robbif - Posted - 08/23/2008:  06:23:27

Folks,



There's not much flatpicking here, just a lot of good bluegrass, but I thought I'd share them with you.



frobbi.org/picking.html



I'll be adding a few more in the future.



Enjoy!



Fred

 

Edited by - robbif on 12/01/2013 11:22:47

Polson - Posted - 08/23/2008:  11:14:23

Nice one Fred.

There are some cracking songs in that playlist. Can't wait to hear more!

Cheers

Jonny

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And On The Eighth Day, God Created The Flatpicker Hangout!

imapicker2 - Posted - 08/23/2008:  12:09:41

Thanks Fred

I just watched the banjo workshop and I will be back for more.
Goof stuff!

imapicker2

Have you hugged your guitar today?

robbif - Posted - 08/24/2008:  06:41:16

I just added 3 more recordings from Berkshire Mtn Festival 1979:
- Monroe
- Doyle Lawson & Quicksiver
- BG Cardinals

Enjoy!
Fred

robbif - Posted - 08/27/2008:  16:21:31

I just added two great flatpicking links to my list.

Orrin Star & Gary Mehalick at the Towne Crier Cafe, Beekman, NY, ca. 1975

frobbi.org/audio/Star-Mehalick...-Set1.mp3
frobbi.org/audio/Star-Mehalick...-Set2.mp3

Note, my mics were on the instruments so the voices are way down.

Be sure to visit (and thanks to)
Towne Crier Cafe at townecrier.com/
and
Orrin Star at orrinstar.com/

robbif - Posted - 09/25/2008:  07:54:44

I just added videos of Buddy Merriam and Back Roads' two performances to my Picking Page at frobbi.org/picking.html

You may be interested in a story that is told on stage (and confirmed to me by Buddy in person). This is no joke...his inspiration to really pursue bluegrass came after he was hit by lightning at the first Berkshire Mountains Festival over 30 years ago!

I only learned this last year. And what makes it more special to me - I was there, up on the treeline, just zipping my tent closed when I heard the BOOM!

robbif - Posted - 10/20/2008:  19:12:04

With the help of Hot Rize's Pete Wernick and Tim O'Brien, as well as Phil Ciganer of the Towne Crier Cafe (Pawling, NY), I'm able to add the 1981 Towne Crier performance of Hot Rize along with Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers to my Picking page at frobbi.org/picking.html

P.S. There should be some nice flatpicking here by the late Charles Sawtelle.

Edited by - robbif on 10/21/2008 05:19:46

robbif - Posted - 10/21/2008:  10:13:43

I just talked to Bill Keith and also got an OK from the Towne Crier Cafe's Phil Ciganer, so I can make available my recording
of the Bill Keith Band at the Towne Crier from 1981.

Please see my Picking page at frobbi.org/picking.html

Edited by - robbif on 10/21/2008 10:16:00

imapicker2 - Posted - 10/21/2008:  11:43:25

Thank You,Fred

All great stuff!

imapicker2


Have you hugged your guitar today?
profiles.yahoo.com/jopicker2

dmiller - Posted - 10/25/2008:  10:24:21

Look at all those clips from the 1970's!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to hear them!

Thanks!!!

robbif - Posted - 10/30/2008:  13:13:55

I'm really happy to announce I'm now able to make available my recordings of the Stone Mtn. Boys with Byron Berline. They were made at the Red Horse Inn in Alexandria, La., in 1969, while I was in the army at Ft Polk and had met Byron there.

The pickers are:

Mitchell Land - mandolin
Eddie Shelton - banjo
Lonnie Craft - guitar
Tootie Williams - bass
Byron Berline - fiddle

Mitch, Eddie, and Lonnie are now deceased.

Byron and Eddie's daughter have given me permission to make the recordings available.
Byron assures me that Tootie, who has no computer or email, would be OK too.

Please see my Picking page at frobbi.org/picking.html

robbif - Posted - 02/11/2009:  11:18:59

Thought I'd "bump" this topic in order to re-offer you folks all my audio and video recordings.

Please help yourself and enjoy!

d18dude - Posted - 02/11/2009:  21:54:23

That Hot Rize stuff is great, thanks.

RC

robbif - Posted - 01/06/2010:  05:29:28

I just "discovered" some more of my recordings.

