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	The Dillards Back Porch Bluegrass/ Live!!! Almost!!! Genres: Country, Folk, Pop, Rock UK two-on-one combines the popular bluegrass act's first two Elektra albums, 'Back Porch Blue Grass' (1963) & 'The Dillards Live! Almost!' (1964), both of which are out-of-print domestically. 2001.
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CD Details

All Artists: The Dillards
Title: Back Porch Bluegrass/ Live!!! Almost!!!
Members Wishing: 5
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rhino/Wea UK
Release Date: 10/29/2001
Album Type: Import
Genres: Country, Folk, Pop, Rock
Styles: Bluegrass, Classic Country, Traditional Folk, Country Rock
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPCs: 081227356224, 766488037524, 081227356224

Synopsis

Album Description

UK two-on-one combines the popular bluegrass act's first two Elektra albums, 'Back Porch Blue Grass' (1963) & 'The Dillards Live! Almost!' (1964), both of which are out-of-print domestically. 2001.

CD Reviews

Early Dillards

Bernie Banjo | Nashville, TN | 09/24/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"These guys became friends of mine in LA in the late 60's, about 6 years after their first two Elektra LPs were recorded, which are both in this CD. I had learned all the banjo riffs off these records by then, using the old tried and true method of slowing the 33 1/3 rpm vinyl to 16 rpm so you could figure out what the picking pattern was. Douglas Dillard played scorchingly fast, and no one else played like him then. He also played a Gibson banjo with a "raised" head, which had a brighter sound than the "flat-head" models favored by most bluegrass players (Ralph Stanley also played a raised head model).

Lots of the original songs here are still heard in picking parties around the country, and younger players like Sam Bush and New Grass Revival know and have played these songs. Especially on the west coast, banjo players wanted to play just like Doug, and after sleeping on his couch for a year in 1968, I could come pretty close. Anyway, this is seminal stuff, and I agree these guys had quite a bit to do with the formation of country rock."