland, Massachusetts to a musical family. From an early age, he had an interest ...
– guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...
, vocals
Production
*Recording engineers – Owsley Stanley
Augustus Owsley Stanley III (January 19, 1935 – March 12, 2011) was an American-Australian audio engineer and clandestine chemist. He was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement during the 1960s and played a pivotal role ...
, Victoria Babcock
*Producer – David Grisman
*Production coordination – Craig Miller
*Mastering – Paul Stubblebine
*Liner notes – Neil V. Rosenber
Richard Loren, Owsley Stanley
*Design, layout – D. Brent Hauseman
*Photography – Neil V. Rosenberg, Nobuharu Koboriya, Susana Millman, Sheldan Collins
Notes
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Old & In the Way live albums
1996 live albums
Acoustic Disc live albums