Goin' Around This World captures Dave Evans and River Bend in the early-1980s lonesome-bluegrass territory that has defined Evans's long catalog. Evans's voice — a high, keening baritone in the lineage that runs from Ralph Stanley through Larry Sparks — is the album's central instrument, the band providing the spare, unhurried support that the singing requires. His own banjo playing, drawing on the older two-finger and three-finger styles he came up through, threads through arrangements that resist the cleaner ensemble polish of the contemporary mainstream. The repertoire favors traditional bluegrass and country sources, the deep lonesome material that Evans has built his identity around. Released on one of the small traditional labels that supported the deepest current of the music through the 1980s, the album is one of many catalog entries from a singer whose reputation has stayed mostly within the listenership that values that particular emotional register above all else.
Tracklist
- 1 You Won’t Be Satisfied That Way alt version 2:17
- 2 She Thinks I Still Care 3:44
- 3 Pastures of Plenty alt version 3:44
- 4 You'll Never Walk The Streets Of Gold 2:28
- 5 Somebody Loves You Darling alt version 4:06
- 6 Only One Was True 4:16
- 7 Be Proud Of The Gray In Your Hair 3:36
- 8 Shenandoah Waltz alt version 3:03
- 9 One Loaf Of Bread 4:51
- 10 Road to Columbus alt version 2:39
- 11 The Drunkard's Dream 3:10
- 12 Goin’ Around This World alt version 2:18
