Track listing Side 1 1. Four Days Of Rain 2. White Freightliner Blues 3. Sail To Australia 4. When The Storm Is Over 5. And He Says "I Love You" Side 2 6. Vamp In The Middle 7. Like A Child In The Rain 8. Tennessee Wagoner 9. Colly Davis 10. Crooked Smile
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This CD is a combination of two NGR albums - Fly Through the Country and When the Storm is Over.
If you're looking for classic NGR, this is it. Just about every tune you remember from the original guys (Sam, John, Curtis, and Courtney) is included - just about every song on these albums was a "hit" for them. In addition, the best of these were carried over to the more modern NGR sound when Bela and Pat joined the group.
I call it "transitional" for two reasons. The first was mentioned in the previous paragraph. The second is that these albums are where NGR really "locks in" it's signature sound. The preferred harmony stack, extended jams, and song selection would continue until the much later days of the band where they went a bit more in the jazz direction.
The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that a number of the songs would be better featured in a "live" setting. "Fly Through the Country" (the tune, not the whole album) falls a bit flat in the studio as do a couple of others. Fortunately, there are a couple of live albums (one from this era and another from the later incarnation) where you can hear NGR playing as they were meant to be.
Go ahead. Buy this. You won't be disappointed, and you'll feel right "at home" with a bunch of guys who streached bluegrass to the breaking point, and became legend because of it.
There is a lot of music here but only 4 or 5 songs lived up to Friday Night in America. The quality of the recordings wasn't very good, either. We have since bought Hold to a Dream and love it!
Good writing, tight instrumentals and vocals, and, at the time pretty avante gardeller think?e. I mean slide mandolin. What would that Monroe feller think?
昔のアルバムが二つも入っていのはなんとうれしいことか。LPなんてなかなか買えなくて、友人間で貸し借りしていたあの日が遠い。 New Grassという名前が不動のものになったのは間違いなく彼らの功績。当時新しい取り組みがとても斬新だと思ったけど、今聴けば彼らが芯からのBluegrass好きだということが分かる。数十年の時を隔てて聴いても何も失われていない。これぞNew Grass。永久保存でいい。
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