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After Midnight

The Seldom Scene

Album · 1981 · Sugar Hill SH-3721

After Midnight was released by the Seldom Scene on Sugar Hill in 1981 (LP SH-3721; the cassette carried the number SH-C-3721). The band on the record is John Duffey on mandolin, Ben Eldridge on banjo, Mike Auldridge on dobro, Tom Gray on bass and Phil Rosenthal on guitar; Carl Nelson adds fiddle on one track, “The Border Incident.” The band’s 1976 Rebel album New Seldom Scene Album lists John Starling on guitar where this one has Rosenthal. Bill McElroy is credited as engineer and producer, and Discogs lists the album as recorded at Bias Studios.

The ten tracks mix country songs, rock and pop covers, and band originals. The title song is credited to J.J. Cale, “Lay Down Sally” to Eric Clapton, George Terry and Marcy Levy, and “Stompin’ at the Savoy,” credited to Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson and Chick Webb, is played as an instrumental. “The Old Hometown” is credited to Lester Flatt, “If I Had Left It Up to You” to Merle Haggard, and the other instrumental, “Heartsville Pike,” to Jim & Jesse McReynolds. Duffey wrote “The Border Incident,” and Rosenthal wrote “Stolen Love.”

Tracklist

  1. 1 Lay Down Sally 4:09
  2. 2 Hearts Overflowing 3:57
  3. 3 The Old Hometown alt version 2:39
  4. 4 Stompin' At The Savoy 3:29
  5. 5 The Border Incident 4:25
  6. 6 Come Early Morning 2:57
  7. 7 After Midnight 4:52
  8. 8 If I Had Left It Up To You 3:25
  9. 9 Heartsville Pike 3:27
  10. 10 Stolen Love 3:52
  11. 11 Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way 3:07

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