McGuffey Lane is an American

United States

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 country rock

Country rock

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 band from Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

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. McGuffey Lane was formed in 1972 by Terry Efaw and Steve Reis, who played together under the name Scotch & Soda. After adding vocalist and guitarist Bobby Gene McNelly, they renamed themselves McGuffey Lane, the location of Reis's Athens, Ohio

Athens, Ohio

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 home.

They eventually expanded to a sextet and became well-known locally, releasing their first album on their own Paradise Island record label. The LP sold over 40,000 copies, and eventually resulted in their signing with Atco Records

Atco Records

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. They reissued the debut in 1980 and toured with the Charlie Daniels Band, The Judds

The Judds

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 and the Allman Brothers Band. The follow-up, Aqua Dream, featured the single "Start It All Over", which became a crossover pop hit, reaching #97 on the Billboard Hot 100

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.

The group scored several minor hits on the country charts, but their label wanted to market them more as a pop-country act in the vein of Alabama

Alabama (band)

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. They moved to Atlantic Records

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 in hopes of focusing on success on the country charts, but as they prepared 1984's Day By Day, keyboardist Tebes Douglass was killed in a car crash. Soon after, Bobby Gene McNelly left the group to pursue a solo career, and around 1985 the group was dropped from Atlantic. In 1986, they released a Christmas

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 album in support of the Central Ohio Lung Association; towards the end of the year they inked a sponsorship with Miller Beer, but a planned comeback fizzled.

The group played into the late 1980s but had dissolved by 1990. In 1995 they reunited after releasing a greatest hits album, and continued performing locally in Ohio into the 2000s. Two full-length releases followed the reunion, in 1998 and 2002. Today, McGuffey Lane still performs 30-35 concerts annually. In March 2010, Lick Records signed a distribution deal with E1 Entertainment, which will allow the new McGuffey Lane album to be sold in Wal-Mart

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 and Best Buy

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. On August 18, 2009 they opened for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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 members, Lynyrd Skynyrd

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, at The LC in Columbus, Ohio.

Zachariah's Red Eye Reunion

Every January, McGuffey Lane holds an annual reunion concert featuring many acts who also played at Zachariah's Red Eye Saloon. The first two Reunions were held at Villa Milano Banquet and Conference Center, located on Schrock Road on the northeast side of Columbus, Ohio. After the initial two events, John Schwab (who is the organizer of the event) started looking for a larger venue to host the Reunion, as it had outgrown Villa Milano. He settled on Lifestyles Communities Pavilion (formerly Promowest Pavilion). The 2011 Reunion currently holds the indoor attendance record at the LC. The twelfth anniversary will take place on January 14th, 2012

Some acts who have taken part in the event are: Rob McNelly (son of original lead singer Bobby Gene McNelly and current guitarist for Delbert McClinton

Delbert McClinton

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), John David Call (steel guitarist for Pure Prairie League

Pure Prairie League

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), Steve Smith, Gary Ballen, Delyn Christian, Tom Ingham, the Dan Orr Project,and Erica Blinn

Members

• Terry Efaw - Steel Guitar, Gutstring Guitar, Electric Guitar
• Steve Reis - Bass, Vocals
• Molly Pauken- Mandolin, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
• Jerry Cummings - Keyboards, Vocals
• Randy Huff - Drums, Vocals
• Kevin Reed- Harmonica, Vocals
• John Schwab - Lead Guitar, Lead Vocals
• Mike Nugen - Lead Guitar, Vocals(select dates)

Former members

• Bobby Gene McNelly - Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
• Stephen "Tebes" Douglass - Keyboards, Harmonica, Vocals
• Dick Smith - Drums, Guitar, Vocals
• Dave Rangeler - Drums, Vocals
• Tom Ingham - Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals
• Delyn Christian - Harmonica, Vocals
• Casey McKeown - Keyboards
• Craig Goodwin - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
• John Campigotto - Drums, Vocals
• Dave Robins - Saxophone

Albums

Year	Title	Chart positions		Label
		US Country	US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
1980	McGuffey Lane			Atco
	The First Album
	Aqua Dream		193
1983	Let the Hard Times Roll	61
1984	Day by Day	56		Atlantic
1986	McGuffey Lane Christmas			HCH
1995	Greatest Hits Live and More
1998	Call Me Lucky			Lick
2002	Wood
2010	10

