Beatle grass

[mandopete]

Wandering around the utoob the other day and found this. Sort of like Mr. Bill meets John, Paul, George & Ringo and discovers the augmented chord!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIBI4BWTGSM#VfD-G3IwHlY

[DryBones]

I dig The Magical Mystery Tour (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uQNvRFJB74&mode=user&search=) also!

[mandolooter]

roll up.....

[Soupy1957]

Pretty neat stuff.....I wonder if they have run into any trademark or copyright issues?
-Soupy1957

[Michael Gowell]

For an early, more bluegrass approach to the Beatles' music check out 1966's somewhat misleadingly titled 'Beatle Country' by Boston/Cambridge's Charles River Valley Boys. #Pure vocals, nice musicianship - especially by mandolinist Joe Val, who I believe played a Loar.

[allenhopkins]

Beatle Country was reissued by Rounder on CD in 1995, and is readily available. One of the first BG albums I ever bought, back in the '60's; the first was the CRVB's home-made album on Mt. Auburn Records, the pre-Val band with Ethan Signer on mandolin and Fritz Richmond on the washtub bass.

Joe Val did play a Loar when he led his own band, the New England Bluegrass Boys, but when last I saw him in 1965 he was still playing his F-4. Don't know what mandolin he used on Beatle Country, but if memory serves it sounded like an oval-hole.

Anyone interested in the Charles River Valley Boys might enjoy this article. (http://www.answers.com/topic/the-charles-river-valley-boys) My only quibble with it is that it omits John Cooke, Alistair Cooke's son, who sang lead for the band for several years, became Janis Joplin's personal manager, and is now doing something-or-other in Hollywood. Ah, the good ol' Cambridge folk scene...

[Spruce]

I knew John back in the day...

He was also a great photographer, and you can see the results of his work here (http://www.cookephoto.com/)...

There's some great shots of Mr. Bill on John's site, as well as Hendrix, Janis, etc....

BTW, I ran into Jim Field a couple years ago at IBMA, who was the singer on "Beatle Country"...
We even did a few of those tunes...

[allenhopkins]

I corresponded with Jim, tried to get him to play some music at the Harvard '65 35th or 40th reunion, but he didn't attend... I'm sort of the "official folkie" of Harvard/Radcliffe '65, and am asked to coordinate a jam/hootenanny/whatever-you-call-it every five years. I try to talk as many classmates as possible into participating, but can't seem to get either Si Kahn or Mitch Greenhill to show up with a guitar.

[mandopete]

I loved Beatle Country. Anyone else here think this recording may have spawned the "Pickin' On xxxxx" series?