First Annual Fincastle Bluegrass Festival
Cantrell's Horse Farm
Fincastle, VA
Friday, September 3, 1965

Source: Sounboard Master Reel
Transfer: Tascam BR-20 > Aardvark DirectPro 24/96 > Wavelab 4 > 16/44.1 > CDR > EAC > Audition 1.5 > CD Wave > Flac16

Notes:
- First Multi-Day Bluegrass Festival
- Sometimes referred to as Roanoke Blugrass Festival due to the way it was printed on the poster
- Osborne Brothers did not appear due to contractual obligations elsewhere, despite being adverised on the poster
- Recording was halted during Mac Wiseman's set


Red Smiley and the Bluegrass Cutups

d01t01. Carlton Haney Intro
d01t02. Love Please Come Home
d01t03. Baby Blue Eyes
d01t04. Dear Old Dixie
d01t05. Discussion

Clyde Moody (with the Bluegrass Cutups)

d01t06. Haney Intro
d01t07. I Know What it Means to Be Lonesome
d01t08. Six White Horses
d01t09. John Hardy
d01t10. Haney interviews Moody
d01t11. John Henry
d01t12. Blues song

Mac Wiseman

d01t13. Haney Intro
d01t14. When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain
d01t15. The Baggage Coach Ahead
d01t16. Jimmy Brown the Newsboy
d01t17. Q&A with Mac Wiseman, Haney announcements

George Shuffler with Stanley Brothers

d01t18. Haney Intro
d01t19. Think of What You've Done
d01t20. How Mountain Girls Can Love
d01t21. Single Girl, Married Girl
d01t22. Freedom March Joke
d01t23. Man of Constant Sorrow
d01t24. Man of Constant Sorrow (reprise)
d01t25. (chatter)
d01t26. Mansions For Me
d01t27. Rank Stranger
d01t28. Talking with Carter and George

Mandolin Workshop with Bill Monroe

d02t01. Ralph Rinzler announcements, intro
d02t02. Soldier's Joy
d02t03. Watson's Blues (unnamed at the time)
d02t04. Get Up John
d02t05. The Grey Eagle
d02t06. Long Journey Home (3 versions)
d02t07. Moonlight Waltz
d02t08. The Walls of Time
d02t09. Unknown
d02t10. Rawhide
d02t11. Kansas City Railroad Blues
d02t12. Blackberry Blossom
d03t13. Paddy on the Turnpike
d02t14. Tennessee Blues

Don Reno - banjo
Ronnie Reno - mando
Chuck? - bass
Sid Campbell - guitar

d02t15. // Sweetheart of Mine
d02t16. Billy in the Low Ground
d02t17. Lonesome Hearted Blues
d02t18. San Antonio Rose
d02t19. I Guess It's Only Right That I Should Pay
d02t20. Follow the Leader
d02t21. Somewhere Tonight
d02t22. Steel Guitar Rag
d02t23. Silver Bells

Clyde Moody (w. Don and Ronnie Reno and group)

d02t24. Carlton Haney intro, Clyde chatter
d02t25. Nobody's Business What I Do
d02t26. I Know What it Means to Be Lonesome
d02t27. Six White Horses
d02t28. John Hardy
d02t29. When the Old Red River Flows
d02t30. Haney outro

Stanley Brothers

Carter Stanley - guitar
Ralph Stanley - banjo
George Shuffler - guitar
Bernie Rice - mandolin

d03t01. Carlton Haney intro
d03t02. Let Me Love You One More Time
d03t03. The Hills of Roane County
d03t04. Late Last Night When Willie Got Home
d03t05. I'm So Lonesome While You're Gone
d03t06. (chatter - Carter: "Them chocolate bugs is all right, but them vanillers, I can't hardly stand em")
d03t07. Little Maggie (x)
d03t08. If I Lose
d03t09. Man of Constant Sorrow
d03t10. Carter tells freedom march joke
d03t11. Little Birdie
d03t12. Think of What You've Done

Red Smiley and the Bluegrass Cutups

Red Smiley - guitar
Bonnie Beverly - fiddle
Gene Burrows - mandolin
David Deese - banjo
John Palmer - bass

d03t13. Haney intro
d03t14. Unwanted Love
d03t15. Cotton-Eyed Joe
d03t16. My Little Georgia Rose
d03t17. Banjolina
d03t18. In the Garden
d03t19. Lost to a Stranger
d03t20. The Lady of Spain
d03t21. I Cried Again
d03t22. David Grisman introduction
d03t23. Paddy on the Turnpike*
d03t24. Blues in G*
d03t25. I Know You're Married But I Love You Still
d03t26. Love Please Come Home
d03t27. I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome#
d03t28. Western Hope#
d03t29. Haney Announcements

* w. David Grisman
# w. Don Reno

Mac Wiseman and the Country Boys

d04t01. Carlton Haney intro
d04t02. Wabas/h Cannonball
d04t03. I Wonder How the Old Folks Are At Home
d04t04. Carlton saying to turn recorders off

Doc Watson

d04t05. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms* (x)

Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys

d04t06. Carlton Haney intro - very low levels, boosted so as to make him somewhat audible
d04t07. (x) Live and Let Live (with distortion and noise)
d04t08. Dark Hollow
d04t09. Salt Creek
d04t10. Rawhide
d04t11. Uncle Pen
d04t12. John Henry
d04t13. Blue Moon of Kentucky
d04t14. The Bluegrass Ramble
d04t15. Rose of Old Kentucky
d04t16. Wayfaring Stranger
d04t17. Muleskinner Blues
d04t18. Bill Talking
d04t19. Turkey in the Straw
d04t20. Bill signs off, Haney outro

*- signal cuts out (mostly) in middle, fades out at end


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