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''Country Songs, Old and New'' is the debut album by the
progressive bluegrass Bluegrass music is a Music genre, genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States. The genre derives its name from the band Bill Monroe, Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. Bluegrass has r ...
band Country Gentlemen, recorded in 1960 and reissued in 1991.


Track listing

;Side 1 # "Roving Gambler" – 3:07 # "The Little Sparrow" – 3:31 # "Drifting Too Far" – 3:27 # "Weeping Willow" (A.P. Carter) – 2:01 # "Tomorrow's My Wedding Day" – 2:09 # "The Story Of Charlie Lawson" – 3:03 # "Turkey Knob" (
Eddie Adcock Edward Windsor Adcock (June 21, 1938 – March 19, 2025) was an American banjoist and guitarist. His professional career as a five-string banjoist began in 1953 when he joined Smokey Graves & His Blue Star Boys, who had a regular show at a rad ...
) – 2:18 # "Paul And Silas" – 2:26 ;Side 2 #
  • "Ellen Smith" – 2:13 # "
    The Long Black Veil "Long Black Veil" is a 1959 country ballad, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell. It is told from the point of view of a man falsely accused of murder and executed. He refuses to provide an alib ...
    " (
    Danny Dill Horace Eldred "Danny" Dill (September 19, 1924 – October 23, 2008) was an American country music singer and songwriter. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975. Biography Dill, born in Clarksburg, Tennessee, got ...
    ,
    Marijohn Wilkin Marijohn Wilkin ( Melson, formerly Russell, later Selman; July 14, 1920 – October 28, 2006) was an American songwriter, famous in country music for writing a number of hits such as " One Day At a Time" and "The Long Black Veil". Wilkin won ...
    ) – 3:35 # "Honky Tonk Rag" (
    John Duffey John Humbird Duffey Jr. (March 4, 1934 – December 10, 1996) was an American bluegrass musician. Biography Duffey was born on March 4, 1934, in Washington, D.C., and lived nearly all his life in the Washington D.C. area. He graduated from ...
    ) – 2:26 # "Jesse James" – 2:35 # "Have Thine Own Way" – 2:51 # "A Good Woman's Love" (
    Cy Coben Seymour "Cy" Coben (4 April 1919 – 26 May 2006) was an American songwriter whose hits were recorded by bandleaders, country singers, and other artists such as The Beatles, Tommy Cooper and Leonard Nimoy. Biography Early life Coben was born i ...
    ) – 3:25 # "The Double Eagle" (Josef Wagner) – 2:54 # "Darling Alalee" – 2:04


    Personnel

    * Charlie Waller - guitar, vocals *
    John Duffey John Humbird Duffey Jr. (March 4, 1934 – December 10, 1996) was an American bluegrass musician. Biography Duffey was born on March 4, 1934, in Washington, D.C., and lived nearly all his life in the Washington D.C. area. He graduated from ...
    - mandolin, vocals *
    Eddie Adcock Edward Windsor Adcock (June 21, 1938 – March 19, 2025) was an American banjoist and guitarist. His professional career as a five-string banjoist began in 1953 when he joined Smokey Graves & His Blue Star Boys, who had a regular show at a rad ...
    - banjo, vocals * Jim Cox - bass, vocals


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    {{DEFAULTSORT:Country Songs, Old And New 1960 debut albums Folkways Records albums The Country Gentlemen albums Smithsonian Folkways albums Albums produced by Charlie Waller (American musician) Albums produced by John Duffey Albums produced by Eddie Adcock