Singles

Year	Title	Chart positions		Album
		US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...	US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
1981	"Long Time Lovin' You"		85	Single only
1982	"Start It All Over"		97	Aqua Dream
	"Making a Living's Been Killing Me"	44		Let the Hard Times Roll
1983	"Doing It Right"	62
1984	"Day by Day"	44		Day by Day
	"The First Time"	63
2011	"Bartender"			10

Album listings

McGuffey Lane

1. People Like You
2. Long Time Lovin' You
3. Ain't No One (To Love You Like I Do)
4. Let Me Take You To The Rodeo
5. Green Country Mountains
6. Stagecoach
7. Music Man
8. Breakaway
9. Lady Autumn
10. Stay In Love With You

Aqua Dream

1. New Beginning
2. It Comes From The Heart
3. Dream About You
4. Tennessee
5. Don't You Think About Me (When I'm Gone)
6. Start It All Over
7. Fair Weather Friends
8. Fallin' Timber
9. Bar Of Rags: Black Mountain Rag /Tiger Rag /12th Street Rag(featuring a guest appearance by Charlie Daniels)
10. Outlaw Rider

Let The Hard Times Roll

1. Let the Hard Times Toll
2. Raining Inside and Out
3. If I Didn't Love You
4. Too Many Days
5. Making a Living's Been Killing Me
6. Doing It Right
7. Sunshine
8. You Wouldn't Give Up on Me
9. If You Were Mine
10. Never Say Forever

Day By Day

1. Day by Day
2. Keep Me Hangin' On
3. First Time
4. You've Got a Right
5. Lorianne
6. What'll You Do About Me
   What'll You Do About Me
   "What'll You Do About Me" is the title of a country music song written by Dennis Linde. Originally recorded by McGuffey Lane then by Steve Earle in 1984, it has also been released as a single by The Forester Sisters and Doug Supernaw, the latter of whom took it to Top 20 on the Billboard country...
   
   
7. Wasted Love
8. Jamaica in My Mind
9. Hold on to the Night
10. The Legend

Greatest Hits, Live, and More

1. Ain't Life Funny
2. People Like You
3. Ain't No One (To Love You Like I Do)
4. Do You Think (We'll Ever Fall In Love)
5. Diana Might
6. Outlaw Rider
7. Let's Hold on to the Night
8. Long Time Lovin' You
9. Be a Friend of Mine
10. Green Country Mountains
11. The Legend
12. Rock 'n' Roll (Will Keep You Young)
13. A New Beginning(Demo)
14. Leavin' It All Behind(Demo)
15. Black Mountain Rag(Demo)

Call Me Lucky'

1. Kid with the Arrow
2. The Good in Goodbye
3. There's Only One of Us Now
4. When I Sing of You
5. What You've Got
6. Trains Make Me Lonesome
7. Call Me Lucky
8. Baby Don't Call Me Baby (Anymore)
9. Into the Mystic
10. The Good Times Tonight

Wood

1. Old Taylor
2. Steady As She Goes
3. Don't You Think About Me
4. Railroad Song
5. First Time
6. It Takes Time
7. Let's Go
8. On the Line
9. Runnin' Wild & Free
10. Lady Autumn
11. Nobody But a Fool
12. Cumberland Gap
13. 'Til the End
14. The Omen

10

1. I Am Who I Am
2. Bartender
3. It's A Good Day
4. You're The One
5. Lucky Guy
6. Done With The Devil
7. I Ain't Giving In To Getting Old
8. Nobody But A Fool
9. Song For The Road
10. Runnin' Blind

Zachariah's Red Eye Reunion DVD

1. The Railroad Song
2. Don't you think about me (when I'm gone)
3. The Boys a Dancer
4. Wild and Free
5. Breakaway
6. Tennessee*
7. Stagecoach*
8. Stay (in love with you*
9. Rasputin
10. Outlaw Rider
11. On the Line
12. Rodeo*
13. People Like You*
14. Ain't no one*
15. Green Country Mountain*
16. Long Time Loving You*
17. "Backstage Pass"(video interviews backstage)
18. "Rock Of Ages" (Music video from 1990)
19. "Bert" music video from 1994)and 'The First Time" (music video from 1983)

• Featuring Rob McNelly,son of former lead singer Bobby Gene McNelly