Keep On Keepin' On (New Riders of the Purple Sage album)

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Keep On Keepin' On
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Studio album by
Released1989
Genre Country rock
Length33:02
Label Mu
Producer Boots Hughston
New Riders of the Purple Sage chronology
Vintage NRPS
(1986)
Keep On Keepin' On
(1989)
Midnight Moonlight
(1992)
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Keep On Keepin' On is the twelfth studio album by the country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage. It was released in 1989 by Mu Records, and subsequently re-released by Relix Records. [2] [3]

Contents

Keep On Keepin' On is the first of two studio albums by the New Riders to feature only one original member of the band, John Dawson, the second being 1992's Midnight Moonlight . It includes a version of the Grateful Dead song "Friend of the Devil", which was co-written by Dawson.

The album is more influenced by folk-rock and bluegrass music than the band's previous efforts, partly due to the contributions of multi-instrumentalist Rusty Gauthier.

Track listing

  1. "Keep On Keepin' On" (John Dawson) – 3:33
  2. "Now I Call It Love" (Dawson) – 2:46
  3. "It's O.K. to Cry" (Val Fuentes, Rusty Gauthier, Lina Valentino) – 3:18
  4. "Bounty Hunter" (Fuentes, Gauthier, Valentino) – 4:01
  5. "Barbaric Splendor" (Joe New) – 3:19
  6. "Señorita" (Dawson) – 3:00
  7. "Night of the Living Lonely" (Johnson, New) – 2:58
  8. "Rancher's Daughter" (Dawson) – 3:02
  9. "Big Ed" (Gauthier) – 3:17
  10. "Friend of the Devil" (Dawson, Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 3:36

Personnel

New Riders of the Purple Sage

Additional musicians

Production

Notes

  1. Keep On Keepin' On at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
  2. Keep On Keepin' On at the Grateful Dead Family Discography
  3. Strong, Martin C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Canongate U.S. p. 1083. ISBN   1-84195-615-5 . Retrieved 2009-08-28.

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