50 Years Ago Today | Golden State Country-Bluegrass Festival 4/28/1974

Golden State Country-Bluegrass Festival
Marin Veterans' Memorial
San Rafael, CA
April 28, 1974
The Hired Hands -Ole Slew Foot (fades in)
Buck White & the Down Homers - Standing Way Up High (fades in)
Doc & Merle Watson - Doc Bogg's Country Blues
Doc & Merle Watson - Movin' On (fades in)
Doc & Merle Watson - Wabash Cannonball
Doc & Merle Watson - Tennessee Stud
Frank Wakefield - Jesus Loves His Mandolin Player #1
Frank Wakefield & Friends - Heartbreak Hotel (with Jerry Garcia)
Frank Wakefield & Friends - Orange Blossom Special (fades in)
Frank Wakefield & Friends - Dixie Breakdown (with Doug Dillard and others)
Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys - Pick Away
Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys - Cotton Mill Man (fades in and out)
Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys - The River of Jordan
Old & In the Way - High Lonesome Sound (fades in)
Old & In the Way - Pig in a Pen
Old & In the Way - Panama Red
Old & In the Way - Wild Horses
Old & In the Way - Hobo Song
Ramblin' Jack Elliot - Talkin' Fishin' Blues
Ramblin' Jack Elliot - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Ramblin' Jack Elliot - Down the Line
Ramblin' Jack Elliot - Pretty Boy Floyd
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* - Tulane and Johnny
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* - Cosmic Cowboy
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* - Jambalaya
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* - Sally Goodin'
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* - Battle of New Orleans
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* - Teardrops In My Eyes
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* - Bonnie Maroney
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* - Randy Lynn Rag
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* - Flint Hill Special
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* - Mr. Bojangles
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* - Honky Tonkin'
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* - Diggy Liggy Lo
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* - Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* - Way Downtown Fooling Around
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* - Down Yonder
Notes: transferred 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. 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."
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band* (with, at various points: Garcia, Vassar Clements, Doc & Merle Watson, David Nelson, John Hartford, & Jerry Mills)

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RIP Frank Wakefield

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too bad Norman Blake and Jerry never got together