Bill Napier, Larry Taylor & The Waterloo Bluegrass Boys - Country Boy's Life

(Old Homestead OHS-80076) 1988

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This is a cassette only release that was recorded in 1986, but not released until 1988.

Bill met Larry at a festival in Nashville, Michigan in 1980. After hearing Larry and the Waterloo Boys do their set, he sat in with a picking session. Afterwards they kept in touch and after a couple of years Larry approached Bill and they started recording together. According to a piece by Frank England in the Dec. 1987 edition of 'Bluegrass Unlimited' they had by that time recorded three albums and "more recording projects for Old Homestead (were) in the works". I'm unclear as to how many of the albums were released, but there were at least two cassette albums, which were reviewed in 'Bluegrass Unlimited' in Sept 1988. One was the We Salute The Stanley Brothers tribute and the other was this cassette of original material. Neither were given a particularly favourable write up.

Presumably Rambler's Blues is a version of the early Stanley Brothers number by Pee Wee Lambert that was included on Rich-R-Tone RRT-418.

I've been unable to get hold of a copy of this one, if anyone can help please get in touch via the Contact page.

• Bill Napier: guitar, mandolin tenor vocal
• Larry Taylor: mandolin, guitar
• Ricky Dan: banjo
• Frank England: bass
• Charlie Flannery: fiddle

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