Country Blue-grass from Southwest Virginia

Country Bluegrass from Southwest Virginia is the first in a series of albums recorded by the Virginia Mountain Boys. Even as many commercial bluegrass bands in the 1970s were being influenced by Nashville or folk rock sounds, the Virginia Mountain Boys stuck to the traditional bluegrass sounds that were pioneered decades earlier. Eschewing the Dobro favored by other bands of the time, for example, the band’s sound relies heavily on the simple banjo picking and hard-driving rhythm of traditional Appalachian mountain music. Glen Neaves leads with lonesome, bittersweet singing and fiddle playing inspired by G. B. Grayson, a traditional mountain fiddler from North Carolina.

Track Listing

101	Don’t Go out Tonight My Darlin'	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	03:53
102	What a Friend We Have in Mother	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	03:55
103	Fortune	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	02:04
104	Careless Love	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	03:15
105	Poor Ellen Smith	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	03:04
106	N**** Trader*	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	02:25
107	Someday We'll Meet Again Sweetheart	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	03:03
108	Barbara Allen	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	04:07
201	Two Dollar Bill	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	03:08
202	Drunkard's Dream	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	02:24
203	Drinkin' from the Fountain	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	02:58
204	On the Banks of Old Tennessee	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	02:18
205	Man of Constant Sorrow	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	04:33
206	Hangman (Song)	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	03:09
207	When the Roses Bloom Again	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	03:52
208	Cripple Creek	Glen Neaves and the The Virginia Mountain Boys	04:00