Highway Fifty Two (Vetco Records LP 3033) is a studio album from Dave Evans, the Ohio-area guitarist and vocalist who built a regional following in the Midwest bluegrass scene through festival performances and independent recordings on the Cincinnati-based Vetco label, presenting traditional bluegrass material in the direct acoustic ensemble format that characterized the regional performing circuit. Evans plays guitar and sings; Art Wydner contributes instrumental work; Danny Cade plays mandolin; and Mike Hamilton holds the bass. Vetco Records, which documented the Ohio-region bluegrass scene across multiple decades, provided Evans with a recording context suited to the regional traditional sound he performed — a presentation of the Kentucky hard-driving style carried north into the Ohio Valley communities that had adopted and sustained bluegrass as one of the region's most enduring musical forms.
Tracklist
- 1 Carry me back to the bluegrass 2:15
- 2 Short Life of Trouble alt version 2:21
- 3 This train carried my girl from Tennessee 1:54
- 4 Call me on home 2:35
- 5 Sun’s Gonna Shine alt version 2:03
- 6 Barbara Allen 4:58
- 7 Highway 52 2:58
- 8 99 years 'tis almost for life 3:14
- 9 Dark as a night 2:38
- 10 When the snow falls on my Foggy Mountain home 2:56
- 11 From life's other side 5:22
