Pacific Coast Rambler

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Pacific Coast Rambler
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Studio album by The Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers
Released 1998
Recorded 1998, Joshua Tree, California
Genre Alternative country, folk
Length27:59
Label Creek Dippers
Producer Mark Olson
The Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers chronology
The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers
(1997) The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers1997
Pacific Coast Rambler
(1998)
Zola and the Tulip Tree
(1999) Zola and the Tulip Tree1999

Pacific Coast Rambler is the second album by the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers, released in 1998. As with their first release, it is a home-made recording with the focus on Mark Olson.

The Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers are an Americana group formed by songwriter Mark Olson and his wife, Victoria Williams, after Olson left his previous band, the Jayhawks. The group has also been called Rolling Creekdippers as well as just Creekdippers.

Mark Olson (musician) American musician

Mark Olson is an American musician and singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of alternative country bands the Jayhawks and the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers.

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Pacific Coast Rambler was re-released in 2001 by Koch Records.

Reception

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Writing for Allmusic, music critic Brian Beatty wrote of the album; "This is intimate music that recalls old-time traditions and manages to avoid the cloying earnestness that often afflicts folkies and unplugged rockers." [1]

Track listing

  1. "Give My Heart To You" (Mark Olson) – 3:00
  2. "Kai's Bristlecone Waltz" (Mike Russell) – 2:50
  3. "Pacific Coast Rambler" (Mabel Allbright, Olson, Tennessee Williams) – 3:50
  4. "Owen's Valley Day" (Olson) – 2:21
  5. "Bellflower" (Olson) – 2:34
  6. "Prayer Of The Changing Leaf" (Allbright, Tennessee Williams) – 2:26
  7. "Elijah" (Allbright, Marc Ford) – 2:10
  8. "Welcome Home Jim" (Olson) – 2:45
  9. "Golden Street Locker" (Allbright, Olson) – 3:15
  10. "Call The Light" (Olson) – 2:48

Personnel

Victoria Williams American singer, songwriter

Victoria Williams is an American singer, songwriter and musician, originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, although she has resided in Southern California throughout her musical career. She is noted for her descriptive songwriting talent, which she has used to immerse the listener of her songs into a vivid feeling of small-town, rural Southern upbringing and life. Her best-known songs include "Crazy Mary", and "Century Plant", and much of her work finds inspiration in nature,, everyday objects and the unseen, as in "Holy Spirit".

Marc Ford American blues-rock guitarist

Marc Ford is an American blues-rock guitarist. He is a former lead guitarist of the rock and roll jam band The Black Crowes and the leader of his own bands: Burning Tree, Marc Ford & The Neptune Blues Club, Jefferson Steelflex, Fuzz Machine, and Marc Ford & The Sinners. He is currently performing with other former Black Crowes members in The Magpie Salute.

Production notes

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References

  1. 1 2 Beatty, Brian. "Pacific Coast Rambler > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved November 2, 2015.