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Newgrass Revival on September 28, 1975

by: Monte Barry

Publication date: 1975-09-28

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States

Topics: Monte Barry, Newgrass Revival, Sam Bush, Courtney Johnson, Curtis Burch, John Cowan, Hazel Johnson, bluegrass

Newgrass Revival - SBD - patch provided by Hazel Johnson

Bluegrass Renaissance
Louisville, KY
September 28, 1975

Set 1
d1t01 I'm Not the Only One
d1t02 You Don't Love Me
d1t03 This Heart of Mine
d1t04 Mississippi Delta Home
d1t05 Crooked Smile
d1t06 Cold Sailor
d1t07 Good Woman's Love
d1t08 Pennies in My Pocket
d1t09 Steam Powered Aereoplane
d1t10 The Rainbow Bridge
d1t11 Norwegian Wood
d1t12 Sally Goodin'
d1t13 Fly Through the Country

Set 2
d1t14 I'll Never See My Home Again
d1t15 Silence or Tears
d2t01 With Care from Someone
d2t02 Sittin' on Top of the World
d2t03 Red Man's Blues
d2t04 Me and My Uncle
d2t05 band intro
d2t06 The Dancer
d2t07 Mississippi Dew
d2t08 Like a Child in the Rain
d2t09 These Days

Newgrass Revival
Sam Bush - vocals, mandolin, mando-dobro, fiddle, accoustic and electric guitars
Courtney Johnson - vocals, banjo
Curtis Burch - vocals, guitar, dobro
John Cowan - vocals, electric bass

bit torrent for this show

published April 21, 2008
Taped, transferred and remastered by Monte Barry
420bikeandhike@gmail.com

Source: SBD > Nakamichi 550 > Advent Chromium Dioxide cassette w/ Dolby NR

Lineage: MR cassette > Nakamichi 550 > Lexicon Alpha - 48Khz / 24-bit > USB > Samplitude Samplitude > 44.1Khz / 16-bit > Trader's Little Helper > Flac

Please purchase Newgrass Revival albums and CDs
this show is vintage NGR era

Fly Through The Country album
Flying Fish Records - 1975

Notes

Courtney Johnson, Curtis Burch, Sam Bush, John Cowan

reel-flip cut at 4:26 in Fly Through the Country
Set 3 is missing

Sam Bush - King of Newgrass
Courtney Johnson - Mr. Banjo
Curtis Burch - Dr. Dobro
John Cowan - The Evansville Songbird

This venue, the Bluegrass Renaissance, was a great local spot on Bardstown Road, in Louisville. A few months later, they changed their name to the Mason Jar. Newgrass Revival played this venue frequently, often for 3 nights or more. I saw them playing there dozens of times. Today, the same proprietors have a similar venue named Rudyard Kipling, at a different location.

The band was able to deliver pretty good sound to their audiences. They were using La Scala speakers for the main PA. Courtney Johnson's wife, Hazel, ran the sound and did the mix. She was good. She would quickly restring and tune NGR's instruments, after a broken string on stage. On this night in September 1975, I showed up early. My Nakamichi 550 portable tape deck was outside in my VW beetle. Hazel permitted me to assist them setting up the sound system. When we were done setting up, we did the final soundcheck. Then I asked Hazel if I could tape them. Let's thank Hazel and the boys for giving me the SBD patch to record from.