Comin' Home to Stay

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Comin' Home to Stay
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Studio album by Ricky Skaggs
Released March 28, 1988 (1988-03-28)
Genre Country
Length33:07
Label Epic
Producer Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs chronology
Love's Gonna Get Ya!
(1986)		Comin' Home to Stay
(1988)		 Kentucky Thunder
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Comin' Home to Stay is the ninth studio album by American country music artist Ricky Skaggs. It was released in 1988 via Epic Records. The album peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. [2]

Country music, also known as country and western, and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as folk music and blues.

Ricky Skaggs American singer

Rickie Lee Skaggs, known professionally as Ricky Skaggs, is an American country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays fiddle, guitar, mandocaster and banjo.

Epic Records American record label

Epic Records is an American major record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony. The label was founded predominantly as a jazz and classical music label in 1953, but later expanded its scope to include a more diverse range of genres, including pop, R&B, rock, and hip hop. Epic Records has released music by artists including Glenn Miller, Tammy Wynette, George Michael, The Yardbirds, Donovan, Shakin Stevens, Europe, Cheap Trick, Meat Loaf, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ted Nugent, Shakira, Sly & the Family Stone, The Hollies, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, ABBA, Anastacia, Boston, Dave Clark Five, Gloria Estefan, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, and Michael Jackson. Along with Arista, Columbia and RCA Records, Epic is one of Sony Music Entertainment's four flagship record labels.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "I'm Tired" (Buck Peddy, Webb Pierce, Mel Tillis) – 2:38
  2. "Hold Whatcha Got" (Jimmy Martin) – 3:10
  3. "(Angel on My Mind) That's Why I'm Walkin'" (Melvin Endsley, Stonewall Jackson) – 2:52
  4. "Home Is Wherever You Are" (Wayland Patton) – 3:33
  5. "If You Don't Believe the Bible" (Carl Jackson, Glenn Sutton) – 2:57
  6. "San Antonio Rose" (Bob Wills) – 4:07
  7. "Lord, She Sure Is Good at Lovin' Me" (Paul Overstreet, Randy Travis) – 2:55
  8. "Old Kind of Love" (Overstreet) – 3:29
  9. "Thanks Again" (Jim Rushing) – 3:36
  10. "Woman You Won't Break Mine" (Hunter Moore, Rushing) – 3:32

Personnel

Christopher Clay Austin was a male country music singer. Austin was signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1988 and charted three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. His highest-charting single, "Blues Stay Away from Me," was included on the 1989 compilation album New Tradition Sings the Old Tradition. Austin also co-wrote Ricky Skaggs' 1991 single "Same Ol' Love."

Banjo musical instrument

The banjo is a four-, five-, or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head, which is typically circular. The membrane is typically made of plastic, although animal skin is still occasionally used. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in the United States, adapted from African instruments of similar design. The banjo is frequently associated with folk, Irish traditional, and country music. Banjo can also be used in some Rock Songs. Countless Rock bands, such as The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, and The Allman Brothers, have used the five-string banjo in some of their songs. Historically, the banjo occupied a central place in African-American traditional music and the folk culture of rural whites before entering the mainstream via the minstrel shows of the 19th century. The banjo, along with the fiddle, is a mainstay of American old-time music. It is also very frequently used in traditional ("trad") jazz.

Fiddle musical instrument

Fiddling refers to the act of playing the fiddle, and fiddlers are musicians that play it. A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres including classical music. Although violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, the style of the music played may determine specific construction differences between fiddles and classical violins. For example, fiddles may optionally be set up with a bridge with a flatter arch to reduce the range of bow-arm motion needed for techniques such as the double shuffle, a form of bariolage involving rapid alternation between pairs of adjacent strings. To produce a "brighter" tone, compared to the deeper tones of gut or synthetic core strings, fiddlers often use steel strings. The fiddle is part of many traditional (folk) styles, which are typically aural traditions—taught 'by ear' rather than via written music.

Chart performance

Chart (1988) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 12

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References

  1. ↑ Ankeny, Jason. "Comin' Home to Stay review". Allmusic . Retrieved 2 March 2011.
  2. ↑ "Comin' Home to Stay Charts". Allmusic . Retrieved 2 March 2011.
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