The Bluegrass 45
09/??/1971 (Labor Day Weekend)
Camp Springs Bluegrass Festival
Reidsville, NC

Tsuyoshi 'Josh' Otsuka - guitar
Akira 'John' Otsuka - mandolin
Toshio Watanabe - bass
Saburo 'Sab' Watanabe Inoue - banjo
Hsueh-Cheng 'Ryo' Liao - fiddle

Disc One

Set 1

1. Introduction By Fred Bartenstein
2. Raise A Ruckus
3. That’s The Time
4. Place In The Sun
5. Yes Sir, She’s My Baby
6. Song Of The Sea Shore
7. Long Lonesome Road
8. Sakura
9. Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party
10. Bridge Over Troubled Water
11. Listen To The Mocking Bird


Set 2

12. Introduction By Bill Vernon
13. Raise A Ruckus
14. Wild And Reckless Hobo
15. Bluegrass Breakdown
16. Come Home My Dear One
17. The Mountain Song Of Kissan
18. Dixie Breakdown
19. Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms
20. Little Cabin Home On The Hill
21. Sitting On Top Of The World
22. Orange Blossom Special
23. Talk
24. Mocking Banjo

Set 3

25. Raise A Ruckus
26. Blue Ridge Mountain Home
27. Someday Soon (Beginning of Song Missing)
28. Salty Dog Blues
29. Modern Jazz
30. Run Mountain
31. Bring Me Back To My Home
32. Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Disc Two

Set 4

1. Introduction By Fred Bartenstein
2. Raise A Ruckus
3. That’s The Time
4. Bridge Over Troubled Water
5. Black Mountain Rag
6. How Far To Camp Springs
7. Place In The Sun
8. Fuji Mountain Breakdown
9. Song Of The Sea Shore
10. Orange Blossom Special
11. Mocking Banjo

Set 5

12. Introduction By Bill Vernon
13. Raise A Ruckus
14. That’s The Time
15. Sakura
16. Come Home My Dear One
17. Wild And Reckless Hobo
18. Earl’s Breakdown
19. Long Lonesome Road
20. Take Me Home Country Roads
21. Listen To The Mocking Bird
22. Bridge Over Troubled Water

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In the spring of 1967, the Bluegrass 45 was formed in a little coffeehouse called "Lost City" in Kobe, Japan. Right after they released a self-produced album, "Run Mountain" in 1970, they met Charles R Freeland, the president of Rebel Records at that time. Freeland was so impressed with this band that he invited them to the States. In 1971 the Bluegrass 45 toured the States performing at numerous Bluegrass festivals, on the stage of Grand Ole Opry and many Country music shows as an opening act for such luminaries as Merle Haggard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn and Roy Acuff. They were featured in a movie, "Bluegrass - Country Soul", which was filmed at the Carlton Haney's festival in Campsprings, NC. They released two albums on Rebel Records before returning home.

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