Traitor in Our Midst/Don't Give Up Your Day Job [Import, Original recording remastered]

Country Gazette | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 15, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
• ASIN: B0000011OG
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,818 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lost Indian

2. Keep on Pushin'

3. I Wish You Knew

4. Hot Burrito Breakdown

5. I Might Take You Back Again

6. Forget Me Not

7. Tried So Hard

8. Anna

9. If You're Ever Gonna Love Me

10. Aggravation

11. Sound of Goodbye

12. Swing Low Sweet Chariot

13. Huckleberry Hornpipe

14. The Fallen Eagle

15. I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby

16. Deputy Dalton

17. Teach Your Children

18. My Oklahoma

19. Down the Road

20. Winterwood

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

The first two studio albums by pioneering bluegrass band Country Gazette (originally released by Liberty in the early '70s) were combined by BGO in the U.K. in the '90s. This is a great way to pick up these fine releases by one of the bands who helped inspire the newgrass movement. ~ Sean Westergaard, All Music Guide

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Byron and Alan -- absolute monsters!, August 31, 1999

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This review is from: Traitor in Our Midst/Don't Give Up Your Day Job (Audio CD)

Sure, the two albums are a little too California for the majority of most east coast bluegrassers, but if you grew up listening to the (original) Dillards, Kentucky Colonels, and Vern & Ray, then you'll understand what drives this band. Alan Munde is just a monster -- absolutely rock solid, with licks that banjoists then, and banjoists now, can only dream of nailing. And playing off him is Byron's fiddling (with hands like hams, how the heck can he play such intricate double and triple stops?). Two of the best 70's bluegrass albums on the same CD. How CAN you lose??

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two old albums of some of the best early Newgrass!, January 23, 2003

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This review is from: Traitor in Our Midst/Don't Give Up Your Day Job (Audio CD)

Hippie-era newgrass doesn't get more genial or good-natured than this lively outfit, which featured banjo whiz Alan Munde, fiddler Byron Berline, bassist Rober Bush and singer Kenny Wertz, along with an amorphous cast of high-powered pals such as Clarence White, Herb Pedersen and Al Perkins. The band was an on-again, off-again project that got squeezed in between the demands that various bands such as the Dillards, Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers placed on the Gazette members... Although lumped in with the whole early-'70s country-rock scene, Country Gazette were clearly more traditionally and bluegrass oriented in musical terms, even if their song selection ranged from the Louvin Brothers and Flatt & Scruggs to Steven Stills and Elton John. Fortunately for us, they managed to eke out these two fine major-label albums, which radiate a keen sense of humor, a flair for showmanship and a profound understanding of musical history which keeps these recordings sounding fresh as can be, decades down the line. A nice prelude to their later indie-label works... highly recommended!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the good stuff, October 17, 2011

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Jon Delong "pnotunr" (Moss Beach, Ca.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Traitor in Our Midst/Don't Give Up Your Day Job (Audio CD)

If you want the original Country Gazette, which i did, this is the best you're going to find on CD. They have some other great albums, but they haven't made it to digital media. This is basically Bluegrass with Pedal Steel. I love it.