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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 ...

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Track listing

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Carl Jackson Carl Eugene Jackson (born September 18, 1953) is an American country and bluegrass musician. Jackson's first Grammy was awarded in 1992 for his duet album with John Starling titled "Spring Training." In 2003 Jackson produced the Grammy Award-wi ...

, Stuart) 02:07 # Lots in a Memory (Wes Golding) 03:41 # The Wrath of God ( Delmore, Delmore) 02:34 # Before I Met You (Lewis, Rader, Seitz) 03:13 # Red Georgia Clay (Coleman, Pyrtle) 02:25 # I've Cried My Last Tear over You (Delmore, Jackson) 02:57 # Not in My Arms (Coleman, Pyrtle) 02:24 # Highway of Heartache (

, Rushing) 03:17 # Long Black Veil (Dill, Wilkin) 04:12 # Last Call to Glory (Duffey) 02:38 # Distant Train (Coleman, Pyrtle) 02:24 # How Mountain Girls Can Love (Rakes) 02:06

Personnel

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 ...

- vocals, guitar, mandolin *

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 ...

- 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 *

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 * T. Michael Coleman - bass, vocals

References

External links

Official site
{{Authority control 1990 albums The Seldom Scene albums Sugar Hill Records albums