''Swingin' Stampede'' is the 1998 all-cover debut

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Track listing

#"If I Had Someone Else" (Harris/Darcey/Stanley) – 2:52 #"Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight" (

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) – 3:04 #"Somebody Loves Me" ( Gershwin) – 2:10 #"My Confession" ( Wills) – 3:00 #"Snowflake Reel" (Traugutt) – 2:01 #"End of the Line" ( Gimble/Wills) – 2:53 #"T and J Waltz" ( Maddux) – 2:53 #"Sweet Jenny Lee" (

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) – 2:32 #"Mission to Moscow" ( Powell) – 2:12 #"You Can't Break My Heart" (

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) – 3:00 #"Just Friends" (Wills) – 3:22 #" Ida Red" – 3:06

Personnel

*Whit Smith -

Vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

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, Producer *Elana Fremerman - Vocals,

Fiddle A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Althou ...

, Producer *Billy Horton - Backup Vocals,

Upright Bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

, Producer *Johnny Gimble - Fiddle (Tracks 1, 4, 8, 14) *T Jarrod Bonta -

Piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

(Tracks 8, 10) *Jeremy Wakefield -

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(Tracks 8, 10) *Mike Maddux -

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(Track 7) *Steve Starnes -

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*Spencer Starnes - Engineering *Ed Temple - Cover Illustration *George Brainard -

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*Cindy Pascarello -

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Reception

Jim Smith, in his review of the album for

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, said the group sounded "like a fired-up, pared down version of

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References

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