Joe's Last Train

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Joe's Last Train
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Studio album by
Released1976
Recorded1976
Genre Bluegrass
Progressive bluegrass
Label Rebel Records [1]
Producer Charles R. Freeland
Country Gentlemen chronology
Remembrances & Forecasts
(1974)
Joe's Last Train
(1976)
Calling My Children Home
(1978)
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Joe's Last Train is an album by the progressive bluegrass band Country Gentlemen, released in 1976. [3] [4] [5]

Contents

Critical reception

Country Standard Time wrote that "you hear the expert instrumentalists you expect, but the vocal work provides the anchor ... the harmonies are beautiful." [6]

Track listing

  1. Joe's Last Train 2:53
  2. Ages and Ages Ago 2:22
  3. In My Younger Days 2:25
  4. Pamela Brown 2:28
  5. Cryin' Holy 2:12
  6. This Land Must Die 3:32
  7. Bloody Mary Morning 2:42
  8. Goin' Home 2:33
  9. Texas Chili 1:51
  10. Free as the Wind 2:36
  11. Dixieland for Me 2:37
  12. Lord Don't Leave Me Here 2:20

Personnel

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References

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  2. Joe's Last Train at AllMusic
  3. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 2. MUZE. p. 576.
  4. Courier, Tom Netherland | Special to the Herald (22 November 2018). "Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver's Hometown Christmas Show at Cameo Theatre". HeraldCourier.com.
  5. Ewing, Tom (2006). "Thirty Years Ago: This Month". Bluegrass Unlimited. 41:1-6: 6.
  6. "Country Gentlemen - Joe's Last Train". www.countrystandardtime.com.