The Country Gentlemen Featuring Ricky Skaggs on Fiddle

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The Country Gentlemen featuring Ricky Skaggs
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Compilation album by Country Gentlemen
Released 1987
Genre Bluegrass
Progressive bluegrass
Label Vanguard Records
Country Gentlemen chronology
Good As Gold
(1987) Good As Gold1987		The Country Gentlemen featuring Ricky Skaggs
(1973)		 Return Engagement
(1988) Return Engagement1988
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The Country Gentlemen featuring Ricky Skaggs is a compilation album by the progressive bluegrass band Country Gentlemen. [2]

The Country Gentlemen American bluegrass band

The Country Gentlemen were a bluegrass band that originated during the 1950s in the area of Washington, D.C., United States, and recorded and toured with various members until the death in 2004 of Charlie Waller, one of the group's founders who in its later years served as the group's leader.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Travelling Kind (Young) 3:28
  2. Souvenirs (Prine) 2:44
  3. Leaves That Are Green (Simon) 1:49
  4. Irish Spring (Skaggs) 3:15
  5. Home in Louisiana (Davis) 2:26
  6. City of New Orleans (Goodman) 3:02
  7. House of the Rising Sun (trad.) 3:26
  8. Catfish John (McDill, Reynolds) 2:31
  9. Heartaches (Hoffman, Klenner) 4:27
  10. One Morning in May (Keith, Rooney) 3:12
  11. Bringing Mary Home (Duffey, Kingston, Mank) 3:33
  12. Welcome to New York (Emerson, Lawson) 2:50

Personnel

Charles Otis "Charlie" Waller was the lead singer and guitarist for the bluegrass band The Country Gentlemen. Waller was involved with The Country Gentlemen for 47 years. As a member of The Country Gentlemen, Waller was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1996 and the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame in 2009.

Doyle Lawson American musician

Doyle Lawson is an American traditional bluegrass and Southern gospel musician. He is best known as an accomplished mandolin player, vocalist, producer, and leader of the 6-man group Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. Lawson was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2012.

William Hundley "Bill" Emerson, Jr. is an American five-string banjo player known for being one of the founding members of the original The Country Gentlemen and Emerson & Waldron.

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r120251/credits Album review
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