Golden State Country-Bluegrass Festival
Marin Veterans' Memorial
San Rafael, CA
April 27, 1974

Photos courtesy David Nichtern

0:00 Cornbread - Fire on the Mountain
2:33 Homestead Act - Take Five
4:28 Emmylou Harris - Jambalaya
8:01 Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys - Are You Missing Me?
10:21 Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys - Maybelline
12:45 Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys - Johnny Be Goode
15:10 Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys - Dueling Banjos
17:41 Doc & Merle Watson - Poor Boy Blues
20:22 Doc & Merle Watson - Wabash Cannonball
25:43 Doc & Merle Watson - Salt Creek
28:43 Doc & Merle Watson - Tennessee Stud
32:38 Norman Blake & Tut Taylor - Instrumental No.1
37:00 Norman Blake & Tut Taylor - Southern Railroad Blues (fades in)
39:15 Norman Blake & Tut Taylor - Instrumental No.2
41:30 Norman Blake & Tut Taylor - Instrumental No. 3
45:16 Mac Wiseman w/Norman Blake & Tut Taylor - Wreck of the Old 97 (fades in)
46:28 Mac Wiseman w/Norman Blake & Tut Taylor - Catfish John
48:34 Mac Wiseman w/Norman Blake & Tut Taylor - Love Letters In The Sand
51:02 Mac Wiseman w/Norman Blake & Tut Taylor - Shackles And Chains
53:30 Mac Wiseman w/Norman Blake & Tut Taylor - Prisoner Song
56:21 Mac Wiseman w/Norman Blake & Tut Taylor - Jimmie Brown the Newsboy
59:01 Mac Wiseman w/Norman Blake & Tut Taylor - I Wonder How the Old Folks are at Home
1:01:09 Mac Wiseman w/Norman Blake & Tut Taylor - Man Walking On The Water
1:04:21 Mac Wiseman w/Norman Blake & Tut Taylor - Keep On The Sunny Side Of Life
1:07:10 Great American String Band - My Plastic Banana Isn't Stupid
1:11:00 Great American String Band - Dawg's Rag
1:19:18 Great American String Band - I'll Be The Gambler If You'll Deal The Cards
1:22:54 Great American String Band - Sweet Georgia Brown (fades in)
1:27:26 Doc and Merle Watson* - Footprints in the Snow (fades in)
1:29:48 Doc and Merle Watson* - Wabash Cannonball
1:31:50 Doc and Merle Watson* - Keep on the Sunny Side (fades in)
1:34:49 Doc and Merle Watson* - Buckin' Mule 01:34:49

*Notes: transfered by Rob Berger '99 Around 2008 a small group of bluegrass fans worked to correct some of the errors in the setlist given for the above fileset and create a more coherent running order. The result is what you see here. The largest error was that 4 tracks attributed to Doc & Merle Watson are in fact someone else, though Doc and/or Merle may be onstage. The identity of the lead vocalist on these tracks has not been determined for certain at this time. There are strongly held but conflicting opinions on a couple sides of the issue. Googling the combination of songs played by this act gives two results: Mr. Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, and Clarence White/the White Brothers. It's not Mr. Monroe and Clarence died tragically the year before this. So who knows? Two songs incorrectly attributed to the Great American String Band were part of Jim & Jesse McReynolds' regular repertoire and are clearly performed by them. Based on conversation with an individual who convincingly claims attendance at most of the festival, some dates have been clarified. Note that some acts performed both days. A few song titles have also been corrected. A few songs by the groups Cornbread and the Homestead Act which are in the original fileset are omitted here. I'm not really sure how or why that happened but I'm not going to track them down at this point. There are numerous fade- and cut-ins and outs from a happy trigger finger on the pause button. Only those where a significant amount of music seems to be missing have been noted. Given that these are not from master reels, perhaps we can hope that eventually a more complete source will come into circulation! re-FLAC'd with corrected tags and new sequence by Mr. Completely, fall 2008.