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Strictly
Country Records
- Strictly
Country Records
- NEW
RELEASE
- European Word Of
Bluegrass 2002
- Cat.
No: SCR-A16
- Barcode:
7 42451 85162 5
- Release
date: October 2002
- In May 2002, the 5th
European World of Bluegrass,
affectionately known as EWOB, was held in Voorthuizen, Holland. The
event featured 45 bands from 15 European countries, and 4 artists from the
U.S.A.,
the home of bluegrass music.
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- Bands
travel from countries as far-flung as Russia, Italy, and England to
perform at EWOB, which is organized by the European Bluegrass Music
Association (EBMA), and supported by the International Bluegrass Music
Association (IBMA). The musicianship, as well as the songwriting by
some of
the non-native English-speaking artists is excellent, and it is truly
heartwarming
to see this music spreading its branches throughout the world.
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- On
this album, 26 groups each perform one number, recorded “live” during
the EWOB 2002 event. Highlights
include the very creative Reliéf [Czech
Rep.] #1 European Bluegrass Band 2000; Red Wine [Italy] (#3
European Bluegrass Band 2002) on their first trip to EWOB;
Nugget [Austria] #1 European Bluegrass Band 1999, #2 European Bluegrass
Band 2002) – the smoothest of them all; Liz Meyer [USA] known for
her powerful original songs, accompanied every year at EWOB by Nugget;
special guests Sally Jones and the Sidewinders [USA] from Nashville; and
the #1 European Bluegrass Band 2002,
4Wheel Drive [Netherlands], featuring Holland’s finest bluegrass
singer, Theo Lissenberg.
- Strictly
Country Records
- NEW
RELEASE
- Paul
Craft
- “Raised
by the Railroad Line”
- Cat.
No: SCR-52
- Barcode:
7 42451 85522 7
- Release
date: October 2002
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- After
lying forgotten on
Paul
Craft’s music
room shelf for some 30 years, Strictly Country Records
is proud to release these unique early seventies recording sessions.
The songs are some of Paul’s early compositions.
Raised
By the Railroad Line
is the song he claims to be “his first worthwhile song”.
A later version of this song, now a bluegrass classic, can be found
on his Brother
Jukebox
album (SCR-49), also on Strictly
Country Records.
- Most
of the tracks are directly recorded with Paul’s favourite
Nashville-band at the time, the legendary Steam
Powered Aero-Plain Band: John Hartford on
banjo;
Vassar Clements
on fiddle; Norman
Blake
on guitar and mandolin; and Tut
Taylor
on
Dobro. Paul plays guitar, and
overdubbed the bass.
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- The
additional tracks, were recorded in the same period with Paul’s longtime
Seldom
Scene
friends, Mike
Auldridge
on
Dobro and
Ben
Eldridge on
banjo. Vassar
Clement
added his distinctive fiddle to these tracks as well.
- Allen
Reynolds
and
Don Williams
are
the back up singers on 3 of the songs.
- As
Tut
Taylor states in the liner notes:
- “When
Paul asked the Aero-Plain Band to join him on this project we were elated.
We had another opportunity to expand our sound.
This was a fun session.
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- I
think this CD shows an exciting and tender side of Paul Craft.
Whatta guy.”
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- SCR
Productions - PO Box 628 - 2130 AP Hoofddorp - The Netherlands
phone: +31 (0)297 347 101 Fax: +31 (0)297 347 488
email: scr@pietergroenveld.com
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- Strictly
Country Records
- RE-RELEASE
- Steve
Huber
- "Pullin' Time"
- Cat.
No: SCR-41
- Barcode:
7 42451 85412 1
- Re-release
date: October 2002
- Steve
Huber,
one of Nashville's leading
Scruggs‑style banjo players, has worked with such top bluegrass
artists as Bob Paisley
and the Southern Grass, Paul
Adkins and Borderline,
Chris Jones & The
Night Drivers, and the
Grammy‑ nominated Lonesome
Standard Time.
- The
music on this recording is crisp, clean and hard driving, mostly
traditional, but with a hint of progressive style here and there.
- Steve
Huber is
a true banjo virtuoso who plays each tune to perfection. His skill is
apparent in the varied approaches and styles he plays, especially on the
tunes he has written for this, his debut CD.
- “Pullin’
Time” features
some of the finest musicians in bluegrass today, such as
Tony Rice, Rob Ickes, Butch Baldassari,
Stuart Duncan, Jimmy Gaudreau, Randy
Howard, Missy Raines,
and others.
- “Pullin’
Time” was first released in 1995, and returns by popular demand for a
second round of attention.
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- SCR
Productions - PO Box 628 - 2130 AP Hoofddorp - The Netherlands
phone: +31 (0)297 347 101 Fax: +31 (0)297 347 488
email: scr@pietergroenveld.
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