This Is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes, 1983

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This Is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes, 1983
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Compilation album by
ReleasedJanuary 14, 2014 (2014-01-14)
RecordedDecember 1983
StudioSuite 16 Studios, Van Nuys, California
Genre Country rock
Length33:05
Label Omnivore
Producer Lone Justice
Lone Justice chronology
The Best of Lone Justice
(2003)
This Is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes, 1983
(2014)
Live at the Palomino, 1983
(2019)
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This Is Lone Justice: The Vaught Tapes, 1983 is a compilation album by American band Lone Justice, released in January 2014 by Omnivore Recordings. The twelve songs include nine previously unissued tracks recorded at Suite 16 Studios, Los Angeles, in December 1983 by engineer David Vaught with direct to two-track tape and no overdubs. "Rattlesnake Mama", "Working Man's Blues" and "This World Is Not My Home" have previously been released on the 1999 compilation album This World Is Not My Home .

Contents

Accompanying the music was an essay by guitarist Ryan Hedgecock, a remembrance of Vaught written by baisst Marvin Etzioni, liner notes by veteran L.A. music journalist Chris Morris and a shout-out to the band from Dolly Parton, to whom lead singer Maria McKee was frequently compared. [7]

Track listing

Writing credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [8]

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Nothing Can Stop My Loving You" George Jones, Roger Miller 1:56
2."Jackson" Billy Edd Wheeler, Jerry Leiber 3:01
3."Soap, Soup and Salvation" Maria McKee 4:11
4."The Grapes of Wrath" Marvin Etzioni 2:31
5."Dustbowl Depression Time"McKee2:46
6."Rattlesnake Mama" Traditional 1:44
7."Vigilante"McKee, Ryan Hedgecock, Etzioni1:52
8."Working Man's Blues" Merle Haggard 2:32
9."Cactus Rose"McKee, Etzioni3:47
10."When Love Comes Home to Stay"Hedgecock3:06
11."Cotton Belt"McKee3:08
12."This World Is Not My Home"Traditional2:31

Personnel

Adapted from the album's liner notes. [8]

Lone Justice

Production

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