Recorded live at the Telluride Festival in 1994, Crucial Country captures live an incredible band of stars in one of their greatest moments. From bluegrass standard “The Walls of Time”, co-written with Bill Monroe, to “Panama Red”, one of Rowan’s signature classics, and an inspirational version of Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry”, this record makes country crucial.

Peter Rowan – lead vocal and guitar
Jerry Douglas- dobro, harmonies
Larry Atamanuik – drum kit
Sam Bush – mandolin, fiddle, harmonies
Viktor Krauss – acoustic upright bass
Kester Smith – congas, percussion

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Rancho Gordo was born in a grocery store in Napa. It's true! It was the middle of August and I had some friends coming over for dinner and was food shopping. Salsa is an essential part of any dinner party at my house and salsa is only as good as the tomatoes you use. Instead of vine-ripened tomatoes of red, yellow, orange or even black, I found anemic pink tomatoes that were hard as rocks. Both the beefsteak and plum tomatoes were disgusting. Worse, they were from a hothouse in Holland. Why on earth was I forced to buy hothouse foreign tomatoes when I was in the heart of one of nature's most magnificent agricultural regions?

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Native Seeds/SEARCH is a nonprofit conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona. NS/S works to conserve, distribute and document the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seed, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwestern and northwest Mexico. Our mission began in 1983, springing from the nexus of cultural longing and impending loss of genetic diversity. Today we safeguard 2000 varieties of arid-land adapted agricultural crops. Some, like watermelons, were adapted from seeds brought by early Europeans. Most of our collection consists of varieties of indigenous crops developed over centuries or millennia to suit the needs of their human partners. We promote the use of these ancient crops and their wild relatives by distributing seeds to traditional communities and to gardeners world wide. Currently we offer 350 varieties from our collection, grown out at our Conservation Farm in Patagonia, Arizona. We also work to preserve knowledge about the traditional uses of the crop we steward. Through research, seed distribution and community outreach NS/S seeks to protect biodiversity and to celebrate cultural diversity. Both are essential in connecting the past to the future.

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