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One Way Track

Boone Creek

Album · 1978 · Sugar Hill SH 3701

One Way Track (Sugar Hill SH 3701), released in 1978, was Boone Creek’s second and last album and the first release on the newly formed Sugar Hill Records. The band began in 1976, when Ricky Skaggs and Jerry Douglas, fresh from J.D. Crowe & the New South, joined the songwriter Wes Golding and the banjoist Terry Baucom. Their self-titled debut had appeared on Rounder (0081) in 1977.

The Bluegrass Discography places the sessions at Lemco Sound Studio in Lexington, Kentucky, and credits Skaggs on mandolin, fiddle and guitar, Golding on guitar, Baucom on banjo, Douglas on dobro and Steve Bryant on bass. Baucom also plays fiddle on “Blue & Lonesome Too.” The title song was written by Skaggs and Golding, and Golding also wrote “Mississippi Queen.” The album takes in Bill Monroe’s “Little Community Church” and “Can’t You Hear Me Calling,” Lester Flatt’s “Head Over Heels,” Curley Seckler’s “No Mother or Dad,” and the traditional “In the Pines” and “Daniel Prayed,” and closes with the instrumental “Sally Gooden.”

Baucom recalled in a 2008 interview that the band was recording the album knowing Skaggs was moving on to play with Emmylou Harris, and that they did not expect the band to last much longer. One Way Track was reissued on CD in 1991.

Tracklist

  1. 1 One Way Track alt version 2:43
  2. 2 Head Over Heels alt version 2:34
  3. 3 Little Community Church 2:40
  4. 4 Mississippi Queen 2:36
  5. 5 In the Pines alt version 3:10
  6. 6 Can't You Hear Me Calling 3:05
  7. 7 No Mother or Dad alt version 2:43
  8. 8 I’m Blue I’m Lonesome alt version 2:50
  9. 9 Daniel Prayed alt version 2:16
  10. 10 Sally Gooden 6:00
  11. 11 Paradise alt version 3:15
  12. 12 Pathway Of Teardrops 6:57
  13. 13 Walking In Jerusalem 3:26

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