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High Lonesome

Longview

Album · 1999 · Rounder 11661 0434 2

High Lonesome is the second album by Longview, the six-piece group of Dudley Connell, James King, Don Rigsby, Joe Mullins, Glen Duncan and Marshall Wilborn. Rounder issued it on 8 June 1999 as 11661-0434-2. The group’s first album, Longview (Rounder, 1997), had been named Recorded Event of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association in 1998, and the band took its name from the Long View studio complex in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, where the debut was recorded. High Lonesome was also recorded at Long View Farm in North Brookfield.

Connell plays guitar, Rigsby mandolin, Mullins banjo, Duncan fiddle and Wilborn bass; King is credited as a vocalist. The fourteen tracks are divided among several lead singers. King sings the title song, Gretchen Peters’s “High Lonesome,” as well as “Listen to My Hammer Ring,” “Voice of My Saviour” and “Where the Dim Lights Are the Dimmest.” Connell leads “Windy Mountain,” “Leavin’ Tennessee,” “Just Wondering Why” and “Little Annie,” and Rigsby leads “I’m Going Home Again.” Tenor and baritone parts are shared among Connell, Rigsby, Mullins and Duncan.

The songs come from several directions. Carter and Ralph Stanley wrote “Angels Are Singing (in Heaven Tonight)” and “He’ll Save Your Soul Yet.” A. P. Carter is credited with “Little Annie,” Jim and Jesse McReynolds with “Just Wondering Why,” Curly Ray Cline with “Windy Mountain,” and Jimmy Martin and Raymond Long with “Voice of My Saviour.” “Ballad of Maudie Dawson” is by Don and Tina Rigsby. A contemporary review noted that, apart from the Peters title song, much of the material could pass for something recorded decades earlier.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Windy Mountain alt version 2:52
  2. 2 High Lonesome 4:03
  3. 3 Leavin' Tennessee 2:53
  4. 4 Listen To My Hammer Ring 3:37
  5. 5 I'll Love You 'Til The Day I Die 2:49
  6. 6 Angels Are Singing (In Heaven Tonight) 4:28
  7. 7 I'm Going Home Again 2:20
  8. 8 Just Wondering Why 4:02
  9. 9 Voice Of My Savior 3:03
  10. 10 Little Annie alt version 3:20
  11. 11 Where The Dim Lights Are The Dimmest 2:57
  12. 12 He'll Save Your Soul Yet 3:03
  13. 13 Does It Have To End This Way? 2:14
  14. 14 Ballad Of Maudie Dawson 3:51

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