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Earl Scruggs and Friends

Earl Scruggs

Album · 2001 · MCA 088 170 189-2

Earl Scruggs and Friends was released on MCA Nashville (088 170 189-2) on 28 August 2001. Randy Scruggs produced it, and Earl Scruggs plays banjo on all twelve tracks. Most of the recording was done at Scruggs Sound Studio in Nashville, with sessions also credited to Tree Sound Studios in Atlanta, Ocean Way Nashville and Sound Kitchen Studios in Franklin, Tennessee.

The guests include Elton John (“Country Comfort”), Dwight Yoakam (“Borrowed Love”), Billy Bob Thornton (“Ring of Fire”), Gary Scruggs and Travis Tritt (“True Love Never Dies”), Melissa Etheridge (“The Angels”), Sting (“Fill Her Up”), John Fogerty (“Blue Ridge Mountain Blues”), Don Henley (“Passin’ Thru”), and Rosanne Cash and Vince Gill (“I Found Love”). Randy Scruggs sings “Somethin’ Just Ain’t Right.”

“Foggy Mountain Breakdown,” which Scruggs wrote and first recorded with Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys in 1949, is an instrumental here with Steve Martin on second banjo, Marty Stuart on mandolin, Vince Gill and Albert Lee on electric guitars, Jerry Douglas on dobro, Leon Russell on organ, Paul Shaffer on piano and Glen Duncan on fiddle. It won the 2002 Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance; the 1969 Grammy for the song had gone to Flatt & Scruggs.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Country Comfort 4:53
  2. 2 Borrowed Love 2:58
  3. 3 Ring of Fire alt version 2:12
  4. 4 True Love Never Dies 3:46
  5. 5 The Angels 4:54
  6. 6 Fill Her Up 5:45
  7. 7 Foggy Mountain Breakdown alt version 2:20
  8. 8 Somethin' Just Ain't Right 3:52
  9. 9 I Found Love 3:10
  10. 10 Blue Ridge Mountain Blues Source Recording Cliff Hess · key G · 120 bpm 3:21
  11. 11 Passin' Thru 5:38
  12. 12 Foggy Mountain Rock/Foggy Mountain Special - Medley 2:26

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