These 3 are from the 1973 Culpeper-Warrenton Festival:
- Country Gentlemen (sorry about the lousy quality of this one!)
- Doc & Merle Watson
- Peter Rowan, Jerry Garcia, Vassar Clements, & Tex Logan

You'll see them marked as NEW.

Disclaimer: These were recording on a tiny Sony piano-key mono cassette recorder with
a builtin microphone.

Check them out on my Picking Page.

If you haven't heard it, be sure to check out the jam session right above those 3.
It's loaded with stars.

Enjoy!

ccravens - Posted - 01/06/2010:  05:41:26

Wow Fred! Thanks for all the recordings. I'll be spending a few weeks listening to them all. When am I gonna get my work done? You've made some great contributions here at FH. Thanks again.

robbif - Posted - 01/25/2010:  08:55:45

I just "discovered" a couple more dusty cassettes.

The latest are more from the Berkshire Mountains Festival:
- Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass 1978
- Pine Island 1978
- Dan Crary 1980

You find them on my usual Picking Page at frobbi.org/picking.html marked NEW.
Please help yourself and enjoy!

robbif - Posted - 01/30/2010:  05:49:01

Hi Folks,

Me again. OK, no more about "discovered" and "dusty" cassettes. I just finally got around to working on these...

Vassar Clements at the Last Chance Saloon in Poughkeepsie, NY - 1976

The night of music was scattered in a whole bunch of segments over 3 cassettes. I think there were 3 sets with a lot of repeated songs. I put the segments together as best I could into 5 parts.

As usual, the links are marked NEW on my Picking Page at frobbi.org/picking.html

Help yourself!

ccravens - Posted - 01/30/2010:  07:54:29

Fred,
Seriously, you're making it hard to get any work done around here.
Thanks for all the music.

robbif - Posted - 02/06/2010:  04:57:49

I just digitized what I believe is another real treat.

The 2nd Annual Fiddlers Gathering at the Towne Crier Cafe (Beekman, NY) from 1979.

It's loaded with well-known talented musicians and the music ranges from bluegrass to string quartet.

(And yes, you'll hear some guitar!)

Check it out (marked NEW) on my Picking Page at frobbi.org/picking.html

thechordstamper - Posted - 02/08/2010:  16:43:05

What I've heard so far sounds great - thx for posting!

robbif - Posted - 04/09/2010:  11:05:05

Hi Folks,

It was a gloomy day here in NY this morning, so I decided to do a little project.

I contacted longtime friend Byron Berline (doublestop.com) and asked him a favor.

Now thanks to Byron, I'm very happy to make available the Country Gazette Reunion recording from the 2007 Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival in Guthrie, OK. (oibf.com) You'll hear some great music and great stories.

Please see the NEW entry on my Picking Page at frobbi.org/picking.html
(I'd put the links here, but there are 8 separate tracks.)

As always, enjoy!

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Photos by Don Shorock

Alan Munde



Roland White



Byron Berline



Roger Bush



Kenny Wertz

Edited by - robbif on 04/09/2010 18:16:48

slowhand - Posted - 04/09/2010:  11:30:00

Dang, I'm glad I subscribed to this thread.

robbif - Posted - 06/01/2010:  05:26:30

I'm thrilled to tell you that my article, "Memories of a 1969 Louisiana Bluegrass Weekend", is in the June 2010 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited. I hope you'll check it out.

The 1969 recordings have been on my Picking Page for a long time.

slowhand - Posted - 06/01/2010:  06:00:11

quote:

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Originally posted by robbif

I'm thrilled to tell you that my article, "Memories of a 1969 Louisiana Bluegrass Weekend", is in the June 2010 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited. I hope you'll check it out.

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robbif - Posted - 06/03/2010:  12:16:54

On May 26, just a few days after Mac Wiseman's 85th birthday, Buddy Merriam and Ernie Sykes Jr. presented 2 hours of Mac's music and a live interview with the icon lasting over 45 minutes on Buddy's weekly Blue Grass Time show on WUSB 90.1 FM, the non-commercial radio station of Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY. wusb.fm/

Thanks to Buddy, I'm thrilled to add these historic recordings to my Picking Page, in a new section called From My Friends.

