Stars & Stripes Forever (album)

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Stars & Stripes Forever
NGDB-StarsAndStripes.jpg
Studio album by
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
ReleasedJune 1974
Genre Country, country rock, folk rock, bluegrass
Length72:48
Label United Artists
Producer William E. McEuen
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band chronology
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
(1972)		Stars & Stripes Forever
(1974)		 Symphonion Dream
(1975)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Stars & Stripes Forever is the eighth album from The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

Contents

Track listing

[some material was recorded with audience and friends at Woodland Studio's, Nashville, Tennessee]

  1. "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" (Hank Williams) – 1:43
  2. "Dirt Band Interview" – 3:39
  3. "Cosmic Cowboy (Part 1)" (Michael Martin Murphey) – 3:21
  4. "Aluminum Record Award / Jeff Hanna – 1:31
  5. "Fish Song" (Jimmie Fadden) – 3:50
  6. "Mr. Bojangles" (Jerry Jeff Walker) – 3:46
  7. "Vassar Clements Interview" – 3:56
  8. "Listen to the Mockingbird" (Arranged & Adapt. by Millie Clements) – 2:47
  9. "The Sheik of Araby" (Harry Beasley Smith, Ted Snyder, Francis Wheeler) – 2:08
  10. "Resign Yourself to Me" (Casey Kelly) – 2:40
  11. "Dixie Hoedown" (Jesse McReynolds, Jim McReynolds) – 2:27
  12. "Cripple Creek" (Arr. & Adapt. by Millie Clements) – :54
  13. "The Mountain Whippoorwill (or, How Hillbilly Jim Won the Great Fiddler's Prize") (Stephen V. Benet, Arranged & Adapt William McEuen) – 7:07
  14. "Honky Tonkin'" (Hank Williams) – 2:00
  15. "House at Pooh Corner" (Kenny Loggins) – 2:54
  16. "Buy for Me the Rain" (Greg Copeland, Steve Noonan) – 2:32
  17. "Oh Boy" (Sonny West, Bill Tilghman, Norman Petty) – 2:50
  18. "Teardrops in my Eyes" (Tommy Sutton, Red Allen) – 2:11
  19. "Glocoat-Blues" (Jimmie Fadden) – 3:11
  20. "Stars and Stripes Forever" (Arranged & Adapt. by Jeff Hanna) – :38
  21. "The Battle of New Orleans" (Jimmie Driftwood) – 2:58
  22. "It Came From The 50s (Blast From The Past) / Jeff Hanna" (Jeff Hanna) – 6:45
  23. "My True Story" (Eugene Pitt, Oscar Waltzer) – 3:08
  24. "Diggy Liggy Lo" (J. D. Miller) – 3:52

Charts

Chart (1974)Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report)93 [2]

Personnel

Special Guest Artists

Production

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References

All information is from the album liner notes, unless otherwise noted. [3] [4]

  1. ↑ Bruce Eder. "Allmusic review". Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 2011-01-05.
  2. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 219. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  3. ↑ "Stars & Strips Forever", Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, United Artists UA (1974) LP
  4. ↑ "Stars & Strips Forever", Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, BGO Records, BGOCD128 (1991) CD
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