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I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Going to Be a Diamond Someday)

The Lewis Family

Album · 1981 · Canaan

I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Going to Be a Diamond Someday) is a 1981 album by the Lewis Family on Canaan Records (CAS 9874), recorded at Music City Music Hall in Nashville. It opens with Billy Joe Shaver’s title song. Two other songs, credited to Johnny Cash, “What on Earth (Will You Do for Heaven’s Sake)” and “I’m Gonna Try to Be That Way,” are also on Cash’s 1979 gospel double album A Believer Sings the Truth.

Wallace Lewis plays rhythm guitar, Little Roy Lewis banjo and guitar, and Travis Lewis bass. The sessions added Nashville studio players: Buddy Spicher on fiddle, cello and mandolin, Josh Graves on dobro, Hargus “Pig” Robbins on piano and Buddy Harman on drums and tambourine. The vocals are credited to Roy Lewis, Miggie Lewis, Polly Lewis Copsey and Janis Lewis Phillips, and the album has ten songs.

Tracklist

  1. 1 I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be a Diamond Someday) alt version 3:02

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