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All Music Guide - Bruce Eder
This collection of live performances, recorded July 21, 1957, at New River Ranch in Rising Sun, MD, and March 25, 1958, at Sunset Park in Oxford, PA, is a great companion to Reno & Smiley's established catalog of studio recordings. The performances are excellent, featuring the two stars backed by the Tennessee Cut-Ups, consisting of future Porter Wagoner alumnus Mack Magaha on fiddle and John Palmer on bass, and include nine numbers that the duo never recorded officially. The only flaw is the somewhat restricted acoustics, a product of the era in which these shows were taped -- it sounds slightly more compressed than one would like, and sometimes Palmer's upright bass is...
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Editorial Reviews

All Music Guide - Bruce Eder
This collection of live performances, recorded July 21, 1957, at New River Ranch in Rising Sun, MD, and March 25, 1958, at Sunset Park in Oxford, PA, is a great companion to Reno & Smiley's established catalog of studio recordings. The performances are excellent, featuring the two stars backed by the Tennessee Cut-Ups, consisting of future Porter Wagoner alumnus Mack Magaha on fiddle and John Palmer on bass, and include nine numbers that the duo never recorded officially. The only flaw is the somewhat restricted acoustics, a product of the era in which these shows were taped -- it sounds slightly more compressed than one would like, and sometimes Palmer's upright bass is slightly too obtrusive, at other times not sufficiently present. On the other hand, this is the listener's big chance to hear the duo's versions of "Billy in the Low Ground" a dazzling showcase for Red Smiley and Mack Magaha, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" a great Don Reno banjo showpiece, and "Don't Stop Now," the latter highlighted by Smiley's glittering guitar runs, not to mention Don Gibson's "I Can't Stop Loving You" and the Stanley Brothers' "Big Ball in Brooklyn" some of the fastest banjo playing you'll ever hear. And the live version of "Bonaparte's Retreat," illuminated by Reno's banjo pyrotechnics and vocal clowning, coupled with their vocal acrobatics on the gospel "He Will Set Your Fields on Fire" are by themselves just about worth the price of the album.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 5/14/1996
  • Label: Copper Creek
  • UPC: 722321012721
  • Catalog Number: 127
  • Sales rank: 148,373

Album Credits

Performance Credits
Reno & Smiley Primary Artist
Don Reno Indexed Contributor, Track Performer
Red Smiley Track Performer
Technical Credits
Jack Tottle Liner Notes
Don Reno Composer
Smiley Hobbs Composer
Ira Louvin Composer
Charlie Louvin Composer
Rebecca Pittard Art Direction
Fred Carlson Illustrations, Cover Illustration
James Austin Butterfield Composer
George Washington Johnson Composer
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