The Early Rebel Recordings 1962-1971 (1998)

About this title: This is an especially pleasing four-CD set, comprising most of the Country Gentlemen's recordings for the Rebel label over a period of nine years, when they used bluegrass music as a vehicle for innovation by way of country, folk, and rock. The influence of the Osborne Brothers can be heard throughout their early work (along with more mainstream country sources), but then they start cutting Dylan and Tom Paxton songs. The odd early individual tracks lead into the contents of the Bringing Mary Home album, which established their reputation nationally as a bluegrass act to be reckoned with. ... read more

Tracks:

1. Christmas Time Back Home [Duffy/Streeter]
2. Heavenward Bound [Duffey]
3. I Am Weary, Let Me Rest [Kuykendall]
4. Sad and Lonesome Day [Traditional/Public]
5. The Bluebirds Are Singing for Me [Duffey/Kuykendall]
6. The White Rose [Traditional/Public]
7. The Gentleman Is Blue [Adcock/Duffey]
8. Philadelphia Lawyer [Guthrie]
9. Spanish Two Step [Wills]
10. Bringing Mary Home [Duffey]
11. The Convict and the Rose [Chapin/King]
12. Banks of the Ohio [Traditional/Public]
13. Down Where the River Bends [Anglin/Peck/Wright]
14. Battle Hymn of the Republic [Howe Ward/Steffe]
15. This World's No Place to Live [Duffey/Streeter]
16. Uncle Joe [Adcock]
17. Northbound [Adcock]
18. I Let the Light Shine Down [Swan]
19. Girl from the North Country [Dylan]
20. Cold Wind Blowing [Duffey/Hill]
21. Jingle Bells [Pierpont]
22. Silent Night [Gruber/Mohr]
23. We Three Kings [Hopkins]
24. Blue Bell [Adcock/Duffey]
25. It's All over Now, Baby Blue [Dylan]
26. Matterhorn [Burch/Tillis]
27. Dark as a Dungeon [Travis]
28. Big Bruce [Duffey]
29. When They Ring Those Golden Bells [DeMarbelle/Traditio]
30. Buffalo Girls [Traditional/Public]
31. A Beautiful Life [Golden]
32. I'm Working on a Road [Flatt]
33. A Border Affair [Clark/Williams]
34. Johnny Reb [Kilgore]
35. Many a Mile [Sky]
36. Amelia Earhart's Last Flight [McEnery]
37. Lord, I'm Coming Home [Kirkpatrick/Traditi]
38. The Traveler [Duffey]
39. Silver Bell
40. Theme from Exodus [Gold]
41. Love and Wealth [Louvin/Louvin]
42. He Was a Friend of Mine
43. Daybreak in Dixie [Napier]
44. Some Old Day [Certain/Stacey]
45. Raggy Mountain Shakedown [Duffey]
46. The Banana Boat Song (Day-O) [Attaway/Lord Burges]
47. Going to the Races [Stanley]
48. Waiting for the Boys to Come Home [Presley]
49. Darling Little Joe [Traditional/Public]
50. El Dedo [Adcock]
51. I'll Be There Mary Dear [Sterling/Von Tilzer]
52. Blue Ridge Cabin Home [Certain/Stacey]
53. Take Me in a Lifeboat [Southern]
54. The Sentence [Adcock]
55. Where I'm Bound [Paxton]
56. To the Rescue [Adcock]
57. Rodger Young [Loesser]
58. Green, Green Grass of Home [Putman]
59. Along the Way [Duffey]
60. Let's [Adcock]
61. Rambling Boy [Paxton]
62. Gentlemen's Concerto [Gaudreau]
63. Take Me Back to the Valley
64. Fare-Thee-Well Cisco [Paxton]
65. Preachin', Prayin', Singin' [McCarty]
66. Mrs. Robinson [Simon]
67. Doin' My Time [Skinner]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.