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DescriptionBluegrass Alliance - September 23, 1975
Great Midwestern Bluegrass Music Hall
Louisville, KY

SBD mixed and taped by Monte Barry
transferred and remastered by Monte Barry on September 8, 2008

Source:
SBD > Nakamichi 550 w/ Dolby NR > Advent Chromium Dioxide C-120 cassette tape

Lineage:
MR cassette > Nakamichi 550 > Lexicon Alpha > Samplitude 24-bit at 48 KHz
down-converted and down-sampled in Samplitude > 16-bit at 44.1 KHz

Vince Gill - lead and tenor vocals, rhythm and lead guitar, dobro
Bill Millet - lead and baritone vocals, banjo, rhythm guitar
Al White - lead vocals, mandolin, rhythm guitar
Lonnie Peerce - tenor vocals, fiddle
Marshall Billingsley - bass fiddle

Please visit The Bluegrass Alliance Tribute webpage
http://www.myspace.com/thebluegrassalliancetribute

Please report any/all fileset troubles to Monte Barry
420bikeandhike@gmail.com
thanks - enjoy
peace

Please "name these tunes" in your comments/reviews

Set 1

d1t01 name this tune
d1t02 East Virginia Blues
d1t03 Don't Cry Blue
d1t04 name this instrumental
d1t05 Leaves That Are Green
d1t06 Slewfoot
d1t07 You Don't Know My Mind
d1t08 Shenandoah Beakdown
d1t09 Long Black Veil
d1t10 Sittin' on Top of the World
d1t11 500 Miles Away from Home
d1t12 Green Sleeves
d1t13 Paradise
d1t14 Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Set 2

d1t15 //Doin' My Time
d1t16 Tennessee Blues
d1t17 //Blue Moon of Kentucky
d1t18 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere//
d2t01 //name this tune
d2t02 Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
d2t03 Fox on the Run
d2t04 Good Woman's Love
d2t05 Sweetheart of Mine
d2t06 Take Me Back to Tulsa
d2t07 Black Mountain Rag
d2t08 Ghost Riders in the Sky
d2t09 Louise
d2t10 Amy
d2t11 //Too Lonesome to Cry
d2t12 Orange Blossom Special

Set 3

d2t13 Dark Hollow
d2t14 Panhandle Rag
d2t15 Thunderclouds of Love
d2t16 Black Mountain Rag//

notes:
track changes are seamless
tracks are normalized to 100%
tape was transferred "as is" w/EQ set flat
tape was edited raw (paused) on-the-fly during taping
recorded on a single 120-minute cassette
reel-flip cut-off at end of d1t18
tape ends before end of show

Vince Gill is 18 yrs old
Bill Millet breaks banjo string in d1t14 Foggy Mtn Breakdown at 2:40
Al White does a cool Bob Dylan imitation at 1:55 into d1t18

day/date calc reveals this is a Tuesday night
- which explains why the crowd is nil in 3rd set
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dead-head_Monte 2008-09-09 23:01:12
http://www.myspace.com/thebluegrassalliancetribute
mulezone 2008-09-09 23:44:54
this looks interesting, thank you for the upload.
smylx3 2008-09-10 02:28:39
Haven't finished downloading, and I will try and help you with tune tutles once I do. But I can tell you right now that
d1t13 is "Paradise" (a John Prine Tune)
d2t03 is just called "Fox On The Run"

Chip
kymule 2008-09-10 07:23:49
wow - this stuff is really interesting. The MYSpace page is as well - I like the timeline.

THANKS MONTE for this upload - that other one from Ramada Inn with a young Vince was a treat too.

I am from the Louisville area, but can't place the Great American Bluegrass Hall - do you know where it was?
segovialvr 2008-09-10 08:05:45
Great of you to post this Monte - I really appreciate it. Here is some help with some of the songs. I may be able to figure out a few more once I have time to go back and listen to the LPs. Thanks again!

d1tr2 - East Virginia Blues
d1tr5 - Leaves That Are Green (Simon & Garfunkel cover)
d1tr6 - Slewfoot
d1tr18 - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Dylan cover, recorded on "Newgrass" AH-401-30)
d2tr16 - Black Mountain Rag (recorded on "Love of the Mountains" OHS-90118)
chinadog 2008-09-10 10:34:46
This is great !!!! Thanks Monte !!
Freeborn_Man 2008-09-10 11:30:49
THANKS! cool stuff!
somewhere I have one of those '71 sets from Renfro Valley. There's a real young Tony Rice and Sam Bush on it.
dead-head_Monte 2008-09-10 13:59:37
Interesting revelation here by segovialvr. I was a Taper for about 10 years. 1973 to 1977 was my peak form. Due mostly to cost issues, I taped "over" countless recordings - but I always kept the best recordings. I have been circulating many of them here these past months. This seems to explain the 2 tracks of Black Mountain Rag in this fileset. Bands like Bluegrass Alliance often had gigs where they would grind it out, night-after-night, at "the usual" venues. Except for the Grateful Dead - and perhaps Newgrass Revival, most other bands in this time period had similar setlists each night, and often sounded very similar each night.

