Blue Ridge (album)
Encyclopedia
Blue Ridge is the sixth studio album
(eighth total album) released by singer/songwriter
Jonathan Edwards featuring the Bluegrass
band The Seldom Scene
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with
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
(eighth total album) released by singer/songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
Jonathan Edwards featuring the Bluegrass
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...
band The Seldom Scene
The Seldom Scene
The Seldom Scene is an American bluegrass band formed in 1971 in Bethesda, Maryland.-Early history:The band formed out of the weekly jam sessions in the basement of banjo player Ben Eldridge. These sessions included John Starling on guitar and lead vocals, Mike Auldridge on Dobro and baritone...
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Track listing
- "Don't This Road Look Rough and Rocky" (Flatt, Scruggs) 03:37
- "How Long Have I Been Waiting for You" (Edwards) 01:57
- "Blue Ridge" (Artis, Mallis) 03:31
- "Seven Daffodils' (Hays, Moseley) 03:42
- "Sunshine" (Edwards) 02:57
- "Back to Where I Don't Belong" (Rosenthal) 02:40
- "If I Gave You" (Gray, Gray, Martin) 02:36
- "Honey, I Won't Be Around" (Rosenthal) 02:53
- "Only a Hobo" (Bob DylanBob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
) 03:22 - "God Gave You to Me" (Stanley) 02:47
- "Little Hands" (Edwards) 03:08
- "I Don't Believe I'll Stay Here Anymore" (Anderson) 03:26
- "Don't Crawfish Me, Baby" (Emerson, W.B.) 04:17
Personnel
- Jonathan Edwards - vocals, guitar, harmonica
- Phil Rosenthal - guitar, vocals
- John DuffeyJohn DuffeyJohn H. Duffey was a Washington DC-based bluegrass music innovator and musician....
- mandolin, vocals - Ben EldridgeBen EldridgeBen Eldridge, is a five-string banjo player and a founding member of the seminal bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. He also works as a mathematician. Eldridge is best known for his scat singing on "Lay Down Sally."-Biography:...
- banjo, guitar, vocals - Mike AuldridgeMike AuldridgeMike Auldridge is widely acknowledged as a premier resophonic guitar player. He played with The Seldom Scene for many years, creating a fusion of bluegrass with jazz, folk and rock.Auldridge started playing guitar at the age of 13...
- Dobro, guitar, vocals - Tom GrayTom GrayTom Gray is a bluegrass musician widely considered one of the best bass players in the genre. He is probably best known for his bass playing with The Country Gentlemen and The Seldom Scene. In 1996, as a member of The Country Gentlemen, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall...
- bass, vocals
with
- Kenny White - piano
- Robbie Macgruder - percussion