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    Default Sonny Osborne - The River of Death

    But Amsterdam was always good for grieving
    And London never fails to leave me blue
    And Paris never was my kinda town
    So I walked around with the Ft. Worth Blues

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    Fretbear, do you know who the other singers/players are on this? Sounds like first-rate talent.

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    For those who are not aware, Sonny passed away yesterday afternoon, October 24th.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bgpete View Post
    Fretbear, do you know who the other singers/players are on this? Sounds like first-rate talent.
    https://bluegrasstoday.com/ask-sonny...rlos-and-enos/
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    J.P.'s wonderful Eulogy to Sonny (and some others we lost recently)

    But Amsterdam was always good for grieving
    And London never fails to leave me blue
    And Paris never was my kinda town
    So I walked around with the Ft. Worth Blues

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    Quote Originally Posted by bgpete View Post
    Fretbear, do you know who the other singers/players are on this? Sounds like first-rate talent.
    According to Praguefrank's Country Discographies, this was the 1953 lineup at Gateway Studios:

    1953 Gateway Studio, Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, OH – Sonny Osborne (Sonny Osborne [vcl/gt], Carlos Brock [vcl/gt], Enos Johnson [vcl/mandolin], Smokey Ward [bass], Billy Thomas [fiddle])

    Arrangements (Sonny on guitar, no banjo) sound a lot like Monroe's "Blue Grass Quartet" when he'd perform sacred material in live shows. If I didn't know better, I'd say River of Death coulda been on the A Voice From On High Monroe Decca album, one of my all-time bluegrass gospel faves.
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    Sonny and Bobby showing their great sense of humor having fun on stage.

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    Funny I had been listening to a lot of Osborne Brothers since Sonny's passing recently. I have the Early Recordings of Sonny Osborne 1952 - 1953 Vol. 1 & 2 originally recorded on Gateway Records. Allen has the personnel correct as mentioned on the album cover also but that track isn't on either disc. Was there another disc (Vol 3)that I might not have? I'm talking vinyl here.
    Sonny was in his EARLY TEENS when this stuff was recorded! He was truly one of the great ones.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Gnann View Post
    Sonny was in his EARLY TEENS when this stuff was recorded! He was truly one of the great ones.
    A member of Monroe's Blue Grass Boys at 14.

    "Born in 1937 in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky’s Leslie County, Osborne first picked up the banjo around the age of 11 and began pursuing music professionally just a few years later at 14 while living in Dayton, Ohio. He was hired by Bill Monroe in the summer of 1952, at the end of his freshman year of high school, and went on to both record and perform on the Grand Ole Opry with Monroe over the summer. Though he returned to Ohio to begin 10th grade, he quickly returned to Monroe and stayed on as a Blue Grass Boy until his brother Bobby returned home from the service in 1953."

    https://bluegrasstoday.com/sonny-osb...uegrass-music/
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    Don't forget, y'all, his given first name was Roland.
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