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BFX - 15001 - Bill Clifton & Paul Clayton - A Bluegrass Session 


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On July 4, 1961, Clifton organized an outdoor "Bluegrass Day" concert at Oak Leaf Park in Luray, VA, featuring a reunion of Bill Monroe's original bluegrass boys, the Stanley Brothers, the Country Gentlemen, Jim & Jesse, and several other top bluegrass acts. Although it was only an all-day rather than weekend-long event, the concert is generally recognized as the first bluegrass festival, as the progenitor of the hundreds of grassroots campground gatherings that flourish annually all over the U.S. and Canada. Clifton's concert didn't make much of a splash with the general public at the time, but key figures in the folk-music world were paying close attention. Clifton himself was hired as one of the organizers of the Newport Folk Festival in 1963, and Carlton Haney, one of the attendees at Clifton's Luray concert, went on to organize a larger event in Roanoke in 1965. From that point on, the modern bluegrass-festival movement grew rapidly. 

 In 1963, Clifton and his family moved to England; he played in local clubs and other small venues around Europe. In 1967 he joined the Peace Corps and spent three years in the Philippines. While there, he visited New Zealand, recording an album with the Hamilton County Bluegrass Band. Clifton occasionally returned to the U.S. to record, and also kept recording in Europe. In 1972, he returned briefly to America to play his first bluegrass festival circuit. Encouraged by the experience, he began visiting the U.S. more frequently and recorded more regularly, signing with County Records. For his third album on the label, he formed the First Generation with mandolinist Red Rector and banjoist Don Stover. After the album's release, the trio toured the bluegrass circuit for the remainder of the 1970s. In the early '80s, Clifton and his family moved to Virginia, where he worked as a businessman. However, Clifton continued to perform at bluegrass festivals and occasional concerts into the '90s.




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   1. (00:02:21) Clifton & Clayton - John Henry
   2. (00:02:08) Clifton & Clayton - Watermelon on the Vine
   3. (00:02:31) Clifton & Clayton - Roll on the Ground
   4. (00:12:03) Clifton & Clayton - Pleasant and Delightful
   5. (00:01:57) Clifton & Clayton - The Fox
   6. (00:02:30) Clifton & Clayton - John Hardin
   7. (00:02:27) Clifton & Clayton - East Virginia Blues
   8. (00:04:48) Clifton & Clayton - Jealous Lover
   9. (00:02:38) Clifton & Clayton - Beautiful Mable Clare
  10. (00:02:13) Clifton & Clayton - Bury Me Beneath the Willow
  11. (00:03:32) Clifton & Clayton - Poor Boy
  12. (00:02:26) Clifton & Clayton - Roll On The Ground (Previously unissued 1951)

Playing Time.........: 00:41:35
Total Size...........: 95,19 MB


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