Back Porch Bluegrass/Pickin' and Fiddlin'
The Dillards' first two studio albums for Elektra were not only great bluegrass albums, but they also reflected the currents swirling within the genre itself as the '60s wore on. Produced by Jim Dickson, who was about to usher in the folk-rock revolution with the Byrds, Back Porch Bluegrass was pilloried by the trad country establishment for (gasp) featuring original tunes, so the Dillards turned around, and with fantastic fiddler Byron Berline, made a totally traditional, all-instrumental album with Pickin' and Fiddlin' that was so darn hot that it shut the critics up but good!