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Beatle Country (Import) (CD)

By: Charles River Valley Boys

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DISC 1 for Beatle Country (Import) (CD) Album By Charles River Valley Boys
1   I've Just Seen A Face  
2   Baby's In Black  
3   I Feel Fine  
4   Yellow Submarine  
5   Ticket To Ride  
6   And Your Bird Can Sing  
7   What Goes On  
8   Norwegian Wood  
9   Paperback Writer  
10   She's A Woman  
11   I Saw Her Standing There  
12   Help  
 

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Charles River Valley Boys include: Jim Field (guitar, vocals); Bob Siggins (banjo, vocals); Joe Val (mandolin, vocals); Everett A. Lilly (bass).
Additional personnel: Eric Thompson (guitar); Craig Wingfield (dobro); Buddy Spicher (fiddle).
Originally released on Elektra. Includes liner notes by Peter K. Siegel.
BEATLE COUNTRY features bluegrass versions of Beatles songs.
Charles River Valley Boys: Jim Field (vocals, guitar); Bob Siggins (vocals, banjo); Joe Val (vocals, mandolin); Eric Thompson (guitar); Craig Wingfield (dobro); Buddy Spicher (fiddle); Everett A. Lilly (bass instrument).

Album Description

Beatle Country was originally released as an attempt to match the enormous commercial success of a then-recent album called The Baroque Beatles Book, which featured Baroque-style orchestral versions of Fab Four compositions. Beatle Country, however, is a surprisingly (considering its inherently contradictory nature) excellent album of Beatles songs performed in a straight bluegrass style, recorded in Nashville, performed by a group of Cambridge, MA-based musicians, and produced by the legendary Paul Rothchild (of the Doors, Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt, etc., fame). A bizarrely erroneous marketing strategy (Elektra executives in New York didn't know the difference between bluegrass and country music) assured the record few sales and instant cult status. The musicians involved, most notably mandolinist/vocalist Joe Val (who many consider the greatest New England bluegrass player ever), do a fine job of imbuing Lennon/McCartney's tunes with an authentic Kentucky mountain flavor and never resort to kitsch (with the exception, perhaps, of pronouncing "Yellow Submarine" as "Yeller Submarine"). Although interesting for its novelty value alone, Beatle Country stands tall as an excellent bluegrass album by any measure, regardless of the unusual source of its material. ~ Pemberton Roach

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