I must have taped over a previous night's show on my MR cassette, and the setlists lined up slightly differently. Go figure. At least this is my theory. If you listen carefully, the different nights sound identical. I taped these Boys dozens of times. Sorry about this mix-up on my end. My bad. Thanks for the heads-up and feedback from everyone.

I'm gonna plug in the corrected and additional tune titles on this info page. All you need to do is copy from here and paste into the "ba75-09-23.sbd.flac.txt" file, and you're all set. I've really enjoyed this project. I look forward to a few more in the near future.
dead-head_Monte 2008-09-10 17:20:32
kymule - I have only vague and piece-meal memories of The Great Midwestern Music Hall, but I'd be happy to share them here. Kentucky was (still is?) famous for beautiful women, bluegrass music, and fast horses. During the mid 70s The Midwestern was located in an area of downtown Louisville along the banks of the Ohio River. This area of downtown was in the middle of a major upgrade and business revitalization at the time. Perhaps it was not far from the Bellvedere (spelling?). Bluegrass Alliance and J D Crowe played there countless times. J D's band was always tops! There were many other famous bands playing there. Amazing stuff. J D Crowe regularly snatched artists from The Alliance. Ricky Scagg's band, Boone Creek, had Vince Gill boucing back and forth between BC and The Alliance. Perhaps the Newgrass Revival played there often too. I remember The Revival usually played at a tiny, very intimate club named The Mason Jar, on Bardstown Road in Louisville - typically doing 3, 4, and 5-night runs that were incredible. Those amazing nights were full of jams, impressive instrumentation skills on many instruments by Sammy, long sets, and incredible improvisations. The Revival back then was the closest thing to the Grateful Dead that I ever witnessed at this time. Then, after these gigs at The Midwestern and The Mason Jar, everyone usually headed over to Harry Bickel's place and stayed up all night jamming. I get goose-bumps just thinking about this stuff.

I believe Lonnie Peerce owned a percentage of The Midwestern. It was newly renovated and/or just opened for business at this time. The dimensions of the club were unusual. It was very wide, but not very deep - except for a slightly larger area in front of the stage platform. The bar area was off to one end, near the front entrance. After Sam Bush and the boys dumped Lonnie and formed the legendary Newgrass Revival in 1970, Lonnie retained the famous Bluegrass Alliance name and rights. He also managed the band over the years. Bill Millet correctly credits Lonnie for keeping all the Alliance artists paid and fed over the years by maintaining bookings for the band - not to mention the fame they gained. Lonnie's fiddle playing fell hugely short of the extraordinary talent that this band was famous for over these years.
fast43 2008-09-10 17:56:31
The Great Midwestern was on Washington St between 1st and 2nd st. The great Midwest was the first bar I ever went in, saw Newgrass Revival on my first trip.
That was a great block for clubs back then. On Main street was a club called the Soundstage. I saw Muddy Waters and a young Stevie Ray Vaughan there.
kymule 2008-09-11 07:24:43
sweet - thanks. I know just the spot this occured.

Thanks for all the history and info.

Harry Bickel's house!! There was a large story about Harry in the local paper a little while back - had some old pictures of the guys hanging on his front porch if I recall.

cool!

Gone are the days!
CAPTZOOM 2008-09-11 15:18:38
d1t08 Shenandoah Beakdown
d2t11 //To Lonesome to Cry
d2t15 Thunderclouds of Love
CAPTZOOM 2008-09-11 15:19:25
*d2t11 //Too Lonesome to Cry
dead-head_Monte 2008-09-11 21:37:38
Here's a great webpage on The Festivarian Fourm that I just put together. It's a great historical snapshot of The Bluegrass Alliance. Spin-off bands include Newgrass Revival and Lazy River. I put some nice pics over there for you. Best of all, I included SBDs of their music. It's laid out nicely for you. Sweet. Enjoy. Peace.

http://www.festivarian.com/index.php/topic,4599.0.html
Burnsie 2008-12-24 15:51:30
Nice time period for this music. Thanks a lot.
dogs2bird1 2009-08-26 21:22:32
I am a big fan of the band,especially back in the early 1970's. I actually got to see them perform with my dad when I was about 7 as I grew up in Louisville. The name of the song that first appears in this concert is called "LOOK AWAY BEYOND THE SUNSET" as it was released by The Bluegrass Alliance on the album "TALL GRASS" in 1973

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