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Home Grown

Putnam String County Band: Home Grown (Rounder 3003)

Home Grown
Putnam String County Band

Rounder Records 3003 (LP, USA, 1977)

Putman County is about 50 miles north of New York City

Recorded by Bill Spence;
Photograph by Carole Wilson;
Cover drawings by Tom Allen;
Back cover by Dale Appleman

Musicians

Lyndon Ungar: vocals [1-6, 8-13, 15, 17-18], guitar [1-7, 10, 13-15, 18], jew's harp [9, 11], fiddlesticks [12];
Jay Ungar: vocals [2-3, 6, 13, 17-18], fiddle [1, 3-5, 7-12, 14-15, 18], guitar [2, 6, 16-17], mandolin [13];
Abby Newton: vocals [4-5, 8-9, 17], cello [1-3, 5-8, 10, 13, 15, 17-18], jew's harp [4, 11-12], limberjack [9, 14];
John Cohen: vocals [4, 9-11, 15-16], banjo [1, 7, 10-13, 18], mandolin [2-3, 14, 17], guitar [4, 9, 15]

Tracks

Side 1

  1. Come to the Mountain
  2. The Last Go Round
  3. The Answer to the Question
  4. The Candidate's a Dodger (Roud 3758)
  5. Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
  6. The Credit Card Song
  7. Third Avenue Reel (instrumental)
  8. Black Jack Davey (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124)
  9. Saddle up the Grey

Side 2

  1. Rabbit in the Pea Patch (Roud 17888)
  2. Charmin' Betsy (Roud 7052)
  3. Twin Sisters (instrumental)
  4. Perilous Journey
  5. Bonaparte's Retreat Down the Lee Highway to Florida Blues (instrumental)
  6. All the Little Chickens in the Garden (Roud 2552)
  7. Nixon Daze
  8. Hi-Fi Stereo Color T.V.
  9. Sweet Sixteen

Tracks 1-3, 6-7 Jay Ungar;
Tracks 4, 8-12, 14 trad.;
Track 5 Lyndon Ungar;
Track 13 Jay Ungar, Lyndon Ungar;
Track 15 James Allan Bland;
Track 16 Miami AP;
Track 17 Jay Ungar, John Cohen;
Track 18 Charlie Poodle and the North Carolina Ramblers