Please help yourself at frobbi.org/picking.html

robbif - Posted - 06/15/2010:  05:54:34

Steve Ide has created a cool new video.

quote:

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Various scenes from the 2009 Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, on the Walsh Farm, Oak Hill, N.Y.
Video clips from Fred Robbins, Dean Loomis, Dan Spinner and Steve Ide.
Production by Stephen Ide, thirstylizards.com

greyfoxbluegrass.com/gfblog/20...fox-2009/

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robbif - Posted - 06/18/2010:  18:01:31

Hi Folks,

I have another treat for you.

Dennis Stewart, Travis Stewart's son, transferred some 1960s film to video of the Country Cut-Ups doing some TV commercials in the Dallas area.

At the time, the Country Cut-Ups were:
Eddie Shelton - banjo
Bill Pogue - mandolin
Travis Stewart - guitar

Thanks to Dennis, I'm able to make them available on my website at frobbi.org/cutups.html and on my Picking Page at frobbi.org/picking.html (in the new "From My Friends" section).

As always, please help yourself and enjoy!

robbif - Posted - 08/24/2010:  13:40:52

Recently, Byron Berline came here to Poughkeepsie, NY, to give a fiddle workshop and concert, both sponsored by the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association. While I sat back and enjoyed seeing Byron for the first time in 20 years, Steve Jacobi was good enough to videotape the entire concert. Thanks, Steve! The group of great local musicians (just ask Byron) appropriately called themselves Gold Rush.

I'm happy to have the video on my website at frobbi.org/goldrush

You can also find the link on my Picking Page frobbi.org/picking.html in the From My Friends section.

Enjoy!

Byron Berline & Gold Rush

Edited by - robbif on 09/05/2010 08:12:14

robbif - Posted - 09/18/2010:  15:23:31

I was a video staff volunteer at Grey Fox again this year. Had a ball...and a couple blisters.

Grey Fox will be releasing my videos, mostly from the Masters Stage, one at a time over the next few weeks.

You can find them on the Grey Fox blog at greyfoxbluegrass.com/gfblog/ca...y/videos/
and on my page at frobbi.org/greyfox2010video.html

robbif - Posted - 01/01/2011:  07:39:07

Hi Folks,

Last year (yesterday), I "discovered" 2 more recordings.

I remembered a second jam recording from Culpeper-Warrenton 1973. It was actually the first one I did, so I'm calling it Jam 1, to distinguish it from the other one that's been out there for a while, which I'm now oddly enough calling Jam 2. I dusted off the cassette and did a little work.

This one stars Byron Berline-fiddle, Alan Munde-banjo, Roger Bush-bass, Buck White-mandolin, and Jerry McCoury-guitar.

You can find it at frobbi.org/culpeper1.html as well as on my usual Picking Page at frobbi.org/picking.html (The other jam is at frobbi.org/culpeper.html).

There's one more short recording from Culpeper-Warrenton 1973.

It's the Lilly Bros., Don Stover, and Tex Logan.

As with many of my other recordings from that festival, the quality is lousy due to a booming PA system and one of those cheap piano-key Sony mono cassette recorders of the day. That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.

Anyway, it's at frobbi.org/audio/LillyBros-Sto...r1973.mp3 and as always on my Picking Page at frobbi.org/picking.html

Happy New Year!

robbif - Posted - 01/13/2011:  07:24:53

With a very big thank you to Dave Snyder, I'm now able to share a lot more of the late Al Osteen's music at

frobbi.org/alosteen.html

robbif - Posted - 05/05/2011:  06:34:20

Hi Folks,



I just "discovered" (read "finally got around to digging out") a 7½ inch tape reel that I thought I should capture while my 40-year-old

Revox deck is still working.



I found a 28-minute stereo set of Bill Monroe and Doc Watson. There's more mono stuff on the other side that I hope to eventually

clean up and make available.



Meanwhile, the 1st set is at frobbi.org/audio/Monroe-Watson...969-1.mp3

and also available on my Picking Page at frobbi.org/picking.html in the "From My Friends" section.



I'm not completely sure who gave me the tape, but when I do I'll add a thanks on the Picking Page.



As always, please enjoy!

