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This includes their classic, "Dooley", a fast up-tempo song they performed on the Andy Griffith Show. The "Live Almost" section provides an excellent insight as to how entertaining they would be in a live venue. It took a while to find recordings of The Dillards. It also has a solid version of "Buelin' Banjo" prior to the movie "Deliverance". They have a great introduction story to their version of "Old Blue". The combination CD that encompasses their first two albums, "Back Porch Bluegrass" and "Live. Almost." is compiled of 28 songs that display the group's talent as musicians and entertainers.
doug picks his banjo so fast in some songs it sounds like there is 2 banjo s playing. dougs banjo deans mandoline mitches humor and bass rodneys singing and guitar skills are truly at their prime in this 16 track album. this album is hot raw and some hardcore bluegrass it never sounded so good. i own almost every album the dillards have released. this is my favorite album and is the latest released in 1999.
Summer 1962: In a scant few weeks, The Dillards would fall off the turnip truck in L.A. It's a veritable bluegrass blitzkrieg from start to finish as the boys pick like the very devil was in their drawers on frantic arrangements mastered on bassist Mitch Jayne's by now legendary back porch. But first, they had to get their feet wet at Washington University in St. The boys from Salem done good, in a debut so spine-tinglingly urgent, so raw and so real, that privileged first audience was picking the hay out of their ears for weeks.
Rodney's big, friendly voice was already on the way to becoming a national treasure. If someone had throw water on them, The Dillards would've smoked like a house afire. Pick a song, any song. Listen for it leading the irresistible "groundHAWG" chorus on the song of the same name.The Dillards would later become master showmen, so it's a real guilty pleasure to witness a clearly nervous Mitch fumbling through his song intros and Rodney having to stretch a note to way out yonder to cover for a left-out line in "Old Blue." Doug Dillard and Dean Webb, proving they really do have witchery in their fingers, if not their families, play at such breakneck speed on numbers like "Cripple Creek," "Katie Cline" and "Whitehouse Blues," they must have needed stitches afterwards.Sure, their first time out The Dillards had a bad case of the jitters and it shows, but their unbridled joy in the music would not be denied. Some of my favorites are the transcendent "Banjo in the Hollow," "Cannonball Blues," "Old Man at the Mill" and "Old Blue," that saddest of dead dog songs, passionately sung by group baby Rodney Dillard, then all of twenty. and, practically overnight, nab not only a major recording contract with Elektra Records but also a plum role on one of TV's then-hottest series ("The Andy Griffith Show," as if you didn't know).
They sure picked like one.The highlights. See for yourself.There's a very entertaining booklet, too, with seldom seen photos and Mitch's insightful and funny commentary. Louis, MO. Forty years later, it's your turn to be charmed and bedazzled.Fit to bust with equal parts nervousness and Ozarkian gumption, The Dillards clearly felt Missouri's nickname ought to be the We'll Show You State.
Hip songs,lightning fast banjo playing,and great harmonizing.Hey.any group that sings songs about groundhogs,moonshiners,mountain folks,and dead dogs with such enjoyment and energy is worth checking out.and they were semi regulars on the Andy Griffith Show.enough said. Buy this CD.This is an incredible performance by an equally incredible group.They don't make bluegrass music like this anymore.
A must for all Dillards' fans. Old Man at the Mill and Cannonball Blues are two of my favorites and Douglas burns up the place with his lightening fast performance of Banjo in the Hollow. Incredible live recording of one of America's favorite bluegrass bands. The recording quality is as impressive as the boys' musical talents.
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