Marin County Bluegrass Festival April 27-28, 1974 Golden State College, San Rafael, CA

Marin County Bluegrass Festival April 27-28, 1974 Golden State College, San Rafael, CA 4/27/1974: ========== Cornbread: 01 Fire on the Mountain 00:00 Homestead Act: 02 Take Five 02:33 Emmylou Harris: 03 Jambalaya 04:28 Jim & Jesse McReynolds and the Virginia Boys: 04 Are You Missing Me 08:01 05 Maybelline (Why Can’t You Be True) 10:21 06 Johnny B. Goode 12:45 07 Duelling Banjos 15:10 Doc & Merle Watson: 08 Poor Boy Blues 17:41 09 Wabash Cannonball 20:22 10 Salt Creek 25:43 11 Tennessee Stud 28:43 Norman Blake & Tut Taylor: 12 Instrumental #1 32:38 13 Southern Railroad Blues (fades in) 37:00 14 Instrumental #2 39:15 15 Instrumental #3 41:30 Mac Wiseman w/Norman Blake & Tut Taylor: 16 Wreck of the Old 97 (fades in) 45:16 17 Catfish John 46:28 18 Love Letters In The Sand 48:34 19 Shackles And Chains 51:02 20 Prisoner Song 53:30 21 Jimmy Brown 56:21 22 I Wonder How the Old Folks are at Home 59:01 23 Man Walking On The Water 01:01:09 24 Keep On The Sunny Side Of Life 01:04:21 Great American String Band (Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Richard Green, Taj Mahal, David Nichtern): 25 My Plastic Banana Isn’t Stupid 01:07:10 26 Dawg’s Rag 01:11:00 27 I’ll Be The Gambler If You’ll Deal The Cards 01:19:18 28 Sweet Georgia Brown (fades in) 01:22:54 Date Uncertain: 4/27 or 4/28 ============================ Artist Uncertain - originally listed incorrectly as Doc & Merle Watson, see notes below: 29 Footprints in the Snow (fades in) 01:27:26 30 Wabash Cannonball 01:29:48 31 Keep on the Sunny Side (fades in) 01:31:50 32 Buckin’ Mule 01:34:49 4/28/1974 ========== The Hired Hands: 33 Ole Slew Foot (fades in) 01:37:03 Buck White & the Down Homers: 34 Standing Way Up High (fades in) 01:39:23 Doc & Merle Watson: 35 Doc Bogg’s Country Blues 01:41:11 36 Movin’ On (fades in) 01:44:41 37 Wabash Cannonball 01:46:40 38 Tennessee Stud 01:50:31 Frank Wakefield: 39 Jesus Loves His Mandolin Player #1 01:55:32 Frank Wakefield & Friends (40 & 41 w/Garcia and others, 42 w/Doug Dillard and others): 40 Heartbreak Hotel 01:58:39 41 Orange Blossom Special (fades in) 02:01:42 42 Dixie Breakdown 02:04:16 Jim & Jesse McReynolds and the Virginia Boys: 43 Pick Away 02:07:36 44 Cotton Mill Man (fades in and out) 02:09:18 45 The River of Jordan 02:11:42 Old & In the Way: 46 High Lonesome Sound (fades in) 02:14:01 47 Pig in a Pen 02:17:47 48 Panama Red 02:19:57 49 Wild Horses 02:23:18 50 Hobo Song 02:28:23 Ramblin’ Jack Elliot: 51 Talkin’ Fishin’ Blues 02:33:33 52 Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright 02:37:16 53 Down the Line 02:40:46 54 Pretty Boy Floyd 02:47:06 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (with, at various points: Garcia, Vassar Clements, Doc & Merle Watson, David Nelson, John Hartford, & Jerry Mills): 55 Tulane and Johnny 02:51:47 56 Cosmic Cowboy 02:55:03 57 Jambalaya 02:59:04 58 Sally Goodin’ 03:04:38 59 Battle of New Orleans 03:05:38 60 Teardrops In My Eyes 03:08:20 61 Bonnie Maroney 03:13:00 62 Randy Lynn Rag 03:16:46 63 Flint Hill Special 03:21:09 64 Mr. Bojangles 03:24:41 65 Honky Tonkin’ 03:29:13 66 Diggy Liggy Lo 03:32:10 67 Will The Circle Be Unbroken 03:35:22 68 Way Downtown Fooling Around 03:40:15 69 Down Yonder 03:45:06 Notes: transfered by Rob Berger ’99 Around 2008 a small group of bluegrass fans worked to correct some of the errors in the setlist given for the above fileset and create a more coherent running order. The result is what you see here. The largest error was that 4 tracks attributed to Doc & Merle Watson are in fact someone else, though Doc and/or Merle may be onstage. The identity of the lead vocalist on these tracks has not been determined for certain at this time. There are strongly held but conflicting opinions on a couple sides of the issue. Googling the combination of songs played by this act gives two results: Mr. Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, and Clarence White/the White Brothers. It’s not Mr. Monroe and Clarence died tragically the year before this. So who knows? Two songs incorrectly attributed to the Great American String Band were part of Jim & Jesse McReynolds’ regular repertoire and are clearly performed by them. Based on conversation with an individual who convincingly claims attendance at most of the festival, some dates have been clarified. Note that some acts performed both days. A few song titles have also been corrected. A few songs by the groups Cornbread and the Homestead Act which are in the original fileset are omitted here. I’m not really sure how or why that happened but I’m not going to track them down at this point. There are numerous fade- and cut-ins and outs from a happy trigger finger on the pause button. Only those where a significant amount of music seems to be missing have been noted. Given that these are not from master reels, perhaps we can hope that eventually a more complete source will come into circulation! re-FLAC’d with corrected tags and new sequence by Mr. Completely, fall 2008.