Fred

robbif - Posted - 05/05/2011:  08:21:41

Wow, mystery partially solved. I got this answer on BanjoHangout:

Hey Fred...the Watson-Monroe set you have is a recording I did at Bean Blossom on June 21, 1969.  This was from the Saturday morning workshops and I have all of the other workshop sets recorded from 1969 Beanblossom as well.  It was recorded using a Sony 4-track reel-to-reel deck with 2 Sure SM 58 microphones on gooseneck stands (that's the creaking sound you hear when someone moves them closer to an instrument).  The tape has been circulated a lot after I gave a few people copies, so I'm not sure where you got yours...but that's where it came from.  The copy you have has a good bit of hiss that is not on the original tape...I assume from multi-generation copying on tape.   If you want a first generation digital copy with out the hiss...let me know. 

Ken Landreth

slowhand - Posted - 05/05/2011:  08:40:05

quote:

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Originally posted by robbif

Wow, mystery partially solved. I got this answer on BanjoHangout:

Hey Fred...the Watson-Monroe set you have is a recording I did at Bean Blossom on June 21, 1969.  This was from the Saturday morning workshops and I have all of the other workshop sets recorded from 1969 Beanblossom as well.  It was recorded using a Sony 4-track reel-to-reel deck with 2 Sure SM 58 microphones on gooseneck stands (that's the creaking sound you hear when someone moves them closer to an instrument).  The tape has been circulated a lot after I gave a few people copies, so I'm not sure where you got yours...but that's where it came from.  The copy you have has a good bit of hiss that is not on the original tape...I assume from multi-generation copying on tape.   If you want a first generation digital copy with out the hiss...let me know. 

Ken Landreth

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Fred, this recording is a treasure. Thanks for posting it. And please take Ken up on his offer!

robbif - Posted - 05/05/2011:  14:49:16

qOriginally posted by slowhand

quote:

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please take Ken up on his offer!

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Dave,

I did, thanks. Stay tuned!

robbif - Posted - 05/06/2011:  15:59:43

Hi Folks,



You want more music? I've got more music.



Ken Landreth ( oldfive.com ) has graciously offered to digitize and send

me even more of his collection.



In the past, Ken provided me the Union Grove 1966 program scans ( frobbi.org/ug66/ )

and some of the music of Al Osteen ( frobbi.org/alosteen.html ).



Since I "discovered" a copy of some 1969 Bean Blossom workshops only a few days ago,

Ken not only pointed out  that he made the originals, but offered them to me for posting. So already,

in addition  to the Bill Monroe/Doc Watson workshop, Ken has given me two more:

Don Reno/Doc Watson and Don Reno! You can now find all 3 at frobbi.org/kenbeanblossom.html

as well as on my Picking Page ( frobbi.org/picking.html ) in the "From My Friends"

section under "The Ken Landreth Collection"...where there's going to be even more festivals and

misc. recordings very soon!



So stay tuned!



I have to repeat my thanks to Ken. I'm very happy and proud to be involved in sharing his collection

alongside my amateur stuff.



As always, ENJOY!



Fred 

robbif - Posted - 05/08/2011:  18:58:20

robbif - Posted - 05/21/2011:  07:21:42

Check out the new artwork from Greg "grich" Rich on my

Picking Page ...

robbif - Posted - 05/25/2011:  09:11:18

robbif - Posted - 06/01/2011:  08:56:35

robbif - Posted - 06/13/2011:  13:38:44

We're all very lucky that Ken Landreth is back and his tape recorder is fixed.



With a lot of work, he's given me some more great, historic, high-quality recordings.



Added to the Landreth Collection are Carlton Haney's Berryville 1969 with the Story of Bluegrass and Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom 1971.



The Bean Blossom 1971 series has Ralph Stanley (with Skaggs & Whitley), Jimmy Martin (with Alan Munde), Jim & Jesse, and the Country Gentlemen.



I'm proud to have these gems on my website!



Check out the entire collection at http://frobbi.org/landrethcollection.html



...and stay tuned for more! 

Fred

robbif - Posted - 06/14/2011:  05:42:27

Edited by - robbif on 06/14/2011 05:46:07

robbif - Posted - 06/17/2011:  05:06:24

MGK - Posted - 06/17/2011:  08:00:26

I just discovered your page...thanks for all the effort you put in to make this available!

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