Black Forest Bluegrass

Black Forest Bluegrass
Studio album by P. D. Q. Bach
Released	1979
Label	Vanguard
P. D. Q. Bach chronology
Portrait of P. D. Q. Bach (1977) Black Forest Bluegrass (1979) Liebeslieder Polkas (1980)

Black Forest Bluegrass is a recording of the music of Peter Schickele under his comic pseudonym of P. D. Q. Bach, featuring the composer and "a bluegrass band with a Baroque orchestra, a wind octet with toys, a commercial with a snake — this album has it all!" The album was released on Vanguard Records in 1979.

Performers

• Professor Peter Schickele, bass, conductor, snake (that's an instrument)
• The New York Pick-Up Ensemble, Robert Bernhardt, conductor
• John Ferrante, tenor
• Eric Weissberg, mandolin and harmonica
• Bill Keith, banjo and harmonica
• Happy Traum, guitar and harmonica
• Donald "Don" Palma, bass and harmonica

According to the liner notes on the album, the performers pictured on the cover are Tommy Mann and his Magic Mountain Boys.

Track listing

• Cantata: Blaues Gras (Bluegrass Cantata), S. 6 string
  • Recitative and Aria: "Blaues Gras"
  • Recitative: "O"
  • Aria: "Du Bist Im Land"
  • Recitative: "O"
  • Duet: "Ich Sehe"
  • Chorale: "Ich Gehe"
  • Duet: "Sag' Mir"
• No-no Nonette for assorted winds and toys, S. 86
  • First Movement
  • Second Movement
  • Third Movement
  • Fourth Movement
  • Last Movement
• "Hear Me Through" from Diverse Ayres on Sundrie Notions, S. 99 44/100

Sources

P.D.Q. Bach: Black Forest Bluegrass