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- Beatle Country is the fourth and final studio album by the American bluegrass band Charles River Valley Boys, released in November 1966 by Elektra Records. Where the Charles River Valley Boys' previous albums consisted of traditional and new bluegrass and some early country songs, Beatle Country contains only covers of the Beatles. The band and several session musicians completed the album at Columbia's studio in Nashville, Tennessee, across four days in September 1966. Paul A. Rothchild and Peter K. Siegel produced the album, with Glenn Snoddy engineering. After hearing the Beatles' song "I've Just Seen a Face" on the radio in late-1965, Jim Field recommended to his bandmates that they add it to their repertoire. Following the label's success the previous year with The Baroque Beatles Book, Elektra executive Jac Holzman acquired permission for the group to record an album of Beatles covers. Because the original versions often employ complex chord progressions, the group "'countrified' the chords ... 'flattening'" them out to bring the songs into the style of bluegrass. In addition to using rolling banjos, upright bass and a high lonesome tenor vocal, they further changed the songs structurally, allowing for extra instrumental breaks – a typical feature of bluegrass music, where each musician is allowed the chance to solo. Upon release, Elektra promoted Beatle Country towards mainstream country and pop music audiences rather than to bluegrass fans. A commercial failure, it peaked at No. 127 on Cash Box's Top 100 Albums chart in January 1967. The album's ineffective marketing campaign allowed it to fall into obscurity, subsequently attaining cult status and becoming a valued collector's item. The album's cover artwork, created by Eros Keith under the supervision of William S. Harvey and without the band's involvement, features a group of cowboys gazing at the theater district of Swinging London. With its bending of bluegrass conventions, retrospective commentators have seen the LP as anticipating the progressive bluegrass movement of the 1970s. The album was re-released on CD in 1995 and in 2005. (en)
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- Charles River Valley Boys - Beatle Country.jpg (en)
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- According to music scholar Laura Turner, Joe Val's emphasis on the rhotic "r" and his "representative bluegrass high tenor range" signal "American southernness". (en)
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- Charles River Valley Boys, Norwegian Wood.ogg (en)
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- Bluegrass and Old Timey Music (en)
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- Blue Grass Get Together (en)
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- Peter K. Siegel (en)
- Paul A. Rothchild (en)
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- [The Beatles] had a lot of country twang in songs like "I've Just Seen a Face" and "What Goes On". A lot of the folkies were into the Beatles big time, on the sly if nothing else, including us. We just thought a lot of [their songs] would adapt themselves to a country sound. As we got into learning the songs, we discovered that the singing they did lent itself well to bluegrass harmonies, and we discovered we liked the ones that weren't so country too. (en)
- Hearing those songs sung in the style and timbre of Bill Monroe... sent chills down my spine. Hearing that voice come through the monitors, I felt like Joe [Val] was achieving an essential melding of the Beatles songs and the bluegrass style, and it's something I'll never forget. (en)
- More than just the first rendition of the Beatles as country music, Beatle Country presaged Newgrass, which it antedated by several years. In that regard, it was a groundbreaking recording, demonstrating that material from outside the genre could be rendered as bluegrass. (en)
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- – Bob Siggins, 2001 (en)
- – Boston Bluegrass Union, 2013 (en)
- – Peter K. Siegel, 2015 (en)
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- Retrospective professional ratings (en)
- Joe Val's first verse from "Norwegian Wood" (en)
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- Beatle Country is the fourth and final studio album by the American bluegrass band Charles River Valley Boys, released in November 1966 by Elektra Records. Where the Charles River Valley Boys' previous albums consisted of traditional and new bluegrass and some early country songs, Beatle Country contains only covers of the Beatles. The band and several session musicians completed the album at Columbia's studio in Nashville, Tennessee, across four days in September 1966. Paul A. Rothchild and Peter K. Siegel produced the album, with Glenn Snoddy engineering. (en)
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