Pictured here playing their Texas – Mexican Bluegrass music at a different festival in 1979. I was pumped to find this picture! While listening to the show I was curious about the guitar that Peter was playing. Looks like a pre-1979 Martin D-28.
With some inspired fiddling from Tex and first rate picking from the rest of the boys, this is some real bluegrass.
Lamar Grier played banjo for Bill Monroe while Peter Rowan was in the band, and is the father of guitarist David Grier. He plays a great version of “Clinch Mountain Backstep” that you can listen to here.
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Peter Rowan and the Green Grass Gringos
Fox Lane High School – Bedford, NY – 9-13-1980
Peter Rowan – guitar, vocals
Tex Logan – fiddle, vocals
Barry Mitterhoff – mandolin
Lamar Greer – banjo
John Carlini – bass
disc one: 67:26
early show
01: tuning
02: fiddle tune
03: Out On The Western Plain
04: Midnight Moonlight
05: Diamond Joe
06: Free Mexican Air Force
07: Border Ride
08: The River Of Stone
09: Clinch Mountain Backstep
10: Cold Rain And Snow
11: Hobo Song
12: Land Of The Navajo
13: Tall Timber
disc two: 44:15
late show
01: tuning
02: fiddle tune
03: Panama Red
04: Dust Bowl Children
05: Border Ride
06: Prarie Lullaby
07: Riding High In Texas
08: The Northeast Seaboard Blues
09: Pig In A Pen
10: Free Mexican Airforce
11: Out On The Western Plain
disc three: 40:21
01: Midnight Moonlight
02: The Walls Of Time
03: Foggy Mountain Breakdown
04: Come Along Jody
05: Land Of The Navajo
06: You Ramblin’ Boys Of Pleasure
07: Tall Timber
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I saw Barry Mitterhoff a few years after this playing in Tony Trischka’s fine band Skyline. If you ever run across any material by them, I’d love to see it here!M