Hell Broke Loose in Volo: A Volo Bogtrotters Retrospective 1987-1991

by Volo Bogtrotters

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52 cuts on two CDs in an illustrated package designed Judy Higgins/Union Design.

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1.	Money Creek (CD 1) 02:30	buy track
2.	Cotton Eyed Joe (CD 1) 02:42	buy track
3.	Salty Dog (CD 1) 03:16	buy track
4.	Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan (CD 1) 02:52	buy track
5.	Riley the Furniture Man (CD 1) 02:32	buy track
6.	Johnson Gal (CD 1) 03:09	buy track
7.	Cuttin' at the Point (CD 1) 02:27	buy track
8.	Bully of the Town (CD 1) 02:47	buy track
9.	How Long (CD 1) 02:25	buy track
10.	Litchfield (CD 1) 03:05	buy track
11.	Shady Grove (CD 1) 03:24	buy track
12.	Oh, My Little Darling/Gray Eagle (CD 1) 04:28	buy track
13.	Fancy Creek (CD 1) 02:43	buy track
14.	Creal Springs Breakdown (CD 1) 03:23	buy track
15.	San Antonio (CD 1) 02:38	buy track
16.	Cumberland Gap (previously unreleased) (CD 1) 01:15	buy track
17.	Backside of Buncombe (CD 1) 03:26	buy track
18.	Hell Bound Train (CD 1) 02:26	buy track
19.	Don't Mind the Weather So the Wind Don't Blow (CD 1) 02:12	buy track
20.	Walk Old Shoe, Heel Come a-Draggin' (CD 1) 02:51	buy track
21.	Bloody War (CD 1) 02:56	buy track
22.	Weller's Reel (previously unreleased) (CD 1) 02:52	buy track
23.	I Lost My Gal (New Cut Road) (CD 1) 02:46	buy track
24.	Duncan and Brady (CD 1) 02:56	buy track
25.	Dickey's Discovery (CD 1) 02:45	buy track
26.	Work Don't Bother Me (CD 1) 03:47	buy track
27.	Illinois Rickets Hornpipe (CD 1) 03:07	buy track
28.	Tell It To Me (CD 2) 02:55	buy track
29.	Remus (CD 2) 03:12	buy track
30.	The Old Ark's Movin' (CD 2) 03:14	buy track
31.	Old Mother Flanigan (previously unreleased) (CD 2) 02:38	buy track
32.	Home Happy Home/Coal Harbor Bend (CD 2) 03:46	buy track
33.	McDonald's Farm (CD 2) 04:18	buy track
34.	Paddy on the Pike (CD 2) 02:21	buy track
35.	Otto Wood the Bandit (CD 2) 03:27	buy track
36.	Little Princess Footsteps (CD 2) 02:25	buy track
37.	Tough Luck (CD 2) 04:43	buy track
38.	Seven and a Half (CD 2) 02:52	buy track
39.	When I Had But Fifty Cents (CD 2) 02:55	buy track
40.	Bye Bye, My Honey, I'm Gone (CD 2) 02:26	buy track
41.	He's a Beaut (CD 2) 03:10	buy track
42.	Hell Broke Loose in Georgia (CD 2) 03:48	buy track
43.	Elkhorn Ridge (CD 2) 02:53	buy track
44.	Hog Skin (CD 2) 01:07	buy track
45.	Croquet Habit (CD 2) 02:54	buy track
46.	I'm Nine Hundred Miles From Home (CD 2) 03:27	buy track
47.	Georgia Hobo (CD 2) 03:23	buy track
48.	Fine Times at Our House (CD 2) 02:27	buy track
49.	Going Across the Sea (CD 2) 03:28	buy track
50.	White River Stomp (CD 2) 02:56	buy track
51.	Quit That Ticklin' Me (CD 2) 02:58	buy track
52.	Arrington's Breakdown (CD 2) 01:56	buy track

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A 2-CD retrospective drawn from the Volo Bogtrotters' highly acclaimed first three cassette releases on Marimac - The Volo Bogtrotters, Backside of Buncombe, and Tough Luck - released between 1987 and 1991. Includes three previously unreleased tracks from the 1988 Backside of Buncombe sessions. 52 cuts total. Comes with eight pages of notes.

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released August 18, 2021

CD 1:
Lynn “Chirps” Smith: fiddle (all tracks, except 21)
Fred Campeau: fiddle (tracks 1-4, 6-13, 16, 18-20, 23-25, 27), banjo (5,
17, 21, 25), banjo-uke (13, 15, 26)
Steve Rosen (banjo: tracks 1, 2, 6-14, 15 (flat-picked), 16, 18-24, 26
(flat-picked), 27)
Jim Nelson: guitar (all tracks except 16, 21, 25)
Tony Scarimbolo: string bass (all tracks except 16, 17, 22, 25), guitar
(track 17).

All tracks recorded in the basement of the Smith-Kent Hotel by Flawn Williams. Tracks 1-11 ca. March 1987. Tracks 12-27 on May 7 & 8, 1988.

CD 2:
Lynn “Chirps” Smith: fiddle (all tracks, except 3, 13, 23), tenor banjo (13), mandola (23)
Fred Campeau: fiddle (tracks 2, 4-9, 11-15, 17-20, 22-25), banjo (1, 16,
21), banjo-uke (18, 20), guitar (track 17)
Steve Rosen (banjo: tracks 2, 4-12, 14-20, 22, 24, 25; mandolin: track
1; banjo-mandolin (tracks 13, 17, 18); tenor banjo: track 23 )
Jim Nelson: guitar (all tracks except 13, 21), banjo-uke (track 13)
Tony Scarimbolo: string bass (all tracks except 3, 13, 17, 21),
harmonica (track 13).

Tracks 1-6 recorded in the basement of the Smith-Kent Hotel by Flawn Williams on May 7 & 8, 1988. Tracks 7-25 recorded November 10 & 11, 1990 at Marimac Studios in Crown Point, IN by Larry MacBride.

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