Butch Robins

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Butch Robins worked as the banjo player with Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys for four years, beginning in 1977. The Fifth Child is his interpretive tribute to Monroe’s music. As Bill himself said about the banjo as an instrument, “It’s done wonderful for Bluegrass. It’s got its place.” 1. I’ll Be On That Good Road Someday 2. Cumberland Gap (Trad., arr. by Joseph Robins/Happy Valley Music BMI) 3. Jerusalem Ridge (Bill Monroe/Bill Monroe Music BMI) 4. My Father’s Footsteps (Joseph Robins/Happy Valley Music BMI) 5. Kansas City Railroad Blues 6. Dear Old Dixie (Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs/APRS BMI) 7. Crossin’ the Cumberlands 8. Cripple Creek (Trad., arr. by Joseph Robins/Happy Valley Music BMI) 9. Mississippi Waltz (Bill Monroe/Bill Monroe Music BMI) 10. Blue Grass Breakdown (Bill Monroe/Bill Monroe Music & Unichappell Music BMI) 11. Blue Ridge Cabin Home (Louise Certain & Gladys Stacey/Golden West Melodies Inc. BMI) Alan O’Bryant – guitar and vocals Blaine Sprouse – fiddle Randy Davis – bass Sam Bush – mandolin Terry Smith – bass on “Kansas City Railroad Blues” and “Bluegrass Breakdown” Bobby Osborne – tenor vocal Butch Robins – banjo “A banjo is a wonderful instrument today to fit in a group. A banjo’s good to pick and fill in and a lot of people loves and thinks it’s the best music in the world. “You say the banjo was the fifth instrument in bluegrass, what were the first few?” “Well it was bound to be the mandolin, the first one, then the guitar and then we added

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The Fifth Child

Forty Years Late

Grounded . Centered . Focused

Fragments of My Imagicnation

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Hand-Picked: 25 Years Of Bluegrass On Rounder Records

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Fifth Child

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Grounded. Centered. Focused.

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True Bluegrass

Grounded Centered Focused

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25 Years of Rounder Records (Hand-Picked CD1)

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Hand Picked: 25 Years of Bluegrass on Rounder Records Disc 1

Grounded - Centered - Focused