Festival Of American Folk & Country Music - Falkonercentret
Copenhagen, Denmark 16th March 1966


  1966 Tour Programme (courtesy Gary B. Reid)
(Courtesy Gary B. Reid)

This is a recording made on the European package tour of 1966 from a broadcast on Danish Radio. A couple who attended the concert taped it off the radio and their son later transferred it to CD-R.

The show from the next night on the tour was released in 2007 as a lavish 2xCD box set: American Folk & Country Music Festival (Bear Family BCD-16849 BK).

The Copenhangen concert is notable for including the only known version by The Stanley Brothers of Take This Hammer, the prison/railroad song popularised by Lead Belly. It was also the last date on the tour to include Chick Stripling, who had to be helped off stage when he finally was too drunk to play anymore.

Thanks to Steen Sørensen for preserving this show.


The Stanley Brothers
Carter Stanley - guitar, Ralph Stanley - Banjo, Don Miller - fiddle, Chick stripling - bass  

    Introduction
    Take This Hammer
    Wildwood Flower
    Nobody's Business

Roscoe Holcomb
Roscoe Holcomb - guitar / banjo  

    Introduction
    Graveyard Blues
    Motherless Children See A Hard Time
    Swanno Mountain

New Lost City Ramblers
John Cohen, Mike Seeger, Tracy Schwarz  

    Introduction
    Gold Watch & Chain
    Fair & Tender Ladies
    Hawkins Rag
    Bachelor's Blues
    Sunny Side Of Life
    Saddle Up The Grey

Cyp Landrenau's Cajun Band
Cyprien Landrenau - accordion, Adam Landrenau - fiddle, Revon Reed - triangle  

    Introduction
    Treville Est Pas Pecheur
    Bayou Pon Pon
    Opelousas Waltz

Cousin Emmy
Cousin Emmy backed by the New Lost City Ramblers  

    Introduction
    Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
    Ain't It Hard
    I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
    Shortnin Bread
    Dance All Night
    Turkey In The Straw

The Stanley Brothers
Carter Stanley - guitar, Ralph Stanley - Banjo, Don Miller - fiddle, Chick stripling - bass  

    Introduction
    Ridin That Midnight Train
    Cannonball Blues
    Chickie's Old Gray Mule
    Rank Stranger
    The White Dove
    If I Lose
    Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms - Long Journey Home

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Added August 28, 2018

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