Live at The Cellar Door

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Live at The Cellar Door
Live At The Cellar Door (Seldom Scene album - cover art).jpg
Live album by
The Seldom Scene
Released1975
RecordedDecember 1974
Genre Bluegrass, progressive bluegrass
Label Rebel
Producer Gary B. Reid
The Seldom Scene chronology
Old Train
(1973)		Live at The Cellar Door
(1975)		 The New Seldom Scene Album
(1976)
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Live at The Cellar Door is a live album by American progressive bluegrass band The Seldom Scene. [2] [3] The Washington Post called it "not only a landmark for the progressive bluegrass scene that originated here in Washington, but may be the band's finest representation on disc." [4]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Doing My Time" (Jimmie Skinner) 5:38
  2. "California Cottonfields" (Dallas Frazier, Earl Montgomery) 3:08
  3. Band Intros 1:15
  4. "Panhandle Country" (Bill Monroe) 2:13
  5. "Muddy Waters" (Phil Rosenthal) 3:14
  6. "Rawhide" (Bill Monroe) 2:41
  7. "Baby Blue" (Bob Dylan) 3:39
  8. "City of New Orleans" (Steve Goodman) 3:03
  9. "Grandfather's Clock" 4:50
  10. "The Fields Have Turned Brown" (Carter Stanley) 3:15
  11. "Hit Parade of Love" (Jimmy Martin, Wade Birchfield) 3:18
  12. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" (Traditional; arranged by the Seldom Scene) 3:26
  13. "Pick Away" (Vic Jordan, Lester Flatt) 2:40
  14. "Dark Hollow" 2:10
  15. "Small Exception of Me" (Tony Hatch, Jackie Trent) 3:15
  16. "If I Were a Carpenter" (Tim Hardin) 3:00
  17. "Old Gray Bonnet" 2:33
  18. "C & O Canal" (John Starling) 3:09
  19. "Georgia Rose" (Bill Monroe) 3:04
  20. "Colorado Turnaround" (Evelyn Graves) 2:37
  21. "He Rode All the Way to Texas" (John Starling) 2:36
  22. "White Line" (Willie P. Bennett) 3:34
  23. "Rider" (Traditional) 7:10

Personnel

The Seldom Scene

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Album review on www.allmusic.com
  3. ↑ Album info on www.rebelrecords.com Archived 2007-07-10 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Harrington, Richard (21 November 2003). "A Choice D.C. Dozen". Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
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