Blue Lightning (Rounder CD 0284) was released in 1991 and is the second of five albums Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin made for Rounder, after A Song That Will Linger (1989) and before Our Town (1993). Stecher sings and plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin and banjo; Brislin sings and plays guitar and banjo; Pete Wernick adds banjo and Laurie Lewis plays bass. Both Stecher and Brislin are credited with vocals on every one of the twelve tracks.
The program includes Carter Stanley’s “A Lonesome Night,” Dock Boggs’s “Country Blues,” Jean Ritchie’s “Blue Diamond Mines.” “Sittin’ on Top of the World” is credited to Lonnie Carter and Walter Vinson. Also on the album are “Lonesome Road Blues,” “Elkhorn Ridge” and “Polly Ann.”
Tracklist
- 1 Still (My Thoughts Go Back To You) 4:11
- 2 A Lonesome Night alt version 3:21
- 3 Lonesome Road Blues alt version 2:28
- 4 Sitting on Top of the World alt version 2:39
- 5 Elkhorn Ridge 3:18
- 6 Old Pal Of Yesterday 4:41
- 7 Country Blues 4:24
- 8 Blue Diamond Mines alt version 5:19
- 9 Adieu False Heart 3:48
- 10 Polly Ann 2:40
- 11 Stepstones 3:12
- 12 Just A Few More Days 3:40
