Before You Go belongs to the run of Earl Scruggs Revue Columbia releases of the mid-1970s — the period when the band, anchored by Earl Scruggs's banjo and his sons Randy and Gary, had settled into the country-rock production style Columbia was steadily pushing toward an evolving audience. The arrangements lean toward the electric-and-acoustic blend the Revue had built since its 1969 inception, with Scruggs's three-finger banjo still working as the band's defining instrument but framed by drums, electric bass, and the rock-influenced material his sons had been bringing to the writing. The album belongs to a fertile but commercially uneven stretch in which the Revue's Columbia catalog was steady but its distance from straight bluegrass kept growing.
Tracklist
- 1 Before you go 2:37
- 2 Have you come to say goodbye? 2:55
- 3 The Haskel stomp 2:26
- 4 Love's come over me 2:20
- 5 Country living 2:55
- 6 Never Ending Song of Love alt version 2:08
- 7 I'm gonna get my picture took 2:38
- 8 McCormick string picnic 1:58
- 9 She left because I drink 2:15
- 10 Crazy life 2:35
