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If I Go Ten Thousand Miles

Dirk Powell

Album · 1996 · Rounder CD 0384

If I Go Ten Thousand Miles is Dirk Powell’s first solo album, released by Rounder Records on 16 April 1996 as CD 0384. Its 19 tracks are traditional songs and fiddle and banjo tunes, among them “Pretty Polly,” “Sweet Sunny South,” “Old Virginia,” “Little Satchel” and the pairings “Wake Robin / Bravest Cowboy” and “Hunky Dory / Ryestraw.”

Powell was born in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1969 and grew up near Cleveland. His parents were from Kentucky, and he learned banjo and fiddle from his maternal grandfather, James Clarence Hay, during time spent with his grandparents in Sandy Hook, Kentucky. Powell has lived in Louisiana since 1992 and has been part of the Cajun and Creole music community there; his film work includes Cold Mountain, directed by Anthony Minghella. Recordings he made with Hay in 1990, the year before Hay died, appear on his 2004 Rounder album Time Again.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Lonesome Dove 2:58
  2. 2 Morehead 2:08
  3. 3 Little Satchel alt version 5:01
  4. 4 Wake Robin / Bravest Cowboy 3:02
  5. 5 Cousin Sally Brown 2:32
  6. 6 Rubin 3:47
  7. 7 Pretty Polly alt version 3:33
  8. 8 Getting Upstairs 2:20
  9. 9 Brown-Eyed Rabbit 3:03
  10. 10 Craggy Spring 2:12
  11. 11 Adieu False Heart 2:14
  12. 12 Pleasure Of A Single Life 2:31
  13. 13 Old Virginia 1:40
  14. 14 Throw Down Your Earthly Crown 2:52
  15. 15 I Am the Man Thomas alt version 1:56
  16. 16 Sweet Sunny South alt version 3:27
  17. 17 Hunky Dory / Ryestraw 3:09
  18. 18 God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign alt version 3:08
  19. 19 Sixteen And One 2:49

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