Track Listing

1. Lonesome and a Long Way from Home
2. With Care from Someone
3. High Lonesome Sound
4. Rainbow Bridge
5. Watermelon Man
6. Fly Through the Country
7. Red Man Blues

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103604 in Music
• Released on: 2008-11-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

Album Description
This album was recorded live at the Telluride Festival in Colorado in 1977. New Grass Revival is Sam Bush, vocals, mandolins, fiddle, guitar; John Cowan, vocals, bass; Curtis Burch, vocals, guitar, Dobro, and Courtney Johnson, vocals, banjo. Peter Rowan guests on mandolin on "High Lonesome Sound."

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Customer Reviews

The NGR at Telluride is required listening for fans
The New Grass Revival is extraordinary "live" and this recording exemplifies the group's ability to step-it-up when in "festival" mode. The recording's quality has a very "live" sound as well, particularly evidenced in the upper instrumental ranges of Courtney Johnson's banjo and Sam Bush's fiddle. "Raindow Bridge" is one of the group's rare recorded pieces featuring the dobro, adeptly played by Curtis Birch. John Cowan's voice excites in the numbers that follow, "Watermelon Man" and "Fly Through The Country", the latter, probably better than the studio version from the album of the same name. The set hits its pitch with the concluding number, "Red Man Blues", where Bush takes the lead on fiddle and rips it up at breakneck speed. Eventhough the band has two live albums to their credit, this being the first, any committed New Grass fan should have both since they were recorded with different lineups.

For The Bluegrass Adventurer
This is the kind of music that makes the traditional grasser cringe and the bluegrass adventurist thankful for the find. John Cowan's vocals are anything but traditional bluegrass, but they are oso good. John's electric bass and slide mandolin of Sam Bush are far removed from your daddy's bluegrass as well. If you like your bluegrass on the cutting edge you'll enjoy this album.

New Grass live!
Includes a few great tunes never featured in other albums.
Lots of improvisation and energy.
One of my favorite live albums of all time with a great lineup. Sam, Courtney, Curtis and John. Yeah!