Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Christmas Time Back Home
2. Heavenward Bound
3. I Am Weary, Let Me Rest
4. Sad and Lonesome Day
5. Bluebirds Are Singing for Me
6. White Rose
7. Gentleman Is Blue
8. Philadelphia Lawyer
9. Spanish Two Step
10. Bringing Mary Home
11. Convict and the Rose [#]
12. Banks of the Ohio
13. Down Where the River Bends
14. Battle Hymn of the Republic
15. This World's No Place to Live
16. Uncle Joe [#]
17. Northbound
18. I Let the Light Shine Down
19. Girl from the North Country
20. Cold Wind Blowing
21. Jingle Bells
22. Silent Night
23. We Three Kings
24. Blue Bell
25. It's All over Now, Baby Blue
26. Matterhorn
27. Dark as a Dungeon
28. Big Bruce

Disc 2:

1. When They Ring Those Golden Bells
2. Buffalo Girls
3. Beautiful Life
4. I'm Working on a Road
5. Border Affair
6. Johnny Reb
7. Many a Mile
8. Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
9. Lord, I'm Coming Home
10. Traveler
11. Silver Bell [#]
12. Theme from Exodus
13. Love and Wealth [#]
14. He Was a Friend of Mine
15. Daybreak in Dixie
16. Some Old Day
17. Raggy Mountain Shakedown
18. Banana Boat Song (Day-O)
19. Going to the Races
20. Waiting for the Boys to Come Home
21. Darling Little Joe
22. Dedo
23. I'll Be There Mary Dear
24. Blue Ridge Cabin Home
25. Take Me in a Lifeboat
26. Sentence
27. Where I'm Bound

Disc 3:

1. To the Rescue
2. Rodger Young
3. Green, Green Grass of Home
4. Along the Way
5. Let's
6. Rambling Boy
7. Gentlemen's Concerto
8. Take Me Back to the Valley
9. Fare-Thee-Well Cisco
10. Preachin', Prayin', Singin'
11. Mrs. Robinson
12. Two Little Boys
13. Doin' My Time
14. Rank Strangers (To Me)
15. Heaven [#]
16. Gone Home
17. Rank Strangers (To Me)
18. I'm Using My Bible for a Roadmap
19. Over the Hills to the Poorhouse
20. Little White Church
21. Heaven
22. Bill Bailey
23. He Will Set Your Fields on Fire
24. Are You Washed in the Blood
25. One Wide River
26. On the Sunny Side of Life
27. Born Again
28. I'll Break Out Again Tonight

Disc 4:

1. Less of Me
2. I Am a Pilgrim
3. Weapon of Prayer
4. If I Were Free
5. Teach Your Children
6. Fox on the Run
7. Johnny and Jack Medley
8. I'd Rather Live by the Side of the Road
9. These Men of God
10. Cowboys and Indians
11. Sea of Heartbreak
12. Orange Blossom Mandolin
13. Yesterday
14. Girl Behind the Bar
15. Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp
16. Take Me Home, Country Roads
17. Redwood Hill
18. Secret of the Waterfall
19. Walkin' Down the Line
20. Breakin' It Down
21. New Freedom Bell
22. Old Pine Tree
23. Legend of the Rebel Soldier
24. C.G. Express
25. Little Bessie
26. Fields Have Turned Brown
27. Get in Line Buddy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64878 in Music
• Released on: 1998-04-21
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Box set

Amazon.com
The folk revival frequently takes a lot of heat from bluegrass experts. When a younger urban audience and their ethnomusicologist guides began discovering and drawing attention to established bluegrass artists in the '50s, they sometimes proffered a distorted folk purism to the music--and that can rankle hardcore bluegrassers. Yet without the folk revival, bands as seminal as the Country Gentlemen would not exist--in fact, one of the band's earliest singles was a reworking of the best-known folk-revival performance: the Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley." This four-disc box set collects the most energetic and groundbreaking work of the classic Country Gentleman ensemble--Charlie Waller, John Duffey, Eddie Adcock, and Tom Gray--as well as the equally great, early-'70s lineup of Waller, Bill Emerson, Bill Yates, and Doyle Lawson. No bluegrass band of the '60s and '70s was more influential: they brought songs by Dylan and the Beatles into bluegrass, not as novelties, but with all the soul of the standards these songs would become. But this isn't hippie newgrass either--the playing is stunning, and the harmonies grip like a vise. --Roy Kasten

No Depression
To find the first significant bluegrass act with a relationship as organically connected to that movement ... one must look at a Washington D.C. group, the Country Gentlemen.... These sessions are unmatched for the way in which the vocal and instrumental virtuosity of the band was married to a succession of songs that roamed across the entire span of popular music--and even beyond.... Classical, pop, bluegrass, folk, blues--all were grist for the Country Gentlemen's mill.... Waller and his sidemen still look for material far beyond the normal range of the bluegrass repertoire. It's a remarkable achievement.

Customer Reviews

cd set
This is a geat set for anyone who is a Country gentlemen fan, I would reccommend it to anyone!

The Country Gentlemen
I really regret that I discovered The Country Gentlemen so late in life. I don't understand how I missed them all these years but I really love their music and play it everyday. This group of CD's gives a good variety and shows the range of the Gentlemen's sound.

The Early rebel Recordins: 1962-1971
Really enjoying these songs on CD. Nice listening to Older recordings. Would Highly recommend this album for other people