BILL MONROE: BEAN BLOSSOM Original 1973 MCA 2 Record Set
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Original 1973 MCA pressing of the BILL MONROE two record set BEAN BLOSSOM (2-8002)
Original Black Label, Silver Print, Rainbow at upper left Label.
It was later reissued with a Tan Label and then with a Light Blue Label.
AMG 4 1/2 STARS: There is very little in the world quite like a good, live bluegrass album, and this is as good as it gets. The album was recorded in 1973 at the seventh annual Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival in Bean Blossom, IN, and features, alongside Monroe, most of the greats of early bluegrass, still kicking in the 1970s-Jim and Jesse, Jimmy Martin, James Monroe, Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass, and 12 of the period's greatest fiddlers. The only notably absent figures of the classic bluegrass canon are the Stanley Brothers and Earl Scruggs; Carter Stanley died in 1966, and Scruggs, who had recently broken fromFlatt to pursue more "modern" sounds in bluegrass music, was still getting the silent treatment fromMonroe for leaving his Bluegrass Boys in the first place. Curly Ray Cline, Clarence "Tater" Tate, Tex Logan, Kenny Baker, and the other eight fiddlers play simultaneously on three instrumental standards, "Soldier's Joy," "Grey Eagle," and "Down Yonder," backing Monroe on the album's final track, a lively and unforgettable "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." The music is played, for the most part, at a tightly reined turbo speed and, along with the steady claps and yells and sure-enough screams of an enormously rowdy audience, makes for about the most exciting 75 minutes of music imaginable. Bean Blossom captures the true, original spirit of the music created by Monroe as much or more than any other album, and provides a sturdy backbone to any bluegrass collection.
Condition: the gatefold sleeve grades EX, with light wear. The records grade MINT and have never been played. Original inner sleeves included; the records ship in anti-static, dust free, archival sleeves. Check out my feedback score; you won't be disappointed.
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