Bill Monroe · 1960
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Water Melon On The Vine Bile Them Cabbage Down That's All Right Live & Let Live Shortnin Bread OBS Lonesome Wind Blues Blue Moon Of KY Brand New Pair Of Shoes Little Georgia Rose Rawhide In Despair I've Gotta Travel On Lee Highway Blues Turkey In The Straw I Am A Pilgrim Have A Little Talk With Jesus Lonesome Road Blues On & On Bluegrass Breakdown Working On A Building Nine Pound Hammer Molly & Tenbrooks Dark Hollow Tennessee Blues Red Apple Rag ? Cheyenne Roanoke Footprints In The Snow Sally Goodin Dear Old Dixie Fire On The Mountain Little Maggie Bugle Call Rag John Henry Y'all Come
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Watermelon Park
Berryville
VA

Traveling Down This Lonesome Road Can't You Hear Me Callin' Will You Be Lovin' Another Man When He Reached Down His Hand For Me I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling Bluegrass Stomp When You Are Lonely Lonesome Road Blues
with Mac Wiseman and Don Reno this set has previously circulated incorrectly as Newport 1960, Bill Monroe did not make his Newport debut until 1963, when I got this file set I decided to investigate further because fo the discrepancy, Neil Rosenberg and Walt Saunders got all the credit for tracking down what seems to be the correct date on this one. email from Walt to Neil Hi again Neil: I tracked down the date of the show Don Owens produced at Watermelon Park, in Berryville, Va. The date was Sunday, August 14, 1960. It was billed as "Blue Grass Day." I found the ad in the newspaper archives of the Handley Library in Winchester, Va. It appeared in The Winchester Star several days before the event. The ad listed the artists. Here they are, misspellings and all, in the order and pretty much how they appeared: MAX WISEMAN and the OSBORNE BROTHERS and SCOTTY STONEMAN BILL MONROE and the BLUE GRASS BOYS DON RENO and RED SMILEY BUCK RYAN and SMITTY IRWIN ILL HARRIS The print for Wiseman, the Osbornes and Stoneman was bold and larger size than the other artists, which indicates who Owens considered to be the biggest draw, not only in the northern Shenandoah Valley, but also in the Washington, DC area, as he advertised in on his TV show. Don knew all of these artists personally, so I assume the misspellings were not his, but likely the folks at the newspaper. Bill Harris of course is Bill Harrell, and Buck and Smitty were in his band. This show was approximately a year before the one at Luray (I believe July 4, 1961), which has received all of the attention ever since.

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