That time a band of long-haired hippies in their early 20s recorded a 38-track album with some of country & bluegrass’ all-time great artists
This week marks 50 years since the band recorded the 38-track set in six focused days at Nashville's Woodland Sound Studios. Originally released on three vinyl discs in the fall of 1972, it never spawned any actual hit singles, though it did peak at No. 4 on 's Top Country Albums chart.
A cover of"I Saw the Light" with Roy Acuff logged a Grammy nomination in 1971, while the entire album made the final ballot a year later.
"He didn't think his fans would understand us playing whatever that was that we played," says Hanna."I don't think he realized at the time that we weren't going to come in the studio with a full drum kit and Marshall amps and wild pedals." "That was the stuff that really got our blood going when we were kids," says Hanna."So for me to be able to lean over Doc Watson's shoulder and sing harmony on 'Tennessee Stud,' that was priceless." concept, patterned after a 1960 blues album, , that featured Brownie McGhee, Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Joe Williams and Sonny Terry playing their material with interstitial chatter from the studio floor included.
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