A hard-to-find 1980 collaboration between "New Grass" John Hartford and brothers Doug and Rodney Dillard of the Bluegrass band "The Dillards".
- TRACKS (favorites in pink) -
01. Break It To Me Gently
02. That'll Be The Day
03. Blue morning
04. The Same Thing (Makes You Laugh, Makes You Cry)
05. Yakety Yak
06. Something's Wrong
07. Boogie On Reggae Woman
08. Country Boy Rock and Roll
09. No Beer In Heaven
This was the second album that these three collaborated on, the other being Glitter Grass (1977), which I converted a while back. Permanent Wave (1980) seems to be lower-key and lower-energy than that one; but is still worth the listen if you like Blue Grass/New Grass. IMHO, the best tracks are the more lighthearted ones.
There's no doubt that the jewel of this album is the final song - No Beer In Heaven. NBIH is a German Polka tune from the 1950's, which Wikipedia calls "a song about the existential pleasures of beer-drinking". Existential, eh? Wow. Hartford adds his own second verse about the fact that there's also No Smoking (of various substances) in heaven. No one has yet put this track out on YouTube; I'd really appreciate it if somebody would.
The LP itself was in pristine condition; I considered not even running the scratch-removal program. An audiophile owned this album. Amazon packaged both of the D-H-D albums onto a single CD, and it sells for $15.10. Downloading the MP3 files only costs $9.99.
This isn't John Hartford at his finest, but it's still some pretty damn good bluegrass.
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