Be Ready Boys: Appalachia to Abilene

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Be Ready Boys: Appalachia to Abilene
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Studio album by
Norman Blake, Rich O'Brien
Released1999
Genre Americana, bluegrass, folk
Label Shanachie
Producer Norman Blake
Norman Blake chronology
Chattanooga Sugar Babe
(1998)
Be Ready Boys: Appalachia to Abilene
(1999)
Far Away, Down on a Georgia Farm
(1999)
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Be Ready Boys: Appalachia to Abilene is an album by the American musicians Norman Blake and Rich O'Brien, released in 1999.

Track listing

  1. "Tennessee Wagoner" (Traditional) – 3:22
  2. "Old Pal of Yesterday" (W. S. Stevenson) – 4:29
  3. "Texola Waltz" (Blake) – 2:23
  4. "When It's Lamplighting Time in the Valley" (Traditional) – 3:37
  5. "Bowling Green Rag" (Blake) – 2:33
  6. "Homestead on the Farm" (A. P. Carter) – 3:30
  7. "Mexico" (Bryant) – 2:25
  8. "Going Home" (Antonín Dvořák, Traditional) – 3:39
  9. "Kentucky's Your Home" (Blake) – 3:14
  10. "Under the Double Eagle" (Traditional) – 4:08
  11. "Grandpa's Barn" (Richard O'Brien) – 4:25
  12. "Seamus O'Brien" (Traditional) – 3:45
  13. "Flop-Eared Mule" (Traditional) – 4:05
  14. "A Maiden's Prayer" (Bob Wills) – 3:32
  15. "Callahan" (Traditional) – 2:13
  16. "Heavenly Sunlight" (G. H. Cook, H. J. Zelley) – 3:45

Personnel

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