Act Four (The Seldom Scene album)

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Act Four
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Released1979
Recorded1979
Genre Bluegrass, progressive bluegrass
Label Sugar Hill
Producer Gary B. Reid
The Seldom Scene chronology
Baptizing
(1978)
Act Four
(1979)
After Midnight
(1979)
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Act Four is an album by the progressive bluegrass Maryland band The Seldom Scene, the first record under Sugar Hill Records and with a new lead singer/guitarist, Phil Rosenthal. He replaced John Starling, who left to concentrate on his career. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Something in the Wind" (Phil Rosenthal, Beth Rosenthal) – 03:15
  2. "Girl in the Night" (Hank Thompson) – 03:51
  3. "Ride Me Down Easy" (Billy Joe Shaver) – 02:25
  4. "Leaving Harlan" (Phil Rosenthal) – 03:00
  5. "Tennessee Blues" (Bill Monroe) – 03:14
  6. "Life Is Like a Mountain Railway" (Traditional; arranged by John Duffey and Mike Auldridge) – 03:37
  7. "I Don't Know You" (Moreno, Black) – 02:38
  8. "California Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 03:53
  9. "San Antonio Rose" (Bob Wills) – 02:29
  10. "Daddy Was a Railroad Man" (Phil Rosenthal) – 02:29
  11. "Walking the Blues" (Tom Gray) – 03:59
  12. "This Weary Heart You Stole Away" (Carter Stanley) – 02:39

Personnel

The Seldom Scene

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