Midnight Moonlight

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Midnight Moonlight
NRPSMidnightMoonlight.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 12, 1992
Genre
Length48:06
Label Relix
Producer Rusty Gauthier, John Dawson
New Riders of the Purple Sage chronology
Keep On Keepin' On
(1989)
Midnight Moonlight
(1992)
The Relix Bay Rock Shop, No. 1
(1992)

Midnight Moonlight is the thirteenth studio album by the New Riders of the Purple Sage, released in 1992 on the Relix Records label. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Midnight Moonlight features studio recordings of original and cover songs, performed in a style heavily influenced by bluegrass and American folk music. The instrumentation is largely acoustic, with no drums. This is in contrast to most earlier New Riders albums, which emphasized electric country rock.

Track listing

  1. "Midnight Moonlight" (Peter Rowan) – (4:10)
  2. "Sutter's Mill" (John Dawson) – (3:25)
  3. "Charlie's Garden" (Dawson) – (3:23)
  4. "All I Remember" (Eric Moll, Karren Pell) – (3:23)
  5. "Louisiana Lady" (Dawson) – (4:30)
  6. "Ballad of the Deportees" (Woody Guthrie) – (3:23)
  7. "Taking It Hard" (Joe New) – (4:26)
  8. "Glendale Train" (Dawson) – (5:09)
  9. "Change in the Weather" (Dawson) – (4:09)
  10. "Diesel on My Tail" (Jim Fagan) – (3:05)
  11. "Lonesome L.A. Cowboy" (Rowan) – (8:37)

Personnel

New Riders of the Purple Sage

Additional musicians

Production

Notes

  1. Midnight Moonlight at AllMusic
  2. Midnight Moonlight 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 2009-07-28.
  4. Romanowski, Patricia (1995). The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (revised ed.). Fireside. p. 708. ISBN   0-684-81044-1 . Retrieved 2009-07-28.

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