Rag" on the 'Yesterday & Today' record (it's the last song), and they do "Uncle Pen" on the 'Buddies' album. The only recordings of "Sugarfoot Rag" I'm aware of that feature Emmons are the version on his White Album, and on Duane Eddy's 'Twang a Country Song' LP. Mr E has some great stuff inīlack Mountain Rag and Blue Moon of Kentucky are not on my copy of the album however? Maybe we could do a trade if you don't already have it?) mostly standards like "Lady Be Good", "Georgia on my Mind" and others. There's an odd version of the bluegrass standard "Black Mountain Rag" on Buddy Spicher's 'Yesterday & Today' album that features Emmons and Breau. I gotta know!!! More importantly, i gotta hear it! Was it a one-song feature on another album, or is there another collaboration album I've missed?īuddy does this little passing chord move to go from I-IV at the bridge that gave me whiplash. I have "minors aloud", but this isn't from that. It made me sit bolt upright in the chair. This week a friend played me a compilation tape he'd made of Lenny Breau, and right in the middle of it was a version of "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" with Buddy Emmons playing on it. Your profile | join | preferences | help | search That the same person can be responsible for all the tracks on this record is one of the mysteries of the universe - but hey, that's Nashville.Classic country shuffle styles for Band-in-a-Box, by BIAB guru Jim Baron. The results are sheer genius, a contemplative and almost spiritual performance in which there is as much exquisitely small detail as any of the classics of minimalism. Here there is a so-called lowbrow country & western musician playing European art music on an electric instrument, no less. Still, everything described up until now was still not quite enough for the maestro, who chose to bring the album to an unforgettable conclusion by overdubbing himself to create a version of "Canon in D Major" by Johann Pachelbel that rectifies the situation, makes one restore the check next to the album's name that might have been angrily erased while listening to "Top Heavy." In fact, it could be said that this wonderful classical performance is one of the truly liberating moments in music from the perspective of any possible triumph over genre fascism. Something about this music just grates, however, and yes, there are wedding bands who play "Nothing Is Delivered" by Bob Dylan, and better than on this record to boot. Sure, this is the type of wedding band where some of the music types in attendance would be commenting on how good the pedal steel player is, and the drumming of Kenny Malone is crisp-sounding and effective. On the second side there is the equivalent of rocks in bags of potatoes, however, a band who goes for a somewhat more contemporary feel, coming across like some kind of wedding band in the process. If this album consisted totally of pieces such as the wonderful "Medley" of steel guitar favorites or the work-up of "Orange Blossom Special" on which Emmons is endlessly inventive, then it would receive the highest rating. With one, he established his abilities to play traditional country and Western swing material as if he was regaining the heavyweight championship each of his solos on these pieces is delivered with that type of combination of punches, and it is a good thing he hired a bona fide genius, guitarist Leon Rhodes, to play with him on these tracks since there are few other players who would be able to follow him up. Given the opportunity to do whatever he wanted on an album in a period when many listeners were waiting, their tongues hanging out, for the next bold innovation in country-flavored instrumental music, he convened two completely different groups to back him up. The versatility of Buddy Emmons would never be questioned.