''Scene It all'' is an album by the

progressive bluegrass Bluegrass music is a 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 and the Blue Grass Boys. Like mainstream country music, it lar ...

Maryland Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; ...

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 G ...

, released in 2000. Ben Eldridge re-recruited

Lou Reid Lou Reid Pyrtle (born September 13, 1954 in Union Grove, North Carolina) is an American bluegrass singer, band leader, and multi-instrumentalist. Biography Early life Reid grew up on a tobacco farm in Moore Springs, North Carolina. His father ...

, this time on mandolin, to replace

John Duffey John Humbird Duffey Jr. (March 4, 1934 – December 10, 1996) was a Washington D.C. based bluegrass musician. Duffey was born in Washington, D.C., and lived nearly all his life in the Washington D.C. area. He graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Ch ...

, who died in 1996.

Critical reception

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'' wrote that "it's undeniably good, but that last intangible, that spark that kicks something over the top from damn good and into truly great, is missing."

Track listing

# Rollin' and Tumblin' (Morganfield,

Muddy Waters McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post- war blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicag ...

) 4:07 # Dusty (Norris) 3:32 # I Will Always Be Waiting for You (McReynolds, McReynolds) 2:43 # Blue and Lonesome (Monroe, Williams) 2:59 # You Better Get Right (Smith, Smith) 2:19 # Walking the Dog (Grishen, Pierce) 2:45 # From This Moment On (

Bonnie Guitar Bonnie Buckingham (March 25, 1923 – January 13, 2019), better known as Bonnie Guitar, was an American singer, musician, producer, and businesswoman. She was best known for her 1957 country-pop crossover hit "Dark Moon". She became one of th ...

) 3:40 # When the Walls Come Tumblin' Down (Graham, Jackson, Laney) 2:50 # Boots of Spanish Leather (

Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp ...

) 4:51 # Trust in the Tide (Mendelsohn) 3:10 # One Step Up (

Bruce Springsteen Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer and songwriter. He has released 21 studio albums, most of which feature his backing band, the E Street Band. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he is an originat ...

) 3:46 # Nadine (

Chuck Berry Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who pioneered rock and roll. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Father of Rock and Roll", he refined a ...

) 3:39 ^A » From This Moment On (

) 2:06 (

Hidden track In the field of recorded music, a hidden track (sometimes called a ghost track, secret track or unlisted track) is a song or a piece of audio that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, LP record, or other recorded medium, in such a way as to ...

)^A ^AA rehearsal recording of "From This Moment On" with only the first verse and chorus is included at the end of Track 12; total track length is 6:58, including 1:03 (1 minute : 3 seconds) of silence in between "Nadine" and "From This Moment On."

Personnel

* Dudley Connell - vocals, guitar, mandolin *

- mandolin, vocals *

Ben Eldridge Ben Eldridge, (born August 15, 1938) is a five-string banjo player and a founding member of the seminal bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. He also works as a mathematician. Biography Ben Eldridge was born in Richmond, Virginia. He began playing th ...

- banjo, guitar, vocals * Fred Travers - Dobro, guitar, vocals * Ronnie Simpkins - bass, vocals

References

External links

Official site
2000 albums The Seldom Scene albums Sugar Hill Records albums {{2000s-country-album-stub