20 Years of Stony Plain

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20 Years of Stony Plain
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Compilation album by
various artists
Released1996
Genre Country
Label Stony Plain Records

20 Years of Stony Plain is a compilation album, released in 1996 on Stony Plain Records to mark the label's 20th anniversary. It features tracks by many of the artists who have released material on the label.

Contents

Track listing

Disc One

No.TitlePerforming Artist(s)Length
1."Mystery Train, Pt. 2" Steve Earle  
2."Long Long Time to Get Old" Great Speckled Bird  
3."Crossing the Causeway" Grievous Angels  
4."Sleeping Alone" Cindy Church  
5."The Guy Who Came in from the Cold" Jr. Gone Wild  
6."Small Town Talk" Maria Muldaur and Amos Garrett  
7."You Were on My Mind" Sylvia Fricker  
8."Political" Spirit of the West  
9."The Brand New Tennessee Waltz" Jesse Winchester  
10."Rock 'N' Roll Dreams" Gary Fjellgaard  
11."Heartbreak of the Week" Rita Chiarelli with Prairie Oyster  
12."How Long Can She Last (Going That Fast)" Webb Wilder  
13."Wrecked on the Highway" Paul Hann  
14."The Car Hank Died In" Austin Lounge Lizards  
15."Banks of the Old Pontchartrain" Doug Sahm, Amos Garrett and Gene Taylor  
16."Rainin' in My Heart" Jo-El Sonnier  
17."The Jealous Kind" Bobby Charles  
18."This Time" South Mountain  
19."Navajo Rug" Tom Russell with Ian Tyson  
20."The Circle Is Through" Suzy Bogguss with Ian Tyson 

Disc Two

No.TitlePerforming Artist(s)Length
1."I Tried" Duke Robillard  
2."Playful Baby"Duke Robillard with Jimmy Witherspoon  
3."Tell Me Again" The Holmes Brothers  
4."Don't You Feel My Leg (Don't You Get Me High)" Maria Muldaur  
5."Oh Well, Oh Well" Powder Blues Band with Lowell Fulson  
6."It's Too Late Brother" Long John Baldry  
7."Going, Going, Gone" Dutch Mason  
8."Great Change" Gospel Hummingbirds  
9."Monkey See, Monkey Do" Coco Montoya  
10."That River" Jim Byrnes  
11."New York Boogie" Roosevelt Sykes  
12."Wrong Lake to Catch a Fish" Amos Garrett  
13."Rockin' Little Boogie" Downchild Blues Band  
14."Mighty Crazy" King Biscuit Boy  
15."Badly Bent" Crowbar  
16."Mess Around" Professor Longhair  
17."I Want Whacha Got" Ellen McIlwaine  
18."Blue Winding Mind" Sugar Blue with Johnny Shines  
19."Gotta Gimme Some of It" John P. Hammond with Paul James  
20."Shakey's Edmonton Blues" Big Walter Horton  

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