Charlie Waller and the Country Gentlemen

The Country Gentlemen On The Road - Folkways Records FA-2411

Recorded: See notes below

Released: 1963 / Re-released: 2002

Song Tracks:

01. Handsome Molly
02. The Sunny Side of Life
03. Poor Ellen Smith
04. The Long Black Veil
05. Grandfather's Clock
06. Ain't Got No Home
07. Heartaches
08. Little Glass of Wine
09. Walking in Jerusalem
10. I Am a Pilgrim
11. A Letter to Tom
12. Rawhide
13. Blue Ridge Mountain Home
14. I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow
15. John Hardy
16. The Fields Have Turned Brown
17. These Men of God
18. Little Sparrow

Personnel:

Charlie Waller - Guitar and Vocals
John Duffey - Mandolin and Vocals
Eddie Adcock - Banjo and Vocals
Tom Gray - Bass and Vocals

The Third Folkways album contained excerpts from two live Country Gentlemen concerts. Side 1 was recorded April 13, 1962, at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Side 2 was recorded at the Sacred Mushroom, a coffee house in Cleveland, Ohio, on January 6, 1963.

Hootenanny (Design Blue Grass Music Series) - DLP-613

Recorded at Wynnwood Recording Studio - Falls Church, VA.

Released: 1963

Song Tracks

01. Nine Pound Hammer
02. Pallet on the Floor
03. East Virginia Blues
04. Eddie On the Freeway
05. 500 Miles
06. Knoxville Girl
07. Redwing
08. Nearer My God To Thee
09. Katy Dear
10. You Left Me Alone

Personnel:

Charlie Waller - Guitar and Vocals
John Duffey - Mandolin and Vocals
Eddie Adcock - Banjo and Vocals
Tom Gray - Bass

This low-budget special has been reincarnated on at least four seperate occasions. The current version is entitled Bluegrass Country by John Duffey, Charlie Waller and the Country Gentlemen (Pickwick JS-6156). When the album was originally issued, the credits were given to John Duffey and the Country Gentlemen.

Folk Session Inside - Mercury SR-60858 (Stereo), MG-20858 (Mono)

Recorded at Wynnwood Music Studios, Falls Church, Va.

Released: Late 1963

Song Tracks:

01. Bluebirds Are Singing For Me
02. Sad and Lonesome Day
03. The Girl Behind the Bar
04. Can't You hear Me Calling
05. The School House Fire
06. Night Walk
07. The Galveston Flood
08. The Young Fisherwoman
09. This Morning at Nine
10. I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)
11. Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party
12. Heartaches
13. Dark As A Dungeon

Personnel:

Charlie Waller - Guitar and Vocals
John Duffey - Mandolin
Eddie Adcock - Banjo and Vocals
Tom Gray - Bass and Vocals
Pete "Roberts" Kuykendall - Banjo, Guitar, and 12 oz. Pepsi bottle w/ 10-penny nail ("Nighwalk")

The Country Gentlemen's first, and only appearance on a major record label. A follow-on album was recorded but was never released. The album has been ouit of print for many years. However, all the songs except "Girl Behind The Bar" , "The Schoolhouse Fire", and "Nightwalk" have been reissued on various Rebel Albums. "The Schoolhouse Fire", a true story about a tragedy in Cleveland, South Carolina, was done soley for the album but never performed on stage.

"Can't You Hear Me Calling" and "This Morning At Nine" feature Pete Kuykendall (the engineer for the sessions) and Eddie Adcock playing twin banjos.

Bringing Mary Home - Rebel Record RLP-1478

Recorded by Edgar Sanford, Syracuse, NY

Released: 1966

Song Tracks:

01. Bringing Mary Home
02. Down Where The River Bends
03. Battle Hymn Of The Republic
04. Banks Of The Ohio
05. Brown Mountain Light
06. Northbound
07. This World's No Place To Live
08. Girl From The North Country
09. A Cold Wind A' Blowin'
10. Spanish Two Step
11. Uncle Joe
12. Let The Light Shine Down

Personnel:

Charlie Waller - Guitar and Vocals
John Duffey - Mandolin and Vocals
Eddie Adcock - Banjo and Vocals
Ed Ferris - Bass
Tom Gray - Bass

This album was the first in a long series for Rebel Records. The title song is their best known number and was a hit in the country charts in 1965. The song is taken from a poem by Joe Kingston aand is based on a folk legend from North Carolina. The album also marks the debut of Ed Ferris on bass. However, Tom Gray is featured on "Brown Mountain Light" and "Uncle Joe".

The Country Gentlemen Sing Bluegrass - Zap-101

Recorded live at the second annual Fincastle Bluegrass Festival near Roanoke, VA. (July 1966)

Released: 1967

Song Tracks:

01. Copper Kettle
02. Two Little Boys
03. The Fields Have Turned Brown
04. Blue Bell
05. Mule Skinner Blues
06. Big Bruce
07. Nine Pound Hammer
08. Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
09. Battle Hymn Of The Republic
10. Sad and Lonesome Day

Personnel:

Charlie Waller - Guitar and Vocals
John Duffey - Mandolin and Vocals
Eddie Adcock - Banjo and Vocals
Ed Ferris - Bass

This album is from a live performance on July 3, 1966, at the second annual Fincastle Bluegrass Festival sponsored by promoter Carlton Haney. The tapes were never intended for commercial release and the sound quality is not the best. However, the album is representive of a typical Country Gentlemen stage show of teh mid-1960's.

The Traveler (And Other Favorites) - Rebel Records SP-1481

Recorded by Roy D. Homer Associates, Clinton, MD and Recordings, Inc. Baltimore, MD.

Released: 1968

Song Tracks:

01. The Border Incident
02. Johnny Reb
03. The Traveler
04. Baby Blue
05. Exodus
06. Working on the Road
07. Many A Mile
08. Matterhorn
09. Buffalo Girls
10. Amelia Earhart
11. Dark As A Dungeon
12. Beautiful Life

Personnel:

Charlie Waller - Six and twelve string guitars and Vocals
John Duffey - Mandolin, Guitar, and Vocals
Eddie Adcock - Banjo, Six and twelve string guitars, and Vocals
Ed Ferris - Bass and Vocals

"The Traveler" produced two more Gentlemen classics, "Matterhorn" was a Mel Tillis Comosition about four mountain climbers who meet their untimely end. "Baby Blue" comes from the pen of Bob Dylan and now recognized as a Duffey standard. Another selection, "The Border Incident", was based on a poem by Robert Badger Clark and has recently been done by Seldom Scene.