When the Last Morning Glory Blooms is an album by American

United States

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 musician Peter Ostroushko

Peter Ostroushko

Peter Ostroushko is an American violinist and mandolinist.-Background and career:Of Ukrainian ancestry, Ostroushko grew up in northeast Minneapolis...

, released in 2010.

History

A collection of nine waltzes and one ballad, many of the songs were written by Ostroushko for family and friends that he didn't expect to record. The title song was one he had written and played once on A Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Companion is a live radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor. The show runs on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. Central Time, and usually originates from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, although it is frequently taken on the road...

, and never played again.

Reception

In his Allmusic review, music critic Jeff Tamarkin wrote

There's a quiet elegance and an undeniable timelessness embedded in the ten songs that comprise When the Last Morning Glory Blooms, as if Peter Ostroushko didn't so much write them as discover them, lying around undisturbed for a hundred years, on yellowed sheet music atop a forgotten parlor piano in some dusty attic... Ostroushko avoids flourish and the ostentatious; his technique on both mandolin and fiddle is the definition of virtuosity, but that's never what it's about for him. Ostroushko's purpose in brandishing an instrument isn't to dazzle with flash and style but to communicate as directly as possible, both with his fellow players and his listeners, and he accomplishes that easily here... Ostroushko displays, not for the first time and surely not for the last, why the praises never stop coming his way.

Track listing

All songs by Peter Ostroushko unless otherwise noted.

1. "Maycomb, Alabama" – 4:52
2. "When the Last Morning Glory Blooms" – 5:26
3. "The B and B Waltz" – 3:57
4. "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" (Traditional) – 4:01
5. "The Nine Years Waltz" (Norman Blake
   Norman Blake (American musician)
   Norman Blake is an instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter. In a career spanning more than 50 years Blake has played in a number of folk and Country groups...
   
   ) – 3:33
6. "Down Where the River Bends" – 5:50
7. "Marjorie's Waltz #4" – 3:48
8. "The A and A Waltz" – 4:31
9. "Waltz for Sedra" – 2:37
10. "Memories of Tyler, Texas" – 3:26

Personnel

• Peter Ostroushko
  Peter Ostroushko
  Peter Ostroushko is an American violinist and mandolinist.-Background and career:Of Ukrainian ancestry, Ostroushko grew up in northeast Minneapolis...
  
   – mandolin
  Mandolin
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
  
  , fiddle
  Fiddle
  The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
  
  
• Diane Tremaine – cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  
• Sedra Bistodeau
  Sedra Bistodeau
  Sedra Bistodeau is a fiddler and violinist from Princeton, Minnesota.Bistodeau, whose family performs traditional, bluegrass, and western music as the "Bistodeau Family Band," has won or placed in a number of old-time fiddling contests, both solo and in tandem...
  
   – fiddle
• Nancy Blake – cello ("The Nine Years Waltz")
• Norman Blake
  Norman Blake (American musician)
  Norman Blake is an instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter. In a career spanning more than 50 years Blake has played in a number of folk and Country groups...
  
   – guitar ("The Nine Years Waltz")
• Joel Sayles – bass
• Dan Chouinard – accordion, piano
• Pat Donohue
  Pat Donohue
  Patrick Donohue is an American fingerstyle guitarist born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is a Grammy nominated, National Fingerpicking Guitar Champion and a songwriter. Donohue has several albums to his credit and his songs have been recorded by Chet Atkins, Suzy Bogguss, and Kenny Rogers...
  
   – guitar, slide guitar
• Richard Dworsky – piano
• Dick Gimble – guitar
• Johnny Gimble
  Johnny Gimble
  John Paul Gimble , better known as Johnny Gimble, is an American country musician associated with Western swing. He is an award-winning fiddle player and considered one of the most impressive fiddlers in the genre's history....
  
  – fiddle
• Beatrice Blanc – violin
• Michael Sutton – violin
• Sabina Thatcher – viola
• Sarah Lewis – cello

Production notes:

• Peter Ostroushko – producer, mixing, arranger
• Executive producer – Eric Peltoniemi
• David Hammonds – engineer
• David Middlebrook Engineer
• Matthew Zimmerman – engineer, mastering, mixing
• Anna Kim Ostroushko – photography
• Daniel Corrigan – photography
• Jon Reischl – cover art