15th Anniversary Celebration

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15th Anniversary Celebration
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Live album by
Released1986
Recorded1986
Genre Bluegrass, progressive bluegrass
Label Sugar Hill
Producer Bill McElroy
The Seldom Scene chronology
Blue Ridge
(1985)
15th Anniversary Celebration
(1986)
The Best Of The Seldom Scene
(1987)
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15th Anniversary Celebration is a live album by the progressive bluegrass Maryland band The Seldom Scene. This was the last album for bassist Tom Gray, who left to pursue his own music and was replaced by T. Michael Coleman. [2] [3]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Sitting on Top of the World"Burnett, Chatmon, Dylan3:40
2."Big Train (From Memphis)" (Live)Fogerty2:52
3."Lorena"Auldridge, Duffey, trad3:42
4."Dark as a Dungeon" (Live)Travis3:52
5."Blue Ridge"Artis, Mallis3:45
6."Raised by the Railroad Line"Craft3:18
7."You Don't Know My Mind" (Live)Skinner2:54
8."Drifting Too Far from the Shore" (Live)Traditional3:29
9."Those Memories of You" (Live)OBryant3:46
10."Keep Me from Blowing Away" (Live)Craft3:14
11."Wheels"Hart, Hillman, Parsons3:13
12."Carolyn at the Broken Wheel Inn"McDill, Rushing3:16
13."If I Needed You"VanZandt3:21
14."Rose of Old Kentucky"Monroe2:57
15."I Couldn't Find My Walking Shoes"Brown, Overstreet4:04
16."Working on a Building"Seldom Scene, Traditional4:51
17."Say You Lied"Smith2:32
18."High on a Hilltop"Collins3:29
19."The Sweetest Gift"Coats2:51
20."Take Me in Your Lifeboat"Traditional2:58

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