''Different Roads'' is a compilation album by American
progressive bluegrass
Bluegrass music is a Music genre, genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States. The genre derives its name from the band Bill Monroe, Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. Bluegrass has r ...
band
The Seldom Scene
The Seldom Scene is an American bluegrass band that formed in 1971 in Bethesda, Maryland. The band's original line-up comprised John Starling on lead vocals and guitar, Mike Auldridge on Dobro and baritone vocals, Ben Eldridge on banjo, Tom ...
, containing songs from the group's oldest period - 1973 to 1976.
Track listing
# Different Roads (John Starling) 2:35
# Old Train (
Herb Pedersen
Herbert Joseph Pedersen (born April 27, 1944, in Berkeley, California) is an American musician, guitarist, banjo player, singer-songwriter, and actor who has played a variety of musical styles over the past fifty years including country, blueg ...
, Nikki Pedersen) 2:19
# Walk Through This World With Me (Savage, Seamons) 2:07
# Gardens and Memories (John Starling) 2:44
# Wait a Minute (
Herb Pedersen
Herbert Joseph Pedersen (born April 27, 1944, in Berkeley, California) is an American musician, guitarist, banjo player, singer-songwriter, and actor who has played a variety of musical styles over the past fifty years including country, blueg ...
) 3:38
# Rebels 'Ye Rest (Pauline Beauchamp) 2:34
# Last Train from Poor Valley (
Norman Blake) 3:43
# I've Lost You (
Earl Scruggs
Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. His three-finge ...
) 2:39
# Keep me from Blowin' Away (
Paul Craft
Paul Charles Craft (August 12, 1938 – October 18, 2014) was an American country singer-songwriter. The Memphis-born Craft was known as the songwriter for Mark Chesnutt's single " Brother Jukebox", and the novelty song "It's Me Again, Margaret ...
) 2:45
# Reason for Being (
John Duffey
John Humbird Duffey Jr. (March 4, 1934 – December 10, 1996) was an American bluegrass musician.
Biography
Duffey was born on March 4, 1934, in Washington, D.C., and lived nearly all his life in the Washington D.C. area. He graduated from ...
, hill) 3:22
# If That's the Way You Feel (
Ralph Stanley
Ralph Edmund Stanley (February 25, 1927 – June 23, 2016) was an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing. He began playing music in 1946, originally with his older brother Carter Stanley as part of The ...
,
Carter Stanley
Carter Glen Stanley (August 27, 1925 – December 1, 1966) was a bluegrass music lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitar player. He formed The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys band with his younger brother Ralph Stanley.
Biogra ...
) 2:58
# Easy Ride from Good Times to the Blues (
Herb Pedersen
Herbert Joseph Pedersen (born April 27, 1944, in Berkeley, California) is an American musician, guitarist, banjo player, singer-songwriter, and actor who has played a variety of musical styles over the past fifty years including country, blueg ...
) 3:03
# Pictures from Life's Other Side (Traditional) 4:17
# Pan American (
Hank Williams
Hiram "Hank" Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. An early pioneer of country music, he is regarded as one of the most significant and influential musicians of the 20th century. W ...
) 2:45
Personnel
*
John Starling - vocals, guitar
*
John Duffey
John Humbird Duffey Jr. (March 4, 1934 – December 10, 1996) was an American bluegrass musician.
Biography
Duffey was born on March 4, 1934, in Washington, D.C., and lived nearly all his life in the Washington D.C. area. He graduated from ...
- mandolin, vocals
*
Ben Eldridge
Ben Eldridge (August 15, 1938 – April 14, 2024) was an American five-string banjo player and a founding member of the seminal bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. He fell in love with hillbilly music as a child listening to the Old Dominion Barn Da ...
- banjo, guitar, vocals
*
Mike Auldridge
Mike Auldridge (December 30, 1938 – December 29, 2012) was an American Dobro player and a founding member of the bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. The ''New York Times'' described Auldridge as "one of the most distinctive dobro players in th ...
- Dobro, guitar, vocals
*
Tom Gray - bass, vocals
with
*
Paul Craft
Paul Charles Craft (August 12, 1938 – October 18, 2014) was an American country singer-songwriter. The Memphis-born Craft was known as the songwriter for Mark Chesnutt's single " Brother Jukebox", and the novelty song "It's Me Again, Margaret ...
- guitar
* Mark Cuff - drums
*
Ricky Skaggs
Rickie Lee Skaggs (born July 18, 1954), known professionally as Ricky Skaggs, is an American neotraditional country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays fiddle, guitar, ma ...
- violin, viola
References
External links
Official site
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The Seldom Scene albums
2007 compilation albums