Current News 1997
Date: 1-25-97
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Bill Monroe ( Bluegrass Boys 1975). |
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after a gig with the 49er cheerleaders. USO Performances ( 1992 ) |
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2 from the above recording sessions
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3 from the Freight & Salvage Show
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4 Out Front at the Freight Show
| Mandolin legend Frank Wakefield, Bluegrass
Boy Bob Black, Jim Moss,
Bill Amatnick and Paul Squyres appeared at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, California on November 18. During the course of the show David Nelson of the New Riders of the Purple Sage, and Peter Rowan both joined the band.Frank and Bob where in town to record JimMoss's third Bluegrass fiddle album along with Bob Black's second banjo album, both of which included Paul Squyres and Jeff Smith. There were many photographs take at this event and we are negotiating for the right to display them here at this web site. |
| Bob Black played and recorded with Bill
Monroe in the mid 1970's.
Bob is known for his melodic "fiddle tune" style of banjo playing that has made him a key asset on fiddle albums. He has appeared on many of the later Kenny Baker albums such as "Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe", "Frost on The Pumpkin", "Grassy Fiddle Blues", "Dry & Dusty" and "Highlights" along with his own album "Ladies on the Steamboat" and Jim Moss's two fiddle albums "Tanyards" and "Through the Windshield" (review in the BU February 1986 issue). In addition to playing for Bill Monroe, Bob has played with the White Family, The Sullivan Family, and currently plays with Rhonda Vincent. This will be the first time that Bob Black has appeared at the Freight & Salvage. |
| Frank... well, who hasn't heard of Frank
Wakefield or more formally
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt Wakefield". He is a crazy and amazing mandolin player who will be escaping from up state New York to participate in Jim's album project. As you know, Frank played and recorded with Red Allen in the 50's and 60's, Jimmy Martin & the Sunny Mountain Boys, his own band "The Good Ole Boys", "The Greenbriar Boys" and again with Red Allen in the band "Red Allen, Frank Wakefield and the Kentuckians" who appeared on the WWVA Wheeling Jamboree. It was with the Kentuckians, that Frank appeared at Carnegie Hall in September of 1963. Frank has recorded with Jerry Garcia on the 1978 Bluegrass album "Pistol Packn' Momma". And if this was not enough, Frank made guest appearances with Leonard Bernstein and the Boston Pops Symphony Orchestra in 1967. |
| Frank Wakefield has just released a new
and very powerful solo
album called "That Was Now / This Is Then!" which has been receiving rave reviews everywhere. Frank is an unbelievable mandolin virtuoso who will blow you away with his playing. Those who have seen Frank at the Freight & Salvage over the years will remember that unforgettable "Back Talkwards" banter. He has just been honored as a "Living Legend" which he pronounces "a Dead Legend" by the IBMA. |
| Jim Moss first met Frank when he played
in High Country (1976 to 1982)
and became Frank's backup band for a time in 1979. Jim has had several bands since that time, first "Bluegrass One", and now "Jim Moss & the Hillbilly Mystics". Over the last 10 years Jim has spent much of his time playing electric and acoustic Country Western Swing and 40's Jazz Swing in addition to traditional Bluegrass. |
| Paul Squyres,
who will play guitar on the album, has played and
recorded both with Jim Moss since 1982 and more recently with his own bands. Paul is a great talent playing guitar, bass, mandolin and fiddle. Paul also excels in vocals singing bass, lead and baritone. Paul has composed many great Bluegrass songs such as "Hangman's Blues". by Jim Peva |
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from the Jim Moss Bluegrass Fiddle albums "Through The Windshield" and "Tanyards". The 1983 "Through The Windshield" album or the 1982 "Tanyards" album along with all of Bob Black's hand written banjo tab can be ordered from this site. To order any recordings or banjo tab or tosend anyone mentioned on this site comments, or to get on our private email mailing list, just doubleclick the blue hyper text below, fill out and send the email form that will appear. |
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BB147 County Sales: with Bob Black on banjo, Jeff Smith on mandolin, Dave Thompson on guitar, and Paul Squyres on bass. With guest David "Slappy" Chalupsky on banjo. With Sugar in the Gourd, Mitchell's Reel, Long Cold Winter, Cattle in the Cane, Dark was the Night Cold was the Ground, Old Uncle Jordan, Liberty, Paddy on the Turnpike,Apple Blossom, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Through the Windshield. |
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BB145 County Sales: with Bob Black on banjo, Jesse McReynolds on mandolin, Dave Thompson on guitar, and Roy Husky Jr. on bass. With special guest Kenny Baker. With Bill Monroe's "Tanyards" and "Reel Foot Reel". Also, Arkansas Traveler, Forked Deer, My Resting Place, Cherry Blossom, Old Blue Hen, Bluegrass Blues # III, Florida Blues, New Sailor's Hornpipe, Chicken Reel, Baker's Boarding House. |
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