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COUNTRY GENTLEMEN - THE BEST OF THE EARLY COUNTRY GENTLEMEN, FEAT. THE YOUNG FISHERWOMAN (REB-1494), 1971

Musicians
Charlie Waller: Guitar, Vocals
John Duffey: Mandolin, Vocals
Eddie Adcock: Banjo, Vocals
Tom Gray: Bass
Pete Kuykendall: Lead Guitar on "Sad and Lonesome Day", Second Banjo on "This Morning at Nine" and "Can't You Hear Me Callin'"

The Best Of The Early Years is the first Country Gentlemen compilation album released on the Rebel label. For over 25 years the Country Gentlemen have compiled a unique and enviable record as one of the most influential, consistent and successful musical groups of any type and time. The group was an innovative force in Bluegrass music with an ability to draw and adapt material from non-Bluegrass sources, especially from contemporary "folk" music of the period (much of it written during the late, little-lamented Hootenanny boom of the early 1960s. The group with their more diverse, contemporary repertoire, combined with youth, dynamism and sophistication helped purvey Bluegrass as an art form to a large new audience which led to the establishment of the Washington, D.C. area as a hot-bed of Bluegrass activity. Rebel Records released thirteen Country Gentlemen albums along with six compilations over the years.