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, released in 1996. It contains tracks written by

Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Widely considered one of Canada's greatest songwriters, ...

and previously recorded by Rice, plus a previously unreleased track, "Whispers of the North".Album info on www.acousticmusic.com
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Track listing

All songs by Gordon Lightfoot # "Go My Way" – 2:48 # "Home from the Forest" – 4:17 # "Fine as Fine Can Be" – 3:24 # "Let It Ride" – 2:59 # "I'm Not Sayin'" – 2:15 # "Bitter Green" – 2:43 # "You Are What I Am" – 2:22 # "Shadows" – 3:43 # "Walls" – 1:59 # "Whispers of the North" – 4:17 # "Ten Degrees (Getting Colder)" – 2:18 # "

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald "The Wreck of the ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' is a 1976 folk rock ballad written, composed and performed by the Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to memorialize the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald, SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' ...

" – 4:59 # "

Early Morning Rain "Early Morning Rain", sometimes styled as "Early Mornin' Rain", is a song written, composed, and recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. The song appears on his 1966 debut album ''Lightfoot!'' and, in a re-recorded version, on t ...

" – 3:04 # "Whisper My Name" – 3:19 # "Sixteen Miles" – 2:45 # "Cold on the Shoulder" – 2:34 # "Song for a Winter's Night" – 3:09

Personnel

– guitar, vocals *

Sam Bush Charles Samuel Bush (born April 13, 1952) is an American mandolinist who is considered an originator of progressive bluegrass music. In 2020, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame as a member of New Grass Revival. ...

– mandolin, violin, background vocals * Norman Blake – guitar, mandolin, vocals *Cole Burgess – saxophone *Kathy Chiavola – harmony vocals *

Vassar Clements Vassar Carlton Clements (April 25, 1928 – August 16, 2005) was an American jazz, Swing music, swing, and Bluegrass music, bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borro ...

– fiddle *

J. D. Crowe James Dee Crowe (August 27, 1937December 24, 2021) was an American banjo player and Bluegrass music, bluegrass band leader. He first became known during his four-year stint with Jimmy Martin in the 1950s. Crowe led the bluegrass group New South ...

– banjo, vocals *

Jerry Douglas Gerald Calvin Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer. He is widely regarded as "perhaps the finest Dobro player in contemporary acoustic music, and certainly the most celebrated and prol ...

– dobro *

Bill Emerson Norvell William Emerson (January 1, 1938 – June 22, 1996) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri from 1981 until his death from lung cancer in Bethesda, Maryland in 19 ...

– banjo, vocals *

Béla Fleck Béla Anton Leoš Fleck (born July 10, 1958) is an American banjo player. An acclaimed virtuoso, he is an innovative and technically proficient pioneer and ambassador of the banjo, playing music from bluegrass, jazz, classical, rock and various ...

– banjo *

Jimmy Gaudreau James Arnott “Jimmy” Gaudreau is a singer and mandolinist playing traditional and progressive bluegrass music. He is best known for his solo albums, and his work with The Country Gentlemen, Tony Rice, and J. D. Crowe. Biography Early life I ...

– mandolin, vocals *

Bobby Hicks Robert Caldwell Hicks (July 21, 1933 – August 16, 2024) was a Grammy Award-winning American bluegrass fiddler and musician with more than fifty years of experience. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2017. L ...

– violin *Frank Poindexter – dobro *Ron Rice – bass *

Wyatt Rice Wyatt Rice is an American guitarist and bluegrass musician. He is best known for his solo albums and his work in his brother's group the Tony Rice Unit. Biography Rice was born in Long Beach, California but grew up in Florida and other loca ...

– guitar *

Mark Schatz Mark L. Schatz (born April 23, 1955) is an American double bass, bassist, banjoist, mandolinist, acoustic guitar, guitarist, clogging, clogger, and Juba dance, hambone performer who has recorded on albums for and toured with artists including Be ...

– bass *

Rickie Simpkins Rickie Hal Simpkins is an American fiddler and mandolinist in the bluegrass tradition. He is best known for his solo albums and his work with the Lonesome River Band and the Seldom Scene. Biography Early years Simpkins was raised in Christ ...

– fiddle, viola *

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 ...

– vocals, fiddle, mandolin, trombone, viola *Bobby Slone – bass *Bill Wolf – piano *

Larry Rice Larry Rice (24 March 1946 – 20 May 2009) was an American auto racing, racing driver in the United States Automobile Club, USAC and Champ Car, CART Championship Car series. He was the 1973 USAC National midget driver's champion and won the USAC S ...

– mandolin, background vocals *

Kate Wolf Kate Wolf (born Kathryn Louise Allen; January 27, 1942 – December 10, 1986) was an American folk singer and songwriter."Kate Wolf", pp. 533–534, in ''All Music Guide'', 2nd edition (1994), edited by Michael Erlewine. San Francisco: Miller F ...

– background vocals *

Todd Phillips Todd Phillips (born Todd Philip Bunzl; December 19, 1970) is an American filmmaker. Phillips began his career in 1993 and directed films in the 2000s such as ''Road Trip'', '' Old School'', ''Starsky & Hutch'', and '' School for Scoundrels''. ...

– bass

References

1996 compilation albums Tony Rice compilation albums Rounder Records compilation albums {{1990s-folk-album-stub