Calling My Children Home

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Calling My Children Home
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Studio album by
Released1978
Recorded1976–1977
Genre Bluegrass, progressive bluegrass
Length35:32
Label Rebel
Producer Charles R. Freeland
Country Gentlemen chronology
Joe's Last Train
(1976)
Calling My Children Home
(1978)
25 Years
(1980)
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Calling My Children Home is an album by the progressive bluegrass band Country Gentlemen, recorded in 1976-1977 and released in 1978. [1] [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Place Prepared for Me" (Sweatman) – 2:17
  2. "I'm Ready to Go Home" (Hazel Houser) – 3:51
  3. "Hallelujah Side" (Entwisle, Oatman) – 2:53
  4. "Palms of Victory" (Matthias) – 3:35
  5. "Calling My Children Home" (trad.) – 2:46
  6. "Inside the Gate" (J.D. Sumner) – 2:33
  7. "I've Never Been There" (Parris) – 2:21
  8. "The Great Beyond" (Reed) – 3:37
  9. "Lord, I'm Just a Pilgrim" (trad.) – 3:01
  10. "Where Could I Go But to the Lord" (Coats) – 3:44
  11. "Come on, Dear Lord, and Get Me" (Easterlin) – 2:16
  12. "Where No Cabins Fall" (Jeffress)– 2:38

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Owens, Thom. "Allmusic review". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
  2. "Calling My Children Home by Rebel Records, The Country Gentlemen". Music.barnesandnoble.com. Retrieved 2012-06-18.