Chubby Anthony & Big Timber - The Best Of Bluegrass: Big Timber Bluegrass

(Old Homestead OHS-90116) 1980

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This is a posthumous reissue of Chubby's first album which was originally released as Tall Timber Bluegrass - The Best Of Bluegrass in 1976.

Tall Timber Bluegrass were put together in 1974 and Chubby worked with them until he formed Big Timber in Feb. 1978.^[1]

Overall, this album is let down a bit by fairly average vocals, although instrumentally there is some good banjo and mandolin... Chubby too is in fine form, particulary on the two instrumentals: Tall Timber and Chubby's Ride.

Huskie's Fiddle is a song Chubby wrote about Ray Huskie from North Carolina, who was one of the people who taught him how to play the fiddle. A version overdubbed with drums and backing vocals later cropped up on Chubby Anthony's Last Tribute.

• Chubby Anthony: fiddle, baritone vocal
• Keil Brown: guitar, baritone vocal
• Bill DeMarcus: banjo
• Robert McDougal: mandolin, tenor vocal
• Carl Young: lead guitar, lead vocal
• Hazel Young: bass