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Night Flyer – The Singer Songwriter Collection

Various Artists

Compilation · 2008 · Rounder 11661 1619 2

Night Flyer: The Singer Songwriter Collection is a 17-track Tony Rice compilation released by Rounder Records on 29 July 2008 (11661-1619-2). It collects Rice’s recordings of songs by other singer-songwriters from several of his earlier albums and adds three tracks that had not been released before: “Never Meant to Be,” “About Love” and “Pony.” “Never Meant to Be,” the opening track, is a Rice original that had been scheduled for the Me & My Guitar project, and “Pony,” a Tom Waits song, was recorded during the sessions for the second Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen album.

The song list includes Joni Mitchell’s “Urge for Going,” James Taylor’s “Me and My Guitar,” Mary Chapin Carpenter’s “John Wilkes Booth,” Ian Tyson’s “Four Strong Winds,” John Mayall’s “Night Flyer,” Phil Ochs’s “Changes,” Bob Dylan’s “Sweetheart Like You,” Norman Blake’s “Green Light on the Southern” and Mickey Newbury’s “Why You Been Gone So Long,” along with the traditional “Wayfaring Stranger.” The musicians who appear across the collection include Larry Atamanuik, Cole Burgess, Sam Bush, Kathy Chiavola, Vassar Clements, Jerry Douglas, Béla Fleck, Jimmy Gaudreau, Todd Phillips, Wyatt Rice, Mark Schatz and Bill Wolf.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Never Meant to Be Source Recording Tony Rice · key E · 114 bpm 4:07
  2. 2 Urge For Going 5:49
  3. 3 Me and My Guitar alt version 3:57
  4. 4 St. James Hospital 4:58
  5. 5 John Wilkes Booth 3:53
  6. 6 Four Strong Winds 3:59
  7. 7 Night Flyer 4:00
  8. 8 He Rode All the Way to Texas 3:30
  9. 9 About Love 3:43
  10. 10 Changes 2:21
  11. 11 Sweetheart Like You 4:31
  12. 12 Green Light on the Southern alt version 3:46
  13. 13 Hard Love 4:22
  14. 14 Why You Been Gone So Long alt version 3:22
  15. 15 Wayfaring Stranger alt version 5:23
  16. 16 Likes of Me alt version 2:55
  17. 17 Pony 4:24

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