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Poetown Ramblers : The Grundy Flood of '77
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Original hard-driving bluegrass written in the heart of the coal fields of Virginia, The songs are all about real places in Buchanan County, Virginia and feature award winning instrumentalist Ricky Rigney.
Genre: Country: Bluegrass
Release Date: 1982
The Grundy Flood of '77
Poetown Ramblers
Record Label: Poetown Ramblers
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1. The Grundy Flood of '77 3:27 + MP3 $0.99
2. Debbie's Pride 2:21 + MP3 $0.99
3. Double-Wide Trailer on the Hill 2:18 + MP3 $0.99
4. I Dreamed of Some Land 3:10 + MP3 $0.99
5. Workin the Hoot Owl Shift 3:06 + MP3 $0.99
6. Weller Yard 2:09 + MP3 $0.99
7. Lover's Gap 2:32 + MP3 $0.99
8. Cabin Fork 2:09 + MP3 $0.99
9. Why Must it Be So 3:34 + MP3 $0.99
10. Jim Cantrell 2:14 + MP3 $0.99
11. Tongues of Fire 2:42 + MP3 $0.99
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Album Notes

This album is hard-driving bluegrass, tight vocal harmonies and contains all original tunes written by Jim Thompson about Buchanan County Virginia in the heart of the Appalachian coal fields. The title tune portrays the terrible flood of 1977 that devasted Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia that year. The Poetown Ramblers are comprised of Steve Ruffino on guitar and harmony vocals, Rick Caudle on banjo and harmony vocals, Scott Fox on bass and Jim Thompson the lead singer and fiddle player. The album also features instrumentalist Ricky Rigney a winner of multiple championships in dobro,mandolin and guitar in the Smithville Tennessee Jamboree which draws musicians from all over the South, especially Nashville and middle Tennessee. The CD presents a musical documentary of a very unique location in the American South, Grundy Virginia.

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REVIEWS

An Album Full Of Memories
author: Bobby
                            
As the town of Grundy, Virginia continues to change trying to modernize itself this album harkens back to the good ol' days of the Grundy of my dad grew up in and that I've visited many times in the past. The music describes Grundy from when it was still the Grundy we knew, and no matter how that city changes-from moving its downtown to building new highways and gaining its respective Wal-Mart every town now gets, this album encapsulates a time and place that no longer exists in its gritty glory and familiar settings of a home in the holler, and the closed up mines along the railroad tracks, a river, and a road. No matter how Grundy changes the music in this album preserves the memory and the feel of a Grundy that once was. The album is truly a testament to time and thus is timeless in its pure country essence which sprang from a country town that no longer represents the area they sang about.
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Great CD
author: Joe Fuller
                            
Would love to hear from Steve Ruffino. We were in Nam together.
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Loved it
author: Douglas T. Boynton
                            
My wife is from Grundy and we lived there the first year we were married. I bought this album when it came out as a 33 1/3 but it had gotten so scratchy you couldn't really hear it. I know a lot of the places they sing about. I am sorry they only recorded the one album.
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author: Pam Viars
                            
This Cd brought back wonderful memories of a time and place in my life. The music was outstanding and the artists exceptional
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