RED BELCHER
SESSION DISCOGRAPHY
RED BELCHER And The Kentucky Ridge Runners
Johnstown, Pa: Winter
1948
Finley Duncan
“Red” Belcher (vcl/bjo); Mitchell Burt “Bea” Lilly (rhy gtr); Charles Everett
Lilly (mand); Benjamin Franklin “Tex” Logan (fdl); Smilie Sutter (); Donald
“Don” Kidwell (). Producer:
P 501 COLEMAMAN’S MARCH (Banjo Solo) Page
P 501
()
P 501 DEWDROPS (Banjo by Red Belcher)
P-501
()
NB(1): PAGE P 501 released 1948.
NB(2): PAGE Records owned by AL & ERNIE PAGE.
RED BELCHER And The Kentucky Ridgerunners (sic) (W.W.V.A ARTIST)
Johnstown, Pa: 1949
Red Belcher (vcl/bjo); Bea
Lilly (vcl-2/rhy gtr); Everett Lilly (mand);
Tex Logan (vcl-1/fdl); Smilie Sutter (); Don
Kidwell (). Producer:
P 502 A KENTUCKY IS ONLY A DREAM -2 Page
P 502 A, Rounder 1013, Catfish KATCD-195
() JSP
JSP-7731
P 502 B OLD GREY GOOSE -1 Page
P 502 B, 1013, JSP
JSP-7731
()
NB(1): PAGE P 502 A/B released 1949.
NB(2): PAGE P 502 A/B released on both 78rpm & 45rpm.
LILLY BROTHERS-Everett &
Mitchell
Johnstown, Pa: 1949
Bea (vcl/gtr): Everett (vcl/mand); prob
Red Belcher (bjo); Tex Logan (fdl); Smilie Sutter (); Don Kidwell ().
Producer:
P 505 A WHAT ARE THEY DOING IN HEAVEN Page
P 505 A, Rounder 1013, Catfish KATCD-195
() JSP
JSP-7731
P 505 B THEY SLEEP NOW TOGETHER AT REST Page P 505 B, 1013, KATCD-195
() JSP
JSP-7731
NB(1): PAGE P 505 A/B released 1949.
NB(2): PAGE P 505 A/B released on both 78rpm & 45rpm.
NB(3): ROUNDER 1013 “EARLY DAYS OF BLUEGRASS,
Vol.1.” released 1974.
NB(4): ROUNDER 1013 reviewed Bluegrass
Unlimited Vol.10, #5-November 1975.
NB(5): CATFISH KATCD-195 “BLUEGRASS
BEGINNINGS” released United Kingdom 2001.
NB(6): JSP JSP-7731 “BLUEGRASS EARLY CUTS 1931-1953 CLASSIC
RECORDINGS REMASTERED” released United
Kingdom Tuesday 24th August 2004.
RED BELCHER And His Kentucky Ridge Runners
Johnstown, Pa: 1949
(vcl/bjo); Tex Logan
(fdl); Everett Lilly (mand); Smilie Sutter (); Don Kidwell ().
Producer:
P 101 A DEWDROPS Page
P 101
()
P 101 B COLEMAN’S MARCH (Inst) P 101
()
NB: PAGE P 101 released 1949.
RED BELCHER And The Kentucky Ridge Runners Trio by Eddie
Miller, Jackie Starr and Roy Scott-1
RED BELCHER And The Kentucky Ridge Runners Vocal by Roy
Scott-2
Davis, W.Va: ca.
July 1950
(bjo); Eddie Miller
(vcl-3/ ); Jackie Starr
(vcl-3/ ); Roy Scott
(vcl-4/ ).
Producer:
John Bava
258 I AIN’T GONNA LET OLD SATAN TURN ME DOWN-1-3-4 Cozy No.258, Jasmine
JASMCD-3608
()
259 I’M MOVING ON -2-4 Cozy No.259
(Hank Snow)
NB(1): COZY No.258/No.259 released ca. August 1950.
NB(2): JASMINE JASMCD-3608 “BLUEGRASS THAT HIGH LONESOME
SOUND” released United Kingdom March 2012.
DISCOGRAPHY compiled by DICK GRANT with acknowledgements to
AL TURNER & DAVE SAX.
1996-2014.