James King (Bluegrass) - Thirty Years Of Farming

Artist:

King, James (Bluegrass)

UPC:

682161049021

See Also:

Longview (Bluegrass)

Description:

Personnel includes: James King (vocals, guitar); Kevin Prater (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Joe Clark (guitar, bass, background vocals); Adam Poindexter (banjo, background vocals); Owen Saunders (fiddle, background vocals). Recorded at Hilltop Studios, Madison, Tennessee. Includes liner notes by Jon Weisberger. Again joined by the James King Band, with Owen Saunders now featured prominently, the masterly song interpreter delivers standard, high quality bluegrass music. Rounder bills King as a mountain soul singer, touting his adept blending of honky tonk with his inherent knowledge of hardcore bluegrass tradition, which has been honed by his stringent performance schedule, particularly at festivals. The band provides traditional harmonies and classic, polished string acrobatics (check out the instrumental "Whoopin` It"). Thirty Years of Farming opens with the title track, which was written by alt-country troubador Fred Eaglesmith, and recounts a family`s loss of their farm due to bank foreclosure. Describing the subsequent auctioning of its equipment and possessions and the last look they take at their former home before driving off, probably to more urban frontiers, is kept from sentimentality by the timeless nature of its subject matter. The album also features songs by Tom T. and Dixie Hall and George Jones, and closes with a song King says he learned from Hazel Dickens, the lilting, mid-tempo, Charlie Maguire-penned "Play Us a Waltz." ~ Travis Drageset

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Thirty Years of Farming
2. I Don`t See What I Once Saw
3. Heartbreak Express
4. Roy Lee
5. Flame in My Heart
6. Toil, Tears and Trouble
7. Here Today and Gone Tomorrow
8. Faded Rose, A Broken Heart, A
9. Color of the Blues
10. Days of Grey and Black
11. I Overlooked an Orchid
12. Whoopin` It
13. Play Us a Waltz

Album Information

Release Date:

02/12/2002

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Country

Subgenre:

Bluegrass

Label:

Rounder Select

Producer:

Ken Irwin

Catalog Number:

0490

Original Release Year:

2002

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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