Like We Used to Be
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Like We Used to Be is an album by the progressive bluegrass
Maryland
band The Seldom Scene
It's a group reunion with their original signer/guitarist, John Starling. He recorded only this album and decided to continue concentrating on his career as pediatrician .
with Pat McInerney - percussion, drums
Progressive bluegrass
Progressive bluegrass is one of two major subgenres of bluegrass music. It is also known as newgrass, a term attributed to New Grass Revival member Ebo Walker. Musicians and bands John Hartford, New Grass Revival, J.D. Crowe and the New South, The Dillards, Boone Creek, Country Gazette, and the...
Maryland
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
band The Seldom Scene
The Seldom Scene
The Seldom Scene is an American bluegrass band formed in 1971 in Bethesda, Maryland.-Early history:The band formed out of the weekly jam sessions in the basement of banjo player Ben Eldridge. These sessions included John Starling on guitar and lead vocals, Mike Auldridge on Dobro and baritone...
It's a group reunion with their original signer/guitarist, John Starling. He recorded only this album and decided to continue concentrating on his career as pediatrician .
Track listing
- Grandpa Get Your Guitar (McCullough, Jim Rushing) 02:54
- Let Me Be Your Friend (Carter StanleyCarter StanleyCarter Glen Stanley was a bluegrass music lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitar player. He formed the Stanley Brothers band together with his brother Ralph. The Stanley Brothers are generally acknowledged as the first band after Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys to play in the bluegrass genre...
) 02:45 - Like I Used to Do (Pat AlgerPat AlgerPat Alger is a country music songwriter, singer and guitarist.-Biography:Alger attended Georgia Tech studying architecture but decided to concentrate on writing songs. He started as a solo folk performer at folk clubs...
, Tim O'BrienTim O'Brien (musician)Tim O'Brien is an American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to singing, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and mandocello...
) 04:06 - Highway of Pain (Dauphin) 03:46
- Cheap Whiskey (Emory Gordy Jr., Jim Rushing) 03:46
- Philadelphia LawyerPhiladelphia Lawyer (song)Philadelphia Lawyer is a Woody Guthrie song about a divorce lawyer from Philadelphia who is shot by a jealous husband. It is a folksong version of a lawyer joke. It is also known by the title Reno Blues.-Recordings:...
(Woody GuthrieWoody GuthrieWoodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
) 03:26 - Almost Threw Your Love Away (Germino, Hylton) 03:56
- The Other Side of Town (Clark, Williams, Williams) 02:59
- She's More to Be Pitied (Rakes) 03:01
- Heaven's Green Fields (Jim Rushing, Shamblin) 02:49
- I've Come to Take You Home (Coleman, Duffey) 03:09
- I'll Remember You Love in My Prayers (Hayes) 03:04
- Some Morning Soon (Lynch, Lynch) 03:36
Personnel
- John Starling - vocals, guitar
- John DuffeyJohn DuffeyJohn H. Duffey was a Washington DC-based bluegrass music innovator and musician....
- mandolin, vocals - Ben EldridgeBen EldridgeBen Eldridge, is a five-string banjo player and a founding member of the seminal bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. He also works as a mathematician. Eldridge is best known for his scat singing on "Lay Down Sally."-Biography:...
- banjo, guitar, vocals - Mike AuldridgeMike AuldridgeMike Auldridge is widely acknowledged as a premier resophonic guitar player. He played with The Seldom Scene for many years, creating a fusion of bluegrass with jazz, folk and rock.Auldridge started playing guitar at the age of 13...
- Dobro, guitar, vocals - T. Michael Coleman - bass, vocals
with Pat McInerney - percussion, drums