Mitchell Van Dyke - Good Times, Good Friends, & Good Pickin'

(Sonray no #) c2012

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I'm not sure when this CD-R was recorded or released, but I guess all three of Mitchell's albums were released around the same time^[1].

Unlike My Turn, 5-String Favorites and 'Good Times, Good Friends, & Good Pickin' aren't just exclusively in the 'Stanley' style. Mitchell also has a distinct Don Reno / Alvin Breeden influence going on and there is more 'playing around with it' as Ralph would put it.

On 'Good Times, Good Friends, & Good Pickin' the material is drawn from the likes of Don Reno (Drifting With The Tide, Choking The Strings, Green Mountain Hop), Gene Parker (Struttin' To Ferrum), The Dillards (Banjo In The Hollow) and Flatt & Scruggs' Somehow Tonight.

Carter's Our Last Goodbye and Worried Man Blues are more or less in the 'Stanley style', with a few embellishments.

Aside from Mitchell, James Price is the only other CMB to feature on the album, on Orange Blossom Special.

• Mitchell Van Dyke: banjo
• Jeff MvVey: bass, lead vocal
• Mac Puckett: lead guitar, tenor vocal
• Wayne Hubble: fiddle, mandolin, baritone vocal
• Howard Burchette: fiddle, lead & tenor vocal
• Randy Dutton: mandolin
• Danny Crawford: guitar & baritone vocal
• Robbie Lester: guitar (*)
• Tollie Fleming: bass (*)
• James Price: fiddle (*)
• Mark Baker: guitar (*)

NB: (*) personnel on Orange Blossom Special only.

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[1] The catalogue numbers on the now defunct County sales music website were sequential, indicating that the albums were stocked at the same time.