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Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver

Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver

Album · 1979 · Sugar Hill SH 3708

Doyle Lawson left the Country Gentlemen in March 1979, after nearly eight years with the band, and within a month had formed his own group with guitarist Jimmy Haley, bassist Lou Reid and banjo player Terry Baucom. It was first called Doyle Lawson and Foxfire; the name soon changed to Quicksilver. Their self-titled debut came out on Sugar Hill (SH 3708) in late 1979, a label Barry Poss and David Freeman had started in Durham, North Carolina, in 1978. Bobby Hicks is the guest fiddler and Jerry Douglas is credited on dobro.

The four band members all sing. Haley sings lead, Reid high tenor and Baucom bass. The album opens with “Mighty Mississippi,” which begins with an a cappella passage by the quartet, and the material ranges widely: Bill Monroe’s “On and On,” Earl Scruggs’s “Thinking About You,” Carter Stanley’s “I’d Rather Die Young,” Jonathan Edwards’s “How Long Have I Been Waiting for You,” Dave Loggins’s “A Touch of Pennsylvania” and the traditional “Shady Grove.” “He Put a Rainbow in the Clouds for Me” is sung without instruments.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Mighty Mississippi 2:27
  2. 2 How Long Have I Been Waiting alt version 2:31
  3. 3 Happy On My Way 1:56
  4. 4 Thinking About You alt version 2:28
  5. 5 I'll Be With You 3:23
  6. 6 On and On alt version 2:36
  7. 7 He Put A Rainbow In The Clouds For Me 2:33
  8. 8 I'd Rather Die Young 2:15
  9. 9 A Touch Of Pennsylvania 4:22
  10. 10 Don't Cross The River 2:51
  11. 11 Shady Grove alt version 2:59
  12. 12 Mis'ry River 2:51
  13. 13 Georgia Girl 3:07
  14. 14 'Til The Rivers All Run Dry 3:42
  15. 15 Rocking On The Waves 2:53
  16. 16 Yellow River 3:15
  17. 17 Poet With Wings 2:53
  18. 18 Kentucky Song 2:53
  19. 19 Calm The Storm 1:46
  20. 20 I'll Be Around Somewhere 2:27
  21. 21 Heart Of A Little Mountain Girl 2:50
  22. 22 The Lonesome River alt version 2:42

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