Bluegrass Album, Vol. 4

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Bluegrass Album, Vol. 4
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Studio album by
Released1984
Genre Bluegrass
Label Rounder
Bluegrass Album Band chronology
Bluegrass Album, Vol. 3
(1983)
Bluegrass Album, Vol. 4
(1984)
Bluegrass Album, Vol. 5
(1989)
Tony Rice chronology
Cold on the Shoulder
(1984)
Bluegrass Album, Vol. 4
(1984)
Me & My Guitar
(1986)

Bluegrass Album, Vol. 4 is a fourth album by bluegrass supergroup, Bluegrass Album Band, released in 1984. [1]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Age" (Jim Croce) 3:25
  2. "Cheyenne" (Bobby Hicks, Bill Monroe) 3:24
  3. "Cora Is Gone" (Odell McLeod) 3:05
  4. "Old Home Town" (Lester Flatt) 3:00)
  5. "Talk It Over With Him" (T.C. Neal) 3:05
  6. "Head Over Heels" (Lester Flatt) 2:33
  7. "Nobody Loves Me" (Zeke Clements) 2:55
  8. "When You Are Lonely" (Lester Flatt, Bill Monroe) 2:35
  9. "I Might Take You Back Again" (Josh Graves, Leroy Mack) 1:50
  10. "Lonesome Wind Blues" (Wayne Raney) 3:07
  11. "Somehow Tonight" (Earl Scruggs) 3:02

Personnel

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