Artist: Virginia Mountain Boys

Title: Virginia Mountain Boys 2: Bluegrass String Band

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2012

Label: Folkways Records

UPC: 093070383326

Genre: Bluegrass

Album Tracks

1. Lonesome Road Blues
2. Knoxville Girl
3. Nobody's Darling
4. Lost Train Blues
5. Love Me Darlin' Just Tonight
6. I'm Glad My Wife's in Europe
7. Red Rocking Chair
8. Train 45
9. In the Pines
10. White House Blues
11. Clinch Mountain Breakdown
12. Red and Green Signal Lights
13. Poor Rambler
14. Sunny Side of the Mountain
15. John Hardy
16. Little Frankie Baker
17. Little Birdie

In the 1940s, fiddler and guitarist Glen Neaves formed the Virginia Mountain Boys, and the band performed in varying lineups through the next three decades. In many cases, the members of the band were the first in their families to play bluegrass rather than the older Appalachian string band styles they grew up with. However, the older music strongly influenced their choice of instrumentation and songs; for example, they eschewed the Dobro favored by other bands of the time and relied heavily on simple banjo picking, guitar picking, and hard-driving rhythm. Glen Neaves leads with lonesome, bittersweet singing and fiddle playing inspired by G. B. Grayson, a traditional mountain fiddler from North Carolina. Liner notes include full song lyrics and brief performer profiles with photos.