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Dawn of the Stoneman’s Age

The Stoneman Family

Album · 1970 · RCA Victor LSP 4264

Dawn of the Stoneman’s Age (RCA Victor LSP-4264, 1970) was the Stonemans’ first album for RCA Victor, produced by Jack Clement, with liner notes by Ed Kahn. The Stonemans had worked with Clement in Nashville since 1965, when they signed with MGM; this album’s sessions took place in July 1969 at Clement’s own recording studio on Belmont Boulevard.

Its eleven tracks mix newer songs with older material. John Fogerty’s “Bad Moon Rising,” Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster’s “Me and Bobby McGee” and Townes Van Zandt’s “Tecumseh Valley” sit beside “Two Kids from Duluth, Minnesota,” credited to Jack Clement and Alex Zanetis, the Don Reno and Red Smiley banjo instrumental “Banjo Signal,” and “Weed Out My Badness,” credited to Van Stoneman. “Two Kids from Duluth, Minnesota” and “Tecumseh Valley” were also paired on an RCA single.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Watermelon on the Vine alt version 2:15
  2. 2 Under the Double Eagle alt version 3:47
  3. 3 Muleskinner Blues alt version 4:23
  4. 4 Wreck of the Old 97 alt version 2:30
  5. 5 Little Old Log Cabin In the Lane 2:44
  6. 6 Blue Ridge Mountain Blues alt version 3:21
  7. 7 Cripple Creek alt version 2:18
  8. 8 Let’s All Go Down to the River alt version 1:57
  9. 9 Soldier’s Joy alt version 1:34
  10. 10 I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes alt version 3
  11. 11 Whippoorwill Song 2:14
  12. 12 Tecumseh Valley alt version 3:26
  13. 13 Old Joe Clark alt version 3:56
  14. 14 Little Maggie alt version 2:44
  15. 15 Tupelo County Jail 2:04
  16. 16 I Washed My Face In the Morning Dew 3:16
  17. 17 Steel Guitar Rag 3:11
  18. 18 Life is Like a Mountain Railway alt version 3:28
  19. 19 Orange Blossom Special alt version 2:56
  20. 20 Mama Don't Allow 2:57

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