DOOLEY
The Dillard’s are credited with freeing bluegrass music from the more traditional
approaches usually associated with musical acts Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, and Flatt
and Scruggs. Instead, brothers Rodney and Doug Dillard and original band mates bassist
Mitch Jayne and mandolin player Dean Webb blended folk, country, and rock music
elements to create a progressive musical style that heavily influenced such purveyors of
the burgeoning country rock movement as the Byrd’s; Crosby, Stills, and Nash; the
Flying Burrito Brothers; Poco; Michael Nesmith; and the Eagles, as well as the
progressive bluegrass group New Grass Revival.
The Dillard’s set out for Los Angeles in 1962, working odd jobs along the way to raise
money. The band’s talent was recognized when they set up their instruments and began
performing for free in the lobby of the Ash Grove folk club on the evening of a scheduled
performance by the Greenbrier Boys. The band’s performance helped land them a
contract with Elektra Records, and they set about recording their first album, “Back
Porch Bluegrass”, which was released in 1963. Produced by Jim Dickson, who had also
produced the bluegrass and country act the Kentucky Colonels, “Back Porch Bluegrass”
established the Dillard’s as accomplished songwriters with such original songs as
“Dooley” and “Old Home Place,” as well as loyal practitioners of several bluegrass
standards.
Dooley was a good ole man
He lived below the mill
Dooley had two daughters
And a forty-gallon still
One gal watched the boiler
The other watched the spout
And mama corked the bottles
And ole Dooley fetched ’em out.
Dooley slippin’ up the holler
Dooley try to make a dollar
Dooley give me a swaller
And I’ll pay you back someday.
The revenuers came for him
A-sippin’ though the woods
Dooley kept behind them all
And never lost his goods
Dooley was a trader
When into town he’d come
Sugar by the bushel
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