Back Porch Bluegrass

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = Back Porch Bluegrass | type = Album | artist = The Dillards | cover = Back Porch Bluegrass.jpeg | alt = | released = 1963 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Bluegrass | length = 31:56 | label = Elektra<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9KBL42D_g_8C&pg=PA296|title=Becoming Elektra: The True Story of Jac Holzman's Visionary Record Label|first=Mick|last=Houghton|date=September 4, 2010|publisher=Jawbone Press|via=Google Books}}</ref> | producer = Jim Dickson | chronology = The Dillards | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Live!!!! Almost!!! | next_year = 1964 }} {{music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/back-porch-bluegrass-mw0000863069|title=Back Porch Bluegrass - The Dillards | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=3 |pages=4–5}}</ref> |rev4 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' |rev4score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=197}}</ref> }} '''''Back Porch Bluegrass''''' is the debut album by American band the Dillards, released in 1963.<ref>{{cite web |title=Artist Biography by Steve Huey |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-dillards-mn0000788568/biography |website=AllMusic |access-date=4 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://americansongwriter.com/the-dillards-take-me-along-for-the-ride-song/|title=The Dillards Return with "Take Me Along For the Ride," Reveal First Album in Nearly 30 Years|date=August 14, 2020|website=American Songwriter}}</ref> "Dooley" and "Duelin' Banjo" were released as singles.

==Critical reception== ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' wrote that the album helped to establish the group "as one of America's leading traditional acts, although purists denigrated the band's sometimes irreverent attitude."<ref name=CL/> ''MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide'' wrote that it contains a "smokin' version of 'Dueling Banjos' 10 years before ''Deliverance''."<ref>{{cite book |title=MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide |date=1998 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=223}}</ref>

== Track listing == # "Old Joseph" (Traditional, arranged and adapted by Douglas Dillard and Dean Webb) – 1:25 # "Somebody Touched Me" (Traditional) – 2:23 # "Polly Vaughn" (Traditional, arranged and adapted with new lyrics by Rodney Dillard) – 2:45 # "Banjo in the Hollow" (Douglas Dillard) – 1:45 # "Dooley" (Mitch Jayne, Rodney Dillard) – 2:02 # "Lonesome Indian" (Traditional) – 1:46 # "Ground Hog" (Traditional) – 2:00 # "Old Home Place" (Dean Webb, Mitch Jayne) – 2:05 # "Hickory Hollow" (Douglas Dillard) – 2:00 # "Old Man at the Mill" (Traditional) – 1:45 # "Doug's Tune" (Douglas Dillard) – 2:13 # "Rainin' Here This Mornin'" (Grandpa Jones) – 3:07 # "Cold Trailin'" (Rodney Dillard) – 2:15 # "Reuben's Train" (Traditional, arranged and adapted by J. Nevel) – 2:15 # "Duelin' Banjo" (adapted and arranged by the Dillards) – 2:10

== Personnel == ;The Dillards * Rodney Dillard - lead vocals, guitar * Douglas Dillard - banjo * Mitchell Jayne - bass * Dean Webb - mandolin

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Category:1963 debut albums Category:Elektra Records albums Category:The Dillards albums Category:Albums produced by Jim Dickson (producer)