Clinch Mountain Echo

Curly Ray Cline - Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?

(Rebel SLP 1577) 1978


Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?
Rear Cover Side One Side Two L-R: Junior Blankenship, Curly Ray Cline, Charlie Sizemore (Photo: Rose Hall)

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Recorded on 5th Jan 1978 at Messa Studios in Wise, Va. This is a fairly typical Curly Ray album, with a smattering of vocal tracks and a chunk of fiddle instrumentals. It's also the first LP to feature the Junior Blankenship / Charlie Sizemore line-up of the CMB's.

Who's Gonna Mow My Grass was often the 'featured' vocal track by Curly Ray at Ralph's shows of the time.

Booger Man's Dream, credited to Curly Ray, is the fiddle standard Devil's Dream... as Curly noted in the March 1989 edition of 'Bluegrass Unlimited' ...lot's of people take the old tunes and change the names... now "Devils' Dream", I call that "Booger Man's Dream"... Ralph [Stanley] helped me come up with that one.[1]

Fred Huffman, who did the artwork for this and It's Bread And Water For... LPs, later designed the commemorative Blue Grass Boy belt buckle design that Doug Hutchens made for Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys in 1987.[2]

Track:
Title:
Side One:
(14:12)
1
Who's Gonna Mow My Grass

Curly Ray Cline / Verdie Cline
2
Yodelling Waltz

Curly Ray Cline
3
Durham's Bull

P.D.
4
Booger Man's Dream

Curly Ray Cline
5
Boil The Cabbage Down

P.D.
6
Fifty Year Ago Waltz

P.D.
Side Two:
(14:01)
1
More Pretty Girls Than One

P.D.
2
Flop-Eared Mule

P.D.
3
In The Land Where We'll Never Grow Old

James C. Moore
4
Fiddler's Dream

P.D.
5
I Like The Old Time Ways

P.D.
6
Family Bible

P.D.

 


Go To Top Of Page [1] p.17 'Notes and Queries' section of Bluegrass Unlimited, March 1989.
[2] Bob Black's book 'Come Hither To Go Yonder' (p. 136)